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The History of China

#169 - S. Song 12: Instant Regret

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Just off of the heady victory over the Jin Dynasty with their new BFFs, the Mongols, a first-in-a-century visit to the Imperial Tombs gives the Song court a brilliant idea - what if we just took them back without asking? What's the worst that could happen? Time Period Covered: 1234-1241 CE Major Historical Figures: Song Dynasty: Emperor Lizong Chancellor Zheng Qingzhi Chancellor Shi Miyuan [d. 1233] General Zhao Kui General Quan Zicai Mongol Khanate: Ögedei Khaghan Töregene Khatun Prince Khödan Prince Khöchu Ambassador Wang Qi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Episode 169, instant regret. The golden flame of the Jirchien dynasty had been snuffed out.

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And after 120 years of humiliation and being lorded over by those northern barbarians,

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who even went so far as to deny them their ancestral burial grounds.

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For the Royals, officials, and even the populace at large of the Southern Song, it was a happy funeral indeed.

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As the final gouts of smoke flicked out from the ruined husks of the once glorious, long lost Kaifung, and from

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Taido, where the last sion of the royal house of Wanyan met the Mongol headman's axe. A strange repose settled over the south.

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At long last it was over, wasn't it? Or was it? Should it be? Could it be? After all, the Imperial ancestral temples were still in

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