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 MOTOONO KWEI. 43 iigainfit and put Shan to death. The kingdom over which Kwei was now elected king was known by the dynastic title of Moyoong, — ^the surname assumed by the reigning family. A Jiecond Hienbi kingdom was set up to the north and West of Moyoong, with the dynastic title of Dwan ; while the, original Hienbi^ west of Kaiyuen^ took the distinctive name of Tuwun, because it had in its possession the imperial despatches, letters, presents and seals of office granted to the Hienbi by the Chinese emperors for several generation& The Hienbi were bounded •on the north-east by the kingdom of Fooyu, whose southern border touched the present Eaiyuen. Kwei was ambitious and eager again to amalgamate all the Hienbi, over whom he desired to be king. He petitioned the Tsin emperor for permission to march against and annex Tuwun. He was then quite a young man just raised to the throne ; but bis aggressive nature wa* plainly enougli manifested in this one ambitious desire ; and even were no other evidences of his ambition forthcoming, the Tsin emperor judged wisely, that a 'divided Hienbi was a much more agreeable neighbour than a united one would be. But this refusal to countenance him in his ambitious projects, roused the anger of the young barbarian^ who let loose on Liaosi the armies he had collected against Yuwun. His rage found expression in indiscriminate slaughter, and his troops seized great quantities of spoil But in his westward march of blood and rapine, he was encountered by the commandant of Towchow, and completely defeated ^t Feiyoo.* His defeat was only a temporary check however ; for he made yearly inroads into China, east^ west, and south of him. Liaotung seems to have been unable to offer him any resistance, for he repeatedly attacked the kingdom of Fooyii, which he could attack only from the south, as its west was •defended from him by the other Hienbi kingdoms Liaotung was indeed then little better than a desert, for it seems to have •had not a single city, while all the Hienbi and Fooyu had
 * The modem Looloonghien.