Liu Bang - The Peasant Scoundrel Who Founded the Han Dynasty. (Complete Series)

what would you do if you know that you are going to turn up late for work think of an excuse prepare an apology or start a revolution overthrow the oppressive system establish your own dynasty and build an empire that will be remembered as one of the golden ages of china well if you are lyopong the founder of the han dynasty then there could only be one answer run the heck away but unfortunately luck and destiny conspired to keep this peasant-born small-town sheriff away from an idyllic life and this is the story of how he locked and called his way upwards into becoming an emperor here is the background of the political situation of the time period before china was unified in the year 221 before common era it was made up of a collection of disparate states when qin si huang the first emperor of china conquered them he exterminated their royal families and incorporated those states into his empire under his central control he standardized writing currency and measurement improving the economy and undertook great projects that left lasting marks in history however it all came at the cost of countless innocent lives he was a totalitarian despot but a highly functional one he kept a tight leash over his conquered land by frequently visiting them on his grand inspection tours chair that's how a great man should be that's what leopon exclaimed when he saw the imperial convoy while serving as a corvy laborer wow back to work laborer okay okay okay okay meanwhile on the other side of the empire a completely different sentiment emanated from a young man with an impressive build one day i will replace him shush be quiet you will get us all killed that young man was xiangyu the man who will one day be the arch nemesis of lyopang heroic impulsive and proud xiangyu is the dimetric opposite of lyupang in every way possible his aristocratic clan had served as generals for the state of two for many generations and the destruction of the two royal family and his clan fueled his obsessive hatred for everything chin yet to his uncle xiang liang's dismay his drive for vengeance did not carry over to his study of reading writing and swordplay i can write my own name that's enough with swordplay i can only fight one man but what he said next lit his uncle up i want to learn how to fight ten thousand so his elated uncle taught him the art of war lyoubang on the other hand was a peasant-born small town scoundrel from pay county who had boundless charisma and a gift for making friends one time he came across an exclusive party with a thousand coin entry fee he was able to bluff his way in by saying i'll pledge ten thousand coins and once he is in he not only charmed his way out of paying the pledge he even impressed the host so much the host married his daughter off to him so it is not a surprise that a street rat like him could somehow become the town sheriff yet he knew that he was destined for something greater how did he know well that was an omen one day when his mother was sleeping suddenly the sky turned dark thunder crashed lightning flash and the next thing they saw was a dragon that appeared next to her not long after that incident she was found to be pregnant with him if that wasn't a sign then i don't know what it is well it could be ball even if it is true then it means that you're an illegitimate child shut up young sir i haven't got time for you i need to deliver these conflict laborers to work on ginseng's mausoleum well sometimes even his godly charms doesn't work especially on village a-holes like yongsan on 209 bce one year after the death of qin su-huang his successor huhai decreed that all counties must send their criminals to work on the mausoleum but under the harsh rule of qin's legalist ideology almost anything can be considered a crime and the punishment is always excessive for example if liubang was even late on his delivery he would be put to death along with the other convicts and imagine what would happen to him if most of his prisoners escaped if he reported that his prisoners escaped he would be executed and if he was late because he had to recapture them the result would be the same anyway so in the end he just gave up he started drinking and let the other prisoners go ten of them were so grateful to him they decided to stay to evade the authorities they decided to hide in the wilderness of mount montang but along the way the scout reported that there was a huge white snake before their path what what the heck is a white snake doing in the middle of nowhere let me at it not be at it fueled by alcoholic rage lubang charged at the snake and cleaved it into two the next morning a passerby saw a crazy old woman crying next to the snake uttering complete gibberish she claims that the snake was her son and the son of the white emperor who was killed by the son of the red emperor when the passerby chanced upon leopon's group and told them what he encountered liubang immediately chimed in i know what it means the son of the white emperor means the qin empire uh but the official color of the qin empire is black white black what's the difference they're all colors and the son of the red emperor must be me oh my favorite color is red it's an omen guys we have to start a rebellion and overthrow the empire we're gonna win yeah and on that year 209 bce a rebellion against chin was started because a group of people were going to be late for work tsun sung and what they stole my idea and they are even more successful than me tan tsung and wang were in a similar predicament to liubang but their uprising was far more successful than his they revived the former five states and tanzan claimed the throne of two for himself soon other uprisings started to spring all across china and local governors installed by the qin central government was overthrown one by one to the east xiangdiang and his nephew changhu took the opportunity to secure the wu region of two and he personally killed over a hundred of the governor's men during the coup then they raised an army of eight thousand warriors and these men became his closest comrades until the end of their lives with the help of his best friend shakur yopang also succeeded to overthrow the local governor but now seeing the chaos everywhere he is starting to get cold feet and refused to became the new governor it was too much responsibility not even shaker and his friends could get him to change his mind so they settled this by definition and when his name came up he realized that he couldn't escape his destiny to be honest this kind of faint refusal is a very popular charade used by leaders to bolster their followers loyalty throughout chinese history so this event could just be one of leobang's tricks again anyway after this event he raised the red flag and banners of the red emperor and gathered an army of three thousand he also recruited shoku his best buddy fangue his brother-in-law and all his other buddies to his cause he even extended an olive branch to that aho yongsu by inviting him it was an act he quickly regretted because he was backstabbed in record time as the ungrateful snake locked him out of a city they conquered not long after the start of his campaign you will pay for that so liubang requested help from the new king of two to teach his old enemy yongsu a lesson tanzan's ragtag band of rebels were too disorganized and was no match for the professionally led chin army twinsen's campaign to the capital of qin xian was quickly crushed by the professional chin general zhang han and tenceng himself was killed in action so lyobang was on his way to meet the replacement but this detour proved to be a godsend to liubang because along the way he met zhang yang a brilliant strategist who was also famous for his failed assassination attempt on chinsu huang they quickly hit it off and impressed with lyupang as a person he joined his cause but only until he could revive the former state of han because he belonged to an aristocratic family of the state in 208 bce while lyophang was working for the new king of 2 fending off the qin army xiangdiang's force moved west now that it had grown to tens of thousands they easily defeated the king of 2 and installed their own puppet king king hwai returning from his assignment liupang was surprised to find that he had a new master but seeing that they are eager to incorporate his force it took the opportunity to make a teensy tiny request so there is this a-hole called yongsu yeah let me tell you what he did following the power of xiangdyong's army ryopan yongsu's force and retook the city but unfortunately his old nemesis escaped away well at least ryopan got some semblance of revenge but this episode demonstrated to them that leopon was a petty man with small ambition so they felt safe to have him around during this period zhang yang left lyobang to help the new king of han recover his kingdom but he had grown attached to leopong who he now considered to be his true master and promised to return as soon as possible with zhang jiang gone lyopang continued to work under xiangdiang along with xiangyu and once again his godly charms worked its magic on the impressionable young man xiangyu grew to like liubang so much they became sworn brothers leopon being the older one became the elder brother together they brought the fight to the qin general zhang han who had besieged the city of tong earth and defeated him as tanghan's remaining force retreated westward xiangdiang who carelessly broke away to pursue him was caught in an ambush and killed the main two force under him was also annihilated after receiving the news of the death of his uncle xiangyu was overcome with grief and he swore bloody vengeance on zhang han and this was the prelude to the decisive battle of julu the battle that marked the collapse of chin after regrouping the two rebel coalition agreed that it was imperative to strike chin right in its heart the capital shenyang otherwise they will keep returning with more and more troops led by professional generals like zhang han if they don't do anything it is a matter of time that qin will eventually win so they asked for volunteers for this critical mission as a reward king hwy of two promised that the first general to enter the capital would be made the king of the quantum region which included the capital of chin even with the promise of such tantalizing reward among the many gathered rebel generals only two were brave enough to step forward and you guessed it they were lyupang and xiangyuu but before a quarrel could start a messenger brought in an urgent news zhang han had returned this time with a colossal army of 200 000 men and he had besieged the city of julu the king of zao urgently needed help consumed by burning hatred for zhang han xiangyu immediately turned his attention to his sworn enemy but fearing that xiangyu was going to act impulsively he was made second in command under another general and so ryopan and xiangyu went their separate ways when the rebel army from various states approached zhulu they were struck by the sheer size of the qin army besieging the city and nobody dared to cross the yellow river and enter the fray even with the combined power of other rebel groups from other states their number was nowhere near zhang hans so all they did was watch from the distance xiangyu disgusted by their cowardice became increasingly exasperated meanwhile lyobang and his smaller army was taking detours along the way to shenyang on the road he discovered the scattered army of xiangliang and collaborators who were willing to assist him he also scored quite an impressive victory against wang lee's army and sent him northwards to zanghan bolstering his number and exacerbating the rebel forces situation he was even reunited with zhang yang who came to his rescue in a skirmish by 207 bce back at xiangyu's side after enduring 46 frustrating days of non-action he finally snapped he killed his commander and assumed direct control the puppet king huay was unable to object so without the support from other rebel groups xiangyu decided to launch an assault with his own army he ordered his two generals to cross the river with their army of 20 000 first before doing the same himself once he had crossed the river he ordered his soldiers to smash their cooking pots and sink their boats and his men were only allowed to carry three days worth of rations so they were left with no other choice but to win this event was later turned into a chinese idiom breaking the pots and sinking the boats which meant reaching a point of no return which also had similar meaning to crossing the rubicon so with his men pushed to desperation xiangyu and his army fought like demons it was said that each of them could take on ten chin soldiers and defying all odds they obliterated a good portion of the much larger chin army by the end of the battle julu was liberated and zanghan and the remainder of his men was forced to hole up in a nearby city after witnessing this miraculous victory the rebel leaders who were too scared to join the fight quickly rushed to shangyou's camp and as soon as they saw him the awestruck rebels fell to their knees and made him the supreme commander of their combined army meanwhile a series of intrigues and coup had thrown the qin core into chaos saoko the corrupt eunuch who held the real power refused to provide reinforcement for zhang han because he suspected that he was planning his own rebellion so in the end zhang han had no choice but to surrender to xiangyu's force and his remaining 200 000 soldiers became prisoners of war fearing blame for his mistake zaokao killed the current emperor before he could be punished in turn he was murdered by the puppet ruler he installed so when lyobang entered the gate of zhenyang he was presented with a kingdom on a silver platter as the new ruler of chin decided to surrender without a fight lucky as according to king white's promise it is only a matter of time that he is announced the king of guan zhong as for his first display of magnanimity he forbade his soldiers from looting and upheld the law and order of the city think about it if he let people loot he is practically letting them steal his stuff since this is his city now but while he passed in the opulence of the imperial capital of chin and enjoyed its luxury a few hundred miles away xiangyu caught wind of liubank's entry into xi'an as he battled down the road to the capital he couldn't help but feel betrayed because he was the one who made the most sacrifice in this war and shed the most blood now these two sworn brothers are set on a devastating collision course that will change the history of china forever snap out of it bro look at the big picture liubang was a peasant and he got his vices lots of them actually but luckily for him he's got plenty of great buddies who he could rely on to guide him back to the straight and narrow xiangyu and his army was coming and if he wanted to survive this impending confrontation he had to take action soon oh come on we've got plenty of time he's got to babysit two hundred thousand blws how fast can he get here report sir xiangyu had blown through the gate of the hangukwan pass he is coming with a combined army of four hundred thousand nope niupang didn't have much time what happened to his two hundred thousand chin pows they were all killed two hundred thousand is a massive number and number in ancient battles often get conflated but the fact remained that xiangyu massacred all the defenseless soldiers under his watch just because he considered them to be a burden it was a shocking news but liubang wasn't surprised xiangyu had a history of brutality before this he had massacred whole cities if lupang doesn't do anything now he would become another historical statistic but how could he even stand a chance against the greatest warrior of the era besides he only had hundred thousand men he can't win but wait a minute he may not have xiang u's martial prowess but he had something he could use to overcome this trial or to be more accurate it is something he didn't have brother i missed you my dear sworn brother it was his sense of shame who dared to close the hangukwan gate on my dearest brother and keep him away from me who let me at him let me add him liupang is shameless and that's one of his superpowers he also employed a tactic a proud aristocratic warrior like xiangyu is unfamiliar with groveling following his strategist fan zhang's advice chanyu had actually prepared to assassinate yopong on his signal but now that he is bewitched by lyoban's godly charms and groveling he ignored all of banzheng's signals liubang had upheld the law and order of xin yang and did not touch any of the riches in the treasury all just to keep them safe for xiangyu to claim he said it may seem like a proof of his loyalty and it may have fooled everyone but it rang phantom's alarm bells it is a sign that leopon had evolved from being a short-sighted peasant into a leader with foresight who could resist powerful temptations and if he is not moved by the mountain of wealth then it could only mean that he is aiming for something much greater funsung was convinced more than ever that he must get rid of liubang now before he festered into a greater threat if his master won't act then he will do it on his own so they held a banquet in liupang's honor and as part of the attraction xiangyu's cousin performed a sword dance kinda odd shang you thought since he would much prefer to see his beautiful console you do the dance but this was actually part of fountain's plan to kill liobang by choreographical malfunction but suddenly xiangyu's uncle xiangbo joined the dance and used himself to cover liubang xiangbo was actually a close friend of zhang liang lyobang's advisor and he was persuaded to help liubang the previous night overnight conversion godly charms guys but despite his effort he can't keep up forever against his younger and stronger nephew so zhang yang unleashed fenway hey what's the big idea why are you trying to kill my bro after all he's done for you fangue was liubang's brother-in-law he was a butcher and a warrior despite his rough demeanor he was a straight talker and he could connect to shangyu warrior to warrior fanguy rebuked shangyu saying that if he killed lyopong after demonstrating his loyalty then he is no better than the tyrannical and corrupt chin who he hated so much so apparently fanguy pressed all the right buttons and his words froze shangyu after an extended period of silence he told funko to sit down and join the party wow that was intense it's it's cool it's cool it's cool now i almost wet my pants whoops actually let me go to the toilet to clean myself leopards groveling had successfully established to everyone that he was a loyal follower of xiangyu and he is not a threat if xiangyu had him killed then it would so distrust among his own followers but still xiangyu could change his mind any time so where is lubang anyway apparently lyobang had escaped when he pretended to go to the toilet and so to end the night pankwei presented xiangyu with some parting gift and they booked it out of there you foolish child you have doomed us all despite fonson's reaction xiang yu still wasn't convinced that a pathetic worm like lyopunk was a threat at all a few days later chengyu and his men marched into xienyang eluded the population executed as the last king of chin and burned everything down not even the death was bare over 2000 years later when archaeologists found the terracotta warriors almost all of them were found to be broken and all the weapons were looted it was speculated that xiangyu's army were the culprit the fire in shenyang was said to have burned for three whole months with xiangyu acting as de facto overlord he divided the realm to his leisure into 18 kingdoms and ignored king huai's promise to rio bang why would he listen to his puppet king anyway oh wait king hua is technically the emperor now ha but a puppet emperor is still a puppet consequently yeobang was assigned the worst piece of land in the realm khan and to make it worse three qin generals who had surrendered to xiangyu were placed near him to guard against his possible comeback to further allay shangyu's suspicion liupang followed zhang jiang's advice to burn the gallery road to han making it even more difficult to bring his army back and that was the last piece of advice his advisor could give him before he had to return to the king of han since he was part of that aristocracy after all but zhang jiang wouldn't be the only one to leave him the land of han was so bad even his soldiers started to desert him and before he knew it even his best friend and confidant xiaohu was nowhere to be found lilban was crushed his dreams his ambitions everything seemed to be over for him but then suddenly shakha returned show her where the heck were you and he brought with him great news he had to leave to chase down a deserter and had succeeded to bring him back liupang did not appreciate this man's talent when he was in their army and now it is time to change all that this man is the key to their victory hansing shakha also had a confession to make when he was told not to take anything from the qin palace he did not listen no he wasn't after money or jade what he took were the maps and documents of chin with this intel and han singh they can still win in 206 bce dissatisfied with xiangyu's arrangement the state of qi annexed its neighboring land and the state of tsao was formed xiangyu distracted by the disturbance nearby allowed the bankside to make their move hansing had his soldiers pretend to fix the gallery road to attract the attention of the neighboring kingdoms while their attention is glued to one side hansing attacked from another direction with han singh as the commander-in-chief of ryuban's army he easily defeated the three chins in the future han singh will be known as the greatest general of the era but right now he still had a lot to prove with her chains gone lyopang advanced into guanzong because xiangyu had been ruling heavy-handedly the king of han was killed and a series of events eventually led to zhang young returning to lyobang and this time he is staying for good as if heaven itself was on his side king huai now emperor yi died mysteriously whether xiangyu was the murderer or not it doesn't matter everyone was convinced that he did it so lyupang gathered a coalition army in the name of justice and his rank swelled to 560 thousand men it's payback time baby so in 205 bce liubang advanced to pungsun and took shanghai's capital while he was quelling the rebellion at chi this is it with this kind of overwhelming number liupang can't possibly lose xiangyu will be finished soon he thought but before that it is time for family reunion and some early celebration which is always a bad idea because xiangyu with a detachment of mere 30 000 soldiers quickly rushed back to his capital catching the coalition off guard he crushed and routed them lyophang's army may be almost 20 times the size of xiangyu's army but the difference in quality between them was overwhelming ryopan suffered the most embarrassing defeat in his life and many of his family members were captured during his escape xiang yu's men even saw something very scandalous that leopon did the disastrous defeat led to other kings deserting him and some have even switched sides to xiangyu this war had become deeply personal for the two of them and the stakes had become so high neither side is going to let up even as bodies started to pile up chiang yu's force was clearly superior to leo banks but no matter how many times he crushed the cockroach he just kept returning with more men ryuban had trustworthy men like shoku handling his logistics brilliant strategists like zhang yang guiding him and excellent generals like han singh who's been winning wars up north and had started to encircle xiangyu meanwhile xiangyu was getting isolated his generals were bought over and he had foolishly fallen for liubang's trick and dismissed his advisor phantom so in his desperation xiangyu decided to do something very uncharacteristic of himself it is something cowardly even and reached out to liubang in 204 bce on gwanghwu mountain lyopong received an ultimatum from xiangyu niubong surrender now or you will see your father get chopped up and cooked into soup leopard's heart almost shattered as she saw his helpless father in shangyu's glass he can't believe what he is seeing shangyu is brutal and cruel against his enemies but is he really going to stoop so low and use his defenseless father as hostage it looks like xiangyu finally got the upper hand now but he knows that his plan is not foolproof if that scandalous thing his soldier reported was true then his plan would be ruined so what will lubang do now and what is that scandalous thing how could xiangyu stoop so low if he surrendered here they would surely kill him but is he really going to sacrifice his own father for his ambition even if he did it would devastate his troops morale how could xiangyu force him to make this choice and to think that they were even sworn brothers wait a minute sworn brothers what that's not the reaction xiangyu was expecting shangyu since we were sworn brothers then my father is also your father if you are so cruel that you would cook your own father then could you please give me a bowl of the soup i'll help carry some of the sin for you so not only that liubang was cold enough to sacrifice his own father he is pushing the blame onto him the scandal was true then xiangyu thought not too long ago when he defeated liubang at pengton his soldiers saw him through his own two children to lighten the load repeatedly even because his driver tried to pick the children up he knew that liubang was shameless but he wasn't expecting the double whammy he was also immortal the sin of patricide would be pinned on him if he killed the old man so in the end xiangyu took liupang's father back into custody but xiangyu hasn't given up yet the next day he challenged leopon to bring out his three strongest warriors to settle the war through armed combat liupang sent out an archer who shot that all three from a distance furious xiangyu personally rode up the lyobang and challenged him to a duel now liupang could have just done the usual cowardly thing and refused the duel in the safety of his own keep but he just couldn't resist rubbing salt into shangyu's wounded pride so he came up to him and listed all his alleged crimes over the years he then proceeded by further insulting shangyu that he was not even worthy to be killed by his own hands he should be killed by a lowly conflict soldier just kidding zoika i love you guys and then instant karma shanghu's hidden archer shot yopang liubang immediately fled as he rode back to his keep he shouted oh no i am shot in the toe unless liubang's feet grew out of his chest that was a lie but he had to say it to preserve his army's morale and to allay further panic among the troops his strategist zhang yang advised him to inspect his soldiers to keep up the facade before he was moved to somewhere where he could find better treatment but why was lubang playing this stupid game with xiangyu anyway actually he was trying to buy time waiting for hansing's reinforcement to come but he never did while liupang had been losing his battles and holding down xiangyu at best han sing had been kicking ass up north and taking kingdoms but now he is getting a little greedy and he wanted to be made the king of chi liupang was furious when he heard the request but if he wanted any chance to win the war at all he had no other choice but to grant him the title and this was the start of the build-up of bad blood between the two but han singh also received an offer from xiang to help his force and if he had accepted it he would be made the king of the whole northern region in a china that's divided into three he didn't know it at the time but hansing was sitting in a very privileged position in history because he get to decide the course of chinese civilization for millennia to come as for him the pertinent question was is it better to be a significant regional player in a tripartite china destined for conflict or a minor king in a unified china under lyaubang by 203 bce both lyobang and xiangyu were exhausted by the constant war but xiangyu said were also having the problem of food shortage so when leopon initiated a peace negotiation xiangyu was willing to come to the table after a few rounds of discussion they agreed to divide china into two and as part of the agreement leopon's family members will return to him finally everyone gets to go home now say it's actually time to attack so lyopong attacks xiangyu the moment his army turned their backs liupang was already known to have no shame and no morals so why would he even care for his honor for now all he needed to do was to win but he lost it wasn't completely his fault though because xianghyu was the greatest warrior of the era and his elite battle hardened soldiers had defeated armies almost 20 times larger than itself additionally liubang's reinforcement including han singh refused to come to his aid liubang had to offer more prestigious titles to his subordinates and expand hansing's domain to finally solidify their support he will just have to save the crush for later after this hiccup he finally managed to gather an army of five hundred thousand against young youth one hundred thousand that about evens it up chiang thought since he had won against greater odds anyway in the past but the greatest warrior of the era miscalculated one thing his opponent was the greatest general of the era the difference between the two is that while han singh could not perform battlefield miracles like xiangyu the great general never chooses to fight a battle he could not win so the course of history was set the moment han singh pick his side on the battlefield of kaisha despite some initial successes xiangyu suffered his devastating first defeat but not all was lost because he was able to return to camp with half of his army hunsing's men had the camp surrounded but he was not stupid enough to provoke a cornered beast so zhang jiang came up with a plan in the middle of the night he climbed onto a hill and played his flute what followed was a course of two song sang from all four corners by soldiers who were also two natives the lyrics of the song claimed that that homeland too was already conquered which was a lie and they will not be harmed if they surrendered this psychological warfare proved to be extremely effective and it led to mass desertion by shangyu's army soon only 800 men were left in the camp this turn of event devastated xiangyu luck had deserted him he lost not because he wasn't a great warrior but it was heaven's will he said to himself thinking that the war was lost and not wanting to become a burden for his escape xiang used console yu took her own life xiangyu cried bitterly over her death not wanting to let her sacrifice go to waste after burying her in a makeshift grave xiangyu and his 800 warriors rode out of their camp and broke through the encirclement under the direct orders of ryuban 5 000 cavalrymen pursued him and the reward for his head was 10 000 caddies of gold and the title of marquis since we're talking about history here we know that this is a doomed flight that will lead to his legendary last stand within the year liupang would complete his conquest become the emperor and establish the han dynasty one of china's golden ages but had the battle of kaisha gone differently we could see a very different china today is the empire's policies in this time period would often be directly influenced by the personalities of the respective rulers usually someone's true nature is revealed in times of crisis even when pursued by 5 000 cavalry men shanghu did not abandon his warriors more than once he personally rode into the enemy's battle formation killed the general and cut down the flag to break them out of encirclement he valued his comrade in arms more than anything and he was willing to lead by example so a china under xiangyu would probably be a very hands-on militaristic empire and in a divided china it is unlikely that violence averse philosophies like confucianism would gain prominence at the same time it is unlikely that common peasants would thrive under him as the farmer who misdirected him when he was lost would probably know under liubang's reign he reduced taxes government spending and gradually warmed up to confucianism xianghu was a brutal leader who killed hundreds and thousands of qin prisoners of war but it didn't mean that he was a terrible ruler for the two people he was jealous of competition but he was kind to his subordinates and people under him when he had the chance to get away by crossing the river on a boat the shame of facing the family of the 8 000 warriors who joined his first campaign prevented him to board because none of his original comrade in arms survived so instead he let his loyal war horse board the boat and turned to face his hundreds of pursuers with his last few remaining men and when he saw his end was coming he recognized one of his former friend and supported it among the crowd of enemy soldiers knowing about the hefty reward that comes with his head he singled him out and gifted him the reward but the ensuing scramble turned savage as every soldier tried to claim a piece for themselves consequently shanghu's remain was torn to five parts and the holder of each piece was made marquee ryobang on the other hand was willing to cooperate with others regardless of their background to prove it he even granted his old nemesis yonse a title begrudgingly of course none of xiangyu's family members were harmed either i guess you could say that this is the difference between a king and an emperor a king rules for a nation but an emperor rules for everyone but of course lyopong wasn't a saint either he plotted against anyone who threatened his rule including the three heroes of the early han dynasty han singh was killed shah was jailed briefly and zhang liang who was smart enough to read the situation retired to become an ascetic before i end the video let me pose a question for you if you were han singh disregarding the way he died under liubang would you have chosen differently and put us on a different historical trajectory and as usual comment and share the video if you've been entertained by it and until next time stay cool my bros

Channel: Cool History Bros

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Keywords: Liu Bang, Han Dynasty, History of China, Xiang Yu, Xiao He, Zhang Liang, 劉邦, 項羽, 漢, 朝代, 历史, 中国, 韓信, han xin

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Length: 42min 31sec (2551 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 08 2020