Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms podcast.

This is episode 108.

Last time, Liu Bei had died, leaving his teenage air Liu Shan in the care of Zhuge Liang.

Oh and by the way, I realized that I have been pronouncing Liu Shan's name incorrectly as Liu Chan.

The character for his given name has two pronunciations, chan or Shan, and in this case,

it should be Liu Shan, not Liu Chan. My apologies for that mistake.

So anyway, as soon as the ruler of Wei, Cao Pi heard that Liu Bei was dead

and that a kid was now sitting on the throne of Shu,

Cao Pi reached out to a few foreign powers and organized a five-prong invasion,

ready to destroy Shu by attacking on more fronts than Zhuge Liang could handle.

Liu Shan was alarmed by this.

An alarm turned into panic when Zhuge Liang chose this inopportune moment

to hunker down in his home and refuse to see anyone on the excuse

that he was, um, sick. Eventually, Liu Shan had to personally go to Zhuge Liang's house, where

he found Zhuge Liang intently staring at his koi pond, not even noticing that his lord

was standing right behind him. After standing

there for a while, Liu Shan went, and Zhuge Liang turned and saw the emperor, he immediately

tossed aside the staff that he had been leaning on and fell to his knees. Your servant deserves

death ten thousand times over,

Zhuge Liang said.

Liu Shan helped Zhuge Liang to his feet

and asked,

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