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Guangbei was in several ways a testing ground for policies the Qian would later replicate in other parts of their growing colonial empire, official toleration of Guangbei's Muslims on the western plains was later applied on [[Truk]] specifically because it worked in pacifying these populations in Guangbei. Guangbei's local territorial army had a greater proportion of non-[[Daxia]]ns than was the norm in other parts of the empire, their way of handling and training native recruits was later used in Qian [[Peratra]]. All things considered the Qian period was a time of expanding urbanization of Guangbei and relative prosperity, although the sedentarization of the local tribal peoples brought some social discord, as did imperial taxation.

===Modern era===

[[File:Battle_at_the_Wei_River_(Weihe).jpg|thumb|Qian forces battle a rebel army during the 1894 Guangbei revolt.]]

The 19th century  saw the Qian dynasty increasingly turn its focus away from the continent and towards eastern conquests. This neglect was nowhere more evident than in Guangbei. Heavy taxation on cattle heads angered the [[Degei Confederation|Degei]] people and drove food prices up, equally angering the population of the urban centers. Sentiments of ethnic separatism began to be nourished by the writings of authors such as Wen Yaobu and Eldegai Bor who advocated for a separate Tiao identity and for a [[Degei Confederation|Degei]] homeland respectively, and later for cooperation between their two groups to achieve their ends. The Prince of Guangbei during the 1880's detailed to the imperial court in several letters, the dire state of his administration including the disrepair of many border forts and of two thirds of the bridges across the river, the built up of silt due to soil erosions and abandonment of farms, desertion and dereliction from border guards and marked increased in banditry.  

The response from the [[Palace of Columns]] is not recorded but is assumed to not have resulted in much help being given to Guangbei, as the problems enumerated in the Prince's missives are known to have continued well into the era of the Great Wars. A major revolt broke out in 1894 comprising most of the province's non-[[Daxian people|Daxian]] ethnic groups against increased taxation on sheep wool. Many cities and towns that depended on the wool trade also joined the rebels who marched on [[Brink]] by 1896 but were unable to take the city. The revolt was finally put down in 1901 when Qian reinforcements finally arrived but the province was completely devastated by then and the imperial government had little funds to spare on reconstruction, almost 40% of the imperial budget was being spent on the [[Great Arsenal]]. By the time some bureaucrats in the Qian administration were ready give Guangbei more than a second look, the [[Second Great War]] was beginning and the ideas of previously mentioned separatist authors taken root in the province.

The Society for the restoration of Liang and the Kurultai of Degei tribes agitated against [[Daxia]]'s entry into the [[Second Great War]] and produced a program that outlined increased funding for Guangebi, linguistic and cultural rights and evacuation of Qian forces, except police. A delegation of both groups bypassed the Prince of Guangbei and took the petition before the imperial court, where it was summarily refused. Back in Guangbei the government of Prince Jiaohua was preoccupied with staying in power as the realization that the Qian court was not about to provide any more than the little it was giving already. Prince Jiaohua resolved that if the central government was not doing anything to suppress the separatists, he could not really be blamed if he ended up making an agreement with them. A monarchy ruling over a multiethnic state was a more appetizing prospect than being kicked out of Brink by force or worse. Envoys of the separatist compact and the prince met at several conclaves to negotiate the terms of the transformation of the province into an entity independent of the Qian. The prince's insistence on being more than a constitutional monarch was a snag in  the negotiation process which was only resolved when the separatists threatened to unseat him by force. To mollify Jiaohua he was given the concession of being styled as a king rather than prince. They also agreed to change Guangbei to Canpei which was the northern pronunciation of the name. The separatist currents would also become fully fledged political parties and one from their number would be elected prime minister after an election of by all adult males in the territory. Jiaohua proclaimed Canpei an independent nation shortly after the 1946 [[Glorious Revolt]] that unseated Emperor [[Hongli]] and ended the Qian dynasty.

The military junta led by [[Dai Hanjian]] and [[Qiu Heng]] that took over from the Qian were not particularly impressed with the claim of independence but they were fully preoccupied by the internal powder keg that was [[Daxia]]. The junta agreed to extend recognition to Canpei's independence provided the correspondent part of the national debt was assumed, Qian national treasures in Canpei were returned and local ethnic [[Daxia]]ns were respected and given positions in the government. Once these conditions were either met or codified, the recognition and establishment of relations were inaugurated with a ceremony in [[Brink]] in 1948. Letters written by [[Qiu Heng]] have revealed that the recognition of Canpei was meant to be a temporary arrangement, the territory was to be retaken when it proved convenient.

====Government of National Emergency====

====Revolution of Dignity====

====Daxian Intervention====