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#230 - Ming 19: A Futile & Stupid Barrier

The History of China

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The Honza Emperor's Natural Disasters

The 18 year reign of the honza emperor seems to have been marked with an unusually high number and frequency of natural disasters. The more open and receptive one is to criticism, the more people tend to feel thike they can and should criticise any and everything when driving the donkey cart of state. All carrot and no stick, it turns out, leads to behaviour just as bad as all stick and no carrot. In 14 93, leo datia was tapped to head up the operation to fix the yellow river. A literatus and generalist in his own training and career, he never thought that his own mind could solve the problem by itself but instead sought out answers from others both past

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