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Magistrate of his nati?e place ander the Liang dynasty, and rote to be Vice President of the Coancil ander the Ch^dn dynattj; and in 589 the founder of the Sui dynasty gare him a post in which he could work upon the histories abo?e mentioned, declaring before alt the Court that there was no other such scholar in the empire. In 593 his father died, and he inherited the title of Duke. He thereupon retired to a Buddhist temple at ^ [1| Chnng-shan in Euangsi, where as a boy he had taken the rows. In his will he openly confessed his belief in the Buddhist fiEuth. He had always lired on priestly fare, and his body had become extraordinarily emadaied.

2428 Tao Ch'ang i^% (T. ;^ ^ ). A.D. 330-898. Twenty-fourth son of Yao I-chung. On the death of Tao Hsiang, he submitted to Fu Chien (2) and served as Oorernor of rarious Districts. He led the Liang-chou division when Fu Chien raided Chin, and being defeated by Mu-juug Hung after the rout of Fu Chien, fled to J^ 2^ Ma-mu in Eansuh. Chosen by the 'jS Hsi-chou people to be head of their league, he assumed in 384 the titles of (jen»> ralissimo and Khan. Two years later he took Ch*ang-an, and set up the Later Ch'in dynasty. Canonised as 3^ Ifl. :it ^ M ^-

2429 Tao di'l-sheng M^M (T. ^Z ^^^ M H )• ^.D.

1623—1683. A native of Chehkiang, who after a stormy youth enlisted in the Bordered Red Chinese Banner and in 1663 passed first at the first chU jcn examination of Bannermen. He was sent as Magistrate to ^ ^J Hsiang-shan in Euangtung. His seten preiieceesors all lay in the prison for fiulure to collect the full quota of revenue. He coolly took them out, feasted them royally, and sent them home, reporting that the Tls. 170,000 due had bees paid, and so getting the reputation of being a millionaire. Before his fraud was discovered, he was denounced for having secret deaUogs with the pirate H jg Jj£ Ho Lfl-ch'dng, whom he had captured by stratagem, and only saved his head through the aid of Sbaog