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factory at ]^ Lan-chou Fa in Eaosah, bat it lasted only for some five or six years. In 1880 he saggested the introdoction of tiie provincial system into the New Dominion. Early in 1881 he was appointed Chief Saperintendent of the Board of War, and on reaching Peking he joined the Grand Council and the Tsang-li Yamin. Id October 1881 he was transferred as Viceroy to Nanking, and in 1884 as chief director of military operations against the French to Foochow, where he died in September 1885, worn out by a life of toil and warfare. His Memorials to the Throne have been published, and are remarkable for directness and simplicity. He was generally considered to be very hostile towards foreigners, yet while in Chehkiang he readily recommended the employment of foreign officers. He was included in the Temple of Patriots and in the Temple of Worthies, and was canonised as ^^-

2028 Tbo Tz*u :^ j^ (T. jf)})' 2nd and 3rd cent. A.D. A nati?e ^^ i^ 1^ Lu-chiang in Anhui, who studied the black art and became a magician. The great Ts'ao Ts'ao was anxious to learn his methods, but Tso Tz'ti told him he would have to be perfecUy pure and perfectly passive before he could begin. Offended by this, Ts'ao Ts^ao determined to put him to death, whereupon he straightway disappeared through a wall. Later on he was seen in the market- place, and Ts^ao Ts^ao's myrmidons would have seized him had he not rapidly mingled with the crowd, every man in which suddenly became so like him in every way that it was impossible to tell one from another. He was once more seen on a hill-side, when he at once changed himself into a sheep and ran among a flock, thoB escaping detection.

2029 Tbou Han-hBiln ^I^W) (T. ^S{f). A.D. 1806-1854. A native of Hunan, noted for his mathematical attainments. He graduated as haiu ta^ai in 1837, and then spent several years travelling about and editing local topographies. At the outbreak of