Welcome to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms podcast.

This is episode 152.

Last time, we left off with the Kingdom of Jin, aka the kingdom formerly known as Wei, sizing up the kingdom

of Wu with hungry eyes. But, far from worried, the tyrant of Wu, Sun Hao, was entertaining

fantasies of conquering the empire. So both sides garrisoned troops in the area around the city of Xiangyang in Jing province.

The Jin troops were led by the commander Yang Hu, while the Wu forces were under the

command of Lu Kang. Both commanders were aware of the other's talent, so the two sides remained

in a stalemate. One day, Yang Hu and his officers went hunting,

and as luck would have it, so did Lu Kang and his entourage. Instead of letting this turn into some

kind of skirmish, Yang Hu ordered his men to stay on their side of the border, and so they did,

never once setting foot on Wu territory while

they hunted. When Lu Kang saw this from a distance, he sighed and said, General Yang is

disciplined, we must not encroach. At the end of the day, Yang Hu returned to his base and

tallied up the day's catch. Among them were some

game that had been shot by the Wu hunting party, and Yang Hu ordered all those animals be

returned to the Wu camp. The Wu soldiers were delighted and informed Lu Kang.

Lu Kang summoned the courier from Yang Hu and asked him,

Can your commander hold his liquor?

The courier replied, if it's good wine, he will drink.

Laughing, Lu Kang said, I have a gallon of wine that I have stashed away for a long time.

Take it and present it to your commander.

I personally brew this wine for my own

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