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 84; YEN WANG. proof thereof; for he found it impossible to cut his way across the Yellow Biver to the court of Tsin. Thus we can easily perceive that China was then wholly cut up, and its available resources absorbed by conflicting camps, all having one object, though of all dimensions; from that styled imperial — ^fighting ta retain the power of taxation — ^to the small band of petty robbers plundering the poor of the nearest villagea