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Rh Chi before all the courtiers as ^^that rowdy General." For this, Liang Chi found means to compass his death by poison, and forthwith set up the Emperor Huan Ti. His arrogance and despotic behaviour now became unbearable. He did not hasten to audience. He walked into the Emperor's presence girt with his sword and with his shoes on. He caused the Magistrate of Lo-yang to be thrown into prison and beaten to death. But he went too far in the case of an Imperial concubine whom he wished to appropriate as his daughter by means of a double murder; and with the Emperor's connivance he was surrounded in his house by an armed party. When however the doors were opened, he and his wife were found to have already taken their own lives.

Liang Hao ^ f| (T. isil^)- A.D. 913-1004. A native of ^ ^ HsQ-ch^Sng in Shantung, who graduated as chin shih in 981, when he was seventy-two years old, afber a long life of repeated failures. His success however was somewhat damped by the fact that all his contemporaries had long since disappeared , leaving only sons and grandsons to welcome him home. He was appointed to various posts, and even suffered a term of banishment. Ultimately however he succeeded in gaining the entire confidence of the Emperor ChSn Tsuug, who employed him on difficult and delicate matters and loaded him with honours for the results which he achieved. He was a handsome and powerful man, somewhat too much of a Lothario in his youth, but always loyal to his friends. The San Tzu Ching makes him graduate at the age of 82.

Liang Hsi-yii ^ ^^ (T. ^ ff ). 18th cent. A.D. A native of Shansi, who was a colleague of Wu Ting and was also a distinguished writer on classical literature.

Liang Hua-feng ^^^ (T. |l^ ll| ). Died A.D. 1671. After quelling a serious revolt in Shansi he was transferred as Colonel to Ningpo, where by connecting the islet of ^ )^ ^ P'iug-