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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 251, the last showdown.

We start today out with another look at one of the most famous, or perhaps infamous,

battles between the aged and ailing Ming Empire, and the up-and-coming Manchu Qing Force rising to challenge it.

That is the Liao Dong campaign of 1619, 1620, and specifically the Battle of Sarhu.

Now, I know that we already went over this in our last episode on Erhachi,

but today, in keeping with our renewed focus on the Chinese side of things,

I'd like to look at the battle with more of a Ming perspective.

As we well know by now, the Wally Emperor in 1619 continued his nearly two-decade long filibustering of his own government,

locking himself away in his private palace and refusing to attend court or make executive decisions of any sort

in sort of a silent sit-in protest of his own ministers repatious and self-stripping methods.

To such an extent, that he had ground many even day-to-day functions of the Ming Central government to a standstill.

Yet, even the recalcitrant Wang Li was unable to remain impassive in the face of the Manchu Khan,

Erhachi's, demands for territorial sessions, and would amounted to annual tribute payments in the form of gold, silver, and silks,

as for the terms of the northerner's seven grievances.

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