A Poet's Unpaid Rent Killed Forty Thousand People
Tang Dynasty China

A Poet's Unpaid Rent Killed Forty Thousand People

A Chinese poet owed money to his landlord. The landlord took him to court. The judge was in a bad mood. Forty thousand people died.

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