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Hello and welcome to the history of China.

Episode 40, The King in the North.

Last time we left off with the official formation of the three kingdoms of China's third century,

which is great because we'd certainly been alluding to it for long enough.

In the North of China, called Wei or

Cao Wei, Taqao Tao Tao Tao's son, Taqi, had more or less shoved Emperor

Shee in the imperial throne and dissolved the Han dynasty altogether.

In response, Leo Bey down in Sechuan had declared himself Emperor of Shu Han.

And to the southeast, Sun Quan had basically shrugged his shoulders at all this and said,

Eh, let's just see how this all plays out.

Today, well, today I'm going to break with the trying to fit all three states into every episode

model, because let's be honest, that's a great way to say just enough about everything

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