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Episode 156, the Long Leg treachery.

Last time, we sketched out the Song General Uefa's early life, his rise to prominence, and the vacillating

nature of his on-again-off-again relationship with Emperor Gao Zong, and is very much off all the time relationship with

the Emperor Gao Zong and is very much off all the time relationship with the Chancellor Chien Hui.

Today then in part two will be finishing out the tale of Yufe

chronicling his highest highs and his lowest lows before his final defeat.

We're going to pick up exactly where we left off last time.

As I mentioned, this was initially written as a single continuous episode,

and as such I strongly recommend if you haven't listened to

episode 155 that you go and do so first.

Otherwise, this is probably going to seem rather more confusing and abrupt than usual.

We pick up the thread, circuit 1137, with UFA having pressed his military advantage against

the Jirchien-Gien dynasty that occupies the north of China, only to be recalled suddenly to the southern song capital,

Hong Joe, and relieved of his command.

He then made the egregious error of overstepping his place and daring to suggest before

the emperor himself that he ought to select his nephew as a woman. his In the end though, his replacement had floundered so badly with his own campaign against the gene that the majority of his army had outright rebelled and then defected to the Jurchen.

And so it's here that we picked the thread back up.

Between U.A's dangerous presumptiveness and Jiang Jun's soldiers massed affections, the Song War

Party was in disarray.

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