#231 - Ming 20: Liu Jin & the Eight Tigers

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 21 February 2022

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Summary

The adolescent Zhengde Emperor sits the throne, but everyone in the know knows that it is the eunuch-lord Liu Jin who truly controls Great Ming. Not everyone's exactly thrilled with this situation, and they're gonna get Liu Jin got... or die trying. Time Period Covered: 1506-1510 CE Major Historical Figures: The Zhengde Emperor (Zhu Houzhao) [r. 1506-1521] Liu Jin, Director of the Ceremonial [1451-1510] The Prince of Anhua (Zhu Zhifan) [d. 1510] Commander Qiu Yue General Yan Yiqing Inspector-in-Chief Zhang Yong Major Works Cited: Bourgon, Jérôme, Muriel Detrie, & Regis Poulet."Execution in Canton" in Chinese Torture – Supplices Chinois. Brook, Timothy. The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Geiss, James. “The Cheng-te reign, 1506-1521” in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part I.” Meadows, Thomas Taylor. The Chinese and Their Rebellions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:36.4	Episode 231, Leogen and the Eight Tigers.
0:49.4	You, the Great, said,
0:54.4	Oh, think of these things, O Emperor.
0:57.2	Virtue is seen in the goodness of government, and the government is tested by its nourishing
1:01.5	of the people.
1:03.3	There are water, fire, metal, wood, earth, and grain.
1:08.0	These must be duly regulated.
1:10.4	There are the rectification of the people's virtue, the conveniences of life, and the
1:14.6	securing of abundant means of sustenation.
1:18.0	These must be harmoniously attended to.
1:21.8	From the councils of the Great You, in the Book of Documents, or Shu Jing, circa the
1:26.1	5th century BCE.
1:30.3	It is night time in the capital.
1:32.4	It is the 27th of October, 1506, and the increasing chill of autumn grips the imperial
1:37.3	palace grounds just as it does Beijing as a whole.
1:41.3	Evening temperatures routinely plunge to not quite freezing, just yet, but certainly
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