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Returning with much booty, he heard on nearing the Great Wall of the overthrow of Fu Ghien. Thereupon he seized on Liang^- chou, part of Eansuh, calling himself in 386 Viceroy; and three years later he took the style of ^ |^ 3E ^^8 of the Three Rivers, and in 396 of ^ y^ ^ ^ Heaven-appointed King of Liang^. In the following year he suffered a severe defeat from the State of Gh4n, on which two of his Generals revolted, and establishing the States of North and South Liang^, left him little more than the present Prefecture of Liang^-chou.

1448 Lti K*un g i^ (T. ^ fl|. H. ^ ^). A.D. 1536-1618. A native of ^ |^ Ning-ling in Honan. He graduated as chin ahih in 1574, and entered upon an official career. After holding a variety of posts, he became President of the Board of Punishments. In 1597 he presented to the Emperor a memorial of remonstrance on the state of things in general; but finding that his words had no effect, he forthwith resigned. EQs enemies then set to work to show that in his ^ ^ @ 1^ t ^ work on virtuous ladies of the Imperial seraglio, he had been guilty of treasonable remarks. But the passages were proved to be forgeries, and the writers of them were severely punished. He was also the author of the ^ ]^ ^ , a collection of political essays and official papers. In 1826 his tablet was placed in the Confucian Temple. ^

1449 Lti Kung-chu g >^ ^ (T. B§ ^). Died A.D. 1089. The second and most brilliant of the four sons of Lti I-chien, all of whom rose to high rank in official life. As a boy, he was so devoted to study that he frequently forgot all about food and sleep. Graduating as chin shih, he had risen by 1069 to be at the head of the Gensorate, but* was dismissed to a provincial post for op- position to Wang An-shih. In 1086 he was a Minister of State conjointly with SsU-ma Euang; and when the latter died, he was entrusted with sole power. Canonised as jE J|^.