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The Feishan and Nong's war, also known as the Platinum War and the Nong's rebellion, was a civil war in the Earth Kingdom between the young Earth King Feishan and the rebellious General Nong.
History[]
Prelude[]
General Nong rebelled for two main reasons. First, he had ambitions to seize power. He wanted to become the Earth King, establishing order in a new dynasty. Second, he truly hated King Wurong. Wurong had an affair with Nong's cousin, whom he betrayed, insulted Nong's family, and later not only rejected Nong's membership in the Council of Five, but also sent him to the Earth Kingdom's pephyreria.
After Wurong's fifteen-year-old son Feishan ascended to the throne, he quickly showed an aggressive streak and an iron will to impose his views. Nong saw this as a good time to rebel, as Feishan was young and brutal, and the rulers of the Fire Nation and Water Tribes did not look kindly on him.
War[]
The rebellion began in the Hu Xin Provinces. During the fighting, Nong managed to capture the western coast and approach the central areas and northern mountains.
Eventually, the war descended into a state of conflict over positions. Both Nong and Feishan feared that they would lose their chances of victory in an instant. It was mostly small skirmishes and sending spies to the other side.
Due to the prolonged conflict in the Earth Kingdom, the leaders of the Fire Nation and Water Tribes began to lose patience, so they secretly conspired to support Nong against Feishan while pretending to be friendly towards both sides. They loaned funds to the Earth King in the form of paper banknotes, hoping the loyalist soldiers would lose confidence in the king's ability to pay them with only written promises. Meanwhile, they sent Nong ingots of platinum, an extremely valuable currency. For this reason, Nong's army came to be called the "Platinum Army".
Even though war weakened the Earth Kingdom, Feishan knew how to use it. When Feishan suspected someone of conspiracy or deemed someone too ambitious, he would make them a general and send them to the most dangerous front lines, where they usually died. After a few such cases, Feishan had to pay his politicians and nobles to become his military commanders and go to the front lines. This had depleted the royal treasury a bit and risked not being able to pay his army.
However, Feishan found the strategic moment he had been waiting for, and fell upon Nong at Llamapaca's Crossing, wiping his enemy off the face of the map. In the same battle, he captured the platinum treasury, as well as a number of foreign agents. He had the prisoners brutally tortured, and publicly revealed that the Fire Nation and Water Tribes had aided his enemies. Feishan also recovered a lot of the money that Nong had earned after defeating Feishan's generals.
Aftermath[]
Though Feishan would have liked to wage war against the Fire Nation and Water Tribes for their involvement in Nong's rebellion, he recognized that his military was weak due to the civil war. He thus opted for another form of vengeance: In retribution for what his fellow heads of state had done, he closed his nation's ports, cut off diplomatic communication, and expelled ambassadors from his land. He kept the captured platinum, melting it down and using it to plate the giant badgermole statue behind his throne, declaring that diplomatic relations would return to normal once the entire surface fully tarnished and appeared as stone, which would be approximately a century or even longer. The Fire Nation and Water Tribes responded by announcing their own states of isolation. However, Feishan and his court still desired luxury goods from abroad, and there was money to be made from Earth Kingdom exports. As a result, the Earth King, Fire Lord Gonryu, and Chief Oyaluk of the Water Tribes agreed to restrict trade to four cities to handle controlled amounts of international trade. The overall incident had become known as the Platinum Affair.
Trivia[]
- "Feishan and Nong's war" is written as 费山與浓战争, and and "Nong's rebellion" is written as 浓叛亂.
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