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Episode 29, the decline of Han. Last time we went over the reins of the two and a half emperors, child monarch

Jao, Prince Leo He who didn't last a month before being fired, and the riches to rags and

back to riches Emperor Schwen, all directed and molded by the guiding

hand of the Regent Lord Hoagwan.

This time we approach the end of the B.C. E. and with it the downward spiral of the Han Dynasty

into factionalism, nepotism, and popular loss of faith in the throne.

You'll remember from last time that Prince Leo She was the first son of Emperor Schwen and Lady

Shue Ping Jun. He was born in 75 BCE, which was before his father's unexpected re-rise to nobility and power.

Shortly after becoming a prince, however, he would lose his mother to poison at the hands of

Hoochung Jun, who would then take shoes place as Empress in 70 b c.

Three years later, Emperor Chen declared the then 8 year old Leo Schre his heir

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