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the Kin emperor, who gave him command of his Tsin-jou Jan-tsin, which means apparently, troops in the country. The Yuan-shi says he if we accept the corresponding phrase in also pillaged Hin-chung-fu, while the Kang-mu Rashidu'd-din,--the general Chang-chi or Janadds that many towns situated between the tsi from the town of Kin-chau or Tsin-chau. sea, the river Liau, the Great Wall, and the On his submission to Chinghiz he had been barrier separating Liau-tung from Tartary, given charge of some districts, which are called including Ping-chan, Lnan-chan, Shui-chau, the Tsinsk or Kinsk and Guan-ninsk districts Li-chau, I-chau, Ye-chau, and Kuang-ning sub- in the Huang-yuan, and the Jurchi towns of mitted to him. Mu-khu-li and his Uighur
Lariti, Falshi and Gug-ling by Rashidu'd-dîn. subordinate Siaoassien marched against the The former says he rebelled and styled himself rebel, who, according to the Yuan-shi, sent one
Liao-si-van," ie., king of Liao-si, and gave his army against him under his son Tung-ping. administration the title of Dakhan, so which Mo-khu-li pointed out to his men that the enemy Rashid says corresponded to Sultan. These having no armour would be overwhelmed by two authorities make this outbreak the source their arrows. He then gave orders to his cavalry of Chinghiz Khân's wrath and the cause of to charge. The rebel army was completely
his ordering Mu-khu-li to march against him." defeated. Tung-ping was among the slain, We now read that Ma-khu-li marched against while 12,800 officers and men were killed." Kuang-ning-fu, the modern Kuang-ning-hien
Mu-khu-li now sent Siapassien to attack & in the department of Kin-chau, and subdued it, mountain fortress and arsenal named Lieon- making the eight hundred and sixty-second she-shan-pao, and sent Mongu-pu-hoa, called city which had fallen into the hands of the Mungu-bukha by Hyacinthe, to plant himself Mongols." The Huang-yuan says Mu-khu-li in ambush, 10 lis (Hyacinthe says 40) to the sent Da-tsin-dao and others to capture Kuanwest of Yong-te-hien, with orders to watchnin-fu, which surrendered." the movements of Chang-chi. When the latter In the tenth month of 1215, according to learnt that the enemy was attacking Lieou-she- the Yuan-shi, the Kin governor, Fusin-onolo shan-pao, he at once went to the rescue. conquered Liau-tung, proclaimed it the kingdom Mu-khn-li, who was then at Kuang-ning, was of Tien-wang, and adopted the dynastic style informed of this movement by his subordinate of Tientai. This was an invasion of th Mongu-pu.hoa, who also sent a body of cavalry rights of Yeliu-Linko, who no sooner heard of to cut off his retreat. Mu-khu-li marched in all the victory of the Kin general than he repaired hasta and reached Shin-shui at day-break, and to Chinghix to lay his case before him. there encountered the enemy's army. Chang-chi Chinghis received him well, and gave a place found himself between two fires. He fought about his court to his son, Yeliu Shesha." The bravely, but was at length defeated with a loss Yuan-shi-lei-pen gives a different reason for of 3,000 men killed, besides a great multitude Yeliu-Linko's visit to Chinghiz. It says that who were drowned or forced to seek shelter many Khitans proposed to him to declare himin Kin-chan, which was duly invested by the self emperor, independent of the Mongols, and Mongols, and which he defended for a month that he rejected this advice as contrary to his against all their efforts. Kao-i, one of his officers, duty. "I have sworn," he said, "to be the subwho had a grievance against him, then surren- ject of Chinghiz Khân. I carinot violate this dered him to Mu-khu-li, who beheaded him. promise. To make myself emperor in the east is Douglas says he himself surrendered, but that to oppose heaven, and to oppose heaven is to Mu-khu-li distrusted him as a double-dyed commit a great crime." He was much pressed traitor, and put him to death. This happened to alter his mind but would not do so, and in the eleventh month of 1216.*
sent his son, Sieta, with 90 carts bearing rich The Huang-yuan calls Chang-chi the Shuai presents for the Mongol chief, who had the
16 De Mailla, vol. IX, pp. 75 and 76: Hyacinthe, p. 83; Gaubil, pp. 30 and 31; Donglas, p. 78. Dongles, p. 78.
De Mailla, vol. IX, pp. 76 and 77; Hyacinthe, pp. 86 and 87; Douglas, pp. 78, 79 and 83 ; Gaubil, pp. 30 and 31.
• The Liw-shi-wang of Rashida'd-din. 60 Thai-fan-bil of Rashidu'd-din.
"Huang-Yuan, P. 190; Erdmann, p. 331. # Douglas, p. 80; Hyacinthe, p. 76. * Op. cit., p. 180. ** Called Puhe Wannn by Douglas, 66 Tkian-tkai.of Hyacinthe. - Douglas, pp. 80 and 81 ; Hyacinthe, pp. 76 and 77.
