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of their intentionB, many leading men were thrown into the Tellow River, his Majesty exclaiming, '^Let these pure ones go and associaie with that muddy one!'* In 896 Li Mao-chfin rose against the eunuchs, and the Emperor was forced to flee to E[an Chien at Hna-chou in Shensi; and four years later he was closely imprisoned by the eunuchs, against whom he had plotted. In 901 he was released through the founder of the Later Liang dynasfy, Chn W6n; but when the latter suggested that he should move to Lo-yang, the eunuchs, whom the Emperor still employed to eonnterbalance the power of the proyincial Governors, forced him to flee to Li Mao- chdn at Ffing-hsiaDg, leaving Ch'ang-an and its palaces in flames. In 902 the Minister ^ J^ Ts'ui Yin, jealous of the position of li Mao-chdn, invited the aid of Chu Wto, and after a siege of Ftog-hsiang a peace was concluded by which Ts^ui Yin became again Prime Minister and Chu escorted the Emperor back to Ch'ang-an. Meanwhile the Governors paid no tribute and warred among themselves. In 904 Chu slew Ts'ui, who had begun to counteract his treasonable plans, and removed the Emperor to Lo- yang, where he surrounded him with his creatures. The unhappj monarch appealed privately for aid to Li Mao-chto and Wang Chien, and on this being discovered he was secretly put to death. Canonised

Li Ch'ieh ^^ (T. Ii#. H. ^ H |1| A)- ^ Chin«^ Bannerman, who lived iu the first half of the 18th cent. A.D. sod devoted himself entirely to literature. Besides being a poet, be wrote the jS^ ^ t a large historical work covering the period from the Yellow Emperor to the Ch'in dynasty in the 3rd cent. B.C.

Li CMh ^yj^ (T. ^ #). A.D. 628-683. Ninth son of U Shih-min, whom he succeeded in 649 as third Emperor of the Tang dynasty. Under the r^ency of Ch'ang-sun Wu-chi and Ch'o Sui-liang, the Liao-tung war was stopped, as also was the great