This ruler's minister Jiang Chong accused his heir apparent of witchcraft, triggering a bizarre sequence of events that ended in the tragic rebellion and suicide by hanging of Prince Ju.
This ruler's reign was the golden age of a poetic form practiced by Mei Sheng called the "great fu." This ruler's minister Jiang Chong accused his heir apparent of witchcraft, triggering a bizarre sequence of events that ended in the tragic rebellion and suicide by hanging of Prince Ju. He was the first to establish government monopolies on wine, salt, and iron. This ruler became obsessed with acquiring mythical "blood-sweating" horses, which drove his invasion of the Fergana Valley after he had earlier incorporated northern and central Korea and much of Vietnam into his empire. This ruler, the son of Jingdi, made Confucianism the official state religion of China. For 10 points, name this greatest emperor of the Han Dynasty.
This ruler's reign was the golden age of a poetic form practiced by Mei Sheng called the "great fu.
Wudi [or Liu Che; or Wu of Han]