Dan Snow
speaker
15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard today
Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He claims the mandate of heaven, which what's that gonna mean?
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He just he says, I'm the Empire, I am now the interlocutor between the heavens and and humanity.
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It's funny because he's the it's the most radical thing imaginable, an emperor emerging from the peasant classes.
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And yet once he's in power, he sounds like he's been quite conservative.
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He's keen to identify as a traditionist, he's bringing back these more ancient orders.
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The Hongwu Emperor ruled for three decades from Nanjing in the south until 1398.
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On his death, the Ming dynasty was secure, but the succession well, that was up for grabs.
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His chosen heir was his young grandson, Jiang Wen.
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Which didn't get on particularly well with his surviving sons, who were scattered across the empire.
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They were powerful princes of policing the empire with their own private armies.
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Now the most formidable of those sons was Prince Zhu Di.
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He was stationed in the north, in Beijing, guarding the frontier against the Mongols, as you can imagine, a pretty important job.
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He was furious when he discovered he'd been skipped in the line of succession.
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So he sent his own army to, as he put it, rectify the court, to rescue the dynasty from corrupt advisers.
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For three brutal years, uncle and nephew clashed in a bloody civil war.
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Finally, in fourteen oh two, Zhu Di's troops arrived at the gates of Nanjing.
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They stormed the place, burned the palace, and the young emperor vanished.
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His fate still remains one of Chinese history's greatest unsolved mysteries.
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Zhu Di then seized the throne of his father and took the title Yong Le
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Meaning perpetual happiness.
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