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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 128, The Exiled Emperor.

Last time we watched as the later Tong State exiled emperor.

Last time, we watched as the later tong state literally went up in flames as the combined

armies of emperor de Guang of Liao and his adopted son and subordinate,

Shejing tong, the Emperor of Later Jin, closed in around it.

Today, then, will chronicle the meteoric rise and fall of this would-be power over the Yellow River Valley.

Even in victory, Shejing Tong would find himself placed in a rather precarious circumstance regarding his rule and legitimacy.

This was in no small part owing to his problematic relationship with the

Liow Dynasty of the North. How could he claim to be the sovereign of China, the son of heaven holding its mandate after all, when he had humbly

pledged himself to a barbarian king from the north.

It should be noted that such misgivings weren't tinged with the kind of racial overtones we might expect.

That is to say, it wasn't that Emperor Daguang of Ria was ethnically non-chinese.

Indeed, she himself, the emperors of later tong, and even of the great tong, had all been of Turkic or partially Turkic origin.

Instead, it was the fact that she jing tongue's entire claim to power had rested upon the aid of an outside power.

He was an emperor because he'd achieved a great victory for himself, but rather because he'd

ridden on the coat tails of the Liao all the way to the capital and then to the throne.

How could anyone take his claims of legitimacy seriously?

As such, often as not Shins' env and embassies to other states, to his south, were often

met with outright hostility, a huge contravention of the standard operating procedure of the era,

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