- And when KIEN OUEN was throned
- his uncle set to unthrone him, saying:
- As Tcheou-kong looked after Tching-ouang his nephew ...
- protect him from the guiles of his ministers.
- And when the palace cd/ no more hold out
- they remembered a box left by HONG VOU
- wherein was written:
- Go out by the gate of Kouémen
- Under night dark, follow the aqueduct till you come to the
- temple of Chin Lo-koan
- And in the red chest was habit of hochang
- and diploma of hochang
- Nine men went with KIEN OUEN TI
- and at Kouémen gate, messire Ouangchin, the taoist
- beat with his head on the ground, crying Ouan Soui
- may you live for 10,000 years
- HONG VOU came to me in a vision
- saying go to the gate at Kouémen
- and that I row you to Chin-lo-koan.
- Were nine mandarins, were Yang-long and Yé Hihien
- that went thus with KIEN TI, took monkhood,
- and he was wandering for 35 years until YNG-TSONG
- from one hiding place to another.
- YONG LO did 20 years heavy police work
- To whom came an envoi from Bengal
- And Malacca came into our Empire,
- And YANG LO commanded a ‘summa’
- that is that the gist of the books be corrected.
- And Mahamou sent in tribute of horses.
- GIN TSONG was ten months on the throne
- Under tartars had all gone feudal. And in 1430 was peace
- Came YNG-TSONG a child of eight years,
- eunuchs as wet-rot in the palace
- HONG VOU restored Imperial order
- yet now came again eunuchs, taozers and hochang
- Armourers worked day and night
- YUKIEN burnt the forage round Pekin
- against tartar horses
- this was in days of KING TI
- Fan-kuang took burning arrows
- and lances of the sort that one throws
- Yésien, Péyen, Tiémour came up under the walls at Pekin
- Che-heng and Yukien were defenders
- ‘no longer amused by their promises’
- In ‘52 was Emperor’s grain ration
- for famine in Honan, for famine in Shantung
- a million six hundred thousand measures of grain
- And for war they made 15 foot carrochs
- with a case slung below for provisions
- (vide Valturio)
- and a cannon to forrard, a turret bordered with lances
- we had a thousand such carrochs
- counting they wd/ fill a field of four li
- and these were never brought into action
- Died Yukien the restorer, that had so vile a reward
- by his own hand, in prison.
- Ché-heng turned to magicians
- a man full of himself.
- Now were the new maps published. There was a rebellion of eunuchs
- HIEN TSONG the idolater did posthumous honour to Yukien
- decreed Kungfutseu was an Emperor
- to be so held in all rites,
- Drove out the taozers and hochang
- yet for one eunuch, Hoai-ngan, one might forgive many eunuchs
-
Tho’ they tried a star chamber
- and held it all of four years
- till HIEN TSONG removed them.
- another Lord seeking elixir
- seeking the transmutation of metals
- seeking a word to make change

- HOAI of SUNG was nearly ruined by taozers
- HIEN of TANG died seeking elixir
- and in ’97 they made a law code
- a bear walked into Pekin unnoticed
- though they strafed the watch for allowing it
- and there were 53 million folk in the Empire
- at tribute average of five measures
- of, say, 100 lbs each
-
‘OU TI of LÉANG, HOEÏ-TSONG of SUNG
- were more than all other Emperors
- Laoist and foéist, and came both to an evil end.
- To hell with the pyramid
- YAO and SHUN lived without any such monument
- TCHEOU KONG and Kungfutseu certainly wd/ not have ordered one
- nor will it lengthen YR MAJESTY’S days
- It will shorten the lives of YR subjects
- they will, many of ’em, die under new taxes.’
- Died HIAO TSONG aged 36, after peace and his 18 years on the throne
- And 8 bloody eunuchs conspired with Lieu,
- thunderbolt fell, naturally, on the palace
- From HONG VOU were an hundred and forty years
- till now OU TSONG, a minor,
- and 140 would be till the MANCHU, new mongol.
- And when Lieou-kin the castrat was arrested
- they found in his buildings:
- gold bars 240 thousand, of about 10 tael each
- 15 millions in money
- 5 million bars silver, of about 50 tael each
- 2 measures of unset jewels
- thus shaking the Emperor’s confidence
- In 1512 came ‘bachelors men’, that were horse thieves.
- Died OU TSONG the lazy
- And the Empress chose CHI-TSONG successor
- who was son (aîné) of the second son of the Emperor HIEN TSONG
- he was a writer of verses,
- in fact he said he wd/ like to resign
- and she (TCHANG CHI) told them to lay hold of Kiang-ping
- and they found in his cellarage
- 70 caskets of gold
- 2 thousand 200 caskets of silver
- 500 caskets of mixed
- 400 great plates, gold and silver
- not to count silk of the first grade, pearls,
- cut stones and jewels
- Came again Mansour the tartar
- and tartars said they wanted a market for horses
- Jap sailors drove chinks to embargo
- ‘no trade save with our regnicoles’
- And were five planets in the constellation of Yng-che
- CHI-TSONG did rites at the MING tombs
- on Mt Tien-cheou
- Japs burnt the salt works at Hai men
- Oua-chi led troops against them
- who called themselves ‘wolves of our Lady’
- And Japs feared only this lady Oua-chi
- Pirates almost took Fou-kien.
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