Hongzhen of Nuzhen

Early Life and Education

Lin Dewei was born Crown Prince Dewei on April 29, 1986, the first of three sons of the then Duke of Nuzhen, Lin Guangfeng, while the Ducal Family was visiting a temple near Mt. Kunlun. As an infant, Dewei showed a great aptitude for absorbing knowledge, and by the age of 4, was able to recite 291 of the 300 of the Tang Poems as well as the Trimetric Classic (三字經) from memory. Lin's formal education began at the age of 5, under the guidance of several appointed tutors. He was tutored in Mathematics, Literature, Philosophy, English and the sciences in this manner until the age of 9, when he was enrolled in the Zhu Xi Memorial Academy. At the age of 14, he was sent to Eton College in England to acquire a secondary school education.

When he was 18, Dewei moved to the United States in order to attend Vanderbilt University, where he studied medicine, physics, and economics. In 2008, he graduated from Vanderbilt with a major degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Physics, as well as minor degrees in political science and economics. Upon graduation, he moved to Princeton University for graduate school. However, he was soon forced to leave the United States (in 2010) after he was found to be in violation of American laws against "incitement to hatred" and "defaming the dead". Upon his expulsion from the United States upon these grounds, he moved again, this time to Stuttgart, Germany (coincidentally, where his father had completed his undergraduate studies), where he succeeded in obtaining the degree of Medicinæ Doctor and a Ph.D. in Physics.

In addition, Dewei is known to be an avid musician, being able to perform erhu, violin, piano, and tuba. He has also been known to have composed several pieces of music, including two sonatas for violin and piano. He is fluent in several languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, English, Spanish, Latin, German, Russian and French.

Early Career

Upon his graduation from Stuttgart University, he returned to Nuzhen, where he spent two years as a monk at a Buddhist monastery. After laying down his monastic robes, he was offered a post at the University of Harbin as a professor of Biomedical sciences. He declined this position, preferring to take the title of 塾師 (shushi) to teach Physics and Confucianism at a small private high school in the countryside while independently conducting research. In 2013, at the urging of his brother who had also studied medicine, he left his "schoolteacher" post, and taught at the University of Harbin.

In 2018, his father urged him to begin his political career, saying that a role public life would give him credentials for his succession to the Ducal throne. He soon took the position of President of the Chancellry, which he held for 9 years, and later held the post of Minister of the Finance, which he held for 6. In 2024, his father was killed along with 13 other public officials in Beijing, thus prompting the 11-year war. Upon hearing this news, Dewei was so enraged that he postponed his coronation, leaving his elder half-Manchu cousin, Ebilun, as a regent to go to war on behalf of the "Greater Chinese Volk," and also to avenge his father's death He fought for seven months with the Unfied Chinese Army against the Americans in Tibet and Taiwan, but was forced to return to Nuzhen after suffering a gunshot wound.

Career as Duke

After recovering from a gunshot wound, Dewei was crowned Duke of Nuzhen on the Winter Solstice celebration of 2005 (according to the Gregorian calendar). Due to the fact that a war was being fought, he found himself immediately acting as Vice-Chairman of the Defense Bureau. In this position, he persuaded the government of Nuzhen to create and subsidize seven companies which manafactured wartime techonology and equipment. These seven companies later became the Taihang Conglomerate in the post-war period, and are responsible for at least 60% of Nuzhen's total industrial output in the automotive, chemical, and heavy machinery industries.