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Hello. Hello and welcome to the history of China. Episode 63, going off the rails.

Last time, we chronicled the incestuous reign of Emperor Shao Wu of Liosan, And the also incestuous, amazingly bloody and not nearly brief enough one-year debacle that was his successor, Leo Tzier,

commonly thought of his ranking among the top 10 craziest monarchs in all of Chinese history.

Notably, we'd finished out with Zayay being oft at an exorcism of all things.

Though curiously not by any of the major players of the Imperial Court or the Imperial Family,

but rather by a cabal of no-name courtiers, who apparently just didn't want to end up as the

murder-happy monarch's next playthings. So, with a teenage psychopath dispatched,

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