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well Jesus rose from the Dead, proving himself to be God, that's why billions follow him; mohamad set up a death cult that murders you for most reasons, trapping billions inside it; that's why people follow him.
The fact that all of this is happening contemporary to Rome's Caesar/Augustus shenanigans is absolutely amazing to me. Rome/China is the greatest crossover we never got.
Probably for the best, Rome saw China the way early Americans saw the west coast, that is they felt it was their divine right and destiny to eventually brutally conquer and subjugate it
There kinda was. There were several trade relations between the two and they even set up embassies (China in 27 BC and Rome in 166 AD). Unfortunately for both in the middle of the two was the Parthians and later the Sassanid who did there best to ruin relations between the two so that they wouldn't have two superpowers united against them
@@reillycurran8508 No, I'd say that Roman imperialism is a lot lighter than Chinese imperialism (what was that line about the Mongols? laissez-faire tyranny?). The thing is that China didn't know about the world at large... At the time. Now, they do. From what I can see, Roman emperors weren't nearly as obsessed about wiping out all traces of the dynasty that preceded them as Chinese emperors did.
Incredible, this man warranted a rebellion through blind devotion to a way of life that he barely understood (because it's literally from centuries ago) and sheer incompetence. He didn't need to oppress anyone...that...that's impressive.
Funny story about Wang Mang. According to the Book of Jin, Wang Mang was actually bald, which led to him being kind of insecure and developing a fully head-covering hat as part of the official dress for government officials, called a "Jieze"(介帻)-hat. It basically looked liked a like a pillbox hat, which you could add elements on top of to denominate status (such as a square arch-shaped "crown" to form a civil official/scholar's hat called a Jinxianguan 进贤冠, the descendant of which was still used until Ming Dynasty) This was one reform that actually stuck and indirectly led to the development of many of the fancy hats of Chinese history, such as the hat you see Zhuge Liang wearing in Three Kingdoms history.
That paper prayer thing actually has a precedent. He is copying the golden coffer (金滕) incident of Duke of Zhou. After conquering Shang, King Wu of Zhou became seriously ill. His brother, Duke of Zhou, wrote a prayer, claimed that he is willing to sacrifice himself if the heaven and the ancestors of Zhou are determined to take someone away. This prayer was then locked up in a golden coffer. After the death of King Wu, DoZ became the regent of Wu’s son, King Cheng of Zhou. Three other brothers of Wu accused DoZ planning to usurp the throne, and started a rebellion. DoZ went east for 2-3 yrs to suppress the rebellion. King Cheng later also doubted the loyalty of DoZ, but dismissed his suspicion after finding what is inside the golden coffer, and gave the duke a warm welcome. DoZ genuinely returned the power to King Cheng after he grew up, his regency lasted for 7 years. What Wang Mang did is a farce comparing to the first time.
From my memory of one course I did on Chinese history, it's worth noting that the Duke of Zhou is like, THE OG Confucian ruler, at least to historical adherants. No surprise Wang Mang is following his lead here.
I mean seriously, how many actual historical figures have suddenly revealed themselves the head of a plot to restore an esoteric and primordial empire to power through proclaiming themselves a reincarnation of a man who would be deified into a God of Dreams. Because apparently there's at least one.
I started making a list of the emperors of every Chinese dynasty a few weeks ago and while going over the history I came across the whole story of Wang Mang. I went into further details about him because I had to write reasons why the Han dynasty stopped and came back. I was doing separate documents for each dynasty and I wasn't wasting a whole document on a dynasty that had only 1 emperor. Since the whole process about how Mang became emperor is so complicated I ended up researching deeper than I needed. I swear I'm not just saying this but I thought since Jack had done videos on Chinese history that he might explore that period but the chances of that we so slim. The whole story is perfect for Jack's format. I can't believe he actually did it not long after. Thanks Jack.
I guess the moral of the story is to never trust someone who has to make a big song and dance about how "moral" they are - because they're usually hiding much darker aspects of their personality. Or maybe the moral is that you shouldn't devalue your own currency for literally no reason.
This entire dynasty has been an absolute riot from beginning to end. To think that this story only gets crazier from here, that being the Yellow Turbans and the lead up to the three kingdoms.
The Three Kingdoms era is too depressing for me, hundreds of thousands of people were killed in fights over which illegitimate usurper was more benevolent.
You didn't talk about the funniest part of his regency/rule. He renamed the dynasty to the Xin Dynasty - literally, the "New Dynasty." He was so uncreative he couldn't think of a good name for his dynasty.
A lot of dynasties and kingdoms get their names from simple words. My country of the Netherlands quite literally translates to the low lands, and you can't really call the United States of America a creative name, either.
This is honestly really weird but also fascinating. Reminds me of all the insane research the Nazis attempted to find out what their "ancient superior Germans" were like. They also attempted some batshit crazy stuff to try and create their idealized version of an ancient culture.
When are you going to talk about the most based Chinese Emperor; Ming Guangzong, who died 28 days into his reign after having sex with 8 girls simultaneously for the said 28 days.
@@bigfootguru86 He rewarded the border garrisons by giving money directly from his personal treasury, released officials unjustly imprisoned by his father, abolished the widely hated mining taxed. He would have been a wise and kind ruler, but Eight Simultaneous Ming Dynasty Pussy had him acting up.
Bruh the First Emperor would probably qualify as a gymnast with the amount of turning, twisting, backflipping he did in his grave when Wang Mang was emperor, given he tried to undo pretty much all of his accomplishments and reforms.
Not so fun fact : Wang Mang head was kept in Imperial Library as prize and as a lesson not to usurp the throne. But somehow got lost during the burning of Imperial Library during Jin Dynasty (Somwhere around 287-300AD)
My respect for Jack just keeps improving, being nice enough to give us a progress bar for ads but then making such entertaining sponsor spots that I stick through a diatribe for a product I'm years too young for that doesn't even ship to the country I live in. Never mind that segue, take a bow man, take a bloody bow.
You’re never too young to go bald. There are people that go bald at like 17. Also, there’s a way to get things to your country without going straight through.
@@jakesgenuineanarchy5955 I mean, it is approved by the FDA. Can you order things not approved or blocked by the FDA? It's similar to laws that forbid you from bringing animals or certain foods for biological risk.
This is a classic example of ideology getting in the way of pragmatism. The best rulers were rarely the ones who stuck to their principles but the ones who compromised them in the name of getting things done.
Little bit of side note: If you play totalwar 3k, the corner of imperial seal is made up of gold that's because when wang mang usurp the throne empress threw the imperial seal to the pillar by the anger and corner of seal beaks. So later they fix corner by gold
@@editedforprivacy207 ehh it's not good to get caught up on words like this. You probably only object because you have negative associations with religion. Stoicism absolutely involves spirituality and questions of the divine, and was highly influential academically as well as among laymen (including on Christianity).
@@skyworm8006 No he's right. Confucianism isn't about what gods you should worship or how the universe was created, but specifically how society and governments should be governed. Obviously philosophy and religion can be difficult to separate at times, but saying confucianism is a religion is like saying modern day conservatism or liberalism are religions. Heck, considering a big part of Confucianism is about how you should obey your elders and things were better in the good old days, confucianism basically is ancient Chinese conservatism
If i had a nickle for every time a Chinese dictator ruines his farming industry by not understanding farming id have two nickles, which isn't a lot but its weird it has happened twice
also there’s the Wang An’shi reform in Song dynasty. Stopped only after one of Wang’s former student draw the emperor the thousands of homeless in hunger just outside THE CAPITAL, which the emperor had NO idea about FOR YEARS
Interesting side note: when Wang became emperor, he demanded his aunt, the Dowager Empress, to give him the Heirloom seal of the realm (an artefact that gave someone the divine right to become ruler of China). The former empress, who was already angered by his actions, threw the artifact on the floor so hard, it chipped away one of its corbers. Later Wang repaired it by making a new golden corner. So if you ever find a seal similar to that artefact, make sure it had that gold bling Btw. Jack, will you do Vlad the Impaler and Stephen the great ?
that heirloom represents the mandate of heaven. we have a saying “有眼不识金镶玉” roughly translates "you had eyes yet you don't recognize the jade repaired with gold" to call someone who failed to tell the real deal.
@@Ttegegg 1. I'm not rude to my neighbors. personal wise or country wise. 2. If you're talking about Chinese government which neighbor explicitly? and I might explain in my POV.
14:10 That Sloth tax idea cud actually have been a reasonable idea if implemented correctly. Simply tax them for having uncultivated lands for multiple yrs in a row or for X yrs out of Y (eg more than 2 yrs out of a 5 yr span). No doubt there were some landowners who werent appropriately using their lands and thats what pushed the idea of the sloth tax, but it was just poorly implemented bcuz literally everything he did as emperor was poorly implemented. This guys story seems like it has been altered by history, but maybe it was just that absurd, bcuz he went from highly skilled and capable and devout to just a little too devout but still capable to so devout he destroyed an empire for a few yrs with his complete lack of capability for the job.
If Quibi or Vine had invested in “Jack Rackam’s Non-chronological Recount of Human History” historical drama, we’d be on season 23 and arguing over twitter about whether Jack doing a Rosa Luxembourg or an Air-bud impression is better.
"He was going to upend a thousand years of history in order to implement his mythologised idea of a nearly pre-historic kingdom" As a Romeaboo, I have never been more proud of a single man's ambitions in my entire life. We all want to return to the mythologised idea of an ancient and glorious empire, right?
As a european I wanna agree but whenever I think about it, I suppose the Legionary system actually would be an improvement as it allows soldiers a tiny amount of influence and ensures theres always an adult available, something armed forces across the world seem to constantly lack, the stories I could tell...ah! Maybe I should do that sometime! Edit; my original point: I dont think we are gonna get men to wear skirts in north europe tho 😅
@@Elenrai Hey, mythologised Rome can enjoy trousers AS WELL as their skirts! We know Romans in Britannia went native and adopted the barbarian practise of trousers, they weren't above it when the choice was between civility and frozen nuts. It's cold as hell up here, man.
Want Mang also banned slavery in China. No such thing as Spartacus slave uprising in ancient China. Religious and peasant uprisings but no slave revolts.
9:01 I laughed so hard, because these animations are just AMAZING... and fun to look at. It's like part chalk board, part photoshopped foto animations. But GRILLING steaks late Barbecue party Wang Mang is just soooo funny.
Ahhh, the good old blind playthrough of getting your hands deep into administration without any knowledge and guidance to re-enact ancient societal reforms, just to devolve your nation into anarchy. Also, cool use of the identical character arts for this series! (Said killers in the end are loosely allied to themselves, hence the extra-purging of whoever got Wang's head which resulted in even more dead Han leaders, who are mostly figureheads of their respective forces aiming to "restore" rightful authorities such as the Red Eyebrow rebels, or the regional kingdoms)
Jack says "welcome to part three", I hear "this week on Keeping Up with the Hans..." Looking forward to each episode is the highlight of my week at this point.
Wang Mang was a very advanced reformer, but he lost to the times because his reform was not scientific in the feudal social environment at that time. First, he nationalized farmers' land, prohibited private sales, and was uniformly managed and distributed by the central government. Second, reform the tax system, change all wine, salt and iron into government operation, send tax officials to supervise prices in the market, restrict businessmen from hoarding goods and raise prices. Third, after Wang Mang came to power, he issued new money, mastered the power of making money, weakened the power of the old ethnic groups in the Han Dynasty, and prevented them from plundering the wealth of the people. Fourth, implement forced labor. The government formulates punishment measures for all unemployed vagrants, and each person pays one piece of cloth and silk every year. If they are unable to pay, the government forces them to perform labor service and provides food during labor service. Fifth, establish a loan system. People can borrow money from the government for funeral or sacrifice needs. They only need to repay the principal without interest. If you borrow money from the government for agricultural and commercial production, the government will charge one tenth of the net profit as interest.
Han Feizi clearly stated that, reforms must be implemented gradually. No matter how great the reform maybe, if it is implemented to quickly, it is worse than not doing the reform at all. And he predates Wang Mang by hundreds of years.
That and command economies are woefully insufficient. There is a reason why all Communist and Socialist states revert back to some governmental control of capitalism or have outrageously massive underground black markets where people could actually acquire their wants and needs.
After the soccer match, Wang Mang’s head was kept as a trophy for 200 years at the imperial palace until the Jin Dynasty when it was destroyed in a fire during the War of the Eight Princes
Funny you mentioned hair loss in ad, since Wang Mang went bald and invented a new style of hair dress to cover the top of head. The hat fashion last much longer than himself...
Why do I feel like 00:48 is going to be the basis of the next World of Warcraft expansion >.< really though this reminds me a little bit of Simon de Montfort. Things never seem to go well for people who try to replace a previous royal family with nothing but a radical plan for the future. Couldn't say why.
1:28 it's funny advertisement since Muhammad has a famous anecdote about him shaving his head bald to get his people to listen to him again after the treaty of hudaybiyyah left some of them feeling a bit sour about the whole deal
I wish more content creators put that kind of effort into their ads, I usually skip past them but I actually watched this one lol great vid as usual! 😁👌
Wang Mang was a blood relative of Jin 金 Clan, who were descendants of Xiongnu Prince Jin Midi 金日磾. When Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty collapesed, Jin Clan had to run for their lives. and many of Jin Clan crossed the Yellow Sea and Settled in Southern coast of Korean Peninsula. These 金 Kim Clans established Gaya Kingdom and Shilla Kingdom in 1st Century AD. When Shilla Kingdom fell in 936 AD, one of Prince of Shilla escape to Manchuria, and became ruler of Jurchens, and his descendants Established Jin 金 Dyansty. Also Qing Dynasty was successor to Jin Dynasty. When Qing Dynasty collapsed in 20th Century, many of the Imperial family assumed the last name of Jin 金. And obviously they are remotely related to North Korean 金 Kim clan. also, some scholars suggested that Wang clan also crossed the Yellow Sea and settled around Kaesŏng (city south of Pyongyang), and their descedant Wang Geon established Kingdom of Goryeo (Korea) in 918 AD.
What is the source of all that? Silla was first found by the Park family. One day, one of the king found a boy under a tree when the rooster sounded. He was very pleased, not only adopted the boy but granted him the surname Kim and even renamed his country to Ji Lin. The descendants of the boy eventually took over the throne when the later Park kings were weaked, and renamed the kingdom as Silla. I don't think there was any relation possible to Wang Mang.
He actually did. The water clock used by the Han was divided into 100 boxes, he changed it to 120. He also ordered that people should change the order of the sexagenary cycle, using Wuzi(戊子, the 25th) as the first day of the cycle instead of Jiazi(甲子). He also planned to change the era name every 6 years to improve the luck of the country. As you might have guessed, people simply ignored or jeered at his bullshit.
Does that respect not apply to people that do drawings? Charlie Hebdo and Kurt Vestergaard disagrees. Go show them some fucking respect to those groups before asking it from artists that do SATIRE!
There's a very cute story about Emperor Ai of Han (the gay emperor in the video) and his boyfriend Dong Xian. One afternoon while Emperor Ai and Dong Xian are taking a nap in bed together, Emperor Ai has to get up to attend to some duties, but Dong Xian is laying on Emperor Ai's sleeve. Rather than wake him up and move him off the sleeve, Emperor Ai decides to cut off the sleeve Dong Xian is sleeping on and go about his duties with only one sleeve. Many courtiers were so moved that there was a trend of court officials having cut sleeves in admiration during his reign.
Hang on. If there's no functional currency, the economy is crashed, half the government doesn't exist, he's presumably struggling to collect taxes, and the farmland is rotting... how the hell is he paying his army?
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Still 3am here
bce? I think you mean B.C. Lord, God, help these illiterates learn how things are.
well Jesus rose from the Dead, proving himself to be God, that's why billions follow him; mohamad set up a death cult that murders you for most reasons, trapping billions inside it; that's why people follow him.
now did they really kick his around? as good as that report is, you should be clearer about facts.
He was good guy, but not a good guy.
The fact that all of this is happening contemporary to Rome's Caesar/Augustus shenanigans is absolutely amazing to me.
Rome/China is the greatest crossover we never got.
Well, they are practically a world apart, but that would have made some pretty great history trivia
I mean, there are games for that.
Probably for the best, Rome saw China the way early Americans saw the west coast, that is they felt it was their divine right and destiny to eventually brutally conquer and subjugate it
There kinda was. There were several trade relations between the two and they even set up embassies (China in 27 BC and Rome in 166 AD). Unfortunately for both in the middle of the two was the Parthians and later the Sassanid who did there best to ruin relations between the two so that they wouldn't have two superpowers united against them
@@reillycurran8508 No, I'd say that Roman imperialism is a lot lighter than Chinese imperialism (what was that line about the Mongols? laissez-faire tyranny?). The thing is that China didn't know about the world at large... At the time. Now, they do. From what I can see, Roman emperors weren't nearly as obsessed about wiping out all traces of the dynasty that preceded them as Chinese emperors did.
Incredible, this man warranted a rebellion through blind devotion to a way of life that he barely understood (because it's literally from centuries ago) and sheer incompetence. He didn't need to oppress anyone...that...that's impressive.
They hated him not because he was a jerk, in fact he was a pretty nice guy despite the court shenanigans. He just FUCKING ABOLISHED EVERYTHING!
Imagine being so bad at your job, you start a rebellion where literally everyone kicks you out of your position.
Reminds me of communism...
@@tedhubertcrusio372 but communism does oppress
Funny story about Wang Mang.
According to the Book of Jin, Wang Mang was actually bald, which led to him being kind of insecure and developing a fully head-covering hat as part of the official dress for government officials, called a "Jieze"(介帻)-hat.
It basically looked liked a like a pillbox hat, which you could add elements on top of to denominate status (such as a square arch-shaped "crown" to form a civil official/scholar's hat called a Jinxianguan 进贤冠, the descendant of which was still used until Ming Dynasty)
This was one reform that actually stuck and indirectly led to the development of many of the fancy hats of Chinese history, such as the hat you see Zhuge Liang wearing in Three Kingdoms history.
If only Keeps delivered to ancient China.
I always wondered about the fancy hats.
That just makes the advertisement so perfect, especially since it’s one of my favorite advertisements for connecting to the video and comedy
That paper prayer thing actually has a precedent. He is copying the golden coffer (金滕) incident of Duke of Zhou.
After conquering Shang, King Wu of Zhou became seriously ill. His brother, Duke of Zhou, wrote a prayer, claimed that he is willing to sacrifice himself if the heaven and the ancestors of Zhou are determined to take someone away. This prayer was then locked up in a golden coffer.
After the death of King Wu, DoZ became the regent of Wu’s son, King Cheng of Zhou. Three other brothers of Wu accused DoZ planning to usurp the throne, and started a rebellion. DoZ went east for 2-3 yrs to suppress the rebellion. King Cheng later also doubted the loyalty of DoZ, but dismissed his suspicion after finding what is inside the golden coffer, and gave the duke a warm welcome. DoZ genuinely returned the power to King Cheng after he grew up, his regency lasted for 7 years.
What Wang Mang did is a farce comparing to the first time.
Huh.. He knew his history
From my memory of one course I did on Chinese history, it's worth noting that the Duke of Zhou is like, THE OG Confucian ruler, at least to historical adherants. No surprise Wang Mang is following his lead here.
The dude is like the real twist villain in a JRPG game, holy shit.
I mean seriously, how many actual historical figures have suddenly revealed themselves the head of a plot to restore an esoteric and primordial empire to power through proclaiming themselves a reincarnation of a man who would be deified into a God of Dreams. Because apparently there's at least one.
@@rorywilson3252 to be fair that also happened with Tamerlane ironically enough
@@rorywilson3252 he also the kind and humble official that help the young Emperor, wth
That or Shang Tsung
@@Tetsulot Helped the young emperor into his grave, you mean.
I started making a list of the emperors of every Chinese dynasty a few weeks ago and while going over the history I came across the whole story of Wang Mang. I went into further details about him because I had to write reasons why the Han dynasty stopped and came back. I was doing separate documents for each dynasty and I wasn't wasting a whole document on a dynasty that had only 1 emperor. Since the whole process about how Mang became emperor is so complicated I ended up researching deeper than I needed. I swear I'm not just saying this but I thought since Jack had done videos on Chinese history that he might explore that period but the chances of that we so slim. The whole story is perfect for Jack's format. I can't believe he actually did it not long after. Thanks Jack.
China have a very absurdly long history. If youre going to make a list of every emperor of every china dynasty i can only bid you good luck. 😃
@@harukrentz435 Thank you. I'll more than need it. By the way I said "started weeks ago" I'm still far from done.
@@8sins236 when you finish can you add a graph to wikimedia preferably in .svg form?
@@saxo689 Sure.
@@editedforprivacy207 that's quite a feat to find that out since "Wang" is even more common than my last name (Smith) and that's REALLY common 😂
I guess the moral of the story is to never trust someone who has to make a big song and dance about how "moral" they are - because they're usually hiding much darker aspects of their personality. Or maybe the moral is that you shouldn't devalue your own currency for literally no reason.
This entire dynasty has been an absolute riot from beginning to end. To think that this story only gets crazier from here, that being the Yellow Turbans and the lead up to the three kingdoms.
It gets worse?
@@admech590 So much worse that Japan made video games out of it.
@@CatholicDragoon not just videogames ;)
The Three Kingdoms era is too depressing for me, hundreds of thousands of people were killed in fights over which illegitimate usurper was more benevolent.
@@CatholicDragoon that's what dynasty warriors was about?
You didn't talk about the funniest part of his regency/rule. He renamed the dynasty to the Xin Dynasty - literally, the "New Dynasty." He was so uncreative he couldn't think of a good name for his dynasty.
A lot of dynasties and kingdoms get their names from simple words. My country of the Netherlands quite literally translates to the low lands, and you can't really call the United States of America a creative name, either.
I wish he will cover the Tang An Shan Shenanigans, Qin Shi Huang's Book Burning galore, The femboy-looking Prince of Lan-Ling, etc.
Ooo the Prince of lanling! He was so beautiful that he had to wear a mask into battle so the enemies would take him seriously
@@justrandomotaku So Vega from Street Fighter, but actually happened?
Fgo player?
I’d like to see him talk about the Wu Tang Clan myself
@@alketsadedinaj3011 and a fellow Gacha Salt miner
This is honestly really weird but also fascinating. Reminds me of all the insane research the Nazis attempted to find out what their "ancient superior Germans" were like. They also attempted some batshit crazy stuff to try and create their idealized version of an ancient culture.
That was mostly a project of archeology geek Heinrich Himmler. Even Adolf Hitler thought he was a bit daft on this occasion.
Yeah Himmler and his weird neo-paganism. Hitler was suprisingly less into it though and openly said to his allies that it was dumb
@@ProjectEkerTest33 because he was more into Rome and Greece.
They bred cows specifically to resemble aurochs. So that they could wrestle them.
@@petergray7576 yeah, but Sparky Mustache also believed in the "world ice theory" which is just the most insanely stupid idea ever.
When are you going to talk about the most based Chinese Emperor; Ming Guangzong, who died 28 days into his reign after having sex with 8 girls simultaneously for the said 28 days.
@@bigfootguru86 He rewarded the border garrisons by giving money directly from his personal treasury, released officials unjustly imprisoned by his father, abolished the widely hated mining taxed.
He would have been a wise and kind ruler, but Eight Simultaneous Ming Dynasty Pussy had him acting up.
I thought he died after eating a red pill that was supposed to cure his STDs
@@Thecognoscenti_1 nope that was an aphrodisiac to keep him going
@@LawsonSchlönsson
lmao that reminds me of his grandfather, 明穆宗, who similarly over-exhausted himself in bed.
Truly a good ruler and an example to all
Bruh the First Emperor would probably qualify as a gymnast with the amount of turning, twisting, backflipping he did in his grave when Wang Mang was emperor, given he tried to undo pretty much all of his accomplishments and reforms.
Not so fun fact : Wang Mang head was kept in Imperial Library as prize and as a lesson not to usurp the throne. But somehow got lost during the burning of Imperial Library during Jin Dynasty (Somwhere around 287-300AD)
Knowing how long the Jin lasted, it's clear they didn't learn that lesson
Sounds like a fun fact to me
My respect for Jack just keeps improving, being nice enough to give us a progress bar for ads but then making such entertaining sponsor spots that I stick through a diatribe for a product I'm years too young for that doesn't even ship to the country I live in. Never mind that segue, take a bow man, take a bloody bow.
You’re never too young to go bald. There are people that go bald at like 17. Also, there’s a way to get things to your country without going straight through.
@@jakesgenuineanarchy5955 It would actually be a crime for me to import it, it's a non approved medical product.
@@ciangibbons6643 now that’s some government overreach if I’ve ever heard it. That sucks man. Let’s hope you don’t go bald.
@@jakesgenuineanarchy5955 I mean, it is approved by the FDA.
Can you order things not approved or blocked by the FDA?
It's similar to laws that forbid you from bringing animals or certain foods for biological risk.
This is a classic example of ideology getting in the way of pragmatism.
The best rulers were rarely the ones who stuck to their principles but the ones who compromised them in the name of getting things done.
I could add in a "people who's principles aren't stupid"
Little bit of side note:
If you play totalwar 3k, the corner of imperial seal is made up of gold that's because when wang mang usurp the throne empress threw the imperial seal to the pillar by the anger and corner of seal beaks.
So later they fix corner by gold
Are you SURE you 'desperately restrained yourself from making a 52 part series on the entirety of chinese dynastic history'
I hope not^^
Don't worry one of the emperors only lived 28 days into his reign, he had a lot of sex and died
Man to religious to govern a dynasty when his religious book directly involves a section on how to govern people
@@editedforprivacy207 ehh it's not good to get caught up on words like this. You probably only object because you have negative associations with religion. Stoicism absolutely involves spirituality and questions of the divine, and was highly influential academically as well as among laymen (including on Christianity).
@@skyworm8006 No he's right. Confucianism isn't about what gods you should worship or how the universe was created, but specifically how society and governments should be governed. Obviously philosophy and religion can be difficult to separate at times, but saying confucianism is a religion is like saying modern day conservatism or liberalism are religions. Heck, considering a big part of Confucianism is about how you should obey your elders and things were better in the good old days, confucianism basically is ancient Chinese conservatism
@@Raleyg modern day "liberalism" basically is a religion though
@@yourmum69_420 Oh give me a break
@@editedforprivacy207 his point still stands
If i had a nickle for every time a Chinese dictator ruines his farming industry by not understanding farming id have two nickles, which isn't a lot but its weird it has happened twice
Did you count Mao's nickle?
also there’s the Wang An’shi reform in Song dynasty. Stopped only after one of Wang’s former student draw the emperor the thousands of homeless in hunger just outside THE CAPITAL, which the emperor had NO idea about FOR YEARS
No it isn't. And it happened more than twice.
Interesting side note: when Wang became emperor, he demanded his aunt, the Dowager Empress, to give him the Heirloom seal of the realm (an artefact that gave someone the divine right to become ruler of China). The former empress, who was already angered by his actions, threw the artifact on the floor so hard, it chipped away one of its corbers. Later Wang repaired it by making a new golden corner. So if you ever find a seal similar to that artefact, make sure it had that gold bling
Btw. Jack, will you do Vlad the Impaler and Stephen the great ?
that heirloom represents the mandate of heaven. we have a saying “有眼不识金镶玉” roughly translates "you had eyes yet you don't recognize the jade repaired with gold" to call someone who failed to tell the real deal.
@@张昊-h5n why so rude to your neighbors China?
@@Ttegegg 1. I'm not rude to my neighbors. personal wise or country wise.
2. If you're talking about Chinese government which neighbor explicitly? and I might explain in my POV.
@@张昊-h5nhmm interesting. Thanks for the info.
14:10 That Sloth tax idea cud actually have been a reasonable idea if implemented correctly. Simply tax them for having uncultivated lands for multiple yrs in a row or for X yrs out of Y (eg more than 2 yrs out of a 5 yr span).
No doubt there were some landowners who werent appropriately using their lands and thats what pushed the idea of the sloth tax, but it was just poorly implemented bcuz literally everything he did as emperor was poorly implemented.
This guys story seems like it has been altered by history, but maybe it was just that absurd, bcuz he went from highly skilled and capable and devout to just a little too devout but still capable to so devout he destroyed an empire for a few yrs with his complete lack of capability for the job.
Give us all the dynasties goddammit, we dont care how long it takes
Hoping that this Han dynasty theme continues for a while and we eventually get a video on Cao Cao.
and he named his dynasty Xin Dynasty (which just meant New Dynasty, real creative)
If Quibi or Vine had invested in “Jack Rackam’s Non-chronological Recount of Human History” historical drama, we’d be on season 23 and arguing over twitter about whether Jack doing a Rosa Luxembourg or an Air-bud impression is better.
the first part of this was so clearly Wang Mang playing the long game.
"He was going to upend a thousand years of history in order to implement his mythologised idea of a nearly pre-historic kingdom"
As a Romeaboo, I have never been more proud of a single man's ambitions in my entire life. We all want to return to the mythologised idea of an ancient and glorious empire, right?
As a european I wanna agree but whenever I think about it, I suppose the Legionary system actually would be an improvement as it allows soldiers a tiny amount of influence and ensures theres always an adult available, something armed forces across the world seem to constantly lack, the stories I could tell...ah! Maybe I should do that sometime!
Edit; my original point: I dont think we are gonna get men to wear skirts in north europe tho 😅
@@Elenrai Hey, mythologised Rome can enjoy trousers AS WELL as their skirts! We know Romans in Britannia went native and adopted the barbarian practise of trousers, they weren't above it when the choice was between civility and frozen nuts. It's cold as hell up here, man.
Let me introduce you to this funny man named Mussolini
Some "return to monke" shit but in terms of civilization
As a distant discendant of the people Romans conquered, enslaved and scattered throught the known world... Nah, I am good.
Want Mang also banned slavery in China. No such thing as Spartacus slave uprising in ancient China. Religious and peasant uprisings but no slave revolts.
This sponsor segment actually made me want to get the product. Who knew that keeping hair would help me be Chinese emperor
9:01 I laughed so hard, because these animations are just AMAZING... and fun to look at. It's like part chalk board, part photoshopped foto animations. But GRILLING steaks late Barbecue party Wang Mang is just soooo funny.
As a Chinese person, I get to make this joke without seeming racist.
*In Chicano accent:* Hehe, 'Wang, mang'.
As a Chinese person, I know for a fact that our history has full of hilarious names. Ever seen the He Man Yellow Turban memes?
As a Hispanic Man in the USA, I do admit the history of Chinese Emperors give Spanish Soap Operas a run for their money! 😆
@@DarkAdonisVyers He Man. Master of The Universe.
Aww my gay comment got autodeleted :(
(Am gay and well...wang...mang...)
@@DarkAdonisVyers Is it racist to use the funny words? I.e. Dong, Bei, Qin, Wei, Shu, Wu, Shu, Man, He, She, Wang, Long, etc.
The best segway into an ad in recorded history
Ahhh, the good old blind playthrough of getting your hands deep into administration without any knowledge and guidance to re-enact ancient societal reforms, just to devolve your nation into anarchy.
Also, cool use of the identical character arts for this series!
(Said killers in the end are loosely allied to themselves, hence the extra-purging of whoever got Wang's head which resulted in even more dead Han leaders, who are mostly figureheads of their respective forces aiming to "restore" rightful authorities such as the Red Eyebrow rebels, or the regional kingdoms)
I'm scared to ask how many times this has happened before across the world.
Jack says "welcome to part three", I hear "this week on Keeping Up with the Hans..."
Looking forward to each episode is the highlight of my week at this point.
Jack just keeps getting funnier and funnier! I laughed out loud five or six times during this video!
My favorite part of Wang Mang's glorious reign is how in the end his head was used as a football.
That was the smoothest sponsor ever and I love you
THANK YOU for doing Wang Mang. Such an underrated figure in my experience
In my experience every gangster ass mofo in the history of China is as real as it gets man. That’s straight up has been my experience summarized.
Jack I love you and your videos, you deserve infinitely more subscribers you are hilarious.
Man that ad in the start was so fun i watched it fully even doe i knew everything
Production quality is amazing unrecognizable from a few years back
That ad transition is just 👌👌
Wang Mang was a very advanced reformer, but he lost to the times because his reform was not scientific in the feudal social environment at that time.
First, he nationalized farmers' land, prohibited private sales, and was uniformly managed and distributed by the central government.
Second, reform the tax system, change all wine, salt and iron into government operation, send tax officials to supervise prices in the market, restrict businessmen from hoarding goods and raise prices.
Third, after Wang Mang came to power, he issued new money, mastered the power of making money, weakened the power of the old ethnic groups in the Han Dynasty, and prevented them from plundering the wealth of the people.
Fourth, implement forced labor. The government formulates punishment measures for all unemployed vagrants, and each person pays one piece of cloth and silk every year. If they are unable to pay, the government forces them to perform labor service and provides food during labor service.
Fifth, establish a loan system. People can borrow money from the government for funeral or sacrifice needs. They only need to repay the principal without interest. If you borrow money from the government for agricultural and commercial production, the government will charge one tenth of the net profit as interest.
Han Feizi clearly stated that, reforms must be implemented gradually.
No matter how great the reform maybe, if it is implemented to quickly, it is worse than not doing the reform at all.
And he predates Wang Mang by hundreds of years.
That and command economies are woefully insufficient. There is a reason why all Communist and Socialist states revert back to some governmental control of capitalism or have outrageously massive underground black markets where people could actually acquire their wants and needs.
After the soccer match, Wang Mang’s head was kept as a trophy for 200 years at the imperial palace until the Jin Dynasty when it was destroyed in a fire during the War of the Eight Princes
This was the best transition I’ve ever seen. I don’t mind the ad now. I won’t skip it this time. I’ll watch the whole ad. Comedic gold
That ad was brilliant, nearly choked on my beer.
That may just be the greatest TH-cam sponsorship segment I have ever seen.
i didn't even realize 1:06 was an ad until the disclaimer pops up lmfaoo that was the best ad i've ever seen
Funny you mentioned hair loss in ad, since Wang Mang went bald and invented a new style of hair dress to cover the top of head. The hat fashion last much longer than himself...
Why do I feel like 00:48 is going to be the basis of the next World of Warcraft expansion >.< really though this reminds me a little bit of Simon de Montfort. Things never seem to go well for people who try to replace a previous royal family with nothing but a radical plan for the future. Couldn't say why.
Brilliant!
1:28 it's funny advertisement since Muhammad has a famous anecdote about him shaving his head bald to get his people to listen to him again after the treaty of hudaybiyyah left some of them feeling a bit sour about the whole deal
An Everybody Loves Raymond reference was unexpected and (chef's kiss) magnificent!
Your videos are excellent. Your enthusiasm for your topics is catching, and your erudition is inspiring. 👍
the voice acting deserves an award. 🎗️
I wish more content creators put that kind of effort into their ads, I usually skip past them but I actually watched this one lol great vid as usual! 😁👌
That sponsorship skit is exactly how sponsorships should be done.
"he only killed one family, he's practically a Saint" 😇🤣👌😂
You skillful dog!!🤣🤣🤣 I swore there was a segment on an emperor who went mad & caused folks to shave their heads & then... KEEPS.
LMFAO well done.
Anybody else notice that Jack has been uploading more regularly since 2022 started?
Wang Mang was a blood relative of Jin 金 Clan, who were descendants of Xiongnu Prince Jin Midi 金日磾. When Wang Mang's Xin Dynasty collapesed, Jin Clan had to run for their lives. and many of Jin Clan crossed the Yellow Sea and Settled in Southern coast of Korean Peninsula. These 金 Kim Clans established Gaya Kingdom and Shilla Kingdom in 1st Century AD. When Shilla Kingdom fell in 936 AD, one of Prince of Shilla escape to Manchuria, and became ruler of Jurchens, and his descendants Established Jin 金 Dyansty. Also Qing Dynasty was successor to Jin Dynasty. When Qing Dynasty collapsed in 20th Century, many of the Imperial family assumed the last name of Jin 金. And obviously they are remotely related to North Korean 金 Kim clan. also, some scholars suggested that Wang clan also crossed the Yellow Sea and settled around Kaesŏng (city south of Pyongyang), and their descedant Wang Geon established Kingdom of Goryeo (Korea) in 918 AD.
The Kingdom of Shilla 新羅 was named after Xin 新 Dynasty of Wang Mang.
-La suffix means Country or Nation or Kingdom in Korean Language.
What is the source of all that? Silla was first found by the Park family. One day, one of the king found a boy under a tree when the rooster sounded. He was very pleased, not only adopted the boy but granted him the surname Kim and even renamed his country to Ji Lin. The descendants of the boy eventually took over the throne when the later Park kings were weaked, and renamed the kingdom as Silla. I don't think there was any relation possible to Wang Mang.
11:53 - The point where I start to think, "Oh boy, I bet he's gonna fuck with the calendar and/or the days of the week"
He actually did. The water clock used by the Han was divided into 100 boxes, he changed it to 120. He also ordered that people should change the order of the sexagenary cycle, using Wuzi(戊子, the 25th) as the first day of the cycle instead of Jiazi(甲子). He also planned to change the era name every 6 years to improve the luck of the country. As you might have guessed, people simply ignored or jeered at his bullshit.
Comes to show you, an ideologue is a thousand times more dangerous than a criminal.
can we talk about Jack's acting skills? Man its good
When do we get a video about Wang Man, the Stripperella Villian we never got?
You'll have to settle for He Man and Dong Tuna. Also, Man Chong, whose style name is Boning.
300k troops sitting in a northern chinese province and starving? I've seen that in EU4
me, too
I love that the "nippy-napper" (obviously not named that) was an actual thing that looked like that!
Me- Roman Emperors are full of Drama!
*Qin Shi Huang staring at me, pale and sweating.
Would love to see something about Alexander Nevsky from you. Get the feeling you would really knock that out of the park
Thank you for always being respectful towards different groups such as you not putting a picture for our prophet s.a.w
Does that respect not apply to people that do drawings? Charlie Hebdo and Kurt Vestergaard disagrees. Go show them some fucking respect to those groups before asking it from artists that do SATIRE!
@@Elenrai I literally just said thanks for not using a specific drawing idk what u so mad about
@@Elenrai i wasn’t endorsing no terrorism such as what happened at Charlie Hebdo and those people aren’t muslims you cant be muslim and kill innocents
There's a very cute story about Emperor Ai of Han (the gay emperor in the video) and his boyfriend Dong Xian. One afternoon while Emperor Ai and Dong Xian are taking a nap in bed together, Emperor Ai has to get up to attend to some duties, but Dong Xian is laying on Emperor Ai's sleeve. Rather than wake him up and move him off the sleeve, Emperor Ai decides to cut off the sleeve Dong Xian is sleeping on and go about his duties with only one sleeve. Many courtiers were so moved that there was a trend of court officials having cut sleeves in admiration during his reign.
Love the segue into the sponsorship segment
If ya can keep this going to the three kingdoms, I’d be elated
the great-grandson reminds me of a Shakespeare play
the add transition was fun
Awesome video, love your work.
Would you consider a cross-over shout out for our fans?
Jack Rackam you sneaky so and so, I couldn't even be mad at that ad you snuck in
How was this man smart enough to become emperor but not to actually run his country?
Mugabe, Mao, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler. . .
Clever enough to get it but not clever enough to hold it, reminds me of Barry Lyndon
Ah no better way to start a day than a Jack Rackam video.
Omg this episode is amazing🤣
That add was way too smooth 😂
15:16 didn't know supply limit from EU4 would be an actual factor in history
Yup! A mechanic that initially confused me, but firmly rooted in reality
Wang Mang is like the activist who thinks managing country is an easy peasy job.
"The grillfather" GENIUS! xD
16:49 instant friendly fire💀
Three in a role, this is now a certified MId Han Dynasty History Channel.
honestly emperor Ai and Dong Xian could be their own video.
th-cam.com/video/cLJ3QvvMG4o/w-d-xo.html He did made a short video about them! It's really interesting.
Ok can we discuss how smooth the sponsor snuck into the story? 😂😂
Hang on. If there's no functional currency, the economy is crashed, half the government doesn't exist, he's presumably struggling to collect taxes, and the farmland is rotting... how the hell is he paying his army?
This might be the cause why his wars went so bad...😉
Oppenheimer: And we’ll do it again.
We Need Wang Mang in New Civilization Game !
Humbly Asking.
Oh Lawd, The memes just keep coming!
Please give us more Chinese Emperor schemes!
6:01 - The Passion of the Cut Sleeve = no homo. 😂
Man I wish I had you as my history professor in college.
i need a chinese imperial court dramedy like yesterday
That was the best ad segway I've ever seen
Way BETTER than ENTIRE Season 08 of *Game of Thrones*