Dan Snow
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15,236 appearances
105 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
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Dan Snow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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At just sixteen years old, the Chongchun Emperor
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Inherited a dynasty.
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In serious trouble.
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He attempted to restore order, he tried purging those powerful figures at court, he replaced officials, he tried to strengthen the government, but the crises were coming faster than the Ming State could deal with them.
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There was chaos across China, and a rebel leader emerged, a man who would set in motion the collapse of the Ming.
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His name was Li Zhu Chung.
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He was a postal worker, turned rebel commander.
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Li gathered an army which grew ever stronger.
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He captured cities, he swept across northern China.
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In sixteen forty four his forces advanced on the Ming capital itself.
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Inside Beijing, the Chong Jun Emperor was running out of options.
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His treasury was empty.
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His armies were defeated and scattered.
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One of his most important generals, Wu Sang Wei, was in the northeast, guarding the frontier against a new external enemy, the Manchus.
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If General Wu stripped the garrisons on the frontier to save the dynasty,
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Well it might open the gates to foreign invasion.
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In April sixteen forty four.
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All this came to a head.
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Li Zhung's rebel army reached Beijing.
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The city fell pretty quickly, and as rebel soldiers poured into the capital at last Ming Emperor left the Forbidden City and climbed the hill immediately behind it.
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