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Speaker 1: But what night, Not during the festival, but when they

424
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 1: had made some plans to enjoy the full moon, perhaps

425
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: under a hibiscus candy bottle of wine, you know sexy

426
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:14,400
Speaker 1: times ut Song didn't show. He was as some big

427
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: party with a bunch of other ladies. So young we

428
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: Fae just started drinking by herself. We know how that goes.

429
00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:24,400
Speaker 1: Hours went by, he kept party and she kept drinking.

430
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: So when he finally shows up, she led him heaven like,

431
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: excuse me, I am a thick queen and I will

432
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: not be ignored for a bunch of skinny bitches in

433
00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 1: the Imperial Area. I'm gonna go to this bath house.

434
00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:40,360
Speaker 1: You can watch, but you can't touch. How about? Oh

435
00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,320
Speaker 1: damn well, Song don't like being spoken to like that,

436
00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,679
Speaker 1: And he was probably also real drunk party and with

437
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: his ladies all night, so he got real mad back

438
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: at her and told her, well, fine, if you don't

439
00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:52,040
Speaker 1: like it, you're gonna have to get the hell out

440
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: and go live with one of your cousins instead. And

441
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,040
Speaker 1: she says, fine, I will and he said yeah because

442
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:00,080
Speaker 1: I said so, not because you want to. And she's like, no,

443
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 1: because I want to. So she packed up all her ships,

444
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 1: she moved out. Well the next day shewin song you know,

445
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: light a day, super bad hangover. Probably he was inconsolable.

446
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: He apparently just done a really shitty mood. He wouldn't eat,

447
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,399
Speaker 1: he was yelling at everybody, and he was feeling like

448
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: a big piece of ship because he was a big

449
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,639
Speaker 1: piece of ship. Gal Lee Shi his unique friend who's

450
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: you know, trying to hold things together. He went to

451
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: him and he said, hey, uh, maybe you want to

452
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: send her something nice and she one Song was like, yeah,

453
00:27:35,359 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: I probably should do that, and he like packed up

454
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of fancy food and sent it to her

455
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: and like a bunch of the treasures and stuff that

456
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 1: she'd had in her room. Here just starts shipping out

457
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,760
Speaker 1: gifts to make her feel better. And when Galicia was like,

458
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: do you do you want to maybe do you want

459
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,080
Speaker 1: to maybe ask her if she wants to come back,

460
00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: Twin Song was just like yes, please please come back,

461
00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: and like brought her back to the palace. Good Galishi,

462
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,639
Speaker 1: what a good wing man like? Do you want to

463
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:09,440
Speaker 1: maybe like say you're sorry, Okay, you want to come back? Okay,

464
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,480
Speaker 1: let me go get her. Well from that point on,

465
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 1: she's even more favored than before, if that's possible. Jwin

466
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: Song claimed to love her more deeply than ever. She

467
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: had hundreds of laborers sewing fabrics for her. Jwin Song

468
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:27,200
Speaker 1: had horses race through the night to bring her fresh

469
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,439
Speaker 1: light gee before they spoiled. Anyone who came to the

470
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: palace had better not show up without a tribute for

471
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 1: Young Guifee and that included a lot of treats and

472
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:41,480
Speaker 1: treasures from Mr on lu Shan, that big corpulent guy

473
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: from the military. He is always coming around the palace

474
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 1: just sweet talking the Emperor, passing along fancy gifts to

475
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,400
Speaker 1: him and Young guife He knows how to grease the wheels.

476
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:55,720
Speaker 1: And she loved this guy. He would come in do

477
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: his dopey fat guy routine. She thought he was just

478
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 1: a big, funny teddy bear right because like we said,

479
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: he knew who he needed to like him, and he

480
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:08,480
Speaker 1: knew how to play different people's expectations. And remember he

481
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: was also a foreigner, and he also played that up,

482
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 1: especially to the emperor. He often told the Emperor things

483
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: just like, oh, I'm just I'm just a big dumb barbarian.

484
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 1: I don't understand you're clever, fancy ways. And when Song

485
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: is just like you are the cutest, I love you,

486
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: You're the best, come on back here. He called himself

487
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,959
Speaker 1: a barbarian all the time. One time I liked this

488
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 1: story he refused to bow to the crown Prince Lisa Shun,

489
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, what you doing, buddy, And he

490
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:41,120
Speaker 1: was like, oh, I'm sorry, I'm just a barbarian. I

491
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 1: don't understand what you guys do around here. And the

492
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:47,760
Speaker 1: emperor said, well, that's my son. He's the crown prince.

493
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,640
Speaker 1: When I'm gone, he'll be emperor. And Lucian said, I

494
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: didn't think anyone but you could be emperor. Oh. And

495
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: of course when Song was just like, oh you you're

496
00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: the best, My god, why do you think I'm a

497
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: live Oh? Yes, he played it up. So One time

498
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: when Lucian was meeting with young Guifee, he asked if

499
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: she would be his adoptive mother, and she was like,

500
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:19,000
Speaker 1: oh my god, that is adorable. I love it. Yes,

501
00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: let's do that. I've got a plan. We just got

502
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: to convince the emperor that this is cool. But don't worry.

503
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: She got all her ladies together and she brought him

504
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,360
Speaker 1: into the women's quarters. And the Emperor was walking by

505
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 1: and he heard all these giggles coming from the women's quarters,

506
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: so he pokes his head and he's like, hey, what's

507
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: going on here? What's that pretty laughing at? And Young

508
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: Cuife's attendants turned to him and they say, oh, Emperor

509
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: Consort Yang has given birth and she's just washing her baby.

510
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 1: And Emperors One sounds like, well, the are you talking about?

511
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: And he goes in and they all step us, they

512
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: all part, and sitting there on the floor is on Lucian,

513
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 1: dressed in nothing but this giant diaper that they wrapped

514
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 1: around him, and Young Cuife is standing behind him like

515
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: scrubbing his shoulders. And ems Song sees this and just

516
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: bust out laughing the funniest thing ever saw, Oh my god,

517
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:15,520
Speaker 1: And Young Qui face like, isn't he cute? I'm going

518
00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:19,520
Speaker 1: to adopt him okay, andwin Song is just laughing it up.

519
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: He's like, love it, go for it, get a little

520
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: life into this palace, and Lucian gets up and he

521
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: bows first to young Guifee and then to the emperor,

522
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,959
Speaker 1: and he says, quote barbarians bow to mother's first before

523
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: father's andwin song like wipes a little tear from his

524
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: eye and he's like father, my son, and he just

525
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 1: like that's the greatest day of his life. That is

526
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,720
Speaker 1: so cute. You are hilarious. I've only got thirty eight

527
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: other sons. Heard this story first from Noble Blood that's

528
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: such a great podcast, and she recounted this story and

529
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,479
Speaker 1: she's like a lot of history and write about it

530
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: very seriously, like she had him in a diaper and

531
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:08,280
Speaker 1: that meant that she was trying to say she was

532
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 1: trying to do or the emperor was Danish sports was

533
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,400
Speaker 1: like you know that that they're human, right, and they

534
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,480
Speaker 1: just make jokes. First joke, they're just goofing her has

535
00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:21,600
Speaker 1: nothing like there's nothing serious going on here, very un

536
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:26,320
Speaker 1: serious moment, the ceremonial tribute, this weird cultish metaphor, like

537
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: it wasn't any of that that, No, it's just it's

538
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: just a big joke. And they thought it was funny.

539
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: And I really liked that about her. I think it's

540
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: smart to think. You know, remember that in history you're

541
00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: talking about people, and there we've been making fart. A

542
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,160
Speaker 1: fart joke is like the earliest recorded joke, So don't

543
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 1: worry people, we'd be goofing. But even though I felt

544
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: like the best day of the Emperor's life, things would

545
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: only get worse from here. And we'll hear it all

546
00:32:53,440 --> 00:33:01,920
Speaker 1: in the thrilling conclusion coming up right after this Welcome

547
00:33:01,960 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: back to poetry Corner, where will conclude a song of

548
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:11,560
Speaker 1: everlasting sorrow. A breeze in her gauze, flowing with her

549
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: movement as if she danced in rainbow and feather garments

550
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:20,440
Speaker 1: so delicate, her jade face drowned with tears of sadness,

551
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:23,960
Speaker 1: like a spray of pear flowers veiled with springtime rain.

552
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 1: She asked to thank her love, her eyes gleaming, he

553
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: whose form and voice had been strange to her ever

554
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: since their parting. Her joy had ended in courts of

555
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 1: the bright sun. Moons and dawns were long in fairy palace,

556
00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:42,280
Speaker 1: But when she turned her face towards the earth and

557
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: tried to see the capital, there was only fog and dust.

558
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: Oh foreboding m so it's seven two. The self proclaimed

559
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: barbarian on Lucian is the adoptive son of Yan Guife.

560
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: Emperor's win Song has built him his own mansion and

561
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:06,720
Speaker 1: spared no expense his son after all, gold staircases, jade

562
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: panels on every wall, just like beautiful place carved panels. Yeah, Ivory.

563
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 1: He also made Lucian prince of dong Ping, which was

564
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: the first time he made someone a prince who was

565
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: not his son. By burn, Lucian had some re way

566
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: over these guys. Yeah, even like Young Guifas brothers who

567
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: married princesses were not made princes, you know, they were

568
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: just princess's Husband's not a bad thing to be. I

569
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:39,239
Speaker 1: know that I consider myself a princess's husband. You don't

570
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: really get anything good out of it, I guess, no,

571
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: nothing at all. Maybe one day I just have to,

572
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 1: you know, be reminded that my wife's a princess. That's right.

573
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,759
Speaker 1: It's a lot of work, that's right. You do a

574
00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: great job. It's the work you were born for him.

575
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:57,160
Speaker 1: Oh jeez, il was new. My life meant something. The

576
00:34:57,280 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 1: Young Guifas cousin Young gu Jong remember that gambler that

577
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: she got a chancellorship. He kind of sucks, but he's

578
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: sort of effective. He's locked in a power struggle with

579
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: leland Fu and gal Leashi. The Eunuch is trying to

580
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: hold everything together and keep dwin Song both informed and happy.

581
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: It's not an easy job. Oh yeah, And at this

582
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: point dwen Song is just like, I honestly don't want

583
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: to hear about it. He told gal Alicia that, like,

584
00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: I'm old, I'm leaving all these military matters to my

585
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: generals and the state matters to my chancellor's. You know,

586
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: just let me know if I need to know anything,

587
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: but I don't, But I don't. Lynn Fou at this

588
00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: point had gotten so powerful that he now also had

589
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: a lot of enemies, and he knew it too. He

590
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: was starting to get kind of paranoid because he had

591
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: basically been playing whack a mole trying to keep people

592
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: that he was afraid of from rising to power. So

593
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: he'd be like, I don't like the looks of that guy,

594
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,000
Speaker 1: don't give him a promotion. I don't like the looks

595
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: of that guy. Keep him down. And he'd done that

596
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,479
Speaker 1: so much that, of course some of them had slipped through.

597
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,840
Speaker 1: So now he's got people rising to power that he

598
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: had already actively worked against. Now leland Fou was living

599
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: in extreme luxury. He had one mansion in the capital

600
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,319
Speaker 1: city and he had one out in the country. He

601
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: had twenty five sons and twenty five daughters, while he

602
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: had a huge group of concubines. I just know, I

603
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:21,719
Speaker 1: just meant the exact that's pretty incredible. Maybe they started

604
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: to get off balance, and he was like, get rid

605
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: of that. Oh geez, I was thinking maybe. No. He

606
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 1: was more like, I better have another kid so I

607
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: can see what happens. And then he also, of course

608
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 1: his sons in law all had positions in the government.

609
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: His bodies were all in government. Like he had his

610
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 1: allies rise into power with him, right, but Young Ku

611
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:49,319
Speaker 1: Chong Young guifas cousin, was also working to undermine leland Fou,

612
00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: and of course he had the Emperor's favor because the

613
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:58,760
Speaker 1: girlfriend was his cousin. And leland Fou's allies started randomly

614
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: getting demoted, and this of course made Leland Foo lose power.

615
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:08,319
Speaker 1: Then some of Leland Food's buddies tried to start a rebellion.

616
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: Leland Food wasn't involved, but he was associated with them

617
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: and of course, who crushed this rebellion but yangu Jong.

618
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: So the Emperor goes to leland Foo and he's like, hey,

619
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,279
Speaker 1: leland Food, these buddies of yours that just tried to

620
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: rebel against me and lin Fo he tries to deny.

621
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: He's like, no, no, I don't know them. Who are they.

622
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 1: I've never seen them before in my life. And he's like, well,

623
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: you know, I was only friends with his brother, and

624
00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,280
Speaker 1: he was only kind of involved. He's not so bad anyway.

625
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: He's just floundering, he's stammering, he can't really defend himself.

626
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 1: So he says, hey, you know what, Actually I'm getting older.

627
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: I think it's a point in my life where I'm

628
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 1: gonna stay chancellor, but I will resign my military title

629
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: and I'm going to go ahead and hand that title

630
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: over to um. I don't know how about on lu Shan,

631
00:37:57,320 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 1: your adoptive son that you love so much. He's pretty great,

632
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 1: love hi. And the Emperor is like, oh, that's a

633
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: good move. I like you, Leland Foo. You're safe for now.

634
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: Then leland Fou became very sick over the coming months,

635
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:16,400
Speaker 1: and a sorcerer told him that if the Emperor looked

636
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: upon him, he would be cured. Wow, modern medicine pretty sweet.

637
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: I mean if you if you told anyone else in

638
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: China that might be like, well great, I how the

639
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: how the hell am I supposed to get there? But

640
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:29,520
Speaker 1: Leland Foods like, oh, I know that guy, lucky I

641
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 1: got I got his number saved on my phone. I

642
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 1: happen to know that guy. But while he was sick,

643
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: another rebellion broke out from a guy that he had

644
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:42,319
Speaker 1: helped come to power. So when Juin Sung considered going

645
00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 1: to see Leland Food to try to heal him, the

646
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,760
Speaker 1: entire staff of the palace was like, probably a bad idea.

647
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 1: He's kind of guilty, but association, you should not be

648
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 1: any buddy with this worst friends exactly. You can't trust

649
00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,759
Speaker 1: him well, and they think you know that the accusations

650
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 1: he was involved, it's one of his friends, so right,

651
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: So instead they had Leland Foo brought to a courtyard

652
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: Where's wind Sung could just look down on him from

653
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: a tower. A spoiler alert, did not heal him or

654
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: make him any better, how many effect whatsoever? You're telling

655
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 1: me that just having some guys stare at you is

656
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:26,919
Speaker 1: not an effective treatment for a serious ailment. I wonder

657
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,960
Speaker 1: if Leland Foo was like if he just come down

658
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: the stairs, I know right and what it worked. You

659
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,959
Speaker 1: can never convince me it wouldn't have. So he's still

660
00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: real sick. He's like, oh, the end is near, you know.

661
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,880
Speaker 1: So Young Gujong went to see Lynn Fo on his deathbed,

662
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,279
Speaker 1: basically like take one last look right at his at

663
00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: his bitter rival throughout life. And Lynn Foo's like, oh,

664
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: my old friends, We've had our differences whatever about but

665
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: I can count on you, can I to just make

666
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: sure my name and my family are you can care

667
00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: of after I'm gone. I love this idea like we

668
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: were but we were friends. I mean, I know we

669
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,839
Speaker 1: were trying to kill each other all the time, but

670
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: it was we were just kidding around, right, I think

671
00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:17,919
Speaker 1: how the game is played respect and a joker. Yeah,

672
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: we need each other without one the other, couldn't you know?

673
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 1: You get it? So I can count on you right

674
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 1: to just like take care of ship after I'm gone,

675
00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: you know. And Yengo Jong is like, oh, yeah, buddy,

676
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: don't you worry. I will make sure your name and

677
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: your family are super taken care of. And Lynn Fu

678
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,880
Speaker 1: was probably like that kind of a weird way to

679
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:46,239
Speaker 1: put that, and then died in late I love that

680
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,520
Speaker 1: His final words were wait a minute, that with a

681
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:56,480
Speaker 1: different tone. It's not comforting. Well. Emperor one Song, of course,

682
00:40:56,520 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 1: bestowed all kinds of honors on his guy, leland Fuf

683
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 1: to his death. He gave him posthumous titles and awards

684
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,359
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. He ordered a grand funeral with

685
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: imperial guards and all the fancy bells and whistles, big parade,

686
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: Macy's Day, floats of leland Fou's family members floating down

687
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:21,480
Speaker 1: the streets, you know, marching bands, Mariah Carey, was there,

688
00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:29,759
Speaker 1: just a whole big event. Anderson Cooper Cooper say, Andy Dick,

689
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, it's not. Definitely, no one would watch that.

690
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to see that show. But Goojong went to

691
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: the Emperor and said, hey, you know that leland Fou

692
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 1: was part of both those rebellions, right as one song

693
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: is like, okay, I've heard it all before, but I

694
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: can't really believe you. I don't know this is true.

695
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 1: And Goojong says, oh, well, actually I brought a second

696
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,759
Speaker 1: opinion with me, and he's got none other than on

697
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: Lucien that he convinced to corroborate the stories on Lucien

698
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: goes and he's like, yeah, leland Fu was trying to

699
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: rebel against you say, and that's his adoptive son, that's

700
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,680
Speaker 1: his big teddy bear boy. So he's like, oh, if

701
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,880
Speaker 1: you say so, it's like, but are you really sure.

702
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys both would have reason to speak

703
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 1: against him. And Kong says, oh, well, I got a

704
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: third opinion here, and he brings in one of leland

705
00:42:23,160 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: Foo's sons in law, who pops up and he's like, yeah,

706
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: that's true. Yeah, right. So before the funeral could happen,

707
00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,240
Speaker 1: Joen Song ordered that leland Foo's casket be split open,

708
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: all his honor jewels were stripped from his body, and

709
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: he was transferred to a regular commoner's casket, just a

710
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: pine box, and he was given a regular boring funeral. Damn. Now,

711
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: everybody hated leland Fu. I mean everybody knew this guy

712
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 1: was the absolute worst. But a lot of people knew

713
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 1: that this was an outright lie, that Lindfu was not

714
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: involved in any rebellion, and they kind of thought this

715
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 1: was a pretty pretty dirty to do this to a

716
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: dead man after he's gone yeah, kind of feels like

717
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: he got what he deserved a little bit. I mean, yeah,

718
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: you know, you never get in trouble for the crime

719
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,120
Speaker 1: you commit. It's always they get you something else, gets

720
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:20,560
Speaker 1: you for something else. But hey, they out camponed him.

721
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,319
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they shure did they shure did? So? Young

722
00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:28,360
Speaker 1: Gujong took over Leland Foo's position. Of course, of course,

723
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: kind of the point, but by this time Lu Shan

724
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: had accumulated three frontier provinces under his command. He was

725
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: the single most powerful general in the Chinese military, and

726
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: even though he had teamed up with Yong Gujong against

727
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: Leland Fu, they were actually bitter rivals. That was sort

728
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: of like the enemy of my enemy as my friend

729
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: kind of situation was very temporary. Alliance. Gujong knew his

730
00:43:56,640 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: best place to attack Lu Shan was at court, so

731
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,120
Speaker 1: he talked a lot of shit, and in retaliation, Lu

732
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: Shan kept building up his forces, building building. Gujan could

733
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,439
Speaker 1: see this started to get a little worried. He's like, oh,

734
00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,720
Speaker 1: this guy's got a lot of folks. So in spring

735
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,239
Speaker 1: of seven fifty four, he pulled his favorite move. He

736
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: went to Emperor's One Song and said, listen, I hate

737
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: to say it about your teddy bear boy. But he's

738
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,480
Speaker 1: definitely trying to start a rebellion. And he told the

739
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: emperor that if he summoned lu Shan to court, Lucian

740
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: would not come. And I don't know if he thought

741
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: this was true, because this is a big gamble, right.

742
00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: But when Song sent Lu Shannon invite to the capital

743
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:45,640
Speaker 1: city of Chang'an and Lucian called Gung's bluff and did

744
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: show up, he walks in, He's like, what's up, what's up?

745
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,600
Speaker 1: Why did you call me? What's going on here? I

746
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,160
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta letters said, I'm supposed to come here quickly.

747
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: What y'all need? Uh a rebellion? Excuse me me? Oh

748
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:03,799
Speaker 1: my god, I have never in my life. I am

749
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:10,000
Speaker 1: heartbroken that anyone would suggest that that is. Don't you

750
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 1: remember all the good times we had? Look at me.

751
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: I'm just a dopey barbarian. I don't know nothing about

752
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 1: no rebellion, and Song is like, that's it. I am

753
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: sick of hearing all these rebellion rumors. I will never

754
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: believe another accusation against my boy Lushan. He's the man,

755
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,879
Speaker 1: and I don't want to hear it. Don't even tell

756
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,680
Speaker 1: me this ship. Even when Sean's own son, the Crown

757
00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: Prince Lisa San, was a little worried about Lucian and

758
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,440
Speaker 1: all the power he was massing. I mean, after he

759
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: was adopted, he amassed a force of two hundred thousand people,

760
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: like he had. The army was basically his at this point.

761
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: There was some imperial guards out there, but he ran

762
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,200
Speaker 1: the show. Yeah, so he's like, if he decided to,

763
00:45:54,440 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: he could do it real quick. Yeah, for real, And

764
00:45:57,080 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: why is he building that force in the first place.

765
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 1: Song even considered making Lucian a chancellor during this visit,

766
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: just to show him like, I'm sorry, I even accused you,

767
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: but Goojong talked him out of at least doing that.

768
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: When Lucian left the city, Chuen Song's Unich buddy galle

769
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: Sha told him, you know, your boy was kind of

770
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,160
Speaker 1: grumpy when he left. I kind of wonder if maybe

771
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 1: he heard about the chancellor thing and that you decided

772
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: not to do it, and he's kind of mad about that.

773
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 1: Piss Yeah, But at this point, Emperor's one Song seven

774
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: hanging out with young Guife, and he left all control

775
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,480
Speaker 1: to his chancellors and his generals, right, So they're all

776
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: stabbing each other in the back too much to do

777
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,959
Speaker 1: any good. Lucian even asked one song if he could

778
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:45,320
Speaker 1: replace all his Han Chinese generals with non Han guys.

779
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,120
Speaker 1: Now to everyone else, that was a clear sign of

780
00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:52,359
Speaker 1: building a rebellion, right, probably that weaponized xenophobia coming back

781
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:56,240
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. I mean, I'm I'm removing all the native

782
00:46:56,280 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 1: Chinese generals here and I replaced them with people from

783
00:46:58,920 --> 00:47:02,399
Speaker 1: outside China that I like, you have very no no

784
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,239
Speaker 1: reason to be loyal to you. Yeah. But when they

785
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: tried to bring up their concerns to Jwin Song, he

786
00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:09,880
Speaker 1: was just like, I don't want to hear it. La

787
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 1: la la la la. Okay, buddy, my teddy bear boy,

788
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: you do whatever you want. And young Gujong, who had

789
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,920
Speaker 1: been failing spectacularly lately, he was losing all kinds of

790
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 1: military conflicts at various borders, probably a little worried about

791
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: his own position, but he seemed to think that he

792
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: could take lu Shan as long as he didn't have

793
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:32,719
Speaker 1: the emperor's backing right, So Gujan is like, I've got

794
00:47:32,719 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 1: to drive a wedge between these two. So he tried

795
00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,919
Speaker 1: to goad Lu Shan into starting his rebellion. Early while

796
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: Lucian was at his home in another city, Gujong arrested

797
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,960
Speaker 1: and executed a bunch of his staff members at his

798
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: mansion in the capitol. Were totally made up. Cristy, Yeah, fine,

799
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,719
Speaker 1: I'll go after your house. Okay, that's pretty dark, I mean,

800
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: really piss you off, all worked up. Obviously, we have

801
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: to skip over or so much of the power struggle

802
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 1: between these two here because of a part of the

803
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 1: ridiculous romance, you know what I'm saying. But but it

804
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: is just chaotic watching Good Jong is so wrapped up

805
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 1: in his own power struggle a lot like Leland Fu was,

806
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,440
Speaker 1: But he wasn't as good as Leland Fu. Ad maintaining

807
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: all his plates that he had spinning in the air,

808
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: and he had like decimated the economy, the military like

809
00:48:22,360 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: all through his own gain. He just let things crumble

810
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: all around him. And of course the emperor was completely

811
00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: checked out. It was just everybody. It was just a

812
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: grab bag for power at this point. Everybody was just

813
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: reaching in and taking whatever they could. There was no

814
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: cohesion in the government or the military. Very few people

815
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 1: were trying to hold it together, and most of them,

816
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: you know, Good guys were all getting taken out um

817
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 1: bye by these bad guys. So I was getting pretty

818
00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: ugly and finally in from a combination of factors, from

819
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 1: the fact that the empire was weak, uh, from the

820
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:58,520
Speaker 1: fact maybe that he had been dismissed as a chancellor

821
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: and he did hear about that and got insulted by it.

822
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: But definitely because Gujong arrested all his people and had

823
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:11,960
Speaker 1: him executed. On Lucian started his rebellion beon. Lucian rebellion

824
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: is considered one of the deadliest wars in history. Some

825
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: estimates say that between thirteen and thirty six million people died.

826
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: What It's hard to pin that number down. One of

827
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: the reasons that it's such a broad spectrum is that

828
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: because they're going off of census numbers before and after

829
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: the war, So they think that part of the issue

830
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 1: is that after the war, they the country was so

831
00:49:37,840 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: broken that they just didn't have the money or the

832
00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: manpower to conduct an accurate census, so they might not

833
00:49:44,520 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 1: have gotten a good count, so it might have seemed

834
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: like more people died than did But either way, millions

835
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:54,840
Speaker 1: and millions of people. Yeah. Uh. Anyway, fast forwarding through

836
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: a bunch of very fascinating military history for another podcast

837
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: on Lucia, and eventually took the last defensive posts that

838
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: sat before the capital city. It was called Tongue Pass,

839
00:50:07,120 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 1: and he declared himself Emperor of the New Yen Dynasty.

840
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: With the capital city of Chang'an soon to fall afterwards,

841
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 1: the Emperor Young Guife, her cousin Yong gu Jong, the

842
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: Unit Galicia, and the crown Prince Lisa Cheng all had

843
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,440
Speaker 1: to flee the city. They took their imperial guard. You

844
00:50:28,480 --> 00:50:31,560
Speaker 1: know I mean, is the emperor fleeing the cities. They

845
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: took all his tents and his tea service, and they

846
00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: got the hell out of there as fast as they

847
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: slowly and comfortably could. But On Lushan was actually really sick,

848
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,040
Speaker 1: and though he had sent his forces to capture chang On,

849
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:51,560
Speaker 1: he stayed behind in lou Young. He was nearly blind,

850
00:50:51,640 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 1: he had terrible ulcers. Who's paranoid and angry, so he

851
00:50:55,360 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: flogged his sons and generals regularly. Eventually, one of his sons,

852
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: who was fighting for succession, went into Lucian's room at

853
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,160
Speaker 1: night with a sword. Lucian heard him and started trying

854
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 1: to reach for a sword that he kept under his bed,

855
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,480
Speaker 1: but he flailed around and he couldn't find it. His

856
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:18,799
Speaker 1: son sliced to Lucian's belly open, and Lucian shouted, quote

857
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: a thief of my own household, and died on the road.

858
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: Fleeing the capital. The imperial guards were getting restless. They

859
00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 1: hadn't eaten in dates, They had left behind their homes

860
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: and their families. Now, I don't know what Young Gu

861
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,800
Speaker 1: Jong said that was the last straw for these guys.

862
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that he's sitting there like eating a burrito,

863
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:46,200
Speaker 1: and really tough, aren't they. The soldiers are all starving,

864
00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: staring at him like this fucking guy, where did you

865
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: get the barrito? And they all turned on him. Now again,

866
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:57,839
Speaker 1: already a lot of history with the young family here,

867
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,839
Speaker 1: but they saw these guys unto power. Everyone knew what

868
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 1: Young Gujong had been doing, which was failing, which was

869
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 1: helping himself, and also goading on Lushan into this war.

870
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,840
Speaker 1: So they blamed him. They said, you know this is

871
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 1: all your fault, dude. You pushed Lushan into this rebellion.

872
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: You ruined our military, you corrupted the government, and right

873
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:27,000
Speaker 1: there on the road they killed him, his son, and

874
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: two of Young Guife's sisters. Then the soldiers surrounded the

875
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,880
Speaker 1: emperor's tent. Juan Song came out and he tried to

876
00:52:34,960 --> 00:52:37,960
Speaker 1: chill everybody out, say you need to disperse. Everything's cool here.

877
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,280
Speaker 1: Oh no, you killed Young gu Jong, who cares as fine,

878
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: Let's let's let bags and we'll just well, we'll talk

879
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:48,879
Speaker 1: about this tomorrow. But they wouldn't leave. They were demanding

880
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:53,440
Speaker 1: to execute Young Guife as well. They said, she's the

881
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: one who brought her family in here, She's the one

882
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,840
Speaker 1: who gave her cousin that position that ruined the empire.

883
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: She's at fault for all of this. I guess they

884
00:53:02,200 --> 00:53:06,360
Speaker 1: couldn't be like you cut this lady. I guess they

885
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 1: can do that. After a lot of debate and anger

886
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,759
Speaker 1: and sadness, Song realized that he was not going to

887
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: be able to save her. He requested that rather than

888
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,440
Speaker 1: executing her right there, she be allowed to go to

889
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: a Buddhist shrine and be ordered to commit suicide. They accepted,

890
00:53:26,080 --> 00:53:29,839
Speaker 1: and the unit goal lee. She escorted her. He then

891
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 1: reported back that she hanged herself from a tree outside

892
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 1: a monastery with a silken rope given to her by

893
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:46,240
Speaker 1: the Emperor, our spirits belonged together, like these precious fragments.

894
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: Sometime in earth or heaven, we shall meet again. And

895
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: she sent these words by the Taoist to remind him

896
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:58,040
Speaker 1: of their midnight vow secret between them. On that seventh

897
00:53:58,200 --> 00:54:01,040
Speaker 1: night of the Herd, Boy and the ever in the

898
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 1: Silent Palace, we declared our dream was to fly together

899
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: in the sky, two birds on the same wing, to

900
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.

901
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: Earth fades, heaven fades at the end of days, but

902
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:25,680
Speaker 1: everlasting sorrow in tears always crown. Prince Lisa Shung went

903
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:28,160
Speaker 1: to the city of lyn Wu and he declared himself

904
00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:33,359
Speaker 1: Emperor Suzong without his father's knowledge. But when Emperor heard

905
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: about this, he just abdicated the throne. He was like, yeah,

906
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: that sounds like a good idea. Um. He did stay

907
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,359
Speaker 1: on as the retired Emperor, which was a very powerful position. Uh.

908
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:48,560
Speaker 1: You know. Plenty of politics ensued after that. The capital

909
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:52,520
Speaker 1: city was retaken and Lucian's sons, who had assumed his power,

910
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: were defeated. But the time dynasty never rose to its

911
00:54:56,200 --> 00:55:01,759
Speaker 1: glory again. Wow everlasting sorry, no, and he was he

912
00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:05,640
Speaker 1: was sad for the rest of his life, very miserable.

913
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 1: It's sad too that he starts out so strong. He

914
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 1: could have left this legacy of like this golden era

915
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,759
Speaker 1: and all this wonderful power and prosperity, and instead his

916
00:55:16,880 --> 00:55:23,400
Speaker 1: legacy is his everlasting regret. He was doing a good

917
00:55:23,440 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: job at the beginning there. We talked in the previous episode,

918
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,840
Speaker 1: probably largely because of Emperors Wong, who was his wife,

919
00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: and they seem to be really solid together. I mean,

920
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: they got married before he was in power. But I

921
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: think he just let it get to his head. He

922
00:55:36,760 --> 00:55:38,359
Speaker 1: was one of these guys who was like, you can't

923
00:55:38,360 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 1: be jealous of me. I'm allowed to I'm allowed to

924
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,719
Speaker 1: mess around with whoever I want and do what I

925
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 1: want um and then yeah, I mean again. And also

926
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 1: he just had all these people in his ear all

927
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 1: the time, especially especially when someone's trying to not be

928
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,720
Speaker 1: a corrupt ruler. I feel like that's when the corrupt

929
00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: people come in and they're like, now's my time, I'm

930
00:56:01,239 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: gonna I can I got a blank canvas here to

931
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: work with. Kind of it does seem that way a

932
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,520
Speaker 1: lot of the time, at least since you know, I

933
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: guess in history too, but especially in fiction, and they're like, yes,

934
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:17,399
Speaker 1: righteous man can be led by the nose. As long

935
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:19,919
Speaker 1: as he feels like he's doing a moral or ethical thing,

936
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 1: you can really get him to do some crazy shit. Interestingly,

937
00:56:23,800 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: of course, we see that young Guife was led to

938
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: a temple and then hanged herself. Galleicia the Eunuch told

939
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 1: us so, right, right, Well, there is a Japanese myth

940
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: that she actually escaped to Japan and lived there the

941
00:56:40,320 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: rest of her days, happy and singing a song curvy

942
00:56:43,200 --> 00:56:47,879
Speaker 1: and hut Derby and hut. Yeah, so that'd be nice.

943
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 1: I like that, that would be nice. It feels wrong too,

944
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: for her to take all the blame. Oh no, yeah,

945
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean there's one thing that she you know, she

946
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:01,239
Speaker 1: was definitely working an angle. She definitely was like, yeah,

947
00:57:01,280 --> 00:57:03,040
Speaker 1: I'll marry this old man to become the most powerful

948
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,839
Speaker 1: woman in the kingdom. But of course she did. Of course,

949
00:57:05,880 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: she was looking out for her fam so she doesn't

950
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: seem as conniving as wou like, not as planning and plotting.

951
00:57:12,960 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: I think she was more just like, let me let

952
00:57:15,719 --> 00:57:18,960
Speaker 1: me get my families, some nice houses and some nice jobs,

953
00:57:19,600 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 1: and less like let me convince you to kill your

954
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: own kids that mine can be the like. You know,

955
00:57:25,880 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: she wasn't. Yeah, you're right, she wasn't as conniving, she

956
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: wasn't as evil. She's probably more like one day I'm

957
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:32,880
Speaker 1: gonna be older and I'm not gonna be cute anymore,

958
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,000
Speaker 1: and he's gonna drop me like a hot brick. So

959
00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:36,720
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna try to get what I can get

960
00:57:36,760 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 1: while I can't. I could see that Solis hope she

961
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,360
Speaker 1: got out. Um. You know. There's various versions of the story.

962
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: Others are that Galicia brought her body back. Um. Others

963
00:57:47,960 --> 00:57:53,520
Speaker 1: say that after two months, the emperor sent men back

964
00:57:53,560 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 1: to collect her body and it wasn't there, so he

965
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:58,920
Speaker 1: just built a temple in her memory. Um. So you know,

966
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:01,960
Speaker 1: hard to say. She might have gotten a way. That's

967
00:58:01,960 --> 00:58:04,959
Speaker 1: what I would do. I would be like, yes, Galicia,

968
00:58:05,240 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 1: take me somewhere where I can hang myself far away

969
00:58:08,320 --> 00:58:13,720
Speaker 1: from here right by. Galicia would be like, you know,

970
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: we can just he was always liked her, you know,

971
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:23,080
Speaker 1: send you over to Fiji. Yeah, here's fifty bucks. You know,

972
00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 1: good luck out there, more than Madonna had when she

973
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: shut up in New York. Okay, and look what she

974
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:32,560
Speaker 1: did I don't know if i'd call Madonna thick queen. No, No,

975
00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: she's not. Who's so good. She's like the Lizzo of

976
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 1: her time. Young we fake. Yeah, she's a little bit.

977
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. Um, yeah, it is cool. It's a

978
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 1: tragic love story. It is tragic love story. I mean,

979
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's a bunch of people being dumb. I'm

980
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:48,040
Speaker 1: just mad at the Emperor's one song. I feel like

981
00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: he made bad decisions a lot of the time. Dick

982
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: control him in a really stupid way. Is Dick and

983
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: all the dicks around him and all the dicks around him? Yeah,

984
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:01,520
Speaker 1: but it's like so annoying and and of course destructive

985
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: when you have a ruler who does not seem to

986
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:09,160
Speaker 1: care about the responsibility of you know, you're supposed to

987
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: care about a whole country. It's not just about you.

988
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: I know, you get a lot of trappings and a

989
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:16,360
Speaker 1: lot of people kissing your ass, But you know, if

990
00:59:16,400 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: you don't feel the weight of like, I could impoverish

991
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:22,280
Speaker 1: this whole nation. People will die if I make the

992
00:59:22,280 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: wrong decision. If you don't have that in your brain

993
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:28,640
Speaker 1: at all, look what happens. You have an entire prosperous,

994
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: stable country, broken into pieces by the end of his life.

995
00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:34,720
Speaker 1: It's the trick where you know, sometimes you say I

996
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:38,439
Speaker 1: often think this myself, like the best rulers are people

997
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: who don't want to be rulers. Um. But that's not

998
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: really true because a lot of the times people who

999
00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: don't want to be rulers don't do their job and

1000
00:59:45,800 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: they just chill and they just absorb all the pleasures

1001
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 1: and none of the responsibilities. So you really just need

1002
00:59:51,560 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 1: someone who like wants to be a ruler, but doesn't

1003
00:59:56,120 --> 01:00:01,160
Speaker 1: want the perks, Like I like living a boring life

1004
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,760
Speaker 1: in a in a in a loft apartment somewhere. I

1005
01:00:04,800 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: don't care about all the money and sex and drugs. Um.

1006
01:00:11,880 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: So if you're out there finding that guy, because I

1007
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 1: think the problem is you might feel that way and

1008
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: then you do get them and you start to be like, well,

1009
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: this is nice, so I'm used to this now I

1010
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: want more of that. You know, it's such an easy

1011
01:00:24,440 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: slope to fall down. I know I've quoted this on

1012
01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: the show before. My grandfather had a saying and I

1013
01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:34,360
Speaker 1: agree with him, and it was what the world really

1014
01:00:34,400 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: needs is a benevolent dictator. But I just don't have

1015
01:00:38,640 --> 01:00:44,400
Speaker 1: the time. That's how I feel. Oh man, I'm too busy.

1016
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:47,880
Speaker 1: But I love this story. It's I love this drama.

1017
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: I love the royal family shenanigans. Every time we get

1018
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: into these, it's so chaotic, it's so I mean, you know,

1019
01:00:55,960 --> 01:00:58,440
Speaker 1: we reduced this down to like four or five characters

1020
01:00:59,200 --> 01:01:02,560
Speaker 1: if you go to these sources, these books, a lot

1021
01:01:02,600 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: of Wikipedia because a lot of these translations, you know,

1022
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:08,080
Speaker 1: are hard to find. But there's just hundreds of people

1023
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,200
Speaker 1: all scheming against each other. I mean, Leland Fu had

1024
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:14,280
Speaker 1: like nine or twelve guys all working for him doing things,

1025
01:01:14,400 --> 01:01:17,720
Speaker 1: and they're all getting exposed and killed and overpowering each

1026
01:01:17,720 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 1: other and stabbing each other in the back. It's chaos.

1027
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:22,440
Speaker 1: I love it again. Need a big TV show out

1028
01:01:22,440 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 1: of this so we can really get the full scale.

1029
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 1: Or I guess you could read a book, but but

1030
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:30,680
Speaker 1: I want to see it. It seems like maybe like

1031
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:33,040
Speaker 1: a Korean soap opera because it will go on for

1032
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 1: like three episodes. Yeah, this could use. You would need it,

1033
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:39,400
Speaker 1: and you would need it for sure. And the poetry

1034
01:01:39,440 --> 01:01:42,240
Speaker 1: was pretty too. Oh I love this poem. Um, it's

1035
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:44,920
Speaker 1: hard to find, like one big, long stretch of this

1036
01:01:44,960 --> 01:01:48,000
Speaker 1: poem translated, but you can find pieces of it all

1037
01:01:48,040 --> 01:01:52,400
Speaker 1: over um and it's very beautiful. Yeah, you know, we

1038
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:55,000
Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed this story too. You'll have to let

1039
01:01:55,080 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 1: us know. We just love hearing from you. So if

1040
01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: you have any comments or question Jen's or anything you

1041
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:04,440
Speaker 1: want to share with us about your favorite birthday, way

1042
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:06,560
Speaker 1: to celebrate your birthday, or if you just want to

1043
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 1: wish Eli happy birthday, please reach out. Our email is

1044
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:12,720
Speaker 1: ridic Romance at gmail dot com. That's right. You can

1045
01:02:12,720 --> 01:02:15,560
Speaker 1: find us on Twitter and Instagram. I'm at Oh great,

1046
01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: it's Eli. I'm at Danamite Boom and the show is

1047
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:22,400
Speaker 1: at ridic Romance and we love you for spending your

1048
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: time with us. Yep. Absolutely don't forget to leave a

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Speaker 1: of my birthday party. We'll see you then catch you

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Speaker 1: up the next episode. So long, friends, it's time to go.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so listening to our show tell your friends names

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Speaker 1: Uncle Sandance. To listen to a show ridiculous role means