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 QUABBELING. 213 There seems to have been more Tookiie generals and other officers in the Chinese army then, than Gothic officers in the pay of decrepit Roma There were two, Gosoo Han and Ansu Swun, on bad terms with Looshan. The emperor did what he could to reconcile them, and they met for the purpose of settling their quarrel& Looshan, who as the greatest, had the greatest need of friends, made the first advances, saying to Han, " My father was a Hoo, my mother a Tookiie ; my grandfather was a Tookue, my grandmother a Hoo; why is it that you and I cannot be friends?" Han replied that the ancients had a saying: — '"The fox, however far away, always dies looking towards his den,' If you claim kinship with me, it is impossible for me to refuse being with all my heart your fitiend.'' Looshan interpreted this to me&n that Han was taunting him with being, after all, a barbarian ; and in the most violent passion began to abuse Han with the most opprobrious epithets. Han was about to reply in a similar strain, but a bystander winked at him to hold his peace, and he pretended to be drunk. They parted, but their enmity was deeper than ever. Han was afterwards sent against Toofan, where he was very successful. Looshan repeatedly defeated the Kitan, and was made commandaat of Fanyang* which city, in 759, was changed to the name of Yenking, a name which the present Peking bore often and long. The officer Wang Joongsu was bravely pushing to the front rank of Chinese warriors; and his daily increasing fame roused the jealousy of Li Lin, a superior officer, who, fearing the eclipse of his own reputation, made Looshan his friend to pull down Joongsu, if at all possible. Looshan told Joongsu that the city of Hiwngwoo was attacked by rebels, and asked the loan of his men to drive off the enemy ; his object being to amalgamate those men with his own army. Before returning an answer, Joongsu went in to make his obeisance to the emperor ; after which he went out to consult with Looshan, who had meantime disappeared. He went in again to the emperor, and stated his Directory is more likely to be correct in locating it in Ttbghing of Paoting.
 * One authority makes TemjoDg to be the modem Ghochow ; but the Imp^ Ch.