• GroteStreet 🦘@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    This has been happening for centuries though. Cao Cao mandated that first and last names needed to be at least 3 characters in all government forms. This move upset Lu Bu, which decided that war was the only way to settle the issue.

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      9 months ago

      “200 soldiers were killed in the war and an additional 500000 people starved in the ensuing famine.”

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        9 months ago

        Ha. iirc he did have some level of sovereignty. But for such stupid throwaway comment, I admit I didn’t actually remember much about what stage of his career overlapped with Lu Bu’s…