- Orbem bellis, urbem gabellis
- implevit
- And the troops not even paid
- And TCHUN the new Lord was dying
- but awoke to name Li-Chun his heir
- And at this time died Ouei-Kao the just taxer
- that set up pensions for widows
- His temple stands to this day
- that his soldiers built for him.
- Honour to TCHUN-TSONG the sick man.
- ‘Cut it! you bastard’ said Lin-Yun
- ‘Do you take my neck for a whetstone?’
- And the rebel Lieou Pi was delighted.
- And the censors said Liki has hogged ten provinces’ treasure
- If these go to the national treasury
- they will go out of circulation
- the people thereby deprived,
- so HIEN-TSONG threw this into commerce
-

- And yet he was had by the eunuchs,
- the army 800 thousand
- not tilling the earth
- And half of the Empire tao-tse hochangs and merchants
- so that with so many hochangs and mere shifters
- three tenths of the folk fed the whole empire, yet
- HIEN reduced the superfluous mandarins
- and remitted taxes in Hoai
- Li Kiang and Tien Hing were his ministers
- remembering TCHING-OUANG, KANG,
- HAN-OUEN and HAN KING TI
- ‘Men are the basis of empire’, said our lord HIEN-TSONG
- yet he died of the elixir,
- fooled by the eunuchs, and more Tou-san (tartars) were raiding
- MOU-TSONG drove out the taozers
- but refused to wear mourning for HIEN his father.
- The hen sang in MOU’S time, racin’, jazz dancin’
- and play-actors, Tartars still raidin’
- MOU’S first son was strangled by eunuchs,
- Came OUEN-TSONG and kicked out 3000 fancies
- let loose the falcons
- yet he also was had by the eunuchs after 15 years reign
- OU-TSONG destroyed hochang pagodas,
- spent his time drillin’ and huntin’
- Brass idols turned into ha’pence
- chased out the bonzes from temples
- 46 thousand temples
- chased out the eunuchs
- and Tsaï-gin whom he had wished to make empress
- hanged herself after his death
- saying: I follow to the nine fountains’
- So SIUEN decreed she shd/ be honoured as First Queen of OU-TSONG
- Ruled SIUEN with his mind on the ‘Gold Mirror’ of TAI TSONG
- Wherein is written: In time of disturbance
- make use of all men, even scoundrels.
- In time of peace reject no man who is wise.
- HIEN said: no rest for an emperor. A little spark
- lights a great deal of straw.
- SIUEN’S income was 18 million strings of a thousand
- on salt and wine only
- not counting grain, silk etc.
- (calculated at french louis d’or 1770
- say about 90 millyun pund sterling)
- A man who remembered faces
- and had by the taozers
- tho’ he stood for just price and sound paper
- 13 years on the throne.
- Y TSONG his son brought a jazz age HI-TSONG
- cock fights poverty archery
- Squabbles of governors, eunuchs
- Sun Te put out the Eunuchs
- and got himself murdered
- Then came little dynasties, came by murder, by treason, with
- the Prince of TÇIN rising.
- Li-ké-Yong is not dead’ said Tchu
- ‘for his son prolongs him’
- whereas my sons are mere pigs and dogs.
- HIU cut down taxes and douanes
- was hell on extorters
- 10 years chançons de gestes
- Khitans rising, Yeliou Apaoki and Chuliu, some gal,
- HIU, gallant, pugnacious. So they said
- In the city of Tching-tcheou are women like clouds of heaven,
- Silk, gold, piled mountain high.
- Take it before Prince Tçin gets there.
- Thus Ouang Yeou to the Khitan of Apaoki
- whose son was lost in the mulberry forest
- Thus came TÇIN into Empire
- calling themselves later TANG
- hunters and jongleurs. Comedians were the king’s eyes
- but unstable.
- Took Chou land in 70 days without disorder
- A Prince this was, but no Emperor, paladin, useless to rule.
- Tartar Yuen ruled as protector
- cut down taxes, analphabetic.
- And yet he set all the hawks loose,
- said huntin’ is hell on the crops
- This Li-ssé Yuen, called MING TSONG , had eight years of good reign
- Li Tsongkou ruled his troops by affection
- was Prince of Lou at this time
- that is Kungfutseu’s country.
- The dowager empress chose him
- a great captain under MING TSONG
- and they needed troops for defence against tartars
- in Chéking-Tang’s department
- Called Apaoki son of Chuliu to assist them
- And Chéking Tang founded a dynasty
- coming up from the ranks
- Dry spring, a dry summer
- locusts and rain in autumn
- and beyond that, lack of specie
- tax collectors inhuman.
- Chuliu a great Queen of the Tartar
- Te Kouang put the emperor in a temple
- and supplied him with comforts
- tartars put on chinese clothes
- Ouan soui!! ten thousand
- evviva, evviva Lieou-Tchi-Yuen.
- Turk of the horde of Chato, set his city at Caïfon fou
- And the tartars called their dead emperor ‘salted’
- And it wd/ be now 13 years until SUNG.
- Teoui-tchéou said: Lou land has produced only writers.
- Said TAÏ-TSOU: KUNG is the master of emperors.
- and they brought out Ou-tchao’s edition, 953,
- And TAÏ ordered himself a brick tomb with no flummery
- no stone men sheep or tigers
- CHI-TSONG in the thick by Tçé-tchéou, against Han and tartars
- sent reserve troops to the left wing
- while he held firm on the right,
- saying: now, that they think they have beaten us!
- And CHI cleared out the temples and hochang
- cleared out 30 thousand temples
- and that left 26 hundred
- with 60 thousand bonzes and bonzesses.
- Chou coin was of iron
- And CHI’S men drove the Tang boats from the Hoaï-ho
- all north of the great Kiang was to CHI-TSONG.
- who lent grain to Hoaï-nan devast.
- Died Ouang-po the advisor.
- SUNG was for 300 years.
- Light was in his birth room and fragrance
- as if it were almond boughs
- Red the robe of his dynasty
- pourvou que ça doure, said his mother
- He said: let brothers inherit
- you are not here by virtush/
- the last HAN was a minor
- eunuchs, hochangs and taxers
- princes get too much power
- TCHAO KOUANG reviewed all capital sentences
- took tax power from governors
- and centered the army command
- South Han was rotted with douanes
- was rotted with tortures
- Tsiuenpiu in snow had all Chou
- and was sixty six days only in taking it. And the emperor
- Sent his own coonskin coat to this general
- who promptly went gay,
- Five stars shone in Koué, five planets
- TAI TSONG brought out the true BOOKS
- and there arose in the province of Ssétchuen a revolt
- because of the greed of the mandarins.
- Not content with their salaries
- began to bleed merchants for licences
- which new damn tax made money so scarce in that province
- that men cdn’t buy the necessities.
- Therefore Ouang Siaopo of the people
- demanded just distribution
- and they went against Tsing-chin city, and took Pongchan
- by violence and cut open the governor’s belly
- which they filled up with silver
- (bit of what he had extorted)
- and TAI TSONG reigned 22 years
- caring for field work. Meanwhile Jelly Hugo
- the tartar, a Khitan, freed his people of taxes
- and started old age relief. Ghengis rising
- And Tchin-Song declined a present of sables (marte zibbeline)
- saying it was just as cold for the soldiers.
- and in ten four men cried once again Ouan Soui
- may he live for 10 thousand years
- TCHIN-TSONG
- ouan soui, may he live for ten thousand years
- who said: don’t worry about coming ages
- the people need time to breathe.
- And he made terms with the tartars, paid ’em in
- silk and in silver
- to keep ’em quiet as far as the wall.
- And the King of Khitan set court at Tchongking
- our lord TCHIN going mumbo
- and they buried him with the tracts about heaven
- which had wrought his dishonour
- and GIN TSONG cleaned out the taozers
- and the tartars began using books
- Han, Khitan, tartar wars, boredom of.
- Money and all that, stabilization, probably racket
- 1069
- And now Fou-Pié to whom we owed the peace of 1042 with the tartars
- returned and was kept and made minister
- and CHIN-TSONG lived soberly
- with no splurge of table or costumes
- and at this time began Ngan
- (or more fully Ouang-Ngan-ché) to demand that they reset the market tribunals,
- posting every day what was on sale and what the right price of it
- as had been under TCHEOU emperors
- and that a market tax shd/ go to the emperor from this
- thereby relieving the poor of all douanes
- giving them easy market for merchandise
- and enlivening commerce
- by making to circulate the whole realm’s abundance.
- and said he knew how hard it wd/ be to find personnel
- to look after this, as when YAO had appointed Koen
- who could not, and then YU who had drawn off the flood water
- And these changes annoyed, greatly, the bureaucrats
- whom he sent to confino
- that is the most stubborn
- and got younger men to replace ’em.
- And Liu-hoei said Ngan was a twister
- but the Emperor sent back Hoei’s protest
- So Hoei begged to retire, and
- was sent out to Tengtcheou as governor.
- And Ngan saw land lying barren
- because peasants had nowt to sow there
- whence said: Lend ’em grain in the spring time
- that they can pay back in autumn
- with a bit of an increase, this wd/ augment the reserve,
- This will need a tribunal
- and the same tribunal shd/ seek
- equity
- for all lands and all merchandise
- according to harvest and soil
- so that the emperor’s tithes shd/ be proportionate
- to the rarity or the abundance of merchandise
- to make commerce more easy, that the folk be not overburdened
- nor yet the imperial revenue be made less.
- and Ngan made yet a third point
- that was to fix the value of money
- “and to coin enough denars
- that shd/ stay always on the same footing.
- and Fan-chungin protested
- but
- Heoi-king argued for Ngan:
- no man is forced to borrow this grain in spring time
- if peasants find it no advantage
- they will not come borrow it.
- and Ssé-ma; said, all right in theory
- but the execution will be full of abuse
- they’ll take it, but not bring it back
- TSONG of TANG put up granaries
- somewhat like those you want to establish
- a measure of ten or twelve pounds cost no more than ten pence
- and when the price was put up
- they went on buying
- and the whole province was ruined
- CHIN stayed pro-Ngan; and it was suggested that
- drought was due to Ngan’s reforms,
- whereto Ngan said droughts had happened before.
- and at the 12th moon of the 17th year of this Emperor
- Ssé-ma Kouang, Fan Tsuyu and Lieou Ju offered the
- HISTORY, called
- Tsé-tchi tong kien hang mou
- on the model of Tso kieou ming
- and this began with the 23rd year of
- OUEÏ-LIE of TCHEOU dynasty
- and was in 294 books.
- Honour to CHIN-TSONG the modest
- Lux enim per se omnem in partem
- Reason from heaven, said Tcheou Tun-y
- enlighteneth all things
- seipsum seipsum diffundit, risplende
- Is the beginning of all things, et effectu,
- Said Ngan: YAO, CHUN were thus in government
- Died now the master of Nenuphar
- Mandarins oppressing peasants to get back their grain loans,
- and his dictionary is, they say, coloured with hochang
- interpretations and Taozer, that is Ngan’s.
- and merchants in Caïfong put up their shutters in mourning for Ssé-kouang
- anti-tao, anti-bhud, anti-Ngan
- whose rules had worked 20 years
- till Ssé-kouang reversed ’em
- Students went bhud rather than take Kung via Ngan,
- Flood relief, due to Ngan?
- joker somewhere?
- came Tsaï King pro-Ngan, probably crooked
- and they put Ngan’s plaque in a temple
- HOEÏ went taozer, an’ I suppose
- Tsaï ran to state usury. The tartar lord
- wanted an alphabet
- by name Akouta, ordered a written tongue for Kin tartars
- And a fox walked into the Imperial palace
- and took his seat on the throne
- a mad man ran shrieking: change, tartars more tartars
- tartars pass over Hoang-ho
- And they used paper notes when coin was too heavy for transport
- and redeemed those notes at one third/
- And there were ever all sorts of disturbers
- For there were the tartars, Khitan, that had
- taken the old Turk’s country,
- and these tartars are called also Leao
- And there are Kin tartars, that were under Akouta
- and these are called also Nutché, from north of Corea,
- and there were the hordes of Ghengiz (TAI-TSOU, Témougin)
- of whom was CHI-TSOU or Koublai
- Hoang ho, Hoang ho, tartars pass over Hoang ho.
- SUNG died of taxes and gimcracks
- Mongrels in fish-skin (shagreen, or shark’s skin)
- till 1157 the Kin used coin made in China
- and Oulo stopped swapping silk for the toys of Hia,
- said: men cannot eat jewels
- Oulo of Kin, greatest of Kin, under him were books set into Nutché
- in his reign were only 18 beheaded
- but his brat was run by his missus
- and they had an ideological war
- ‘mediocrity’s childhood lasts into middle age’
- they brought out a text book on music
- GHINGIZ (Tchinkis) hearing of alphabets
- hearing of mores
- and saw a green unicorn speaking
- fumée maligne in the underground 1219
- said Yéliu Tchutsaï: tax; don’t exterminate
- you will make more if you tax ’em.
- this was a new idea to the mongols
- who wanted to turn all land into grazing
- and saw no use for human inhabitants
- these mongrels bein’ ’orsemen
- Ten percent tax on wine, three and 1/3rd on necessities
- mohammeds say different
- make more anyhow if you tax ’em
- SUNG falling, Antzar went against Kin
- by Tang and Teng, let ’em pass.
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