Originally posted by Ego_Extrodinaire
... I guess...I don't know why ...maybe...
Anything with so many qualifications really deserves some comment...

Fung Sui experts were able to raise the dead with spirits. Generally, they used to be corpses of slained manchu troops.

The ruling family lived in seclusion in the forbidden city that was fortified against the outside world.

political decisions shift like the sands - like we see in today's conflicts.

What we know of the chinese... They had weapons that were unheard of in medieval europe.

if you disrupt the monk's meditative state, they could lose their iron body ability as well as come crashing to the ground.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)

Whether to straighten out your fantasy or just liven it up, I'd like to suggest taking a look at the bibliographical "Chinese History: A Manual" by Endymion Wilkinson.

Best of luck,
CT