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 92 IMPERIAL TEN. tried to poison the boy emperor's mind against Qo, accusing him of plotting for the empira The young "emperor*' refused to believe, but urged the two chief ministers, left by his fisither, to peace and friendship. When Go discovered Gun's double dealing he was very an^ry; and especially so when Gun recommended the Court to retire to Loongchung, for there he could be master, as Go must necessarily remain in the south with the main army, which was then stationed at the modem Kweite foo in the north of Honan, where it had to watch Tsin on its south and Chin on its west Go therefore set forth, in a formal memorial, the crimes of Gun, and prayed for the execution of him and his clique to prevent the evils which his agitations must inevitably produce. It was certainly no time then for disunion; for the Tsin emperor, rejoicing that Jwun was gone, was determined to raise his people en Tnaeae against Yen. But the Tsin Greneral Wun, who seems to have been a better politician, as well as an abler general, than his lord, said that if Jwun was dead. Go was living; and the living brother would be as formidable an enemy as the dead one had been. The internal dissention at Court soon became known to the Yen people, and large numbers of the soldiers retired, each his several way. But Go restored order by posting an army of 20,000 men at Lin and Whi to watch the southeni border against the known designs of the empire of Tsin ; though Chin, which, if small, was united — was reinforced by many myriads of Hienbi, who feared the imquiet future which court intrigues and selfishness threatened to bring upon their own country, as they do upon every country under the sun. These and others who followed their example greatly influenced the destinies of Chin, ss we shall see below. Chin, though the smallest, was the most com- pact and united, of all the rival kingdoms struggling for mastery in disrupted China. Hence this influx, as well as the professed submission of large numbers of Huns from the north of Chm, who entered the " Inner Land " in spring and returned to their home in autumn ; thus appearing to have entered China to hire themselves out as agricultural labourers. Some of these were