The Best Thing that ever Happened to China

The Best Thing That Ever Happened To China

by

Manny Mandizha 5/6/1296

The Southern Song Dynasty has pretty much died. Only a week ago the infamous Lai Saido committed suicide after the city of Hangzhou had been conquered by Mongols. Thousands of jiaozi, the song monetary unit, lost in an intensive raid. Why did this happen? The Southern Song were a weak dynasty and now we are blessed to have a new strong peoples to once again rise China up again.          

A long line of young rulers had been controlling the Southern Song Dynasty. Weak, inexperienced, immature, foolish little boys took control of the throne. So after many of these young rulers one couldn’t take the pressure they threw responsibility to a drunkard who had no discipline. Then the Yuan being the most opportunistic peoples overtook the Song. It was only a matter of time that a backwater nation would die.

China’s major problem with the new regime is that they are foreign and some will say they will only do as badly as the Song. Truth is under the Song most of the major seaports were shut off from certain groups and civilizations. So the Song couldn’t have had the art, medicine, literature, and exotic crop plants, the diverse Mongols did. The Mongols own one of the biggest landmasses ever. It stretches from Western Poland to Central China, it’s huge! They have hundreds of allies in the surrounding area and being diverse they’d let us believe our own religions and keep our traditions. The Mongols would be beneficial for us in the long run, more than the ignorant Song would have anyway.

         China is always evolving and it has just went a step farther. This is the future and if we are obedient and conform to the new government China will be a great empire. No, the greatest empire ever. We will deserve to call ourselves the ‘Middle Kingdom’, again.