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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 293, three treks Across Eurasia

Your Emperor of China is indeed a most excellent and most divine personage.

While he is thus occupied in promoting the prosperity and riches of his empire, and in preserving

on all sides the blessings of peace, your excellencies may no doubt happily

and uninterruptedly follow your respective pursuits.

In this empire also, while the late Chahan Khan, Tsar Peter I lived, we were free from labor and care.

In his reign, all men, whether of high or lowest state, rested in peace.

But latterly, for these 20 years past, our empire has been engaged in incessant wars,

and to this day we are still fighting and contending without any respite.

China is at present the only empire which enjoys any peace or tranquility.

Our present Tsar, even when he was yet a child, was always fighting and contending with the

children who were his playmates.

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