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714 fought for him with great success, reducing Fahkien in 1368 and Ssiich'uan in 1371. In 1387 he was entmsted with the defence of Chehkiang against the piratical attacks of the Japanese. A line of fifty-nine mntnally-supporting naval stations was placed along the seaboard, one in four of the people on the coast being trained as a soldier, and no less than 58,000 men being devoted to the defence of the province. In 1388 he was recalled and ennobled as Duke. His careful humility enabled him, almost alone of the Emperor's old Generals, to escape the charge of treason. Canonised as ^ j^.

1881 T'ang Hsxlan-lang ^ ]^. 3rd and 2nd cent. B.C. One of ^^^ P3 d$ ^0^^ Gray-heads who retired from the world towards the close of the reign of the First Emperor, to emerge only upon the establishment of the Han dynasty. He took the name of j^ 1^ ^, and his colleagues were Ts^ui Euang, Chon Sho, and Ch'i Li Chi.

1882 T«angPill ^jt^ (T.^>ffl and ^J A|. H. M ^)' ^-D. 1627-1687. A native of |^ Sui-chou in Honan, who graduated as chin skih in 1652 and was appointed to the Historiographer's office. In 1656 he advocated the preparation of a history of the Ming dynasty to include notices of the various officers who had distinguished themselves in resisting the Manchus. For this he was violently attacked and dismissed to the provinces. After filling successfully a variety of posts, he actually became chief editor of the History of the Ming Dynasty. He was then sent as Governor to Nanking, where he instituted a series of reforms which won for him the affection of the people and the fear of all the officisb from the Viceroy downwards. In 1686 he became President of the Board of Bites and proceeded to Peking, to the great grief of the people. His rash public promise to lay their wrongs before the Throne led to his retirement in the following year. His austerity of life was as remarkable as his probity of character, and his frog^