Riches of East Asia
Ming China was one of the most powerful empires of the world, populated by more than a hundred million people and weighted almost a fourth of the world economy according to Maddison researches.
Yet even with Mandate of Heaven their province density remains one of the lowest of the world and their economy is heavily outnumbered by the one of western Europe alone. This mod aims to correct this.
This mod adds around 60 provinces in China, based on Ming and Qing prefecture divisions (Fu 府) and autonomous counties (zhou 州), drawn with their historical borders.
While increasing China’s power, it also makes it more complicated to rule such a large empire, as it features more provinces to develop, control and defend against peasant rebels dying from hunger, Mongol and Manchu hordes raiding the northern border, but also against eager european traders trying to force it to open to international trade.
It also features two new provinces in the Ryukyu archipelago, representing the northern and southern archipelagos of Amami and Sakishima, which were colonized by the Three Kingdoms at a later date.
It is based on Typus Orbis Terrarum projection and includes all its features such as trade company, trade networks and colonial region reworks.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=907390378
A lot of research has been put into this mod, especially with documentation such as the Cambridge History of China. However, as a european based modder, I lack a complete knowledge of the place and time and will gladly consider any comment or suggestion
Remains to be done :
– rebalancing development in China (vanilla and modded provinces) according to historical population and wealth data between historical regions
– fixing areas : areas (historical provinces) in China are still a little big compared to the rest of the world. I am currently developing a new proposal for areas based on the Chinese circuits administration
– correcting tradegoods for new provinces. Currently based on the neighboring nearest prefecture tradegood
I will expand this mod to cover some over important areas of the far east, including Japan and Mongolia, but I also plan to redo other regions of the world left aside by the developers.
Current plans are made for an expansion of the Aztec historical provinces, a densely populated area of the New World.
French and English languages are supported.
I would gladly include any other language to the mod if people are willing to invest themselves into translating it.
This mod is obviously incompatible with Achievements and any other map mod, as it adds new provinces.
It should however be compatible with any gameplay mod
