I though colonies don't cause overextension? Am I misremembering?
I'm sure the Spanish ambassador had a few choice words to say to that. But Christian is too strict to budge.
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You are not misremembering.
I was about to post the next chapter ( so date is January 1720) and you reminded me that I still owned those provinces in brazil . So I took extra screenshots when doing the transfer.
Basically it appears to be a bug. The game estimates how much OE the receiving vassal will be getting when checking the 100% threshold. Colonies appear to cause OE in that calculation, so if you are at 99% they will not accept it. But if they are still under the threshold , and actually accept the province, their OE does not actually change.
Here I am transfering Santo Amaro, which is a colony and should not cause OE but they say it causes 3% . After I transfer it, I then transfer Sao Vicente, which interface says it increases OE to 2% ( from presumably zero, meaning Santo Amaro did not actually cause OE).
So a bug that only shows up when you have a subject at close to 100% OE , and you try to give them a colony.
Good pickup on your part!!
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Chapter 28: Envisioning a Post Conquest World(1710-1720)
In the last chapter, we saw Christian V "the strict" force the Client States to accept land despite over-extension. We also saw him order Spain to cede back many African provinces to Jolof. That was in anticipation of a day when the entire Earth's population would be ruled by Denmark, and that was an expression of his other character trait of a "visionary" . In this chapter we will see him take more actions whose aim was to prepare for a post-conquest world.
The first action of the decade was to finally declare war on Mecklenburg, an old neighbor of Denmark who somehow had managed to remain alive all these years.
This was then followed by the official start of the Age of Revolutions.
This was an Age in which the intelligentsia looked favorably on many of Denmark's achievements (large capital, large subjects, great generals, control of institutions, and Empire status). And the splendor obtained as a result promised to give Denmark the keys to unrestricted conquest and subservient vassals. And that reminded our Emperor that Denmark could further enhance her prestige and status by fully upgrading Great Projects in the overseas provinces with accepted culture that would permanently be part of Denmark in the post-conquest world . So the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Azhar Univeristy of Cairo and the Himeji Castle in Harima were all turned into magnificent monument.
He then heeded the call for punishment of the clerks responsible for the messy treaty with Portugal
And although he wished he could execute those incompetent fools, he relented when he realized that their "mistake" gave him the chance to name the colonial nation that would forever operate the Panama Canal (and no, he was not going to ask for it back later )
It was then back to the wars . The annexation of Mecklenburg did not materially enlarge Denmark a lot, but it certainly made for big beautiful name on the map
And while the other wars continued, he made preparations for the post-conquest order by building a cathedral in Bam, in anticipation of its conversion from Sunni to Reformed, to be followed by turning its culture into Prussian .
As home to Bam Citadel, which gave increased Caravan power to Denmark, Bam was to be a permanent possession of the Danish crown . A similar approach would be taken for the key trade monuments of Ait Benhaddou in Moroccan Demnate and Salvador De Bahia in Brazilian Bahia. In the same vein, preparations for the culture conversion of the province of Chaul in India , home to the Murud Janjira fort [+30% naval force limit] were begun.
These provinces were to enable Danish merchants to continue effectively pushing trade towards the Channel node even with the eventual return of most Trade Company land to local Clients in the post-conquest world.
Another key in the creation of a future world economy arrived in 1710, with the first discovery of coal in Leipzig.
In the next 3 years, more coal deposits were discovered throughout England, Flanders and Germany. And thanks to the rich treasury of Denmark, investments in coal furnaces were made in all those locations
Emperor Christian explained that the post-conquest economy would rest on the twin pillars of trade imports of raw materials and goods from the 4 corners of the world, coupled with manufacturing in Denmark's industrial heartland.
Now to reach a post-conquest world, the actual conquest had to be completed. And in that regard, progress continued to be made with annexations of various nations in the current batch of wars.
After a brief peace at the end of 1711, war was resumed in 1712 with declarations on Indrapura and Switzerland. None of these wars were any challenges for Denmark. In fact , the main challenge facing the Danish military were the many rebellions that kept spawning in INdia, who suffered from extreme over-extension after being force-fed Vijayanagari land in the last chapter.
The wars with Indrapura and Switzerland ended in the first half of 1714 , with Malay gaining a lot of land in the East Indies, and with Denmark taking the Swiss culture provinces of Switzerland, and giving 2 Occitan culture provinces to Sicily
The end of those wars came a few month before the expiration of the truce with Gurkani, who was the largest country still to be conquered, and who would likely take several wars. So our Emperor was eager to get to work on them, but before he did that, he decided to rectify another problem with culture acceptance now, before Denmark resumed her hegemony in the future and completed the world conquest. ANd that was the issue of Spanish trade company provinces in the East indies.
Although Spain had achieved a cultural union thanks to high development [I was not sure subjects can do this but apparently they can], and therefore had many open culture slots, they were not accepting any Asian or African cultures due to having provinces there designated as trade company land. Spain possessed many such provinces in the East Indies. That needed rectification if the Post-Conquest World Order would have everyone on Earth enjoying full citizenship . And our strict Emperor felt so strongly about that that he actually had Denmark return the island of Mentawai, captured from the Ottomans in a past war and populated by Turks, to Aq Qoyunlu - who thus returned from the dead to exist as an island nation 1,000 miles away from their mountain homeland! [for the curious, there was a separatist rebellion in Mentawai during the days of high over-extension and that created an AQ core as they are a valid Turkish cuture nation]
And immediately after that he declared war on Ternate and their ally Bone with the purpose of forcing them to accept Spanish provinces in the East Indies.
After that, he declared war on Gurkani
While that war was fought , he forced Ternate's ally Bone to accept the Spanish province of Mamuju .
That caused some loss of goodwill with the Spanish people, but they remained reliably loyal to the Wittlesbach crown . The Emperor then decided to go further with that strategy, and start correcting the problem of unaccepted cultures in Polish Mashriq . And here he used Adal, allied to Gurkani, to ratify the release of Syria out of Danish and Polish provinces.
The Polish people were not upset by this action [presumably because the release was technically from Denmark itself]. But that still left many other provinces in the region under Polish trade company control. So in the future, a "losing" war with Syria would be needed to "liberate" those lands.
He then went all out with this approach after opinion experts [wiki] told him there was a cap on how much Spain would be upset at Denmark for giving away provinces, and he realized the Personal Union was in no danger of being lost even with the maximum opinion hit. So he forced Spain to cede all her colonies in East Asia that were not Castilian culture to Ternate. And to make sure Ternate agreed to this , he kept a very close eye on the siege of Ternate, and he sent the proposal the day it fell, before Ternate declared unconditional surrender [if they do that, you cannot offer concessions].
In addition to forcing Spain to cede provinces, he was able to force Tierra Austral to do the same, with one Maori province in New Zealand going to Ternate. His plan was to reconquer all the ceded land in the future, with the Malay provinces going to the Client State of Malay and the Pacific ones to a new Client State created for that group. But that would not happen till after the truce with Ternate expired, so should be in a future chapter .
And before we get back to the Gurkani war, we note another item checked off in the preparation for the post-conquest world order, and that was the start of the conversion of Bahia to Prussian culture after it was converted to Reformed faith.
Now finally we get back to the Gurkani war, which wrapped up in late 1716 . And here our Emperor had significantly more flexibility in annexing land thanks to the unrestricted conquest ability obtained in January 1715 . That allowed him to annex lands deep in Asia that bordered Bactria and Sibera and that Denmark would normally not be able to core. So he was therefore able to split up the annexed provinces fairly evenly between the various subjects
The size of GUrkani dropped from 1664 down to 1251 development , a loss of about 1/4th of their total size. That meant three more wars at least would be needed to completely kill them . But the writing was on the wall.
After that another batch of wars was started against Korchin in North East Asia, Pasai in South East Asia, and Ethiopia in Africa. As usual, a lot of land was given to vassals on culture lines.
And when Portugal was made to cede the key province of Tuat, linking the Sahel to North Africa, the Emperor decided it was time to create one more client state in the region, and promptly declared war on Timbuktu
That war quickly ended with Denmark annexing most of Timbuktu and their ally Sus.
The Tuareg provinces in Timbuktu went to Nigeria, who accepted that culture. But Denmark held on to the land of Sus until peace time. That peace came after Ethiopia ceded most of her land ( all going to Sheba, except for Egyptian provinces which Denmark kept), and after Pasai was annexed by Malay .
And then the latest Client State was created out of the former Sus capital of Draa, which held over 40 development, and was called Mauretania in honor of the former Roman province. [not the modern country Mauritania, itself named after the Roman province by the French - also the Client State seed was provided by Nigeria who was given temporary possession of Tuat] . The Mauretanian Duke was then promised to eventually rule over all of North Africa and then the parts of Africa populated by the Jolof and Fulani among others.
And that action brings us to the beginning of the new decade, which featured the adoption by Denmark of the "Anti-revolutionary Zeal" ability. That ability, as expected by Niels Wittelsbach, made sure that even the largest vassals would remain loyal .
We close with the customary map showing Denmark's growth.
quick note: I know seeing annexations for a World Conquest is kind of boring and tedious . But actually fighting the wars is not too bad because of the vassal swarm . I have tried in the past to finish a world conquest and always gave up in the mid 1700's because it was such a grind (the only one I finished was the first one done for the achievement) . But this time I will finish it , and part of that is the power of the Personal Union Swarm which takes a lot of the mental load off when fighting the wars. I hope that in EU5 we will be able to delegate this part to the AI in the late game if needed.
In the last chapter, we saw Christian V "the strict" force the Client States to accept land despite over-extension. We also saw him order Spain to cede back many African provinces to Jolof. That was in anticipation of a day when the entire Earth's population would be ruled by Denmark, and that was an expression of his other character trait of a "visionary" . In this chapter we will see him take more actions whose aim was to prepare for a post-conquest world.
The first action of the decade was to finally declare war on Mecklenburg, an old neighbor of Denmark who somehow had managed to remain alive all these years.
This was then followed by the official start of the Age of Revolutions.
This was an Age in which the intelligentsia looked favorably on many of Denmark's achievements (large capital, large subjects, great generals, control of institutions, and Empire status). And the splendor obtained as a result promised to give Denmark the keys to unrestricted conquest and subservient vassals. And that reminded our Emperor that Denmark could further enhance her prestige and status by fully upgrading Great Projects in the overseas provinces with accepted culture that would permanently be part of Denmark in the post-conquest world . So the Great Pyramids of Giza, the Azhar Univeristy of Cairo and the Himeji Castle in Harima were all turned into magnificent monument.
He then heeded the call for punishment of the clerks responsible for the messy treaty with Portugal
And although he wished he could execute those incompetent fools, he relented when he realized that their "mistake" gave him the chance to name the colonial nation that would forever operate the Panama Canal (and no, he was not going to ask for it back later )
It was then back to the wars . The annexation of Mecklenburg did not materially enlarge Denmark a lot, but it certainly made for big beautiful name on the map
And while the other wars continued, he made preparations for the post-conquest order by building a cathedral in Bam, in anticipation of its conversion from Sunni to Reformed, to be followed by turning its culture into Prussian .
As home to Bam Citadel, which gave increased Caravan power to Denmark, Bam was to be a permanent possession of the Danish crown . A similar approach would be taken for the key trade monuments of Ait Benhaddou in Moroccan Demnate and Salvador De Bahia in Brazilian Bahia. In the same vein, preparations for the culture conversion of the province of Chaul in India , home to the Murud Janjira fort [+30% naval force limit] were begun.
These provinces were to enable Danish merchants to continue effectively pushing trade towards the Channel node even with the eventual return of most Trade Company land to local Clients in the post-conquest world.
Another key in the creation of a future world economy arrived in 1710, with the first discovery of coal in Leipzig.
In the next 3 years, more coal deposits were discovered throughout England, Flanders and Germany. And thanks to the rich treasury of Denmark, investments in coal furnaces were made in all those locations
Emperor Christian explained that the post-conquest economy would rest on the twin pillars of trade imports of raw materials and goods from the 4 corners of the world, coupled with manufacturing in Denmark's industrial heartland.
Now to reach a post-conquest world, the actual conquest had to be completed. And in that regard, progress continued to be made with annexations of various nations in the current batch of wars.
After a brief peace at the end of 1711, war was resumed in 1712 with declarations on Indrapura and Switzerland. None of these wars were any challenges for Denmark. In fact , the main challenge facing the Danish military were the many rebellions that kept spawning in INdia, who suffered from extreme over-extension after being force-fed Vijayanagari land in the last chapter.
The wars with Indrapura and Switzerland ended in the first half of 1714 , with Malay gaining a lot of land in the East Indies, and with Denmark taking the Swiss culture provinces of Switzerland, and giving 2 Occitan culture provinces to Sicily
The end of those wars came a few month before the expiration of the truce with Gurkani, who was the largest country still to be conquered, and who would likely take several wars. So our Emperor was eager to get to work on them, but before he did that, he decided to rectify another problem with culture acceptance now, before Denmark resumed her hegemony in the future and completed the world conquest. ANd that was the issue of Spanish trade company provinces in the East indies.
Although Spain had achieved a cultural union thanks to high development [I was not sure subjects can do this but apparently they can], and therefore had many open culture slots, they were not accepting any Asian or African cultures due to having provinces there designated as trade company land. Spain possessed many such provinces in the East Indies. That needed rectification if the Post-Conquest World Order would have everyone on Earth enjoying full citizenship . And our strict Emperor felt so strongly about that that he actually had Denmark return the island of Mentawai, captured from the Ottomans in a past war and populated by Turks, to Aq Qoyunlu - who thus returned from the dead to exist as an island nation 1,000 miles away from their mountain homeland! [for the curious, there was a separatist rebellion in Mentawai during the days of high over-extension and that created an AQ core as they are a valid Turkish cuture nation]
And immediately after that he declared war on Ternate and their ally Bone with the purpose of forcing them to accept Spanish provinces in the East Indies.
After that, he declared war on Gurkani
While that war was fought , he forced Ternate's ally Bone to accept the Spanish province of Mamuju .
That caused some loss of goodwill with the Spanish people, but they remained reliably loyal to the Wittlesbach crown . The Emperor then decided to go further with that strategy, and start correcting the problem of unaccepted cultures in Polish Mashriq . And here he used Adal, allied to Gurkani, to ratify the release of Syria out of Danish and Polish provinces.
The Polish people were not upset by this action [presumably because the release was technically from Denmark itself]. But that still left many other provinces in the region under Polish trade company control. So in the future, a "losing" war with Syria would be needed to "liberate" those lands.
He then went all out with this approach after opinion experts [wiki] told him there was a cap on how much Spain would be upset at Denmark for giving away provinces, and he realized the Personal Union was in no danger of being lost even with the maximum opinion hit. So he forced Spain to cede all her colonies in East Asia that were not Castilian culture to Ternate. And to make sure Ternate agreed to this , he kept a very close eye on the siege of Ternate, and he sent the proposal the day it fell, before Ternate declared unconditional surrender [if they do that, you cannot offer concessions].
In addition to forcing Spain to cede provinces, he was able to force Tierra Austral to do the same, with one Maori province in New Zealand going to Ternate. His plan was to reconquer all the ceded land in the future, with the Malay provinces going to the Client State of Malay and the Pacific ones to a new Client State created for that group. But that would not happen till after the truce with Ternate expired, so should be in a future chapter .
And before we get back to the Gurkani war, we note another item checked off in the preparation for the post-conquest world order, and that was the start of the conversion of Bahia to Prussian culture after it was converted to Reformed faith.
Now finally we get back to the Gurkani war, which wrapped up in late 1716 . And here our Emperor had significantly more flexibility in annexing land thanks to the unrestricted conquest ability obtained in January 1715 . That allowed him to annex lands deep in Asia that bordered Bactria and Sibera and that Denmark would normally not be able to core. So he was therefore able to split up the annexed provinces fairly evenly between the various subjects
The size of GUrkani dropped from 1664 down to 1251 development , a loss of about 1/4th of their total size. That meant three more wars at least would be needed to completely kill them . But the writing was on the wall.
After that another batch of wars was started against Korchin in North East Asia, Pasai in South East Asia, and Ethiopia in Africa. As usual, a lot of land was given to vassals on culture lines.
And when Portugal was made to cede the key province of Tuat, linking the Sahel to North Africa, the Emperor decided it was time to create one more client state in the region, and promptly declared war on Timbuktu
That war quickly ended with Denmark annexing most of Timbuktu and their ally Sus.
The Tuareg provinces in Timbuktu went to Nigeria, who accepted that culture. But Denmark held on to the land of Sus until peace time. That peace came after Ethiopia ceded most of her land ( all going to Sheba, except for Egyptian provinces which Denmark kept), and after Pasai was annexed by Malay .
And then the latest Client State was created out of the former Sus capital of Draa, which held over 40 development, and was called Mauretania in honor of the former Roman province. [not the modern country Mauritania, itself named after the Roman province by the French - also the Client State seed was provided by Nigeria who was given temporary possession of Tuat] . The Mauretanian Duke was then promised to eventually rule over all of North Africa and then the parts of Africa populated by the Jolof and Fulani among others.
And that action brings us to the beginning of the new decade, which featured the adoption by Denmark of the "Anti-revolutionary Zeal" ability. That ability, as expected by Niels Wittelsbach, made sure that even the largest vassals would remain loyal .
We close with the customary map showing Denmark's growth.
quick note: I know seeing annexations for a World Conquest is kind of boring and tedious . But actually fighting the wars is not too bad because of the vassal swarm . I have tried in the past to finish a world conquest and always gave up in the mid 1700's because it was such a grind (the only one I finished was the first one done for the achievement) . But this time I will finish it , and part of that is the power of the Personal Union Swarm which takes a lot of the mental load off when fighting the wars. I hope that in EU5 we will be able to delegate this part to the AI in the late game if needed.
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The goal is in sight! I wonder what people in-universe think of Christian V purposely losing some of these wars. They must think he's got some of his ancestor's madness.
I've always thought it weird that the Age of Revolutions is when your subjects are the most loyal and least likely to rebel. A consequence of how the game is designed.
I've always thought it weird that the Age of Revolutions is when your subjects are the most loyal and least likely to rebel. A consequence of how the game is designed.
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the only thing that matters in this life
Not only made me chuckle, but now I must incorporate a variation like the previous inspiration for "better relations through war"
With the subjects in check, the heavy lifting should become lighter. Well done, and I´m not taking about steaks (that would be a crime)
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I did a WC once in EU2 (weirdly, over twenty years ago now) and it was the dullest thing I have ever done in a Paradox game, and so I have never even tried a WC in any other Paradox game since (including HoI series, where it theory it makes more sense).
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Chapter 29: A University for Women Too (1720-1730)
In the last two Chapters, Christian V the strict took many steps towards building a post-conquest world. Some of those actions, particularly ceding land to Jolof and Syria, reminded people ( @jak7139 ) of his mercurial ancestor Niels Wittelsbach . And he opened the decade with even more of those counter-intuitive actions, with the return of Grain Coast province to Kong, and Swellendam to Kilwa.
In the case of Swellendam, he needed a way to give the province to Sudafrica, who accepted the Swahili culture there, but was two tiles away . In the case of Kong, he needed a willing patsy to cede more of Spain's trade company provinces to. And we describe Kong here with the term patsy because their ultimate fate would follow that of Jolof, who received the Spanish provinces, but now found itself at the receiving end of a declaration of war asking for those same provinces back.
The Jolof war kicked off the latest batch of wars, with declarations on Nivkh, Kham , Canada and Later Jin coming soon after ( basically at 1 month intervals as required by diplomatic rules ) . When choosing those targets, Christian had to stay clear of any Sunni nations in Asia that would have called Gurkani as Defender of the Faith. He wanted the next war with Gurkani to be with them as a full belligerent, to maximize land gains.
And by the close of the first year of the decade, the Jolof war ended with its full annexation directly to Mauretania
Our Emperor was then looking forward to some more annexations when fate struck and he passed away from natural causes at the age of 67 . He was succeeded by 25 year old Christian VI.
Immediately preparations for the full education of Christian VI at Kyoto were begun.
Peace was made first with Nivkh and their guarantor Japan, with Rohan taking all the gains. Then war was declared on Otomo who held Kyoto at the time. While that was was prosecuted, Canada was forced to give back most of the land she took recently from Breton Canada back to the Bretons .
Ant then peace in Japan was concluded , with Kyoto returning to Denmark . Japan was made to lose more provinces, pushing them almost completely to the South Island of Kyuchu . A quick upgrade to the Imperial City got our Christian to 5/3/3 .
On his return trip to Europe, he stopped by the Citadel of Bam to visit its Prussified population, and reaffirm to its inhabitants their full rights as Danish citizens of the state of Kerman (the province was turned to a State to allow religious conversion earlier, and the Emperor decided it would not return to Trade Company status).
ANd when he arrived to Kent, he celebrated his nuptials with Sofie von Haseldorf of Ghent, who bore him an heir Frederik 4/4/6.
And it was from Kent that he directed peace treaties ending this current batch of wars
The annexed lands went to various Asian subjects, and in almost all cases he had to force-feed the provinces to the Clients when their over-extension hit over 100%. Then without resting much, he began another batch of wars, picking on Vijayanagar, Ternate ( who had received many wrong-culture Spanish provinces in teh last chapter), and Saxony .
The absence of a significant break between the wars meant the Danish people were exhausted from the constant fighting and Christian had to spend resources to fight the exhaustion ( this was not a problem in the days Denmark was a hegemon) .
And if Denmark , with her vast resources, was exhausted, the vassals who were over-extended were doubly so. And that meant constant warring with rebels in all the Client States, to the point that Danish manpower was starting to decline ( but was still high ) . And so Christian began a vast construction project for Soldier's houses in many EUropean provinces. He then presided over the final annexation of Saxony as well as portions of Nepal .
And our young Emperor was considering the options of peace with the remaining enemies when fate struck and he died of (un?)natural causes.
He was 27 years old, and his reign was a brief two and half years. It was so short, that he did not have enough time to earn an adjective, and immediately people began to refer to him as Christian VI the "short-lived".
Christian left behind his new wife Sofie as regent for their infant son Frederik . With a potentially long regency of 14 years, the skills of the Consort, something that Danes had rarely bothered with , became relevant. And immediately a debate sprung up in the Cabinet on whether the Regent should make the customary trek to Kyoto to further her education. Was it worth it? some asked. How much could she improve in 14 years? they whispered. Others wondered if the Japanese would take offense at having a woman enter the Imperial city. And then some raised the issue of her ability to travel that far. But she quickly put all that to rest, showing off her skills as a Navigator and reassuring everyone that she was more than up for the job. But since Kyoto was currently owned by Denmark ( her late husband forgot to sell it back in the last peace lull), that trip had to wait till the current wars ended. And luckily for the regent, she was soon able to implement Napoleonic Siege warfare in the military, wich helped to speed up sieges significantly
The first fruits of that ability were a peace with Portugal, in which they ceded all their North African Forts to Denmark, who later gave them to Mauretania.
Then it was Vijayanagar who signed away their existence
Finally , Ternate signed a partial peace. In it they returned the Papuan culture provinces they initially got from Spain to Denmark, who created out of them the new Client State of Pacifica. The name was in honor of the nearby Ocean and an alt-history nation known for its peaceful expansion.
The new nation of Pacifica would later become a favorite of historical trivia buffs as the only Client State not headed by a Wittelsbach ( its dynasty was that of the consort , the von Haseldorfs). And at the time of its founding, it was widely believed to be the last Client State that would be created.
The addition of Pacifica put more strain on the diplomacy department, and made it more urgent for the Regent to improve her skills in that regard. So after selling Kyoto to Ashikaga, war was declared on them in May 1725 .
A few months later, Kyoto was in Danish hands and Sofie became the first (and so far only) woman to benefit from the Kyoto education
While that went on, there was a war waged on Korea. And on the REgent's trip back from Asia to Denmark, she stopped by Africa and directed a fake war on Kong, who was forced to accept the remaining Spanish Trade Company provinces in the region.
But unfortunately our Regent forgot to renew the Warning on Japan, and the latter ended up declaring on and annexing Ashikaga.
That unfortunately took away one of the three Kyoto recipients , making another war harder to get without a truce break.
After that, the war with Korea was wrapped up, finishing off Qi , Ottoman Australia ( who had recently gained independence) and Korea itself.
Denmark kept the Korean culture provinces (one in the peninsula, and one in East Timor) , while Pacifica got the Papuan culture provinces and Tierra Austral unified her island.
After a brief respite in which Kyoto was sold to Otomo, another batch of wars was started against Jenne ( Africa) , Colima ( Central America) and Mantua ( Europe).
Colima was a quick war and ended up with New Spain taking the Pacifica coast of Mexico.
This was followed by war on Otomo and then a quick peace with Otomo and Japan
From Otoma, Denmark took Kyoto of course , and Sofie made her second trip to Japan earning skills of 4/6/6 . Japan was made to release Ashikaga as an independent nation, and was made to cede all her land on Kyushu. That relegated Japan to their old capital of Musashi and made them separate from the other two Japanese nations. Sofie's plan was to prevent wars of subjugation or annexation between the three nations, and that made planning future Kyoto trips easier. Unfortunately for her, the peace with Japan releasing Ashikaga gave truces that would expire after the Regency ends.
On her return to Europe, she celebrated to annexation of Cologne to DEnmark and much of Mantua to Sicily, leaving a small number of provinces near the Alps outside Danish control.
Then Jenne was made to disappear from the map, splitting her provinces between Nigeria and Mauretania.
At that point Denmark had the ability and option to become Hegemon again, since 20 years had passed since loss of Hegemony happened after ceding Spanish land to Jolof. But the Empress Regent held back for now. There was one last concession war to be made, and that was against Syria. That should happen early in the next decade. And then Denmark can resume her hegemony .
But actually there was also one other concession to be made, and that was a lone Spanish province in the Philippines that somehow got missed in the Ternate concession war. That was quickly taken care of by giving it to Pangasiana as part of a new war on Madyas
The war with Madyas was ongoing as the decade ended. ANd the start of 1730 brought with it another technological advance, and the chance to pick new ideas for Denmark. And our Empress Regent did not hesitate in choosing Quantity ideas to boost Denmark's power relative to her subjects, and allow even more armies to police the globe.
With her subjects well under control, Denmark is just a few wars away from completing the world conquest and establishing permanent peace.
In the last two Chapters, Christian V the strict took many steps towards building a post-conquest world. Some of those actions, particularly ceding land to Jolof and Syria, reminded people ( @jak7139 ) of his mercurial ancestor Niels Wittelsbach . And he opened the decade with even more of those counter-intuitive actions, with the return of Grain Coast province to Kong, and Swellendam to Kilwa.
In the case of Swellendam, he needed a way to give the province to Sudafrica, who accepted the Swahili culture there, but was two tiles away . In the case of Kong, he needed a willing patsy to cede more of Spain's trade company provinces to. And we describe Kong here with the term patsy because their ultimate fate would follow that of Jolof, who received the Spanish provinces, but now found itself at the receiving end of a declaration of war asking for those same provinces back.
The Jolof war kicked off the latest batch of wars, with declarations on Nivkh, Kham , Canada and Later Jin coming soon after ( basically at 1 month intervals as required by diplomatic rules ) . When choosing those targets, Christian had to stay clear of any Sunni nations in Asia that would have called Gurkani as Defender of the Faith. He wanted the next war with Gurkani to be with them as a full belligerent, to maximize land gains.
And by the close of the first year of the decade, the Jolof war ended with its full annexation directly to Mauretania
Our Emperor was then looking forward to some more annexations when fate struck and he passed away from natural causes at the age of 67 . He was succeeded by 25 year old Christian VI.
Immediately preparations for the full education of Christian VI at Kyoto were begun.
Peace was made first with Nivkh and their guarantor Japan, with Rohan taking all the gains. Then war was declared on Otomo who held Kyoto at the time. While that was was prosecuted, Canada was forced to give back most of the land she took recently from Breton Canada back to the Bretons .
Ant then peace in Japan was concluded , with Kyoto returning to Denmark . Japan was made to lose more provinces, pushing them almost completely to the South Island of Kyuchu . A quick upgrade to the Imperial City got our Christian to 5/3/3 .
On his return trip to Europe, he stopped by the Citadel of Bam to visit its Prussified population, and reaffirm to its inhabitants their full rights as Danish citizens of the state of Kerman (the province was turned to a State to allow religious conversion earlier, and the Emperor decided it would not return to Trade Company status).
ANd when he arrived to Kent, he celebrated his nuptials with Sofie von Haseldorf of Ghent, who bore him an heir Frederik 4/4/6.
And it was from Kent that he directed peace treaties ending this current batch of wars
The annexed lands went to various Asian subjects, and in almost all cases he had to force-feed the provinces to the Clients when their over-extension hit over 100%. Then without resting much, he began another batch of wars, picking on Vijayanagar, Ternate ( who had received many wrong-culture Spanish provinces in teh last chapter), and Saxony .
The absence of a significant break between the wars meant the Danish people were exhausted from the constant fighting and Christian had to spend resources to fight the exhaustion ( this was not a problem in the days Denmark was a hegemon) .
And if Denmark , with her vast resources, was exhausted, the vassals who were over-extended were doubly so. And that meant constant warring with rebels in all the Client States, to the point that Danish manpower was starting to decline ( but was still high ) . And so Christian began a vast construction project for Soldier's houses in many EUropean provinces. He then presided over the final annexation of Saxony as well as portions of Nepal .
And our young Emperor was considering the options of peace with the remaining enemies when fate struck and he died of (un?)natural causes.
He was 27 years old, and his reign was a brief two and half years. It was so short, that he did not have enough time to earn an adjective, and immediately people began to refer to him as Christian VI the "short-lived".
Christian left behind his new wife Sofie as regent for their infant son Frederik . With a potentially long regency of 14 years, the skills of the Consort, something that Danes had rarely bothered with , became relevant. And immediately a debate sprung up in the Cabinet on whether the Regent should make the customary trek to Kyoto to further her education. Was it worth it? some asked. How much could she improve in 14 years? they whispered. Others wondered if the Japanese would take offense at having a woman enter the Imperial city. And then some raised the issue of her ability to travel that far. But she quickly put all that to rest, showing off her skills as a Navigator and reassuring everyone that she was more than up for the job. But since Kyoto was currently owned by Denmark ( her late husband forgot to sell it back in the last peace lull), that trip had to wait till the current wars ended. And luckily for the regent, she was soon able to implement Napoleonic Siege warfare in the military, wich helped to speed up sieges significantly
The first fruits of that ability were a peace with Portugal, in which they ceded all their North African Forts to Denmark, who later gave them to Mauretania.
Then it was Vijayanagar who signed away their existence
Finally , Ternate signed a partial peace. In it they returned the Papuan culture provinces they initially got from Spain to Denmark, who created out of them the new Client State of Pacifica. The name was in honor of the nearby Ocean and an alt-history nation known for its peaceful expansion.
The new nation of Pacifica would later become a favorite of historical trivia buffs as the only Client State not headed by a Wittelsbach ( its dynasty was that of the consort , the von Haseldorfs). And at the time of its founding, it was widely believed to be the last Client State that would be created.
The addition of Pacifica put more strain on the diplomacy department, and made it more urgent for the Regent to improve her skills in that regard. So after selling Kyoto to Ashikaga, war was declared on them in May 1725 .
A few months later, Kyoto was in Danish hands and Sofie became the first (and so far only) woman to benefit from the Kyoto education
While that went on, there was a war waged on Korea. And on the REgent's trip back from Asia to Denmark, she stopped by Africa and directed a fake war on Kong, who was forced to accept the remaining Spanish Trade Company provinces in the region.
But unfortunately our Regent forgot to renew the Warning on Japan, and the latter ended up declaring on and annexing Ashikaga.
That unfortunately took away one of the three Kyoto recipients , making another war harder to get without a truce break.
After that, the war with Korea was wrapped up, finishing off Qi , Ottoman Australia ( who had recently gained independence) and Korea itself.
Denmark kept the Korean culture provinces (one in the peninsula, and one in East Timor) , while Pacifica got the Papuan culture provinces and Tierra Austral unified her island.
After a brief respite in which Kyoto was sold to Otomo, another batch of wars was started against Jenne ( Africa) , Colima ( Central America) and Mantua ( Europe).
Colima was a quick war and ended up with New Spain taking the Pacifica coast of Mexico.
This was followed by war on Otomo and then a quick peace with Otomo and Japan
From Otoma, Denmark took Kyoto of course , and Sofie made her second trip to Japan earning skills of 4/6/6 . Japan was made to release Ashikaga as an independent nation, and was made to cede all her land on Kyushu. That relegated Japan to their old capital of Musashi and made them separate from the other two Japanese nations. Sofie's plan was to prevent wars of subjugation or annexation between the three nations, and that made planning future Kyoto trips easier. Unfortunately for her, the peace with Japan releasing Ashikaga gave truces that would expire after the Regency ends.
On her return to Europe, she celebrated to annexation of Cologne to DEnmark and much of Mantua to Sicily, leaving a small number of provinces near the Alps outside Danish control.
Then Jenne was made to disappear from the map, splitting her provinces between Nigeria and Mauretania.
At that point Denmark had the ability and option to become Hegemon again, since 20 years had passed since loss of Hegemony happened after ceding Spanish land to Jolof. But the Empress Regent held back for now. There was one last concession war to be made, and that was against Syria. That should happen early in the next decade. And then Denmark can resume her hegemony .
But actually there was also one other concession to be made, and that was a lone Spanish province in the Philippines that somehow got missed in the Ternate concession war. That was quickly taken care of by giving it to Pangasiana as part of a new war on Madyas
The war with Madyas was ongoing as the decade ended. ANd the start of 1730 brought with it another technological advance, and the chance to pick new ideas for Denmark. And our Empress Regent did not hesitate in choosing Quantity ideas to boost Denmark's power relative to her subjects, and allow even more armies to police the globe.
With her subjects well under control, Denmark is just a few wars away from completing the world conquest and establishing permanent peace.