>be Mao >be so sure of your governance that you decide to allow for a period of free criticism of your administration (surely it would all be minor things) >a third of your party (including some of its most important members) and a shitload of intellectuals take you at face value and start condemning all your dumbass decisions (with facts and logic) >get insecure and execute or reeducate them all
Kek
Yeah instead Euros got mass psychosis that they could get immrotality by kneeling to a wooden idol , spraying water on their faces, not eating meat on friday or by shutting themselves in some monastery
>reads wiki >now I have acquired knowledge of chinese history
Having said that, just read Hou Jing's article. Even if 10% of the shit written about him is true....
>Hou Jing
He was based. Literally the only reason China reunified as he upended the political order of china. The only reason he gets a bad rap is because he failed to found his dynasty so unlike other dynasty founders he didn't get to whitewash himself
They weren't all so mean. The emperor of one of the southern dynasties (I forget which one) had a big temper after a few drinks. He ordered one official to be executed when he was shitfaced. Of course he massively regretted this in the morning. So he issued an new order that, whenever he ordered someone's execution while drunk, the guards were to take the condemned man away, and then hold him in comfortable confinement until the morning. They would then bring him back for instructions to the now sober emperor, who by now had calmed down and probably forgotten what he was angry about.
Eminently sensible.
A bureaucratic system that allows the head of state to do stupid bullshit like trying to become immortal and not collapse for hundreds of years is actually quite remarkable and sophisticated. It actually becomes sort of like a waiting game. If you have a shitty hedonist emperor, he'll usually seclude himself in the capital and not do anything and you just wait till he dies. Eventually, you get a good emperor who fixes most problems and expands the empire. It's honestly a lot more stable than whatever the frick the Byzantines were doing.
I just like the (for lack of a better term) chuuni translations for court/government titles/positions >Righteous Master of Economic Harmony >its the bureaucrat in charge of all the imperial mints
Had it coming for failing a blatantly obvious loyalty test.
Yeah I would have held my tongue and waited to see what happened to the first moron before saying anything.
Reminds me of Mao.
>be Mao
>be so sure of your governance that you decide to allow for a period of free criticism of your administration (surely it would all be minor things)
>a third of your party (including some of its most important members) and a shitload of intellectuals take you at face value and start condemning all your dumbass decisions (with facts and logic)
>get insecure and execute or reeducate them all
Kek
He should have just let them send private criticisms via letter instead so he could ignore them at his leisure.
Very, very based
Just a shute into a fireplace beside his desk, and he could get a read on butthurtedness by the letter flow
It was a test. The morons took the bait while knowing mao was a crazy c**t who would fall back to old habits
Hao?
Mao basically said "Feel free to disagree with me" then killed people after they disagreed.
Like in the modern age, which pretends to value intelligence and free speech, then you get destroyed for showing either.
true
Time is a fat anime circular gf
I don't want to say based, but there is a parallel, small current of humour
Chinese emperor who is literally me
Just imagine how delicious that must have been, girls fed on herbs and rainwater. yum
You know hoatzin, the bird that feeds on tree leaves only? They make crazy stinky farts, or so I've read.
>red lead
What a happy coincidence that it rhymes in English.
That sounds like nonsense, or a conspiracy theory. Red lead is a pretty simple chemical that could be manufactured since the ancient times.
This seems like donald trump pee tapes tier propaganda.
The pee tape thing was kinda kino ngl.
i hope it wasn't slow slicing
Wait until you begin to study Chinese civil wars.
I have to admire the official's audacity here.
Scroll down to the Mao stuff.
damn i havent seen that chart since like 2021
I forgot about this one. It's a lot of fun info for one image but how true is it?
it conveniently forgets to mention some bad stuff certain leaders ddid, probably because the creator of the image liked them a lot, like metaxas
Redpill me on Metaxas
Are there more of these?
>no photos whatsoever
>it's true
Muslims could be unbased but it cannot be denied that they're true chads,
Wackiness Quotient itself seems out of whack for some
Real life case of "they hated him because he told them the truth".
Yeah instead Euros got mass psychosis that they could get immrotality by kneeling to a wooden idol , spraying water on their faces, not eating meat on friday or by shutting themselves in some monastery
>reads wiki
>now I have acquired knowledge of chinese history
Having said that, just read Hou Jing's article. Even if 10% of the shit written about him is true....
>Hou Jing
He was based. Literally the only reason China reunified as he upended the political order of china. The only reason he gets a bad rap is because he failed to found his dynasty so unlike other dynasty founders he didn't get to whitewash himself
>as he upended the political order of china.
....how
They weren't all so mean. The emperor of one of the southern dynasties (I forget which one) had a big temper after a few drinks. He ordered one official to be executed when he was shitfaced. Of course he massively regretted this in the morning. So he issued an new order that, whenever he ordered someone's execution while drunk, the guards were to take the condemned man away, and then hold him in comfortable confinement until the morning. They would then bring him back for instructions to the now sober emperor, who by now had calmed down and probably forgotten what he was angry about.
Eminently sensible.
that's too sensible to be true, I bet it's propaganda
Too sensible would be to not order the execution of someone when shitfaced.
Yes, that's what I implied.
A bureaucratic system that allows the head of state to do stupid bullshit like trying to become immortal and not collapse for hundreds of years is actually quite remarkable and sophisticated. It actually becomes sort of like a waiting game. If you have a shitty hedonist emperor, he'll usually seclude himself in the capital and not do anything and you just wait till he dies. Eventually, you get a good emperor who fixes most problems and expands the empire. It's honestly a lot more stable than whatever the frick the Byzantines were doing.
The Jiajing emperor was actually pretty good
A good emperor doesn't do much besides electing officials, checking that they aren't corrupt, and lets them do their job.
Polgays would have you believe that monarchy is good then you read shit like this.
Are you dumb?
It seems to me that a good monarch can do somewhat better than democracy but a bad one can do far, FAR worse.
As a asiatic, chinkland = giant communist jeet hivemind where everyone thinks they are israelites that can get ahead of each other
why'd you asiatics base your entire civilization off them then
CCP > Weird Cults/Chaebols running the country
You would be the dindus then kek
Three digit ones like slavs.
I just like the (for lack of a better term) chuuni translations for court/government titles/positions
>Righteous Master of Economic Harmony
>its the bureaucrat in charge of all the imperial mints
What are some good sources to learn about chinese history? Books, Movies, Youtube videos, anything really?
The China History Podcast on YouTube has almost 400 videos of nearly every aspect of Chinese history from mythical eras to modern events
>Podcast
>YouTube
Am I moronic or isn't the definition of a podcast that it's just audio?
Anon I....
ANON YOU WHAT
regret to inform you that Zhang Fei got killed by his own soldiers and the killers fled to Wu
What's with the obsession with immortality in Chinese history?
Nobody suffers in China, so the idea of living forever is actually appealing, unlike how things are for us firstoids.
It was a common obsession even in the West. Isaac Newton tried to create an "elixir of life", which is pretty funny.