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 KITAN KING-MAKEB. 205 Kotoogan; and Yingchow was in the greatest terror. The Doodoo retired with his own army to YUgwan * Kotoogan therefore placed Toogan, a nephew of Sogoo, on the throne, at the same time sending messengers to the Chinese Court to acknowledge his crimes, which the emperor graciously forgave, — ^like the popes of western lands, — ^because he could not help himself. Toogan was nominated Soongmo Doodoo; and Loosoo, brother of Dafoo, was made Yolo Doodoo. This was in 719, and six years after, this eastern king-maker and his king were again at daggers drawn. The king escorted the princess "f* back to China, and dared not himself return to his native king- dom. He was nominated Liaoyang Wang, and sent thither to look after the country. But Kotoogan had meantime enthroned Shaogoo of the regal family. Next month (Feb. 726) the emperor invested Shaogoo with the vassal kingship of Owanghwa Wang, giving him the princess, his own grand-daughter, in marriage. Another princess was given at the same time to Loosoo of the west Kitan. Kotoogan had been sent as the bearer of tribute in the days of Sogoo, and his manner led several of the Chinese ministers to infer future trouble from Kitan. His reception seems not to have satisfied him ; for when, in 720, the second king of his own creation ordered him on the same errand, he refused to go ; and on the king persisting, Kotoogan killed him and fled to th6 Tookiie, carrying with him to the last the affections of the people. As the Tookiie or Turks were the neighbours of west Kitan, Loosoo was now thrown into a state of terror, and fled with the two princesses to the Chinese Court Kotoogan did not remain long inactive among the Turks, but descended into China with a plundering Kitan horde, and defeated a Chinese army at Kinloo shan. The commandant of Yowchow was therefore ordered to march against and take him at all costs, the city of lia TU, almost certainly a reminisoenoe of the Ytt Pass of Tang. t Apparently the widow of the first king.
 * This Ytigwan, is the vezy defensible pass at Shanhafgwan, just west of ^which is