#231 - Ming 20: Liu Jin & the Eight Tigers
The History of China
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Leogian's Execution
After leogian's execution, an illustrated account of his crimes and misdeeds was circulated throughout the empire. All his reforms and programmes were undone within a month - but there are still powerful eunuchs in the emperor's inner circle. Was leo framed? Had he just made enough people in high places angry enough at him that they were looking for an excuse to remove him from the picture permanently? We will never know for sure. What we do know is that with his death by a thousand cuts, or rather 33 hundred cuts,. Any significant attempt to reorganize and stream line the imperial administrative apparatus was brought to a screeching halt and then utterly rewound. Next time
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