#75 - S&N 19: Reunion

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Northern Zhou seems to have plotted a course for ultimate victory in the contest between the Northern and Southern Dynasties, having already annexed Northern Qi and turned its sights on Chen to the south. But it’s amazing how quickly dynastic fortunes can reverse themselves, and the Yuwen Clan’s line of emperors find itself stopped short, destroyed not by external threat but from an enemy within: the Duke of Sui, the man who would be Emperor of all China.Time Period Covered:577-589 CEMajor Figures:Northern Zhou:Yuwen Yan (Emperor Xuan; “The Responsible”) [r. 577-578, as Retired Emperor Tianyuan; “The Heavenly and Fundamental” r. 578-580]Yuwen Chan (Emperor Jing; “The Silent”) [r. 578-581]Gen. Yuchi Jiong [d. 580]Gen. Yin ShouSui:Duke Yang Jiang of Sui (Emperor Wen; “The Cultured”) [regent of Northern Zhou 580-581, Emperor of Sui r. 581-604]Chen:Chen Xu (Emperor Xuan; “The Responsible”) [r. 569-582]Chen Shubao (Houzhu; “Final Ruler”) [r. 582-589]Western Liang (vassal of Northern Zhou/Sui):Xiao Cong (Emperor Jing; “The Meek”) [r. 585-587] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:28.0	Episode 75, Reunion.
1:34.3	Last time we ended off with a critical turning point in the Southern and Northern Dynasty's period of the Age of Disunion, namely the reunification of the
1:39.3	North under Northern Joe's Emperor Wu Wu, in 577.
1:44.4	Unfortunately for him, he would have very little time to relish in that victory, as less than a year
1:49.2	later he would take ill and die, leaving the newly reunited realm to his son and heir, crown prince
1:55.4	Uuan Yen, who would accede the throne as Emperor Schwen. Today then we'll be going
2:02.0	over Schwen's strange brief period of rule over the north, then his extremely early retirement, and then shift on over to the ascendant Duke of Sui, Yang Jian, who will quickly come to the conclusion that he could do at least as good
2:15.8	of a job on the throne as the unimpressive second and then third generation Joe monarchs, but
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