BONUS EPISODE: Zhang Zhongchang, The Dogmeat General

Oh man, I can't wait for a Puyi episode. I am also a fan of that pathetic pitiful piece of shit and his miserable life story.

Imagine a conversation between him and Hong Christ, who he presumably never heard of, about the frustrations of dealing with civil service exam guys. Hong, incredibly heated and ranting about demons, Zhang just replying ‘skill issue’ and admonishing that he didn’t skip right to war-lording, neither having a single thought in their heads of logistics.

The Soothsayer is just going to HP Lovecraft story about the wizard whose curse is that he breaks into your house to murder you but IRL.

I have been waiting for this episode ever since the podcast was started

Man you gotta love the weirdos of the Chinese warlord era. I just read a book about Two-Gun Cohen if you ever want to one about “Why is this Polish-Canadian Jew so ride or die for Sun Yat-Sen?”

I'm glad we know, and know better than to say, Bizarre lyrics.

Dogmeat general is just what we call our ration packs in the legion of the old crow.

the LLBD Mt Rushmore of Zheng Zhongchang, Hong Christ, Luigi Cadorna, and Saddam Huessein

We have learned that to join the Chinese civil service street smarts is an acceptable alternative path to book smarts. If your pirating/banditry is strong enough — you can coerce the government into giving you and your homies a job.

Straight guys can use poppers too if they're being pegged!

Oh! The Ronin Daddy beauty & the beasting him

That's a shirt idea: Twink Logistics

Zhang's final words remind of of Maximilian of Mexico's "hombre!"

He actually did make it tain, on accident. Cloud seeding, Dogmeat style.

I’ve never been more excited for a potential Pu Yi series

You could say this guy has a strong past.

My mom just told me she started listening to this podcast… oh boy…

i keep that twink on me

I remember seeing this covered by the great historian Sam'Onella

I think it’s fair to say that this warlord was in fact in a battle mage, but it’s just a battle mage who can deploy thousands of peasants to do his bidding

Looking up from my phallic speed bag, "Oh, beat the heat"

The twink's always ready because the magical soothsayer tells him when he's got to do bottom prep

Also in regards to the "head shaver" thing, while I'm not sure what Zhang Zongchang's father did exactly, there really was only one haircut you were allowed to have back then. In a very ineffective attempt at assimilation, the Manchu Qing dynasty forced all adult men (targeted at the Han) to wear the Manchu queue (shaved front, braid in the back) on pain of death.

If we've popped the cap off the Chinese Warlord Era, I feel like there's so many capital-g Guys to talk about. Like Zhang Xueliang, the opium-addicted failson of China's most powerful warlord at the time. After he takes over, he kicks his opium habit, (allegedly) has an affair with Benito Mussolini's married daughter, tells Japan to fuck off, and willingly joins the KMT. Later on he kidnaps Chiang Kai-Shek (AKA his own boss) to force him to stop fucking around with the Communists and focus on the invading Japanese.

Tactical twink - twinktical?

Behind the Bastards covered this guy, and they calculated how tall 87 silver dollars would be and they came to the conclusion it was probably accurate. It was like 9 inches for his height yeah i buy that

Chinese Orde Wingate

He was a real life Mafia City character from Level 1 and got to Level 99 Boss.

"Visiting Mount Tai” From afar, Mount Tai looks blackish, Narrow on top and wide at the bottom. If you flipped it upside down, It would be narrow at the bottom and wide on top. -- Zhang Zongchang

Ole 87!

Sometimes I imagine the Game of Thrones series to be a historical propaganda made after the fact, and that the real story looks more like the Chinese Warlord period