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Greetings once again, one and all, Las Loh, L'Llo Montgomery here with another China history podcast.

Today we're going to try and finish the 14 years of Wang Mang's reign during the Shin Dynasty

and then all 197 years of the Eastern or later Han.

That will bring the Han Dynasty to an end.

And then in the next podcast, we'll continue on and look at the Three Kingdoms Period.

We left off last time with Wang. continue on and look at the three kingdoms period.

We left off last time with Wang Mang, taking over from the last Emperor Pink-D

who came to the throne in October of 1B.

Pink-D dies in February. Pink-D.

Did Wang Mang have him killed?

Some say yes, some say no.

In any case, if this emperor was nefariously done in, he wouldn't have been the first and for sure not the last.

Wongman, some liked him and said he was a competent official and later emperor.

Some didn't take to him so kindly kindly and you have both ends of the spectrum

as far as what history has handed down to us about him. He certainly lived in controversial

times and he ran into his first controversy immediately when it came to picking the successor to the deceased Pink Dee. What to do? If he picked a competent heir, the right age and all, then his days his regent would be over and with that so would his career.

If he picked a child, then at once the imperial family and all their relatives, hangers on and high up officials

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