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Episode 73, the only tier shed for one shan.

Our focused last episode only tears shed for one sown.

Our focused last episode centered on the goings on in the south of China in the late 550s and

early 560s, primarily, though not exclusively, between the competing dynastic states of Chen in the southeast, centered again around the modern Nanjing and Shanghai areas, and Northern Joe, who in spite of its name occupied virtually the entire Western reaches of what we would reasonably think of as China at that time. From the Northern border with the Inner Asian Step Tribal Confederations all the way south into Sichuan and abutting the Thai and Viete kingdoms.

Today then, we're going to focus primarily on the third of the competing powers, called Northern

Chi, and which occupied China's northeast, including

modern Beijing and Tianjin.

Before we launch into the main narrative of Chi, though, I'd like to correct a mistake that I made at the end of last

episode during the teaser for this one. I'd reference Northern Chi's ongoing

problems with the Rowan Kaganit, but that was actually an oversight on my part.

This is because, critically, at the time of our narrative today,

the Rowan had actually been replaced as the dominant power controlling the Central Asian Step

Confederation. The ruling, UjolU Clan's power base had been broken around the year 552

when both Northern Joe and Northern Chi had given aid to another clan within the Roron Confederacy, called the Ashina Clan, or alternately

the Asinas or Asena.

This clan name has been tentatively identified as stemming from the Skitian groups of Central Asia in what is modern Iran, and translates to the meaning blue.

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