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administration. The latter became jei^Ioafl of his superior abiliiiei and influence, and at length found his opportnnitj in the exposioe of Yang Ten's son for bribery and corruption. Yang Yen wis banished to Kuangtung, but \)efore he reached his destination he was allowed to commit suicide. During his short term of office he attempted, but without success, to introduce a new system of proiiding reyenues for the State. The old-fashioned land-tax « and payment in kind upon produce, together with the corv^ system of forced labour, were to be done away with, and a half-yearly money-tax was to be substituted in lieu of all these. Some time after death his honovn were restored to him, and he was canonised as ^ JP| . 2418 Yang Yin ^ f^ (T. ^ ^). A.D. 511-560. A natiTe of Hua-yin.in Shensi, who showed great signs of ability even before he could speak, and was playfully known as the ^^Prince of Ch^n." At six years of age he read history; at eloTon he knew the Odet and the Canon of Changes j and could enjoy the Tso Chuan. ^Thii child,'* cried an elder cousin, ^'has not shed his oolt*8 teeth, yet he is already the Bucephalus of our &mily!** At fifteen he was ennobled as Baron for military seriioes, and at eighteen he wii holding a high post. From this time his career was chequered with the ups and downs of political life. At one moment he was hidiog for fear of his life in a Buddhist monastery, whither he had gone under an assumed name, after leafing his hat and clothes by the bank of a river. He rose under the first Emperor of the Northern Ch'i dynasty to be Minister of State and President of the Board of Civil Office, and in 559 he was ennobled as Prince. He was pnt to death by the Emperor Hsiao Chao TL

8419 Yang Ying-chtl HiS $S- ^^ A.D. 1766. A high official

under the Emperor Ch'ien Lung, who after sneeessfnlly filling minj important posts and rising to be Grand Secretary in 1764, in consequence of his fiulure against the rebels in Ytinnan, was eaahiefed,

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