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Episode 31, the Red Eyebrow Rebellion

Before we get back into the reign of Wong-Mong this week, I feel I ought to address a couple of points of order

First my apologies for the delay in getting this week's episode out. I was out on my week-long summer holiday and wouldn't you know it? I just plumb didn't get around to recording it on time.

Hopefully there are no hard feelings. The second and somewhat related point is that I'm beginning a new

position within my school while still working half-time the old one and I'm of a

mind that at least for the getting comfortable period progress on the history of China may

slow down. I'm not 100% sure of this as of yet, but I'd like to at worst not have to slow down

any further than becoming semi-weekly

a lot of the History of Byzantine podcast,

and again, the idea being temporarily.

And ideally, I won't need to slow down at all.

I'll update you all when the workload becomes a little bit more clear.

So with those two clerical details out of the way, let's pick up right where we left off.

Last time we had left the usurper Emperor Wang Mong of his Sheen dynasty in an

unenviable position. His attempts at internal reform and wealth and land

distribution had fallen flat, so flat that his own vassals had refused to enact them

and demanded the Emperor rescind the measures.

Rampant inflation and counterfeiting of currency had accompanied Wong's disastrous

foray into currency reform and internationally the situation looked

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