Xi was made, like the other Post-Han Dynasty Kingdoms, after the First Sinican Civil War. The mountains of Xi protected it from the larger kingdoms around it. The protection orders that started in this kingdom protected the Dukes thereof and the rights of those Dukes. These Dukes not only protected their rights from being usurped by the King but actually forced the King to have his successor be elected by these Dukes. Xi became a center of monetary trade and industry and they used these profits to gain the food which they could not grow for themselves. Xi interacted closely with their smaller neighbor kingdoms and these would eventually for the Sinican Council and the United Kingdom. Xi remained neutral to the other large states and never engaged in a war until the Sino-Japanese War.