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730 he dressed them in strips of coloured doth, and tied sharp bladei to their horns and well-greased bundles of rashes to their tails. In the middle of the night he lighted the mshee and droye the oxen oat of a number of holes he had pierced in the city walls, baddiig them up with 5,000 armed meo. The result was the complete dis- comfiture of the enemy and the ultimate recovery of some 70 citiei, for which services T^ien Tan was ennobled as ^^ ^^ ^.

1923 T'ien Ts'ung ^qg. A.D. 1591-1643. The year-tiUe of the fourth son of Nurhachu, who succeeded his father in 1626, thoogb it was only in 1635 that he called himself Emperor of China. In 1629 he pressed Peking, repeating his incursions in 1636 and 1688. In 1633 he was joined 1>7 ^ ^ ^ E^ung Yu-t6, the Shantung rebel, and from this date the commanders of captured cities began to join the Manchus. In 1634 Ghahar was subdued, and three years later Korea was annexed. The capture of ^ Chin-chou in 1642 completed the ruin of the Chinese power beyond the Greit Wall. In this same year the Manchus offered peace, an offer which the MiiJg Kniperor was prevented from accepting, partly by the misdirected zeal of Censors, and partly by his own despair at the state of the empire. Canonised as ^ ^ ^ M ^ •

1924 T*ien Ts'ung-tien ffl ^ ^ (T. >£ S • H- *! ll4 )• A.D.

1651 — 1728. A uati\ce of ^ ^ Yang-ch*6ng in Shansi, who graduated as chin shih in 1688 and after nine years' success as a provincial Magistrate went to Peking as a Censor. In 1725 he became a Grand Secretary, retiring three years later with the highest honours and a present of Tls, 5,000. He was honoured with a public funeral, and by special Decree was included in the Temple of Worthies. Canonised as '^i^*

1925 T*ien Yen-nien BD ^ >^ (T. ^%). 1st cent. B.C. A nati? e

of ^ (^ Yang-ling in Shensi, who attracted the notice of Ho Kuang and was advanced to high oflSce. He distinguished himself