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Brief: This article recounts Hou Jing’s Rebellion, which devastated the Liang Dynasty. After being rejected by Eastern and Western Wei, Hou Jing defected to Liang. Betrayed by Emperor Wu, he captured Jiankang, starved the emperor to death, and seized power. His tyranny destroyed southern China, paving the way for the rise of the Chen…
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Liu, a juren, remembered things from his former lives (Note: Juren is the title conferred on those successful candidates at the provincial level in the imperial examination) and confided in my deceased cousin, Pu Wenfen, as they both became juren in the same year.