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Episode 26, the Sino-Shonnew War.

Last time, amid rising tensions between the neighboring Han and Shon new empires. Emperor Wu had dispatched his emissary, Jiang Tian,

to penetrate the barbarian blockade of the Western

path out of China and find out what was beyond the edges of the known world.

This episode, the decades of humiliation and centuries of bad blood between the two East Asian

powers finally boils over into full-scale war culminating with a reordering of the

entire region. As we've hit on again and again, the diplomatic relations between the Shongnu and Han governments

had been determined very early in the Han's lifespan when its first emperor, Gaozu, was

humiliatingly encircled and defeated at Baidung Plateau in Mongolia in 200

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