without delay. In consequence of this Kungjoh had a grudge against P'ing-tsze. The cocks of Ke [-sun] and the [Head of the] How [family] were in the habit of fighting. Ke-sun sheathed the head of his cock, on which How-she put metal spurs on his. In consequence Ping-tsze was enraged, and increased his own mansion at the expense of that of the other, reproving him besides; and this made How Chaou-pih also have a grudge at Ping tsze. Hwuy, a cousin of Tsang Ch'aou-pih, had circulated slanders against Tsang-she, and then fled to Ke-she. Tsang-she [attempted to] seize him, but Ping-tsze was enraged, and made a prisoner of Tsang-she's steward. [About this time] it had been arranged to offer the te sacrifice in the temple of duke Seang, but only sixteen dancers were forth-coming, all the rest being employed at Ke-she's. On this Tsang-sun said, "This may make us say that we cannot use [the proper ceremonies] in the temple of our late ruler;" and this made the great officers have a grudge at Ping-tsze. was refused, and he requested that he might be imprisoned in Pe. This also was refused, and he then asked to be allowed to leave the country with five chariots; but neither was this granted. Tsze-kea-tsze said, "Your lordship should grant his request. The government has long been in his hands. Many of the suffering people get their food from him. His followers are many. If traitors rise when the sun has gone down, we cannot know what the result may be. The anger of his many [adherents] should not be nourished. Nourished and not dealt with, it will accumulate. When it is so nourished and accumulated, the people will begin to have new purposes, and they will then unite with those who seek the same objects as he. Your lordship will repent of it." The duke did not listen to this counsel, and Howsun strongly urged that Ping-tsze should be put to death. The duke sent him to meet Măng E-tsze (Chung-sun Ho-ke), [and bring him to him]. [In the meantime], Tsung Le, Shuh-sun's master of the Horse, said to all his people, "What do you think of matters?" No one giving any reply, he said, "I am but an officer of a family, and do not pretend to know about the [business of the] State; but whether will it be better for us that Ke-she be, or that there be no Ke-she?" All replied, "No Ke-she is no Shuh-sun-she. Le then said, "Then let us go, and rescue him?" And with this he led his followers off to Ke-she's, burst through the leaguer at the north-west corner, and entered the house. The duke's men had put off their buff-coats, and were squatting about, with their quiver lids in their hands, so that they were [easily] driven away. Măng-she made a soldier get up at the north-west corner to see what Ke-she was doing, and when he told him that he saw Shuh-sun's flag, Măng-she seized How Ch'aoupih and killed him on the west of the south 'Kung-joh presented a bow to Kung-wei (a son of the duke), and went with him to shoot outside the city, when they consulted about doing away with Ke-she. Kung-wei informed [his brothers] Kung-kwo and Kung-fun of the design, and they made the attendant Leaouts'oo communicate it to the duke. The duke had been sleeping, and seized a spear to strike the attendant, who ran off. The duke said he would seize [the plotters]; and though he gave no orders to that effect, they were afraid, and did not come forth, nor see the duke for some months. [Finding at the end of that time that] he was not angry with them, they made the attendant speak to him again. The duke used a spear to frighten him, when he again ran off. A third time they made him speak of the matter, and the duke said, "This is a thing beyond a small man like you." Kung-gate, after which he attacked the duke's men. kwo then spoke himself, and the duke consulted Tsang-sun, who saw the difficulty of the attempt. He then communicated it to How-sun, who thought it feasible, and encouraged it. He next told it to Tsze-këa E-pih, who said, "They are slanderers who urge your lordship on to such a hazardous thing. If it do not succeed, you will receive the name (=blame) of it. It is not to be done. You and several of your predecessors have lost your hold of the people. If you would now seek by means of them to accomplish this object, you cannot be sure of success. The government, moreover, is in his hands, and it will be difficult to take measures against him." The duke would have dismissed him, but he declined to go, saying, "I have now been a party to your wishes in this thing. If word of it should leak out, I should not be allowed to die a natural death." So he took up his lodging with the duke. Shuh-sun Ch'aou-tsze was gone to K'an, and the duke was residing in the Long treasury (See Ana. XI. xiii.). In the 9th month, on Mow-seuh, he attacked Ke-she, and having killed Kung-che in the gate, entered the house. P'ing-tsze ascended a tower, and made a request, saying, "Your lordship, without examining into my offences, has sent your officers to punish nie with shield and spear. Allow me to wait near the E, till my offences are investigated." This Tsze-kea-tsze said, "All we officers who have on false pretences forced the duke to this will leave the State with our offence upon our heads. Let your lordship remain. E-joo will now feel himself compelled to change his conduct in the service of your lordship." The duke said, “I cannot bear to do it." He then went with Tsang-sun to the tombs, and took counsel with him, after which he took his departure. On Ke-hae he withdrew to Ts'e, halting in Yangchow.' This flight of duke Ch'aou was mainly the result of his own weakness and incapacity. During all his rule, he had enjoyed only the name of marquis. The power of the State had been in the hands of the three clans, and principally in those of the Ke-sun; and in this condition things might have gone on. Ping-tsze was not prepared to seize the State for himself, and Ch'aou precipitated his own fate. east of the pres. dis. of Ts'e-ho), dep. Par. 6. Yay-tsing was a city of Ts'e, in the Tse-nan. The marquis of Ts'e, we shall see, proposed to meet the duke in Ping-yin, but Chaou went as far as Yay-tsing, to shorten his host's journey. 唁 means to condole with the living, and so is distinguished from, to con dole on occasion of a death (p, going on). They spoke together inside a tent, 生事日唁死事日 ) The Chuen says; The marquis of Ts'e having proposed to condole with the duke in Pingyin, the duke advanced beyond that place to Yay-tsing. The marquis said, "This is my fault. I ordered my officers to wait [for you] in Ping-yin, because it was near [to Yangchow]." What the text says about the duke's halting in Yang-chow, and the marquis's condoling with him in Yay-tsing, describes what was proper. When one has anything to seek from another, it is a good thing in propriety to take the initiative in being humble to him. and Ch'aou-tsze proposed to dispose [somehow] of all [his followers], and to restore the duke [alone]. The followers wished to kill Ch'aouin the way [by which he must return to Loo]; tsze, and placed men in ambush for the purpose but Chen, the master of the Left, told the duke of their plan, who made Chaou-tsze return by way of Choo. [Notwithstanding this], Pingtsze was [now] of a different mind; and in winter, in the 10th month, on Sin-yëw, Ch'aoutsze fasted in his chamber, and made his priest and the keeper of his ancestral temple pray that he might die. On Mow-shin (The 7th day after) he died. Chen, the master of the Left, was going to return with the duke on horseback to Loo; but the other followers seized and held him.' the progress of the struggle in Chow:- On Jin-shin, duke Wan of Yin crossed [the Loh] itto Kung, and [attempted to] set fire to Tung-tsze, but his attempt was unsuccessful.'] ['The Chuen gives here a short note about The marquis said, "From the borders of Keu to the west, I will surrender to you the territory of 25,000 families, and await your lordship's further commands. I will then lead my poor levies, and follow your officers, obedient to whatever you command. Your grief is my grief." The duke was glad; but Tsze-kea-tsze said to him, "Heaven's bounties are not repeated. The gift of Heaven to your lordship should not exPar. 8. Këuh-keih, was a city of Sung,-in ceed that to the duke of Chow. Loo is sufficient. the pres. dis. of K'e (), dep. Kae-fung. The If you lose Loo, and with this territory become Chuen says:-In the 11th month, the duke of a subject of Ts'e, who will stand along with Sung was preparing to go to Tsin on the duke's you? And moreover, the ruler of Ts'e is account, when he dreamt that his eldest son, devoid of good faith;-you had better soon go to Lwan, was succeeding to the dukedom in the Tsin." This counsel the duke would not follow. temple, and that he himslf and [his father], Tsang Ch'aou-pih, at the head of the [other] duke Ping were attending on him in their full followers, proposed to make a covenant. The robes. In the morning, he called the six miniwords of it were, "With our utmost strength, sters together, and said to them, "In my want and with one heart, we shall cherish the same of ability, I was not able to serve my uncles likings and dislikings, making it clear who are and elder brothers, [as I ought to do] (Referring criminals and who are not. We will follow the to the events in XX. 4, et al.), to the grief of duke and not separate ourselves from him, nor yourselves; this was my fault. If by your will we allow any communication between us here abroad and those who are in Loo." By I die a natural death, then let the board in my powerful help I preserve my head and neck till the duke's orders, he showed this to Tsze-kea- coffin on which my limbs are stretched not equal tsze, who said, "On these terms I cannot take that used for my predecessors." Chung-ke rethe covenant. In my want of ability, I cannot plied, "If your grace, for the sake of the altars, be of the same mind with you all, and must think that all are criminals. Perhaps I may paniments of your feasts, we, your servants, should privately diminish any of the accomwish to communicate from abroad with those in should not presume to take any knowledge of Loo, and may wish to leave our ruler. You all it. But as to the laws of the State of Sung, and love your exile, and dislike any settlement; the rules for life and death, there are the ordihow can we be of one mind? What could benances of our former rulers. Your servants must a greater crime than to have brought our ruler into his difficulties? If we open a communication with Loo, and leave our ruler, he will soon enter Loo [again]. If we do not open such communication, what shall we do? And what shall we guard?" Accordingly he did not take part in the covenant.' Par. 7. The Chuen says:-'Ch'aou-tsze returned from K'an (See the narrative on par. 5), and went to see Ping-tsze, who bowed his forehead before him to the ground, and said, "What do you think of me?" Ch'aou-tsze said, "What man is there but must die? You have given the finishing touch to your name by expelling our ruler. Your descendants will not forget it:-is it not a sore subject?" Ping-tsze went on, "If you can bring it about that I have an apportunity to serve our ruler in a different manner from the past, you will be giving, as we say, life to the dead, and flesh to the [bare] bones." [After this], Ch'aou-tsze followed the duke to Ts'e, and conferred with him, Tsze-kea-tsze causing all who went to the duke's lodging to be seized, [lest they should discover what was keep to them to the death; we dare not fail in observing them. There are regular punishments for such failure as an unpardonable offence. Your servants dare not incur such a death; your order would only disgrace us." 'After this the duke went on his journey; but on Ke-hae, he died in K'euh-keih.' Par. 9. Yun,-see VI. xii. 8, et al. Tso says the marquis of Ts'e laid siege to Yun. We must understand that he did so in the interest of duke Ch'aou, so that the people yielded the city at once, and the text simply says he took it. [The Chuen gives here two narratives. 1st, about the Tsang-sun family. "At an earlier period, Tsang Ch'aou-pih had gone to Tsin, when Tsangwuy stole his valued tortoise-shell of Leukeu, and consulted it as to whether a course of good faith or its opposite would be better for him. The answer was in favour of a deceitful course. The steward of Tsang-she wanted to go to Tsin to ask him [about some matters], and Hwuy begged to go instead. Ch'aou-pih asked him about [other] affairs of his family, and he told him everything; but when he asked him about his wife, and his full brother Shuh-sun, he gave and he (seized and] confined Tsang-she's steward. This produced ill will between the two officers; and when Ch'aou-pih followed the duke, Ping-tsze gave his place to Hwuy, who then said, "The Leu-keu did not deceive me !", 2d, about Tsoo:- The viscount of Tsoo made Wei Shay wall Chow-k'ëuh, and bring back the people of Kea to it, and wall K'ëwhwang, and remove the people of Tsze to it. He also made Heung Seang-mei wall round the suburbs of Ch'aou, and Ke Jen do the same with those of Keuen. When Tsze-tae-shuh heard of these things, he said, “The king of Tsoo will [soon] die. He is not allowing the people to rest in their settlements, which must make them sad and distressed. 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