#204 - Ming 2: Winning Was Easy, Young Ming, Governing Is Harder

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 29 November 2020

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The Hongwu Emperor officially accedes to the throne as the founding ruler of Great Ming, to as much pomp and circumstance as his ministers can possibly pack in to the ceremony. After the parties are all done and the sacrifices all made, however, the real work of governing an empire that has been ravaged for centuries begins… and not everyone is happy about having a new sovereign sitting atop the dragon throne. Time Period Covered: 1367-1373 CE Major Historical Figures: Great Ming: The Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) [r. 1368-1398] Empress Xiaocigao (née Ma Xuying) [1332-1382] Zhu Biao, Crown Prince [1355-1392] Zhu Shuang, Prince of Qin [1356-1395] Zhu Gang, Prince of Jin [1358-1398] Zhu Di, Prince of Yan [1360-1424] Tao Kai, Minister of Rites General Xu Da [1332-1385] General Deng Yu General Fu Youde [1327-1394] Ambassador Zhao Zhi Xia Kingdom (Sichuan): Emperor Ming Yuzhen [r. 1360-1366] Emperor Ming Sheng [r. 1366-1371] Nanchō Japan: Prince Kaneyoshi, the Chinzei Shogun [c. 1329-1383] Monk Sorai Major Works Cited: Chan, Hok-Lam. “Ming Taizu’s Problem With his Sons: Prince Qin’s Criminality and Early Ming Politics” in Asia Major, Third Series, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2007). Langlois, John D. “The Hung-wu Reign” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Episode 204, winning was easy, young Ming, governing is harder.
0:54.0	Today we start off with a royal affair, a splendid imperial ceremony that was in ever respect
1:00.3	a once in a lifetime event for almost all present. The accession and
1:04.8	entronement of an emperor. And not just any emperor at that, the founding
1:10.1	emperor of the new regime that would soon govern all under heaven and the four corners of the world.
1:16.1	The mighty and victorious warlord, Ju Yuan Zhang, who had proclaimed himself the Duke of Wu
1:21.1	following his conquest of Nanjing in 1356, was... the of
1:28.0	in 18 in 1356 was reluctantly persuaded to at last declare himself
1:30.0	as the supreme monarch and well the arc of the realm in a ceremony to be held on January 23rd 1368.
1:39.0	Of course, as an event with such sweeping ramifications, both political and spiritual, there would needs must be appropriate
1:47.1	preliminary steps taken well in advance of him accepting his minister's exhortations to take up the throne. Those preparations
1:56.4	began a year before the actual ceremony was eventually to take place, with new palaces
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