Kindness without enforcement is a subsidy paid to the strong
This lesson plays out across 1 chapter of the chronicle. Read where it was learned — and what it cost.
- The Gentle Reign and the Quiet RotEastern Han — Zhang Di (Depth) · 76 AD - 87 AD
Emperor Zhang was generous, scholarly, filial, and beloved -- and under his warm hands the consort clans slipped their leashes. The decade in which the Eastern Han caught the disease it would die of.