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 110 IMP8BIAL TSN. the cily ; bo with 40,000 Hienbi and Moyoong men he moved eastwards However, Lii Gwang pursued with 20,000 men from Changan, and defeated him. This experience was not lost on Joong Wang ; for though defeated, he saw that he could easily force his way. All the West Yen men, therefore, moved east- * wards ; and when they came before Changan, sent in a humble supplication to be permitted to pass the city, and go through Chin territory. For reply, Chin marched out against them with a' large army, which was utterly defeated ; the Chin new king was slain, and his heir taken. Some of Chin's generals sundved the wreck, with a few myriad men, but were utterly unable, even if willing, to uphold the house of Chin. Thus Chin got broken up, in its turn, by the men whom it had overthrown. And Yoong proclaimed his own eldest son Emperor instead of Chin, taking the Empress Yang of Chin for his chief wifa She, however, was not well pleased with the change, and sought to murder her new lord, but got killed herself instead Though Chin was thus broken up, fragments yet remained. One set himself up at Anting, calling himself the After-Chin ; but Dung set up a scion of the " Imperial " house, to whom the Nanan barbarians and 30,000 Chinese families gave in their adhesion. The two Chins strove for supremacy; and After-Chin was wounded on a battle-field by Dung, who remained conqueror. Gwang also assumed imperial style, adding a seventh to the number of competing ''Emperors." A few years before, China was reeking all over with the bloodshed caused by seventeen independent Emperors, each of whom had his court, his army, and his day. After Yoong entered Changan, his men marched on to Tsingho, whence Chooi's troops, which had gone south from Joongshan, ineffectually attempted to drive them out As years rolled on, the two Yen powers became bitter rivals ; and Yoong converted rivalry into deadly hate, by putting to death a number of the chief men of Yen, who probably believed it would have been better to have a united Yen under Chooi. Among those killed were sons and grandsons of ChooL He was