Bonus - Mongol 6: Agent of Chaos

The History of China

Chris Stewart

History

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🗓️ 30 July 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It's been a hot summer, and a long break for me! Let's get back into things with a little extra Mongol action... “The imperial city was ripped open … Zhongdu was not one but four cities. We took each of them in turn, methodically killing and razing everything that dared stand upright under Tenggeri. The palaces and gardens of the King of Gold [Jin] were ransacked, revealing such riches that the tribute paid three seasons before by the Jin emperor now seem derisory and humiliating. “A whole moon was needed to collect the bodies and count them. And the city burned for another moon still, creating such a stench that even the scavengers kept away.” - Jöchi, ca. 1215 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.1	Hello and welcome to the history of China.
0:46.9	Among all six, the agent of chaos.
0:53.0	You know what I am?
0:54.0	I'm a dog chasing cars.
0:56.0	I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it.
0:59.2	I just did what I do best.
1:01.2	We took your little plan and I turned it on itself.
1:06.5	You know what I noticed?
1:07.5	No one panics and things go according to plan.
1:12.1	Even the plan is horrifying.
1:14.5	I should do some little anarchy, upset the established world, and everything becomes
1:21.4	chaos.
1:22.4	I'm an agent of chaos.
1:25.2	He is ledger, but our knight.
1:32.0	We last left off in the year 1210, with Jengus Khan turning to the south and spitting on the
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