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While the war was drawing down [[Daxia]] turned back to its new holdings in the Shengoi peninsula where it constructed the fort city of [[Pinghai]] as the first of many spots deemed desirable for settlement. Over the next decades the Daxians would rapidly expand through the peninsula, creating new settlements and bringing in larger waves of settlers. In 1645 the Daxian settlements were organized into the [[Pinghai]] Department and Wen Rong was appointed as the first Governor General. Wei Rong was highly disdainful of the [[Chimoche]] and [[Ixa'Taka]]ns and endeavored to secure more agricultural land at their expense. The Chimor under king Falcao IV fought back at these attempts, starting the first Qian-Chimor War. The Chimor achieved some early tactical victories but the arrival of reinforcements from [[Cao]] turned the war against them and they were forced to negotiate, having to surrender all Chimor territory up to the Urgall Depression and thus losing the access to the Nysdra Sea they had previously possessed. Following the war, the Daxians began using tactics meant to sow division among the nobility of [[Chimoche]]. They bribed several important noble families and bankrolled the overthrow of Falcao IV and his replacement by his uncle, Tamazro. Tamazro was not accepted by the cities of eastern Chimoche and a civil war over the throne went on for twelve years until Tamazro's death and the enthronement of Falcao IV's son, Tizroc III, who was a minor at the time. The constant infighting and a tactical alliance between [[Daxia]] and [[Ixa'Taka]] led to the Second Qian-Chimor War in 1712, Chimoche was soundly defeated and most of its territory was occupied by [[Daxia]] as a buffer zone. King Tizroc V and the royal clan were interned in [[Pinghai]], this would be known as the [[Captivity of Weeping Sores]]. The Chimoche royal bloodline would continue to exist under Daxian tutelage for almost 300 years until the creation of the [[Chimoche]] Autonomy, the release of Tizroc V's descendants and their reappointment to rulership.

In 1645 the Qian dynasty began enacting a reorganization of its [[Crona]]n holdings by creating the [[Pinghai]] Department covering modern Xisheng as a separate territorial unit from [[Cao]], court bureaucrats reasoned that in this way the Chimor identity could be more easily diluted and suppressed under the rule of the well oiled and fully staffed administration of coastal [[Daxia]]n settlers. The viceroy in [[Cao]], a certain Shu Ao resolutely refused to cede control of Xisheng to the newly appointed governor [[Wen Rong]], arguing that the territory was not secure enough to rule itself. He detained Wen Rong's ship while it was in transit from Cao and arrested Rong and his entourage, this was the start of what is known as the Two Hats Incident named so because of Shu Ao's ambition to wear both the hat of Viceroy of [[Cao]] and the hat of Governor General of the [[Pinghai]] department. While imprisoned Wei Rong managed to have his writ of appointment and a plea for help smuggled to Xisheng. [[Wei Rong]]'s missive was received by the commanding officers of Xisheng's territorial forces, some of said officers argued that an expedition had to be launched to free the new governor while others were against as they felt Shu Ao was still their superior. In the end the deliberations resulted in a copy of Wei Rong's missive being sent to the mainland, asking for clarification and instructions on who should the garrison obey. While letters were exchanged by long sea voyage, Shu Ao also busied himself by contacting his allies in court, trying to have them revert the appointment of [[Wei Rong]]. After eight full months finally the Qian court resolved to uphold its own decision and commanded the Xisheng forces to depose Shu Ao, which was done bloodlessly as Ao's [[Cao]] troops surrendered without fighting. Never again were the two territories joined together again to prevent an overmighty local ruler from straying into autonomy. Xisheng's caste system first emerged in this period, proposed to the imperial court by settler elites although they were already implementing highly discriminatory policies unofficially.

===The Model Colony===