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#235 - Ming 25: Some Light Treason

The History of China

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What Happened to the Viceroy?

A new governor came in trying to reorganize the way things were run, by which he meant reducing the soldiers help staff from three men to one. He also ordered heavy fortifications constructed on a very harsh dead line. When officers went to him to complain that this was outrageous and unfair, he threatened to have them arrested and flogged. They didn't like the sound of that, so they started attacking him. The siege drags on and on into the winter, into february of 15 34. And by this point, the imperial court is fed up. So he's finally relieved of command for basically sheer incompetence. But wait, it gets even better because as that same disgraced

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