#150 - N. Song 17: Smoke On the Water Margin

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 5 October 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Emperor Huizong’s Song Dynasty’s luck runs dry with a series of epic screw up that throw the whole system in disarray. War with the Tangut Xi Xia goes badly awry – and his generals won’t even tell him about it. And then rebellions start breaking out in the south – on by a millennialist death-cult led by a 12th century Jim Jones: Fang La… and another breaking out in the swamps and marshes of Liangshan, and led by Chinese Robin Hood of literary fame: Song Jiang. All of this will throw the Song military's carefully laid plans against the crumbling Khitan Liao into disarray, and make their would-be allies the Jurchen Jin wary of how reliable a partner the Chinese might actually be. Time Period Covered: 1103-1123 CE Major Historical Figures: Emperor Huizong of Song (Zhao Ji) [r. 1100-1126] Chancellor Cai Jing [1047-1126] General Tong Guan, Commander of the Imperial Armies, eunuch [1054-1126] Fang La, lacquer farmer-cum-millenialist death-cult leader and rebel commander, mad as hell and not going to take it anymore [d. 1121] Song Jiang, Liangshan rebel commander, Leader Star of Destiny, “Timely Rain,” Haohan Hero [d. ca. 1123] "Chapter/Poetry Music" "Spring River Flower Moon Night" 古筝 - 春江花月夜 - played on guzheng Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:05.0	Whether it's an under-the-radar genre or a proper out-there podcast,
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0:29.5	But in a surprisingly good way, try more weird with Dr Pepper's zero. Hello and welcome welcome to the history of China.
0:47.0	Episode 50, smoke on the water margin.
0:52.0	Jee-Bu-Zee- margin. Any food when you're hungry, when your cold rags save life,
1:04.5	any road when you're frightened, when your poor, any wife.
1:09.1	By Shinnayan.
1:12.4	Last time, we completely skipped over a solid 20 years of the Songcourt Snooze Fest and leapt
1:18.9	way north to chronicle the origins and then meteoric rise of the Jurchen people into the superstar Jin Day. the between the 11-10s and the 20s.
1:33.7	We'd finished out with the conclusion of a treaty between the newly ascendant Jin and Song that
1:38.8	basically had the Chinese Emperor getting paddled by his Georgiankin corollary and saying,
1:43.0	Thank you, sir, may I have another?
1:45.0	Well, now it's time to reel it back in and look at exactly why the Great and Mighty Song,
1:51.0	who after all, at the beginning of the last episode, had been riding high on the hog
1:54.9	after finally curbs stomping their headed tangut foes in Western Shah, why and how they had exactly
2:00.4	been put into such an embarrassing position, or rather put themselves into that position,
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