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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 154, Song of the South.

Last time, the North Un Song Dynasty came to its sudden violent end at the hands of a pair

of double-pronged invasions by the Jur-10-Gien armies, fresh off their stunning usurpation of the Liao dynasty.

In the wake of the capture and thorough sacking of Kaifung, both Song emperors and almost

the entirety of the Jao Royal Family had been carted off to the north

who live out the rest of their lives in bondage.

The north of China had then been entrusted to a Jintodi, Jang Bangchang, as the puppet emperor of the Jirchun

Vassal State known as Great Chu.

Meanwhile, the last scion of the House of Jo, the Prince of Kang, had managed to slip the net and flee southward to, hopefully, safety.

Today then, pursued by the Jin Empire's sinister agents, Prince Jo Gao Gao races home to Inkyan Fu aboard his stallion, custodian of the last line of

legitimacy that can save his dynasty and butor's song rule to all under heaven.

Jao Go was born to royalty, but never born to rule.

He was, as put by historian Peter Lords, quote,

a rather ordinary man faced with an extraordinary and unexpected situation."

End quote.

As the ninth son of Huizong and the half-brother of Chinzon,

though he was technically in line for the throne, there was virtually no way he'd ever be anything but a privileged rich boy, leaving a life of luxury, painting, and calligraphy.

In fact, it would prove to be his very expendability that, in a twist proving that the universe

has a sense of irony all its own, would come to ensure his survival and freedom when the

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