Luoyang

Biodata

History

Establishment as the Capital

After Cao Cao’s victory at Red Cliffs and reunification of the realm, his government formalized a division between imperial legitimacy and executive administration. Cao Pi inherited this arrangement, formally established the Great Han Imperium, moved its capital to Luoyang, and expanded the palace complex into the Forbidden City 7.

Rule of the Chief Eunuchs

By Jiang Lihua’s reign, the Chief Eunuchs controlled the central government while the sovereign’s directly ruled territory consisted only of the Forbidden City and a few royal estates. She possessed neither treasury control nor military command 2.

Luoyang’s demands for taxes and soldiers increasingly exceeded the central government’s ability to provide security, justice, and public works. Regional elites withheld revenue and maintained private armies, while the eunuchs granted further privileges to preserve nominal unity 11.

The capital also served as a means of controlling provincial aristocrats. After Lin Cuo’s father died, the eunuchs summoned him to Luoyang under the pretext of royal education, effectively holding the Hexi Lin Clan’s heir hostage. He had lived there for two years before his first audience with Jiang Lihua 2.

Luoyang Palace Coup

Lin Cuo used preparations for the East Sea Peace Conference to reorganize the capital’s security. The conference justified rotating palace guards, coordinating Northern Army and Western Garden communications, restricting armory access, and concentrating foreign delegations in designated districts 26.

During the confrontation with the regency council, Jiang Lihua publicly stripped all eight Chief Eunuchs of their powers. Her emergency proclamation ordered the armies, police, railway offices, and broadcasting services to protect foreign guests and maintain order, explicitly forbidding unauthorized killings and guilt by association 34.

Britannian commander Chevail nevertheless deployed forces against Clovis’s orders. Li Xingke’s Shen Hu defeated Suzaku Kururugi’s Lancelot around the palace walls and plaza, after which Clovis relieved Chevail and withdrew his troops to the diplomatic security zone 32 34.

Meanwhile, Lin Cuo activated the Capital Internal Affairs Purge First Corps at Pingle Observatory. Yan Tieheng’s units seized financial networks and carried out executions against a predetermined roster; Lin Cuo waived further review of the marked targets 34.

Restoration of Central Authority

The coup developed into a wider campaign against independent military and financial networks. Military districts were required to accept central orders, expenditure audits, unified railway scheduling, and standardized equipment. Responses ranged from support for the sovereign to declarations of emergency autonomy and the detention of central envoys 37.

Lin Cuo remained in Luoyang to rebuild the Imperial Secretariat and supervise industry while Li Xingke departed on the Western Expedition. Subsequent campaigns and purges removed many officials and commanders capable of defying the capital through private armies, banks, and communications networks 41 42 161.

Districts and Landmarks

Military and Security

Western Garden Army

The Western Garden Army survived repeated disbandments and restorations to become Luoyang’s imperial rapid-response force. Its traditional offices were adapted to modern warfare and KMF operations 4.

• Under the eunuchs, personnel and military pay required inner-court approval, and units needed permission to leave Luoyang 4.
• Lin Cuo’s initial acting appointment provided direct access only to a Gao Hai training battalion, two palace infantry regiments, and an armaments testing institute 4.

Northern Army

• The Northern Army was the capital’s other central military establishment and nominally Great Han’s most legitimate standing central guard force 13.
• Its officer families were linked through military academies, veterans’ associations, marriages, and industrial interests. Formal obedience to the government concealed strong loyalties to individual units and regional networks 13.

Capital Internal Affairs Purge First Corps

• Assembled in eighteen minutes from police reserves, railway protection personnel, factory militias, prison guards, and mobile firefighting units 34.
• Operated with trucks, radios, automatic weapons, and requisitioned armored cars, but no KMFs or aerial warships 34.
• Conducted roster-based arrests, account seizures, and executions during the palace coup 34.

Industry and Research

KMF Development

• Luoyang High-Load KMF Joint Testing Institute — Acquired by Lin Cuo alongside two Gao Hai assembly plants and a joint-and-power-accessories factory. The acquisition included substantial debts and eleven months of unpaid wages 18.
• Shen Hu program — The completed but uncommissioned Shen Hu was stored in a sealed hangar at the institute when Lin Cuo took ownership 18.
• Guren Shen Hu — Developed at the joint testing institute using the Shen Hu frame and Rakshata’s high-mobility control system. Its modifications included a radiation-wave test weapon and reduced maximum output 48.
• Luoyang Tiangong Consortium — Controlled Shen Hu development, high-load control systems, linear weapons, and leading prototype engineers. Its principal weakness was the difficulty of mass-producing its advanced designs 47.

Wartime Industrial Expansion

• Confiscated luxury estates were converted into production facilities and technical housing; ornamental ponds could become firefighting reservoirs and theaters could be partitioned into technicians’ quarters 56.
• Professional pay improved production efficiency and technical-staff retention. It also made income inequality more visible, with some specialists earning five or six times ordinary workers’ wages 56.
• A Space Technology Committee was ordered established in Luoyang to gather expertise in astronomy, rocketry, levitation, and high-energy physics from Great Han and abroad 57.
• The system identified a Luoyang National Industrial Core Zone among Great Han’s national advantages 63.

Infrastructure and Urban Planning

The Cross-Era Nation-Building Module exposed vulnerabilities hidden by Luoyang’s status as the imperial center. Its disaster overlay highlighted concentrated population, aging underground infrastructure, inadequate backup utilities, and the close mixing of civilian housing with military industry 108.

• First-phase estimate: eighty-four days; the overhaul had entered planning, not completion 113.
• Immediate shortages: electrical engineers, underground construction equipment, municipal funding, and housing 113.
• System limitation: the module supplied planning, standards, and resource coordination, but could not create buildings without materials, labor, land, and supporting infrastructure 113.

Cross-World Resettlement

Thousands of new protected citizens arrived from city-worlds whose governments or infrastructure had collapsed. They retained their memories, family relationships, occupations, and experiences of disaster; successive arrivals pushed housing demand in Luoyang’s outlying resettlement zones into a critical state 113.

Palace Television Bureau interviews publicized accounts of contaminated water, excessive tolls, and neighborhoods cut off from essential services. Local viewers condemned the responsible officials, while the system recorded declining trust in local administration and increased support for Lin Cuo 113.

Diplomacy and International Events

Broadcasting

• Emergency broadcasting carried Jiang Lihua’s proclamation throughout Luoyang during the palace coup 34.
• The Palace Television Bureau later used interviews with cross-world arrivals to report on their former cities’ failures 113.
• Lin Cuo adjusted Luoyang’s signal network to launch Voice of Weiyang across Great Han, accompanied by free National Receivers and unified wartime messaging 165.