- Billets, biglietti, as coin was too heavy for transport,
- but redeemed the stuff at one third
- And Ou-Kiai had another swat at the tartars
- and licked ‘em
- And Yu-Tchong, governor of Kingtcheou in the Chensi
- said: my spies have told me etc/
- easy to start a war,
- not easy to finish one.
- SUNG died of levying taxes
- gimcracks, SUNG died under HOEI the slider,
- And there was a man named Tchinkis in Tartary
- hearing of alphabets, morals, mores
- and a man named Yeliu-Tchutsai.
- Yeliu apaoki Ouanyen akouta,
- of Kin, of Khitan, and Genghis of Yuen,
- hearing of alphabets
- and Yeliu Tchutsai said to Ogotai:
- tax, don’t exterminate
- You’ll make more by taxing the blighters
- thus saved several millyum lives of those chinamen
- Bojars thought land was for grazing.
- ten percent tax on hooch, 3 1/3rd on necessities
- And they tried to stop the Tartars on Hoang Ho
- day falls like a fluttering flag
-
East princes went by the valley of box wood
- to cover Mt Kuai with a palace ...
- ‘There is’, said the Taozers,
- ‘A medicine that gives immortality.’
- and ships sent (li Sao) to Japan.
-
Mt Tai Haku is 300 miles from heaven
- lost in a forest of stars,
- Slept on the pine needle carpet
- sprinkled horse blood
- praying no brave man be born among Mongols
- Ouen yan Tchin hochang of Kin.
-
YAO, CHUN, YU controller of waters

- Bridge builders, contrivers of roads
- gave grain to the people
- kept down the taxes
- Hochang, eunuchs, taoists and ballets
- night-clubs, gimcracks, debauchery
- Down, down! Han is down
- Sung is down
- Hochang, eunuchs, and taozers
- empresses’ relatives, came then a founder
- saying nothing superfluous
- cleared out the taozers and grafters, gave grain
- opened the mountains
- Came taozers, hochang and debauchery
- And litterati fought fiercer than other men to keep out the mogul
- drifting dung-dust from the North.
- Hochang southward like rabbits
- half a million in one province only
- mus ingens, ingens, noli meum granum comedere
- No slouch ever founded a dynasty
- Died Kin Lusiang, historian and Confucian
- all mulberries frozen in Pa Yang
- Where were two million trees and beyond that
- Litterati fought fiercer than other men
- Hail breaking the trees and walls
- in I-Tching-tcheou
- Crops gone.
- Against Ogotai’s catapults Nik-ia-su used powder
- May the white birds remember this warrior, good at logistics
- Ozin (Wodin) Youriak had ‘em set out mulberry trees
- Ghenso was for no taxes, grew up as a labourer
- A hundred chi of rice for ten denars
- that is an ½ ounce of silver
- ZinKwa observed that gold is inedible
- Stored grain against famine
- observed that jade is inedible
- And they used invisible writing
- in Ten Bou’s time came a white phoenix
- and in this time was Yeliu Tchutsai
- Meng Kong still held against Mogols.
- Han, Lang, Ouen, Kong,
- Mie, Kien, Tchong, King
- Fou, Pong, Chun King
- gone
- Vendome, Beaugency, Notre Dame de Clery,
- and they took law against Yeliu, but his leaving
- was 13 flutes, his lute and his library
- to refute charge of embezzlement
- And after him died Meng Kong.
- Kujak was crowned
- And the first day they put on their white clothes
- and the second day red robes
- and the third day were all lords in violet,
- scarlet the fourth day, and Kujak went against Hungary
- made war on Poland, on Prussia
- and Mengko took off taxes
- And in Caï Fong they made a grain dividend
- and gave instruction in farming
- ploughs, money, ammassi
- YAO, SHUN, YU, Kung
- TCHIN OUANG, OUEN, Ghengiz Khan
- And Mengko went into Bagdad, went into Kukano
- and died by the wall at Ho-tcheou
- Ogotai reigned for nine years
- Kublai ascended Mt Hianglou
- the Kiang full of war junks
- that SUNG thought security
- LI TSONG believed his news service
- wrongly
- Kublai before him
- and about him damned rascals, courtezans, palace women
- Cliques, easy wars without justice.
- And Kublai said: Sung laws very beautiful
- unlike their conduct
- Kiassé harmed SUNG more than Mongols
- North is the cradle of mongols
- Pasepa gave them their alphabet
- 1000 words mongol, and 41 letters
- SUNG sank by Yai island. The line of Ghengiz called YUEN
- this dynasty mo’gol
- Hoang-ho’s fount in a sea of stars.
- Ouang tchi slew Ahama. Ouen Tiensiang was faithful.
- War scares interrupt commerce. Money was now made of brass
- and profit on arms went to the government
- wine taxed high, settlers licensed.
- Lou-chi brought back the grafters (Ahama’s)
- and boosted the tea tax
- Tchin-kin disgusted by the size of the tax receipts
- and L Sieuen staved off a war with Japan
- staved off a war on Annam
- said: Taxes are not abundance
- Yeliu resumed the imperial college, gathering scholars
- KUBLAI was a buggar for taxes
- Sangko stinking with graft
- Ouantse made a law code
- eliminated 250 tribunals, that mostly did nowt but tax
- KUBLAI died heavy with years
- his luck was good ministers, save for the treasury.
- ‘As hunger alone drove them to brigandage
- they wd/ continue bandits till fed’
- This known in the time of TIMOUR
- The last SUNG fled in what was left of a navy
- went down in sea waves, came mongols
- of Ghengiz
- rose KUBLAI
- HIA, CHANG, TCHEOU
- were great lines till Kungfutseu
- Then were HAN
- TÇIN
- TANG
- SUNG
- Then these mongols or YUEN
- Ghengiz, Ogotai, KUBLAI KHAN
- that came into Empire
- From the Isle of Yai, no more SUNG counting
- and mogols stood over all China
- 89 years more till MING came, 1368
- that is from Ghengiz an hundred and 60 (Cambuskin)
- And in south province Tchin Tiaouen had risen
- and took the city of Tchang tcheou
- offered marriage to Ouang Chi,
- who said: It is an honour.
- I must first bury Kanouen. His body is heavy.
- His ashes were light to carry
- Bright was the flame for Kanouen
- Ouang Chi cast herself into it, Faithful forever
- High the hall TIMOUR made her.
- And in the 8th moon the public works and corvée department
- presented GIN TSONG a volume on mulberry culture
- by Miao Haokien where he explains in detail the
- growing of silk worms
- and of unwinding cocoons
- and the Emperor had this engraved with all diagrams
- and distributed throughout all China
- nor had any emperor more care to find men of merit---
- doing what KUBLAI had intended---
- than had Aïulipata called GIN TSONG
- (Algiaptou khan) honouring Kung with the rites.
- And his son died of assassins
- died of the gang of Tiemoutier, lamas, foés,
- shit and religion always stinking in concord
- Came Jason against these assassins
- came CHUNTI last of the mogul.
- Two million families went down in famine
- blood rained on the high land
- green hair came down like rain
- Hanjong levelled the temples
- his folk burst into joy
- to put land back under tillage
- CHUNTI came to the college, as had not in 12 years of reign
- gave a silver seal to Kung’s epigon
- but gangsters continued
- a pirate declined to turn mandarin,
- a comet exploded in Pleiades
- Hoang-ho shifted its bed
- and they said that the Milé Buddha
- had come down to turn out the mogul,
- pseudo-Sung put on red hats
- Tienouan beat the rebels, Taipou was killed by rebels
- Singki respected
- and the lamas put on a ballet for CHUNTI
- in ivory headgear
- castagnettes crinkling and clacking, and a Tang dance
- without fancy clothes
- Kongpei said to Toto: Don’t open dispatches.
- Dragon barge drifted with music
- Statue poured water amidship
- Spirits struck the night watches
- they say CHUNTI invented this clockwork
- The Red Caps called their candidate Ming Ouan
- as if emperor
- Left monkhood and put manhood on
- to end the line of Ghengiz khan
- Yuentchang ceased being hochang
- took Ito Yen without pillage
- and passed over Kiang river
- conquered the Taiping province
- Comet in Tchang star, over Tai Ming shone the meteor
- broom-shaped
- Ming coming out of South Country, In 35 years’ dissolution
- CHUNTI ceased from the throne.
- Died Yukiou of more than ten wounds
-
Now in Chang-tou was ruin
- the high house of KUBLAI cast down
- Came Ming slowly, a thousand, an hundred thousand
- the pirate Kouetchin came to him
- At court, eunuchs and grafters
- among mongols no man trusted other
- The empress’ folk in Corea killed off king Peyen
- Of MING were now 200,000
- that fought three days in the boat fight
- there by lake Peyan
- to Hoang Ho the river
- Yeougin and the Tching brothers
- till Leou Lean was arrowed.
- And they left Tchin-li his father’s treasure
- but took his grain for the people.
- Came MING thus to KianKing, say 1368
- For crime after TIMOUR the mandate
- left YUEN mongols
- No slouch ever founded a dynasty
- From Ghengiz were 8 score years until MING time
- Said now YUENTCHANG
- suis fils d’un pauvre laboureur
- In a village of Ssetcheou in the province of Kiangnan
- at seventeen was made shaveling
- then enrolled under Tsehing the captain
- This is called Destiny
- Schicksal to bring peace to the Empire
- Li, Su, Tong and I
- were four musketeers
- We were workmen in the same village
- we were plain sojers together
- If we can take Chantong province, we can take Pekin
- (and did so, 1368)
- He said to Su Ta: Do as you deem
- CHANG, CHOU, and HAN rose by talents
- Once we four were lucky to have even canvas coats
- Mongols are fallen

- from losing the law of Chung Ni
- (Confucius)
- HAN came from the people
- How many fathers and husbands are fallen
- Make census
- Give rice to their families
- Give them money for rites
- Let rich folk keep their goods by them
- Let the poor be provided
- I came not against YUEN
- but against grafters and rebels
- I rebelled not against KUBLAI, not against Ghengizkhan
- but against lice that ate their descendants.
- TAI TSONG
- KAO TSEU
- TAI TSOU
- and now HONG VOU three hundred, three hundred
- each had 300 years by the mandate
- five cycles of 60 years
- Mongols were an interval
-

- ‘Once again war is over. Go talk to the savants.’
- He gave fur coats to the troops in Ninghia
- Showed no zenophobia. Moguls wd/ not have chinese in office.
- In Pekin he paid the soldiers
- To peasants he gave allotments
- gave tools and yoke oxen
- No eunuchs to serve save as domestics
- ‘Don’t believe all you are told by officials
- ‘I suggest’, said HONG VOU, ‘that you get a faculty
- a good faculty before increasing the number of students.’
- He declined arab cosmetics
- Capn Yé-ouang built an ice wall
- to keep off the Yuen
- which they took for a real wall.
- ‘Coreans are gentle by nature’.
- and that year the Emperor died.
- Five planets were in conjunction.
- In ‘84 died General Li-ouen, in ‘85 Su Ta
- in 1386 peace
- HONG VOU declined a treatise on Immortality
- offered by Taozers, Et
- En l’an trentunième de son Empire
- l’an soixante de son eage
- HONG VOU voyant ses forces affoiblir
- dict: Que la vertu t’inspire, Tchu-ouen.
- Vous, mandarins fidèles, lettrés, gens d’armes
- Aidez mon petit-fils à soutenir
- La dignité de cest pouvoir
- le poids de son office
- Et comme au Prince OUEN TI
- jadis des HAN
- Faictes moi mes funérailles.
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a.d. 1225/65
a.d. 1278
a.d. 1295
b.c. 202 a.d. 265 a.d. 618 a.d. 950
a.d. 1312/20
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