Lotus Strengthening Movement

The Lotus Strengthening Movement (Niun: 蓮花加強運動, Liánhuā jiāqiáng yùndòng) was a political, cultural, and military organization in Niunkuet from the foundation of the nation in 1850 to the end of the Second Great War. It was founded by members of the former Zhu dynasty, by members of the aristocracy and by Wei who had studied abroad in the last decades of the dynasty. It managed to gather many of the most progressive reformers of the Zhu from the collapse of the regime, and with the support of the Yin Taizu Emperor, they led and organized the modernization and development of the new Yin dynasty in order to secure its survival from the encroaching Shindan and later Zhenia.

It is often credited for providing the means through which the reign of the Yin Taizu Emperor managed to finish the modernizing reforms of the last few Zhu monarchs, and for helping lead Niunkuet towards becoming a truly modern nation, but at the same time the legacy of the movement is tainted by its development into the network of corrupt business conglomerates that dominated the nation during the First Great War and the interwar period. The Lotus Strengthening Movement was officially disbanded by the order of the Zhaoliang Emperor during the Zhaoliang Restoration.