In truth, Cheong's sharp tongue, as she invoked Wang Mang, was nothing short of mischievous.
Why? Because Cheong had spent countless nights drinking with the finest scholars of Zhongyuan's Hanlin Academy—mixing heavy drinking with deep study—and had thoroughly absorbed the classics.
It wasn’t as if she was making things up; she knew exactly what she was talking about, which made her words all the more devious.

Wang Mang, rather than being a "red" revolutionary, was more accurately described as a tyrant.
Regardless of his intentions, he ruined his nation by trying to govern it however he pleased, …