As such, it is very difficult for Yuán to avoid it. Once it starts, the following event will fire:

As you can see, getting the rebellions will bring about even more problems and penalties for Yuán. Additionally, while the situation is ongoing, some events will be firing, making the historical rebels appear, each event with an extra option to allow the player to switch and continue playing as the newly created rebel country (both options of the events do the same, the only difference is the extra effect of switching playable country)