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The General History Of China:
After he had enriched himself with the spoils of the delicious mrince ofHonan , he went into that of Chen si , and there-took !! non him the title of emperor , under the name of Tien chun , which signifies , He that obeys Heaven , in order to persuade the People that he was the instrument which Heaven had appointed Lo them from the cruelty and oppression of the ministers .
Liver When the rebel found himself near Pekin , and heard by secret intelligence of the factions and divisions that reigned among the o-randees , and being informed that the greater part of the troops bad been sent to the frontiers of Tartary , and that several of the chief officers , who remained in the town were prevailed on by his bribes to receive himhe sent privatela great number of his best
, y soldiers , disguised like merchants , into the town , and gave them money to set up shops and to trade with , that they might be ready to join him , and favour his cause whenever he should appear before the walls of the town . The success answered his expectation , for he no-sooner appeared before the walls , but one of the gates were opened to him , and he small resistance
entered the city like a conqueror , finding only a from a few of the emperor ' s faithful soldiers : he marched up directly to the palace , and had forced the first wall before the emperor was acquainted with it . This unhappy prince being informed of his misfortune , when it was not in his power to escape from the fury of the enemy , and finding himself forsaken and betrayed by his courtiers , he retired into one of his gardens , with his daughter , and having first killed her with bis sabre , he hanged himself on a tree , rather choosing to die than fall into the hands of a
rebellious subject . After his death all submitted to this new power ; and the tyrant , in order to establish himself on the throne , put to death several great mandarins , and exacted great sums of money from others : there was none but Ou san guey , general of the forces that were on the frontiers of Tartary , who refused to acknowledge him em-This general had a father called Ouwho lived then at
peror . , Pekin , whom the new emperor sent for , and commanded to follow him in the expedition he was going upon . He immediately put himself at the head of a considerable army , in order to reduce the Chinese general ^ who had retired into one of the towns of Leaotong : after he had besieged the town , he ordered the father of the general to be brought before the walls in would not submit to
irons , and threatened the general , that if he him , he would cut his father ' s throat before his face . But Ou san guey , preferring the good of his country to the filial tenderness and duty which he owed his father , suffered him to be sacrificed , who hig hly extolled the fidelity of his son , and with an heroic courage submitted to the ' rage and fury of the tyrant . This cruelty provoked the general to seek for revenge ; but as it was difficult for him to resist long the efforts of the usurper , thought by piquing the generosity of the King of Tartary , he
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The General History Of China:
After he had enriched himself with the spoils of the delicious mrince ofHonan , he went into that of Chen si , and there-took !! non him the title of emperor , under the name of Tien chun , which signifies , He that obeys Heaven , in order to persuade the People that he was the instrument which Heaven had appointed Lo them from the cruelty and oppression of the ministers .
Liver When the rebel found himself near Pekin , and heard by secret intelligence of the factions and divisions that reigned among the o-randees , and being informed that the greater part of the troops bad been sent to the frontiers of Tartary , and that several of the chief officers , who remained in the town were prevailed on by his bribes to receive himhe sent privatela great number of his best
, y soldiers , disguised like merchants , into the town , and gave them money to set up shops and to trade with , that they might be ready to join him , and favour his cause whenever he should appear before the walls of the town . The success answered his expectation , for he no-sooner appeared before the walls , but one of the gates were opened to him , and he small resistance
entered the city like a conqueror , finding only a from a few of the emperor ' s faithful soldiers : he marched up directly to the palace , and had forced the first wall before the emperor was acquainted with it . This unhappy prince being informed of his misfortune , when it was not in his power to escape from the fury of the enemy , and finding himself forsaken and betrayed by his courtiers , he retired into one of his gardens , with his daughter , and having first killed her with bis sabre , he hanged himself on a tree , rather choosing to die than fall into the hands of a
rebellious subject . After his death all submitted to this new power ; and the tyrant , in order to establish himself on the throne , put to death several great mandarins , and exacted great sums of money from others : there was none but Ou san guey , general of the forces that were on the frontiers of Tartary , who refused to acknowledge him em-This general had a father called Ouwho lived then at
peror . , Pekin , whom the new emperor sent for , and commanded to follow him in the expedition he was going upon . He immediately put himself at the head of a considerable army , in order to reduce the Chinese general ^ who had retired into one of the towns of Leaotong : after he had besieged the town , he ordered the father of the general to be brought before the walls in would not submit to
irons , and threatened the general , that if he him , he would cut his father ' s throat before his face . But Ou san guey , preferring the good of his country to the filial tenderness and duty which he owed his father , suffered him to be sacrificed , who hig hly extolled the fidelity of his son , and with an heroic courage submitted to the ' rage and fury of the tyrant . This cruelty provoked the general to seek for revenge ; but as it was difficult for him to resist long the efforts of the usurper , thought by piquing the generosity of the King of Tartary , he