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 CHINESE PRESENTa 247 > dominion. The Kin called Pingchow their Narikvng, or south capital The eyes of the Sung emperor were at last partly opened, and he found he had only changed masters. He therefore agreed to pay 400,000 pieces of silk per annum as he had done to the Liao, and to give one million tiaos * for the disputed cities of Tenking, &c. Agooda was overjoyed, and agreed to write out an oath to hand over Yenking and six chows to Sung, reserving all the north-west and all the mountains and rivers of the north to himself. He was short of grain, and the Chinese ambassador, Liangsu, agreed to send on at once 200,000 danf of grain. The cities of Tenking,^ Chochow, Tanchow|| Shwunchow, Elingchow, Eichow, with all their lands were handed over to Sung. The Chinese army, there- fore, was moved south. And Ein sent in tribute ! Such is the pomposity of Chinese history even in such circumstances, when ten times the value of this " tribute '* had to be sent to Kin as "present!" Two months after the treaty to surrrender the six cities to Sung, Janggoo, the Kin commandant of Pingchow,§ deserted with the ciiy to Sung. He had been commandant under Liao and deserted to Kin, who left him second in command. He now again changed sides. Dso, the Kin commandant of Yenking, formerly one of the chief ministers of Liao, drove out of the city the wealthy people and great families, who had to go eastwards. They journeyed in the greatest distress ; got to Pingchow, where they were received by Jang, to whom they said that Dso could not hold the city, and that it would require only a small body of troops to recaU the Liao dynasty again. They also reported that they had heard of the probable speedy arrival of a fDan of 10 Chinese pecks, each about 40 lbs weight of millet, or 30 of rioeu t Peking. II Miywun hien and Shwunyihien, both near Peking. § The modem Unyn of Ghihli (Gh. Imp. Dbectory).
 * Strings of casli each eqxud to one tael, or 6/ stg«