#255 - Ming 39: It's the End of the World As We Know It

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 18 June 2023

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For the once-great Ming, the 1630s... suck. Manchus are battering down the creaky northern defenses, foreign silver has dried up, the treasuries are empty, famine, plague and locust swarms are ripping through the populace, and bandit warlords are causing a ruckus in the west... with an increasing eye on the capital itself. Time Period Covered: ca. 1638-1644 CE Major Historical Figures: Great Ming: The Chongzhen Emperor (Zhu Youjian) [r. 1627-1644] Xiong Wencan, Supreme Commander of Bandit Pacification [d. 1639] General Yang Sichang [d. 1641] General Sun Chuanting [d. 1643] General Wu Sangui [1616-1678] Great Qing: Hong Taiji [1592-1643] Prince Abatai [1589-1646] Prince Dorgon [1612-1650] Rebels/Bandits: Li Zicheng, "The Dashing King" [1606-1645] Zhang Xiangzhong, "The Yellow Tiger" [1606-1647] Major Sources Cited: Atwell, William. "The T'ai-ch'ang, T'ian-ch'i, and Ch'ung-chen reigns" in The Cambridge History of China, Vol. 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, Part I. Brook, Timothy. The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.8	Episode 255
0:49.8	It's the end of the world as we know it.
0:57.8	Banditry everywhere and every day worse than the day before.
1:02.8	Communication between North and South has been almost completely cut off.
1:06.8	The poor flee and become brigands while the rich slip off undetected.
1:11.8	Merchants are not moving goods and all the roads are blocked.
1:15.8	Official reports to the Ming throne from the mid-grand Canal region, 1632.
1:22.8	Massive droughts, locusts, the price of millet soared.
1:26.8	The corpses of the starved lay in the streets.
1:29.8	Grain reached 310s to 410s of an ounce of silver per pack.
1:33.8	Normally, 1 30th of an ounce of silver per pack.
1:35.8	From the Shanghai Shinjia Ghazis here, 1641.
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