We have the Mandate!

"We have the Mandate!"
 From Shangqing Tianguo to Tian Empire

 The Shangqing Tianguo (English: The Pure Kingdom Upon the Heavens) is a theocratic revolutionary state founded by Zhang Tianran and his I-Kuan Tao (English: The Path of Consistence), it is also considered the "spiritual successor" of the Taiping Tianguo, the failed rebellion attempt against the Qing Empire in the 1850s-60s. The State is controlled by the Great Teacher, position held the founder of the I-Kuan Tao, and his second-in-command woman and wife, Sun Sunzhen. The I-Kuan Tao combines Taoist, Confucianist and Buddhist concepts and philosophy with western religion's, specially Christianism and Islam, and like the latter two, is monotheistic.

This state was founded following the German intervention in China, in the mid-20s when the people saw the, already hated, restored Qing dynasty as even more corrupt and foreign-controlled, not worthy of holding the mandate of heaven. Moved by Zhang Tianran and his charismatic speeches about an united China ruled only by Chinese people, a powerful middle kingdom, a Kingdom over the heavens, these people rallied to his cause, and over a couple of years, his little cult grown to a powerful faction to be considered, with special strength in the mountains of central China, in the Shaanxi province. In 1924, they successfully revolted against the Qing government, seizing the Shaanxi province, implemented a theocratic, but benevolent, government and compared to the Qing government, liberal and with a modern bureaucracy.

Zhang then proceed to to industrialize the province and founded an army which he named "Millenarian Movement Army" and entitled Fang Zhimin, a known military commander and faithful follower of the I-Kuan Tao , as "Commander of the great armies of heaven", who proceed to heavily fortify the province, successfully. Now, 1936, after gathering a great army and followers and industrializing and modernising his state, Zhang Tianran has declared a "Heavenly Crusade", to expel the foreign, the corrupt and the impure from the Middle Kingdom. Will this campaign success, will China be really be the Empire on top of the heaven that he proclaims? Or will he fade on the shadows of history, as another failed revolutionary?