Everyone, I did it! In 1846, I made the Qing Empire a puppet of Brazil!

[howlling]

The process was quite complicated, but for now, I'll just share the key points.

1. Request Britain and its allies to ban opium from global trade, thereby delaying the Opium War.
2. Seize Japan’s treaty ports, and in exchange for returning them, instigate a conflict between Japan and the Qing by encouraging them to declare rivalry—then immediately surrender.
3. Sign a treaty with the Qing to sell them goods, including a special clause to be activated 5 years later.
4. After the 5-year ceasefire ends, lift the opium ban.
5. Hit the Qing all at once with: Forced regime change (25), Japan's humiliation (25), British market opening (25), and loss in the Opium War (25), stripping Beijing and multiple treaty ports in one go.
6. Right before the end of the war with the Qing, declare war on Indonesia to intentionally break the special clause, triggering “Treaty Breach (25).”
7. This drives the Qing’s total prestige down to “-125%”, dropping their prestige to zero.
8. But that’s still not enough—so demand the enactment of “Local Police” in exchange for returning treaty ports. This enrages the Qing intellectuals, adding another prestige debuff (“Unrest –10”).
9. Now Qing’s prestige is –135%.
10. Remember the exact date when the treaty was breached. Since the game system has a 1-year protection period from demotion, 80 days before Qing's scheduled demotion, declare war on a pro-Qing Indonesian nation with all your troops deleted. This makes the Qing underestimate you and join the war on the opposing side.
11. Call in Britain, conscript cavalry and line infantry in a 1:1 ratio, flood your generals, force Qing to split forces by launching naval invasions—and pray that Qing surrenders before they can recover prestige.

※ In Brazil’s case, make sure to pre-enact Oligarchy. The default law is Wealth Voting, but if you force regime change on the Qing, they’ll adopt that law instead, and the intellectuals love it.

 

[windock]

Wow, that is awesome! I imagine amount of effort it took.
Could you clarify how you encourage Japan to rival Qing?

 

[howlling]

Wow, that is awesome! I imagine amount of effort it took.
Could you clarify how you encourage Japan to rival Qing?

Towards Japan

1. Forced regime change (by intellectuals) toward Japan
2. Open the market with Britain.
3. Demand the Nagasaki treaty port and win.

Then, declare war on China using a reasonably humiliating pretext.
After that, send a message to Japan saying, “I’ll return the Nagasaki treaty port to you, so join the war.”
This way, you instigate a conflict between them (since the Intellectuals and the Landowners are also politically opposed).
Once they declare each other as rivals and go to war, I immediately surrender after checking the rival status, keeping the truce period short.


※ This video is actually from my own gameplay. If you can understand Korean, it will be helpful.

 

[GreyOgre]

Remember the exact date when the treaty was breached. Since the game system has a 1-year protection period from demotion, 80 days before Qing's scheduled demotion, declare war on a pro-Qing Indonesian nation with all your troops deleted. This makes the Qing underestimate you and join the war on the opposing side.

So you did find a way. Awesome!

 

[windock]

Towards Japan

1. Forced regime change (by intellectuals) toward Japan
2. Open the market with Britain.
3. Demand the Nagasaki treaty port and win.

Then, declare war on China using a reasonably humiliating pretext.
After that, send a message to Japan saying, “I’ll return the Nagasaki treaty port to you, so join the war.”
This way, you instigate a conflict between them (since the Intellectuals and the Landowners are also politically opposed).
Once they declare each other as rivals and go to war, I immediately surrender after checking the rival status, keeping the truce period short.


※ This video is actually from my own gameplay. If you can understand Korean, it will be helpful.

Awesome, I learned a lot! YouTube auto-translate subtitles are quite decent; I understood most of it.