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 Vynin djDasty, and only the jealous kept him from a similar aaoeen against the Chao occopied the north-west. In 854 he penetrated neaily to Ch'ang- an, but being unsupported, was foreed to make a disastrons retreat. Two years later he extended the Imperial territoiy np to the Tellow Ri?er. In 368 he attacked the Ten State, which held Chihli, Shantung, and part of Honan; bnt his oyer-confidence led to a crushing defeat by Mu-jung Ch^ at Fang-t'ou m Honan. ^.a. He deposed the Emperor and set up the fifty-year>old son of the 4^.Mie Emperor Ydan Ti, who was to abdicate when called upon. He ^»!JB® was now at the zenith of his power; eren Hsieh An saluted MmMXXMS^ from a distance. But his protigi died in 872. Then, when he w nsgw 0w ^^^ worshipping at the Imperial bier, the attendants became con8cioufli3Jcr<3>tis of some superuatural manifestation, and heard him repeatedly^'-^^^ saying, "Your servant dares not do this.*' Afterwards he dedaredfc^^'^*^™ that the spirit of the deceased Emperor had appeared to him, andE»^^^^°^ that ere long he would join his Majesty in the world below. Thee^rf^"® idea intended to be conveyed was that he had been advised toc^^ ^ mount the vacant throne, but had refused. Not long after this he^^^^® sickened and died, while still only Chancellor and Begeni Canonised as ^;^.

Huang Ch'ao. Died A.D. 884. A native oi %^ Ytlanochd in Shantung, who was a well-to-do salt merchant, fond of harbouring fugitives from justice. In 875 he ccdlected a number of adherents, and cast in his lot with the rebel ^ ^ ^ Wang Hsien-chih. When the latter was defeated and his head sent to the Emperor, Huang Ch'ao became leader of the movement. After devastating the country &r and wide, he