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🗓️ 14 March 2018
⏱️ 11 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms podcast. |
0:12.2 | This is a supplemental episode. |
0:14.9 | In this episode, we're going to look at its story related to Bingji and Chen Ping, |
0:20.4 | two famous officials from the Western |
0:22.7 | Han Dynasty. |
0:24.4 | One of Zhuge Liang's aides, name dropped both of them as he tried to convince Zhuge Liang |
0:29.1 | to delegate some of his responsibilities for the sake of his own health. |
0:34.2 | The aide said, look at Bing Ji, who care not for dying men on the road but worried about |
0:39.7 | a panting ox, or Chen Ping, who did not know how much grain or money the state had. Now, on the |
0:47.2 | surface, it would seem like those are not exactly good attributes for a prime minister, but there are |
0:53.5 | stories behind those references. |
0:55.9 | Let's first look at the story of Bingji. |
0:58.6 | He was born sometime in the 2nd century BC and died in 55 BC. |
1:04.3 | There's an interesting backstory about him that I want to take a look at before we get to the |
1:09.7 | crux of our episode. |
1:11.5 | So Bingji started his career as a provincial jailer |
1:15.1 | and eventually rose to become one of the highest officials in the judiciary in the capital, |
1:21.2 | but then he was demoted back to the provinces for some transgression. |
1:25.7 | Now this was during the time of the Han Emperor Wu, |
1:29.3 | who lived to the age of 69 and reigned for 54 years. And that 54-year reign, by the way, |
1:36.7 | would stand as the longest in Chinese history for 1800 years. This emperor Wu was a very |
1:44.1 | important ruler, and he oversaw China's greatest expansion. |
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