#208 - Ming 4: To Pick at the Dragon's Scales

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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To both the north and south, the armies of Great Ming continue to achieve order from chaos and stability across the realm, in the imperial palace at Nanjing, the Hongwu Emperor sits the Dragon Throne - as mercurial and temperamental as its very namesake... and woe betide anyone who stokes the dragon's wrath. Still, in the name of greater peace (and fewer mass slaughters), many a brave (and often fatally foolish)scholar will tempt fate by trying to tell Hongwu what he's doing wrong. Time Period Covered: 1379-1389 CE Major Historical Figures: Ming: The Hongwu Emperor (Zhu Yuanzhang) [r.1368-1398] Duke Li Wenzhong [d. 1384] General Fu Youde [d. 1394] General Feng Sheng [?] General Lan Yu [d. 1393] General Mu Ying [d. 1392] Scholar Chen Wenhui [d. 1381] Scholar Li Shilu [d. 1381] Scholar Xie Jin [1369-1415] Yuan/Yunnanese: Toghus Temür Khan [d. 1388] Basalawarmi, the Prince of Liang [d. 1382] General Naghachu [d. 1388] Si Lunfa, Chieftain of Shan [d. 1386?] Major Works Cited: Crossley, Pamela Kyle, et al. Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity and Frontier in Early Modern China. Dillon, Michael. China’s Muslim Hui Community: Migration, Settlements and Sects. Langlois, John D., Jr. “The Hung-Wu-Reign” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 13698-1644m Part I. Tsai, Shi-shan Henry. The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty.g. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:33.0	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:46.0	Episode 2008, to pick at the dragon scales.
0:51.0	Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy when roasted and taste good with
0:57.1	ketchup.
0:58.1	Attributed to Suzanne McMahon.
1:02.0	When last we left off with our foray into the reign of the Ming Dynasty's founding emperor, Hong
1:07.0	Wu, he had begun the back half of his three decades on the throne,
1:11.0	a period which would be in summation a long slow spiral into paranoia, madness, and a particularly
1:18.2	terrifying and mercurial rage, one which could incite the sovereign of all China to mass murder against anyone
1:25.2	he even so much as suspected might be against him which could be just about anyone
1:29.8	at any time for any reason As his policies became ever more brutal and
1:35.3	arbitrary, the imperial officials felt themselves in a rather particular bind.
1:39.6	If summoned into imperial service, they could almost invariably look forward to harsh physical punishments for even minor errors on their part at best.
1:49.0	At worst, not only would they suffer the consequences of the ever shifting imperial wrath, but so too
1:55.3	would their families and clans. The Hongu Emperor, as you'll recall, had come to hold in particular
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