The Dreams of Great Power Burned on the Yangze River

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At the dawn of the 3rd century BCE, China was in turmoil. The great Han Empire, which had unified the country for four centuries, was on its knees. The central government in the capital, Luoyang (700 kilometers from Beijing), was paralyzed by corruption within the court, coup attempts by knights of fortune, and peasant uprisings. When the emperor's power was reduced to nothing but name, provincial governors and military commanders seized the opp…