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with free audiobook of your choice at audible trial.com slash THOC. Hello. Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 52. best laid plans.

We left off last time in the year 351 with the state of later Jao, which had only a year or so prior been the preeminent power in the north of China,

quickly cycling through five separate Shid Clan emperors before it finally reaching the end of its rope and ceasing to exist as a political entity altogether.

In the aftermath of its collapse, predictably, the vultures descended to pick at its carcass.

In addition to the ever looming Jin state to the south, which had picked up no small chunk of territory for itself, it should be said, three other factions had either taken advantage of the chaos or sprung out of whole cloth from within to seize a slice of power and land for themselves, as Jow shuddered its final death throes.

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