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efPect; whereupon he immediately reported that Yo Fei had died in prison. This act has been attended by the undying exeeratioB of historians and of the Chinese people ^ by whom the name of Ch4n Euei is now popularly used for a spittoon. Yo Fei was a filial son, and for three days after the death of his mother woald neither eat nor drink. He kept no concubines. To some one who asked him when peace would prevail in the empire, he rephed, ^^When ci?il officials are no longer greedy of money, and militirj officials no longer fear death/' His soldiers were so well disciplined that even if taken by surprise there was ne?er the slightest panic Hence the saying: **'Tis easy to mov^ a mountain, but difficult to move the soldiers of Yo Fei.** In 1162 the Emperor Hsiao Tsong restored his honours, and gave proper^ burial to his remains. A shrine was put up to his memory, and he was designated J^ ^ the Loyal Hero. In 1179 he was canonised as j^^'

2502 Yo I H ^. 3rd cent. B.C. An official of the Wei State, who on being sent on a mission to the Yen State entered into the service of the latter, and by organising a confederacy of several other States, enabled the Yen State to inflict a crushing defeat upon the Ch4 State. For this he was ennobled as Prince; but on the death of the Prince of Yen, fearing the enmity of the late Heir Apparent, he fled to the Chao State where he was also ennobled as Prince and where he ultimately died.

2603 Yo Kuang ^ ^ (T. ^ ^ ). Died A.D. 304. A • native of yf ^ Yd-yang; who was left an orphan at an early age. Patronised by Wang Jung and Chia Cheung he entered upon an official career, and by 297 he had risen to be Governor of Honan. He subsequentlj became President of the Board of Civil Office and Lord High Chamberlain, but died of mortification , in consequence of a slanderous report concerning his daughter, a concubine of the Prince of Ch*6ng-tu. A good scholar, he was remarkable for complete freedom from