#130 - 5D10K 7: South Before North

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 8 October 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

With the rise of the last of the 5 Dynasties, Later Zhou, the North China Plains is able to go onto the offensive for the first time in decades; not against the endless expanses of the northern steppes, but a new strategy to reinvigorate the north by seizing the fertile and as of yet untouched reaches of the southern kingdoms, who are ripe for the plucking. Through it all, a brilliant military commander by the name of Zhao Kuangyin will prove his valor and skill, and is ultimately rewarded with a fateful governorship to the city of Song. Time Period Covered: 954-959 CE Major Historical Figures: Later Zhou: Chai/Guo Rong (Emperor Shizong) [r. 954-959] Chancellor Wang Pu [d. 957] General Zhao Kuangyin Southern Tang: Li Jing (Emperor Yuanzong) [r. 943-961] Northern Han: Liu Chong (Emperor Shizu) [r. 951-954/5] Liu Jun (Emperor Ruizong) [r. 955-968] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.0	Episode 130, South before North.
0:52.0	Last time we pushed through the ever South before North.
0:58.0	Last time, we pushed through the ever-so-brief rain period of the later Han Dynasty over the Central Yellow River Valley, and then watched as it was gobbled up from within by Guo Wei and his ascendant later Joe Dynasty in 951.
1:07.1	Charting us all the way through the year 954 to his death.
1:10.9	Today we will finish up our business in the north, setting the stage for the song to come, before
1:16.2	swinging down south to see what has been happening over there for the last 70-odd years.
1:22.4	Before that though, I'm happy to say that I've now posted two of the about five
1:26.4	promised maps that I promised to get up in the near future over at the history of China.
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