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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 579844, member: 6370&quot;]If he played his cards right he would have been the father of a long lived Chinese Republic. I tend to think that things started to go south for him once his mentor and patron Li Hongzhang died (the former Viceroy of Zhili). I tend to think that possibly he was well advised through his career and as those advisors died, he started making poor decisions. Maybe his ability to tell good advice from bad slipped...because trying to make himself emperor...in one fell swoop, destroyed his legacy more than anything else he did.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thanks for reading guys...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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