Hi, everyone. Thanks for coming back. Lauslemont Gummary here once again for the sixth time

talking about Unix and Chinese history. This is the China history podcast. One of the longest

running podcasts out there when it comes to Chinese history. This will be the final episode in

the series and from the quantity of notes I have in front of me, I'm guessing this one is not

going to be a long one. Let's just tie up loose ends and take a look at what happened after

the Emperor's dowager Tsushi died mysteriously at that. A whole bunch of theories about the

particulars surrounding her death and that of her nephew, the Guangxiu Emperor, both dying within

24 hours of each other. What are the odds of that happening? Anyway, with him out of the way,

that cleared the way for the two-year-old Emperor Puyi to ascend the throne. But not for long,

of course. His reign as the Shen Tong Emperor from February 1908 to February 1912 got to witness

not only the end of the Qing Dynasty, but the whole institution of the Emperor's ship going

back to 221 BCE and Qin Shui Huang. The fall of the dynasty had quite a profound impact on the

few thousand eunuchs who called the Forbidden City their home. Although the Qing Dynasty had been

dying in slow motion for the better part of the 19th century, when the end finally came on

double ten day 1911, it all seemed so sudden. Even to those who had been plotting to bring down

the dynasty for decades, the articles of favorable treatment negotiated by the 43-year-old Emperor's

Dowager Long Yu on behalf of herself, the child Emperor, and all her family and staff,

didn't get nailed down till Abraham Lincoln's 103rd birthday on February 12, 1912. So after the fall

of the dynasty, they followed a nail-biting few months for the Manchu, Isanguro, Imperial family,

and as I said for all the eunuchs too. Li Liangying, who we looked at last time, he didn't live to

witness this and died seven months before the Wu Chang uprising. There were plenty of

rascals amongst the eunuchs, but as I've tried to emphasize, the overwhelming majority of palace

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