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Biography of Liu Muzhi

From Songshu 42.

Liu Muzhi, courtesy name Daohe, child name Daomin, was a native of Ju in Donglai. He was a descendant of Han's King Daohui of Qi, Fei. [His family] for generations lived at Jingkou. As young he was fond of the Documents and Transmittals, and broadly perused them very comprehensively. He was recognized by Jiang Ai of Jiyang. When Ai became General who Establishes the Martial and Interior Clerk of Langye, he used him as the Office Master of Accounts.

Earlier, Muzhi dreamt that he and Gaozu floated on the sea together. Suddenly they encountered a great wind, and they were frightened and afraid. They bowed down to look beneath the boat, and saw two white dragons clinging to the double hull. Then they arrived at one mountain, the peaks and cliffs were high-rising and graceful, and the tree groves profuse and thick. In his thoughts he was considerably pleased with it.

When Gaozu overcame Jing City, he asked He Wuji, saying:

[I] urgently need an Office Master of Accounts, who to get for it?

Wuji said:

None exceed Liu Daomin

Gaozu said:

I also know about him.

He immediately hurried a courier to summon him. At the time Muzhi had heard that in Jing City there were sounds of shouting and commotion. At daybreak he stood up to set out for the footpath, and just so met with the courier. Muzhi looked straight ahead and did not talk for a long time. Then he turned back to his house, [put on] ruined cloth clothes as trousers, and went to see Gaozu. Gaozu spoke to him, saying:

I have started to lift up great righteousness, but just now the beginnings are hard and difficult, and the need for an army clerk is very urgent. Will you Sir speak of who would be worthy of its selection?

Muzhi said:

Certainly, when an office is first established, the army clerk really needs his talents. Amidst the hustle and bustle, he must attend to it completely without excesses.

Gaozu laughed and said:

You Sir is able to expend yourself. My affairs will be successful.

He promptly received appointment at the seat.

He accompanied pacifying the Capital District. When Gaozu first arrived, the various great assessments and allotments, and all the hustle and bustle setting up and settling, everything was established by Muzhi. Thereupon he was entrusted with the duties of belly and heart, to move or halt was consulted with him. Muzhi also was utterly steadfast and fully sincere, nothing was omitted or hidden.

At the time Jin's mainstays were loose and relaxed, imposing restrictions but not acting. Flourishing families, the prominent and honoured, counted on the circumstances to infringe and let loose. Lesser people, the destitute and discomfited, had nothing with which to set themselves up. It was especially due to Sima Yuanxian's government orders' divergence and deviations, and Huan Xuan's ordnances and article's profuse density. Muzhi considered carefully what was suitable for the times, and followed what was proper to straighten them out. It had not been a full ten-day before manners and customs were smoothed out and changed.

He moved to Gentleman of the Sacrifice Section to the Masters of Writing, and then became Office Master of Accounts, Army Advisor Recording Affairs in the Registry House, and nominal Grand Warden of Tangyi. Due to his merits in pacifying Huan Xuan, he was ennobled Fifth Grade Count of Xihua County.

3rd Year of Yixi [407 AD], the Inspector of Yang province, Wang Mi, passed away. Gaozu was the next likely to enter and assist. Liu Yi and others did not wish for Gaozu to enter, and discussed using the Leading the Army of the Centre, Xie Hun, as Yang province. Some wished to order Gaozu to Dantu to lead the province, with inner affairs handed over to the Archer-Servant of the Masters of Writing, Meng Chang. They dispatched the Assistant of the Right to the Masters of Writing, Pi Chen, to consult Gaozu on the two opinions. Chen first saw Muzhi, and generally explained the court's opinion. Muzhi pretended to stand up to go to the lavatory, and promptly sent a secret missive to inform Gaozu, saying:

Pi Chen just now arrived, his words cannot be followed.

Gaozu had already seen Chen, and furthermore had given the order to set out outside. He shouted Muzhi a question, saying:

You Sir state that Chen's words cannot be followed, what are your thoughts?

Muzhi said:

For a long time the Jin court neglected government, it is not restored in one day. In addition, due to Huan Xuan's usurpation, Heaven's fate has already shifted. Your Excellency rose up to restore the august benediction, an achievement exalted through ten thousand ages. [You] already have great merit, and will easily have great rank. Rank great and achievements exalted is not possible to hold for long. Your Excellency, in today's circumstances, why obtain an unassuming place and weaken yourself, and thereupon become a general who defends the border?

Excellencies Liu and Meng stood up together with Your Excellency from plain clothes, and combined to establish great righteousness. Their original intention to save the ruler was successfully achieved and so they acquired wealth and riches, and that is all. In affairs there is before and after. For that reason, having at one time pushed forward merit, they will not give away themselves and in heart submit, the long-settled division of subject and ruler. When power is opposed by an equal force, in the end they will swallow and chew each other.

Yang province is where the founding roots are bound up, it is not possible to concede to a person. Previously, since it was conferred on Wang Mi, affairs set out on the way of expedience. Why is that from first to last the great plan certainly should be like this, and that is all! Now, suppose it is again used as conferral to another, he readily should accept authority over a person. Once [you] neglect wielding power, nothing can make it possible to obtain it. And yet Your Excellency's merits are exalted and your achievements weighty, it is not possible to straight away set aside them. Suspicion and fear will add to each other, different angles will rise together, the dangers and difficulties that might come cannot be fully studied.

Now when the court debates like this, they are likely reacting and replying to each other, and surely in what they state to us, the phrasing will also be difficult. We should only respond by stating: “At the Divine Province's seat and foundation, the steward assists the honoured midpoint, with the ladder for flourishing and bereavement, and what ought be added to and thoroughly selected. These affairs are already great and not possible to debate at distance. For convenience [I will] temporarily enter court, and together [we will] exhaust similarities and differences.” When Your Excellency arrives at the capital, the others will surely not dare to go past Your Excellency and once more confer on some other person. It is clear!

Gaozu followed his words, and because of that entered to assist.

He accompanied the campaign against Guanggu, and turned back to hold off Lu Xun. He regularly resided within the tent, drawing up strategies, and decided and determined the multitude affairs. Liu Yi and others envied Muzhi being shown intimacy, and were always making instigating words against his authority and weight. Gaozu more and more trusted and relied upon him.

Of what Muzhi heard or saw from outside, there was nothing he was not, great and small, sure to make clear. Even if a villager told a joke, or tiny affairs on the footpaths, he would always after one or two times have heard about it. That Gaozu always obtained the people's trusted secrets, their ebbs and flows, and so demonstrated his bright clarity, it was all because of Muzhi. He also cared fondly for visiting travellers, his staying guests were constantly filling up. He spread out ears and eyes to watch and listen, and for that reason among court and countryside's similarities and differences,Muzhi was never not sure to understand them.

Even the strong and weak points of those personally close to him he always made known and memorialised without hiding [anything]. People sometimes mocked him for it. Muzhi said:

Due to His Excellency's clarity, he might come and meet with my knowledge and insight. I have confronted His Excellency's kindness, the right-principled have nothing to hide or conceal. This is why Zhang Liao reported that Guan Yu intended to rebel.

When Gaozu began or concluded a course of action, Muzhi always sent down the rules and measures. Gaozu's writings were plain and clumsy. Muzhi said:

This is only a little matter. As such, when promulgating that in four directions, [I] wish His Excellency be a little more attentive to his thoughts.

Gaozu just then was unable to arrange his thoughts, but his endowments were evident. Muzhi therefore said:

Indulge your brush to make large characters, one characters a foot in diameter, and there will be nothing to dislike. The large size will be suffice for what is included, and moreover their grandeur will also be pleasing.

Gaozu followed him, and on a single paper did not go past six or seven characters before it was full.

With everyone he endorsed his insights on[?], [those] who did not advance did not come to a stop[?]. He often stated:

Though I do not catch up to Lord Prefect Xun's recommending the good, I do not recommend the not good.

Muzhi and Zhu Lingshi were both at ease with the foot-long tablet [for writing correspondence]. He was often at the Gaozu's seat responding to letters together with Lingshi. From dawn until middle of the day, Muzhi would have gotten hundred envelopes, while Lingshi got eighty, but Muzhi's replied had nothing neglected.

He moved to Marshal to the Central Army and Grand Commandant. 8th Year [412 AD], he was promoted to Governor of Danyang.

When Gaozu went west to chastise Liu Yi, he used Zhuge Changmin to oversee the offices kept behind, to manage and administer rear affairs. Gaozu suspected Changmin would be difficult to rely on alone, and kept behind Muzhi to assist him. He was promoted to General who Establishes Power, to set up assistant functionaries to match and provide his actual strength.

Changmin actually had disloyal plans, but was still preparing and was unable to issue forth. He therefore, away from other people, spoke to Muzhi, saying:

In talk of the uncertain, everyone states that the Grand Commandant and I are not at peace, how has it come to this?

Muzhi said:

His Excellency goes upstream for a far-away attack, and his old mother and young children he entrust under your command. If a single hair was unfinished, why would he permit it like this?

His thoughts were then a little calmed. When Gaozu came back, Changmin submitted to execution.

10th Year [414 AD], advanced Muzhi to General of the Van, and provided the Office of the Van Army a yearly income of 10 000 bolts of cloth and 3 000 000 cash.

11th Year [415 AD], Gaozu went west to attack Sima Xiuzhi. The General of the Centre Army, Daolian, was responsible for the kept behind duties, but in affairs there was nothing, great or small, which was not solely decided by Muzhi. He moved to Archer-Servant of the Right to the Masters of Writing in charge of selections, General and Governor like before.

12th Year [416 AD], Gaozu went on a northern attack, and kept behind the Heir as the General of the Centre Army, overseeing the kept behind office of the Grand Commandant. To assist him, Muzhi became Archer-Servant of the Left, in charge of the Army Ministers of the Army Overseer and Centre Army Offices, General, Governer, and in charge of selections like before, with fifty armoured and armed men when entering the hall, to enter and reside in the Eastern City.

Muzhi inside managed the court's government, and outside provided for the army's journey. His decision-making was like a flow, in affairs nothing was clogging up. His visitors and guests converged like wheel spokes, seeking and complaining of a hundred aspects. Inside and outside consulted and reported, overflowing his stairs and filling his room. His eyes looking at explanations and arguments while his hands answered notes and letters. His eyes were listening and receiving while his mouth also rewarded and responded. Nothing interfered with each other[?], everything was fully supported and lifted up. Also with his many visitors and close guests, in talks and conversations he praised and laughed. During drawn out days and dragging times, he was not once tired or bitter. He cut down what he had of idle leisure time to write letters with his own hand, searching and looking through sections and chapters, collating and settling age-old records.

He was by nature extravagant and sumptuous, his food certain to cover a zhang square. At dawn he always had food prepared for ten people. Since Muzhi was fond of guests and visitors, he never dined alone. Always when time came to eat, he stopped ten of his visitors from going back. [To his close followers] beside the tent he usually sent down food[?], and considered this to be normal. He once informed Gaozu, saying:

Muzhi's house was originally poor and lowly, and admired life in the many palaces. Since [my] worthless shame and onwards [?], though [I] have always lived moderate and restrained, in what is necessary from morning to dawn, [I] have been a little bit excessive and luxuriant. Outside of this, nothing in the slightest will burden Your Excellency.

13th Year [417 AD], he became deeply ill. A decree dispatched a Correct and Upright Gentleman of the Yellow Gates to ask about the illness. 11th Month [25 November – 23 December], he passed on. At the time he was aged fifty-five [sui].

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Role of LKB1 in migration and invasion of Cr(VI)-transformed human bronchial epithelial Beas-2B cells

Hexavalent chromium [Cr(VI)] is a common human carcinogen associated with lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases as exposure to excessive Cr(VI) induces malignant transformation in human lung epithelial cells. The mechanism underlying its carcinogenicity is unclear in terms of how it facilitates metastases. Cr(VI) compounds are reported to briefly promote cell migration in a concentration-dependent manner and oncogene liver kinase B1 (LKB1) was reduced in Cr(VI)-transformed cells. Overexpression of LKB1 in Beas-2B-Cr [Cr(VI) malignantly transformed Beas-2B cells] suppressed cell migration and invasion and inactivated FAK, Src, MMP-2, GSK3β, β-catenin, and HEF1, which contribute to cell migration and invasion. Silencing LKB1 with siRNA promoted migration and invasion, and activated these downstream proteins. Long-term exposure to Cr(VI) enhanced the migration and invasiveness of Beas-2B cells and reduced the expression of LKB1, while activating these proteins as mentioned above. Data suggest that LKB1 may regulate downstream proteins such as FAK, Src, MMP-2, GSK3β, β-catenin, and HEF1, and affect the migration and invasiveness of Beas-2B-Cr cells. * Jian Lu and Zhongping Zhou contributed equally to the writing of this article. Correspondence to Jian Lu, PhD, Jiangsu University, No.301, Xuefu Road, Jingkou District, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, China Tel: +86 511 8878 8776; fax: +86 511 8879 1923; e-mail: [email protected] Correspondence to Zhanao Wu, MS, No. 359 Hospital, No.8, Zhongshan East Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212050, China Tel/fax: +86 511 8333 5901; e-mail: [email protected] Received November 10, 2017 Accepted April 9, 2018 Copyright © 2018 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. https://ift.tt/2rUYaFn

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bookofjin · 5 years

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Biography of He Wuji

[From JS085]

He Wuji was a native of Tan in Donghai. As young he had great aspirations, was loyal, bright and relied on energy. People who did not declare their hearts were straight-away revealed in speech and appearance [?]. The province nominated him to Assistant Officer, he moved to Broad Scholar of the Grand School. The General who Garrisons the North, Liu Laozhi, was precisely his mother's brother, and at the time was headquartered at Jingkou. He always had great affairs, and he often advised and discussed them with him.

The Heir of Kuaiji, Yuanxian's son Yanzhang was enfeoffed King of Donghai. Used Wuji as the state's Palace Commandant, concurrently General who Broadens the Martial. When Huan Xuan murdered Yanzhang in the market, Wuji entered the market to weep in anguish and then set out. At the time people [found] him right-principled.

He accompanied Laozhi on southern campaign against Huan Xuan. Laozhi wanted to surrender to Xuan. Wuji remonstrated again and again, and explained his viewpoint with considerable sharpness. Laozhi did not follow. When Xuan usurped the rank, Wuji was old friends with Xuan's Gentleman of the Personnel Section, Cao Jingzhi, and he requested to manage a small county. Jingzhi reported to Xuan, Xuan did not allow it. Wuji therefore turned back to Jingkou.

Earlier, Liu Yu once was Liu Laozhi's Army Advisor. He and Wuji had a long-standing close connection with each other. Arriving at this point, they because of that secretly plotted together against Xuan. Liu Yi's family was in Jingkou. He and Wuji had a long-standing friendship. When the talk reached the affair of rising up and restoring, Wuji said:

The Huan clan is strong and abundant, can they be plotted against?

Yi said:

Under Heaven, since there are strong and weak, however strong change to weak. [It is] proper to worry about a master of affairs difficult to obtain, that is all.

Wuji said:

Among Under Heaven's grassy marshes is not without outstanding heroes.

Yi said:

[I] have seen only Liu of Xiapei.

Wuji laughed but did not reply. He turned back to inform Yu. Following that they together invited Yi, and pushed forward and connected with him. Thereupon they together raised righteous troops and assaulted Jingkou. Wuji falsely displayed and passed along a decree to submit, declaring [himself] a messenger with an imperial order. Within the city there were none who dared to act.

Earlier, Huan Xuan heard of the rising with troops of Yu and others and Wuji, and was very afraid. His partisan said:

Liu Yu has a multitude of gathered crows, his tendency is certainly without success. [I] desire [you] not to worry about it.

Xuan said:

Liu Yu's bravery is at the head of the Three Armies, and is now without rival. Liu Yi's family is without the stores for a dan or shi [?], a single throw of chaupar [to win?] a million. He Wuji is the sister-son of Liu Laozhi, and strongly resembles his mother's brother. When they together raise up a great affair, how [can you] say [they will] have no success.

He was dreading like this.

[This episode is also in SS001, with somewhat different wording.]

When Xuan ran in defeat, the King of Wuling, Zun, inherited authority. He used Wuji as General who Assists the State and Interior Clerk of Langye, and used the King of Kuaiji, Daozi's section with spirited troops to fully pair with him, and pursue Huan Xuan south. He and the General who Raises the Martial, Liu Daogui, together accepted the General of the Best of the Army, Liu Yi's rules and measures.

Xuan kept his Galloping Dragon General, He Danzhi, General of the Van, Guo Quan, and Inspector of Jiang province, Guo Changzhi to defend Penkou. Wuji and others stayed at Sangluo Island. Danzhi and others led the armies to come and fight. Danzhi often was sailing a double-hulled boat, with banners and flags in considerable abundance. Wuji said:

The thieves' leaders surely will not stay here, but wish to trick us, that is all. We ought to immediately attack them.

The multitudes all together said:

Danzhi is not among them, his followers there is no profit in obtaining.

Wuji spoke to Daogui, saying:

Now the many and the few are no match, battle is without complete victory. Danzhi, even if he did not stay in his double-hulled boat, [if we] take [it?] then [he?] will be easy to capture. Following that give free reign to the troops to gallop [after] him,[we] can thereby in a single drum strike then defeat [him].

Daogui followed it, and thereupon captured the thieves' double-hulled boat. Following that [they] passed on a shout saying:

[We] have got Danzhi!

Among thieves they were restless and agitated. Wuji's multitudes likewise spoke of it as done. Daogui exploited the victory to straight-away advance, Wuji made clamour and hurried to him. Danzhi thereupon scattered. They advanced to occupy Xunyang, and dispatched envoys to receive and send off the ancestral temple's tablet coffer, and the Princess of Wukang and the Consort of the King of Langye to return to the imperial capital.

He again, [together] with Yi and Daogui routed and ran off Xuan at Zhengrong Island. Wuji advanced to occupy Baling. Xuan's senior cousin Qian and nephew Zhen exploited the absence to capture Jiangling. Wuji and Daogui advanced to attack Qian at Matou, and attack Huan Wei at Longquan, and both times routed them.

After they had been defeated by Huan Zhen, they withdrew and turned back to Xunyang. Wuji, Yi and Daogui then advance to punish Zhen, they overcame Xiakou's three forts. Thereupon he pacified Baling, and advanced to stay at Matou. Huan Qian requested to cede Jing and Jiang provinces, and receive and send off the Son of Heaven. Wuji did not accept. He advanced the army to rout Jiangling. Qian and others ran in defeat.

Wuji attended and guarded Emperor An on the return to the Imperial Capita. Used Wuji [as] Commander-in-Chief of the Army Affairs of Yu province and Yang province's Huainan, Lujiang, Anfeng, Liyang and Tangyi commanderies, General of the Right, Inspector of Yu province, additional with Tally, 50 armoured and armed men when entering the hall.

He had not yet gone to his post when he moved to Interior Clerk of Kuaiji, Controller of the Army Affairs of Jiangdong's Five Commanderies, Holding the Tally and General like before, and was given one section of drums and pipes. In the 2nd Year of Yixi [406 AD], he moved to Commander-in-Chief of Army Affairs of Jiang and Jing provinces' and Jiangxia, Sui, Yiyang, Sui'an, and Yu province's Xiyang, Xincai, Ru'nan and Yingchuang commanderies, Inspector of Jiang province, General and Holding the Tally like before.

Due to his merits in the Restoration, he was enfeoffed Ancheng commandery to found a state as a Duke, with a revenue estate of 3 000 households, additionally to control Si province's Hongnong and Yang province's Songzi, concurrently Cavalier Attendant Gentleman, and advanced to General who Garrisons the South.

Lu Xun dispatched his detached commander Xu Daofu to go down along the course, his warships were all multi-storied. Wuji wanted to lead the multitudes to resist him. The Senior Clerk, Deng Qianzhi, remonstrated, saying:

Now, to use a host of godly martial ability to oppose that rebel's multitudes, turning around the mountains to pressure the eggs, is not sufficient as an example. As such of the plans for the house of state there is this one to raise up. [I] have heard their warships are greatly abundant. The lay of the land is upstream. The venom of wasps and scorpions, the perfect reflection of Zhu and Lu.

[We] ought to breach and break the southern dike, and defend the two forts to wait for them. They will surely not dare to let us go and go far down. Gather strength and wait for their weak and old, and afterwards strike them. Suppose [we] reject the long scheme which is ten thousand times secure, and determine success or defeat in a single battle, if it is a setback, regret will not catch up.

Wuji did not follow, and thereupon used the naval host to resist them.

After that, the thieves ordered strong crossbowmen, several hundrad, to climb a small mountain on the western bank to thereby intercept and shoot at him. After that, the thieves ordered strong crossbowmen, several hundrad, to climb a small mountain on the western bank to thereby intercept and shoot at him, and then pressed against [?] the mountain side. Suddenly there was a western wind violently pressing. Wuji's smaller warships were hurled towards the eastern bank. The thieves exploited the wind to use their great warships to pressure them. The multitudes thereupon fled in defeat. Wuji, still with sharp voice, said:

Take my Su Wu tally and come!

The tally arrived, he then personally held it to thereby direct the battle. The thieves' multitudes assembled like a cloud, those who climbed the warship were several tens of people. Wuji, his speech and expression undisturbed, thereupon grasped the tally and died there.

A decree said:

Wuji held on to the sagely and trod the proper, and was loyal, bright, and brilliant indeed. He perished to personally sacrifice oneself for the state, precisely uniting cooperating on an outstanding plan [?]. He weaved the warp to guard the ignorant [?], precisely heavy air immeasurable [?]. When he disseminated government affairs to the region's Xia, he indeed spread far his manners' kindness.

The bewitching robbers created chaos, invading and agitating the nation's demesne. He threw up his sleeves to deliver chastisement, with aspirations to clear the kingly plan. But the affair proceeded outside of anticipations. Approaching danger he pervasively incited, grasped the tally and fell to the foe, truly continuing the ancient worthies. We feel pity and sadness in Our breast.

Thus confer Palace Attendant, Minister of Works, the original offices like before, posthumous title Loyal and Dignified [zhongsu].

His son Yong inherited.

Earlier, when Huan Xuan overcame the capital district and Liu Yu was on the eastern campaign, Wuji secretly came to Yu's army to covertly plan raising up righteousness, advising Yu to rise with troops at Shanyin. Yu, since Xuan's great treason was not yet manifest, feared to that to raise the affair in a far way place, managing to cross would be difficult. If Xuan thereupon would steal the Heavenly rank, they would afterwards plot against him at Jinkou, the affair was not yet too late. Wuji therefore turned back. At the rising of the righteous host, he had great achievements in aiding and assisting, always using calculations and plans with attack and capture as the result. Yet this brought defeat with making light of escaping [?]. Court and countryside were anguished for him.

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Biography of Liu Yi, Part 1

[From JS085.]

Liu Yi, courtesy name Xile, was a native of Pei in Pengcheng. His great grandfather Ju was Chancellor of Guangling. His uncle Zhen was Brilliantly Blessed Grandee of the Left. Yi as young had great aspirations, and did not cultivate his family's livelihood and patrimony. He served as the province's Assistant Officer. Huan Hong used him on the the staff of the Army Advisor of the Central Troops. Huan Xuan usurped the throne. Yi, with Liu Yu, He Wuji, Wei Yongzhi and others rose with righteous troops, they secretly planned to chastise Xuan. Yi chastiseed the Inspector of Xu province, Huan Xiu at Jingkou and the Inspector of Qing province, Huan Hong at Guangling.

Yu led Yi and others to arrive at Zhuli. Xuan sent his generals Huangfu Fu and Wu Fuzhi to north to resist the Righteous Army. They met them at Jiangcheng and approached in columns to behead Fuzhi. They advanced to Luoluo Bridge, and cut off Fu's head. Xuan was greatly afraid. He sent Huan Qian and He Danzhi to garrison Fuzhou Mountain. Yi and others' army arrived at Jiang Mountain. Yu sent the exhausted and weak to climb the mountain, with many stretched out banners and flags. Xuan did not understand it and increasingly accordingly was imperilled and afraid.

Many of Qian and others' officers and soldiers were people of the Northern Office, and habitually feared and submitted to Yu, they did not dare to set out and struggle. Yu, with Yi and others, divided into several groups, and advanced to surprise Qian's columns, all fighting desperately. There was not one who did not take on a hundred. At the time the north-eastern wind was pressing. The Righteous Army released fire, the smoke and ashes stretched across the sky. The noise of the drums and racket shook and terrified the capital district. Qian and others' armies at the same time fled in defeat.

Xuan had run west. Yu used Yi as General of the Best of Army and Inspector of Qing province. He and He Wuji and Liu Daogui followed Xuan. Xuan compelled the Emperor and the King of Langye to go up west. Yi, Daogui, the Grand Warden of Xiapi, Meng Huayu and others pursued and caught up with Xuan. They fought at Zhengrong Island. Yi exploited the wind and let loose fire. All of the keen strove to be first, Xuan's multitudes greatly scattered. He burnt the supply transport and ran in the night. Xuan's generals Guo Quan, Liu Ya, and others, assaulted and captured Xunyang. Yi dispatched the General of Martial Power, Liu Huaisu to chastise and pacify them.

When Xuan died, Huan Zhen and Huan Qian again assembled the multitudes to resist Yi at Lingxi. Xuan's general Feng Gai used troops to meet with Zhen. Yi advanced to strike, was defeated by Zhen, and withdrew to stay at Xunyang. He was convicted and dismissed from office. Put to use a pardon for him. Yi only brought to the front of himself. At the time opinion approved of it [?].

Yi then issued from Xunyang with Daogui. Huan Liang titled himself Inspector of Jiang province, they dispatched Liu Jingxuan to strike and ran him off. Yi's army stayed at Xiakou. At the time Zhen's partisan Feng Gai defended the great bank. Meng Shantu occupied Lu Fort. Huan Shanke guarded Yangyue Ramparts. The multitudes combined to ten thousand people, with joined warships [between] the two shores, aiding each other on water and land.

Yi supervised the multitude armies to advance and chastise. He had not yet arrived at Fukou, when he encountered a gale wind sinking more than a thousand people. Yi, with Liu Huaisu, Suo Miao and others, attacked Lu Fort. Daogui attacked Yangyue Ramparts. He Wuji and Tan Zhi deployed the warships in the middle of the current, to thereby prevent [them] going past and escaping. Yi personally was accustomed to armour and helmet, [they] climbed the walls for half a day and the two ramparts both collapsed. He captured alive Shanke, but Feng Gai escaped and ran. Yi advanced to pacify Baling.

Used Yi as Envoy Holding the Tally and Inspector of Yan province, General like before. Yi's commands and orders were strict and orderly, and was passing through the barren district [?]. The hundred families were calm and pleased. The Grand Warden of Nanyang, Lu Zongzhi rose to righteousness, assaulted Xiangyang, and routed Huan Wei. Yi and others with the various armies stayed at Jiangling's Matou [“Horse Head”]. Zhen embraced the Driving Carriage [the Emperor], and set out to encamp at Jiangjin. Zongzhi again routed the bogus general Wen Kai. Zhen himself struck Zongzhi.

Yi because of that led Wuji, Daogui and others and the various armies to rout Feng Gai at Yuzhangkou, pushed the spear-points and advanced. Thereupon he entered Jiangling. Zhen heard the city was lost, and ran north with Qian. The Driving Carriage returned to propriety. Yi seized Xuan's partisans Bian Fanzhi, Yang Sengshou, Xiahou Chongzhi, Huan Daogong and others, and beheaded all of them.

Huan Zhen then [came] from Yuncheng with Fu Hong and assaulted and captured Jiangling. He and Liu Huaisu opposed each other. Yi dispatched section generals to strike at Zhen and killed him. He also beheaded the bogus General who Assists [the State], Huan Zhen#. Yi again attacked and uprooted Qianling, and beheaded Xuan's Grand Warden Liu Shuzu at Linzhang.

Their remainders who possessed multitudes and made use of titles where accordingly several tens. In all cases he chastiseed and pacified them. The two provinces were fully pacified. Used Yi as General who Consoles the Army. At the time Diao Yu and others made chaos, and garrisoned at Xiangzhong. Yi dispatched generals to detach off and chastise, and all cases wiped them out.

Earlier, Yi came across mourning in his family. When the righteous banners began to rise, he thereupon blackened the mourning clothes to accompany affairs. Arriving at this point, with army service gradually quieting, he sent up a petition requesting to return to Jingkou, to thereby bring an end to the mourning rites, saying:

Vast is the way that is the state, regulating to the end with benevolence and filial piety. Those decry the destitute to return to Heaven, do not to great extent mourn relatives [?]. However Your Subject is altogether mediocre, originally without sympathy for the most part. [If] he was not able to fall down, for that reason it was appropriate, that is all [?].

In former years the state's difficulties overflowed Heaven, for that reason [I had] aspirations to put forth [my] humble loyalty, bashfully at all existing [?]. Last spring the luan bird flew and turned around the carriage [?], but the deranged and sly were not yet wiped out. Though the perfidious criminal's [head] at the time was exposed, the remaining cinders skulked and laid down, dominating in their breast the humble and square [?], the civil and military officials were troubled and battered, faded feelings not yet stretched out, looking at the scenery with sorrow and resentment.

Now the august power is far-advanced in dignity, within the seas are pure and cleansed. Your Subject is poor and deplorable, likewise already arranged for the sage to listen [?]. More so, [my] enfeebling troubles have grown considerable, a multitude illnesses criss-crossing always, presently [I am] in bed exhausted without again a person's reason [?].

Your Subject's feelings originally were not for sweet life. Speaking of his affairs, they likewise can be considered lost. [He] requests bestowal of the remaining bones [?], to conclude his grave-mounds. Maybe the way of the loyal and filial is still forgiven in the times of a sage.

It was not allowed.

A decree used Yi as Commander-in-Chief of All Army Affairs of Yu province and Yang province's Huainan, Liyang, Lujiang, Anfengn Tongji commanderies, and Inspector of Yu province; Holding the Tally, General, and Regular Attendant like before. The civil and military officials of his original office were fully ordered to the western staff. Due to his merits in rectifying and restoring, he was enfeoffed Nanping commandery, beginning the state as a Duke. He concurrently became Commander-in-Chief of the Army Affairs of Xuancheng, and was given one section of drums and pipes. The Inspector of Liang# province, Liu Zhi, rebelled.

Yi dispatched generals to chastise and arrest him. Earlier, Huan Xuan in the southern provinces had erected a retreat, and comprehensively drew coiled dragons on its top, and titled it as the Coiled Dragons [panlong] Retreat. Yi's child name was Panlong. Arriving at this point, he thereupon lived there. He soon after advanced to serve as General of Guards, Opening Office with the Same Ceremonies as the Three Ministers.

When He Wuji was defeated by Lu Xun, the thief army exploited the victory and advanced. The Imperial Court shook in fear. Yi arranged the ships to chastise them. He was about to issue out when he became gravely ill, inside and outside lost colour. Court opinion wished to welcome the Driving Carriage and go north to the [General] of the Centre Army, Liu Yu. It happened that Yi's illnesses was cured, and he was about to lead the army on a southern campaign. Yu sent Yi a letter which said:

I in the past fought with the bewitching thieves, and understand their changeable manners. Now putting in order the ships to almost completion might be before striking them [?]. At the day for achieving pacification, the duties of going upstream [will] for all cases then be appointed.

He also dispatched Yi's junior cousin Fan to go and halt him. Yi was greatly angered, he spoke to Fan, saying:

I was pushed forward by the merits of a single season, that is all, and you readily say I do not reach up to Liu Yu!

He threw the letter on the ground. Thereupon he used a naval host of 20 000, and set out for Gushu. Xu Daofu heard Yi was about to arrive at Jianye, and reported to Lu Xun, saying:

Li Yi's troops are substantial, success or defeat will strike here in a single battle. We ought to combine strength and resist him.

Xun therefore pulled the troops to set out for Baling. He and Daofu joined banners and went down. Yi stayed at Sangluo Island. He fought with the thieves, was completely defeated, abandoned the ships, and ran on foot with several hundred people. The remaining multitudes were all captured by the thieves. The supply wagons and provisions were are all abandoned to them.

Yi ran, passing and wading through the Man and Jin, the dead and perished from hunger and exhaustion reached two or three out of ten. The Army Advisor Yang Sui exhausted his power to urgently protect them, and only then [they] managed to escape. Liu Yu deeply placated and exhorted him, and restored his original post. Yi therefore used Sui as Consultant Army Advisor.

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Annals of Gaozu of Song, Part 1

[Liu-Song is best Song. From Songshu 001]

The Exalted Ancestor [gaozu], the Martial [wu] August Emperor, taboo Yu, courtesy name Deyu, child name Jinu, was a native of Suiyu hamlet in Pengcheng count,y and a descendant of Emperor Gao of Han's younger brother King Yuan of Chu, Jiao.

Jiao begot the Marquis Yi of Hong, Fu. Fu begot the Lineage Corrector, Piqiang. Piqiang begot Marquis Mou of Yangcheng, De. De begot Marquis Jie of Yangcheng, Anmin. Anmin begot Marquis Li of Yangcheng, Qingji. Qingji begot Marquis Su of Yangcheng, Cen. Cen begot the Lineage Corrector Ping. Ping begot the Prefect of Dongwucheng, Mou. Mou begot the Grand Warden of Donglai, Jing. Jing begot the Classics Clarifier, Qia. Qia begot the Broad Scholar, Hong. Hong begot the Chief Commandant of Langye, Kui. Kui begot Wei's Grand Warden of Dingxiang, Mou. Mou begot the Prefect Yecheng, Liang. Liang begot Jin's Grand Warden of Beiping, Ying. Ying begot the staff official of the Chancellor of State, Xi. Xi begot the Prefect of Kaifeng, Xusun. Xusun's begot Hun. He first passed beyond the Jiang, and resided at Jingkou village in Dantu county, Jinling commandery. His office rank reached the Prefect of Wuyuan. Hun begot the Grand Warden of Dong'an, Jing. Jing begot the Commandery Board of Merit, Qiao. This was the August Father.

Gaozu was born in Emperor Ai of Jin's 1st Year of Xingning, a guihai year, 3rd Month, renyin [16 April 363]. Reaching adulthood, he was 7 chi, 6 cun tall, his manners and temper were special and unusual. His family was poor. He had great aspirations, but did not put in order the angles and corners. He served his step-mother, thereby [gaining] a reputation for filial piety and consideration.

He began as Marshal for the [General] of the Best of the Army, Sun Wuzhong. Emperor An's 3rd Year of Long'an, 11th Month [14 December 399 – 12 January 400], the bewitching traitor Sun En made chaos in Kuaji. The Jin court's General of Guards, Xie Yan, and General of the Van, Liu Laozhi went east to punish. Laozhi requested Gaozu to Assist his Office in Army Affairs.

12th Month [13 January – 10 February], Laozhi arrived in Wu, but the traitors hemmed the roads and gathered together. Laozhi instructed Gaozu, with several tens of people, to spy on the traitors near and far. He happened to meet the traitors arriving, a multitude of several tens of people. Gaozu readily advanced to fight with them. Of the people he commanded, many died, yet his mood for fighting was still sharp, waving with his hand a long blade. The killed and injured were a considerable multitude.

Laozhi's son Jingxuan had doubts about Gaozu being delayed for a long time, and feared he had been surrounded by the traitors. He therefore searched for him with light cavalry. Soon after the multitudes and cavalry met together, the traitors then fled and withdrew. They beheaded and captured more than a thousand people, pushed forward the vanguard and advanced. They pacified Shanyin. En escaped and turned back to enter the sea.

4th Year, 5th Month [8 June – 7 July 400], En again entered Kuaiji, he killed the General of Guards, Xie Yan.

11th Month [2 December – 31 December], Liu Laozhi again led the multitudes to conquer east. En withdrew and ran. Laozi garrisoned Shangyu, and sent Gaozu to defend Gouzhang city. Gouzhang city was entirely humble and small, the combat soldiers did not exceed several hundred people. Gaozu regularly put on armour and held weapons, and was first among the officers and soldiers. Always when fighting, he every time broke the vanguard and destroyed the ranks. The traitors therefore withdrew and turned back to Jiakou.

At the time the various leaders in the eastern campaign managed the armies without regulations. The officers and soldiers brutally plundered and were a considerable hardship for the hundred families. Only Gaozu's rules and orders were clear and orderly, arrivals could not but personally rely on him.

5th Year, Spring [30 January – 28 April 401], Sun En frequently attacked Gouzhang. Gaozu again and again broke and routed him. En then ran to enter the sea.

3rd Month [31 March – 28 April], En set out north for Haiyan. Gaozu pursued and safeguarded it. He built a fort at the old seat of Haiyan. The traitors came daily to attack the fort, within the fort the troops' strength became very weak. Gaozu therefore selected dare-to-die soldiers, several hundred people. All removed their armour and helmets, and held on to the lacking troops. Together they beat the drums and made noise, and then set out. The traitors shook in fear and were robbed of spirit, and because of their fear they then fled from them. They also threw away their armour, scattered and fled. He beheaded their chief leader Yao Sheng.

Though fighting continuously, he achieved victory. As such the multitudes were few and did not resist, Gaozu alone was deeply worried about it. One night, he put down the banners and hid the multitudes, as if they had escaped. At daylight he opened the gates, and sent several weak and ill people to climb the walls. The traitors from afar asked about the whereabouts of Liu taboo [i.e. Liu Yu]. They said he had fled in the night. The traitors trusted it, and therefore led the multitudes to greatly go up [?]. Gaozu exploited their indolent neglect, strove and struck, and greatly routed them.

En knew the fort would not come down, and therefore advanced towards Hudu. Gaozu then abandoned the fort and pursued him. The Prefect of Haiyan, Bao Lou, dispatched his son Sizhi with 1 000 troops of Wu, he requested to be the vanguard. Gaozu said:

The traitor troops are the very best, the people of Wu are not practised in fighting. Suppose the vanguard loses its edge, [they will] surely defeat our army. [You] can stay in the rear, and be in support.

He did not follow.

That night, Gaozu prepared many ambush troops, combined with setting up banners and drums. As such the ones who stayed put did not exceed a few people. Next day, the traitors led the multitudes, more than ten thousand, to offer battle. As soon as the vanguard was engaged, the hidden [troops] all set out. They raised the banners, made sound and drummed. The traitors said there were armies on four sides and therefore withdrew. Sizhi pursued the flight and was overcome by the traitors.

Gaozu sometimes fought, sometimes withdrew. The traitors were abundant. Those he led were dead or injured, and moreover exhausted. Gaozu worried about not escaping. He arrived at the recent ambush troops' place [?], and then stopped. He ordered left and right to remove and take off the dead people's clothes. The traitors said he must be running to turn around and stop [?], and suspected there was still an ambush. Gaozu because of that called out for further battle, his spirit and appearance was very fierce. The traitor multitudes due to him being as such, pulled in the army and left. Gaozu calmly returned, and afterwards the scattered troops gathered little by little.

5th Month [29 May – 26 June], Sun En routed Hudu, and killed the Interior Clerk of Wu state, Yuan Shansong. 4 000 people died. That month, Gaozu again routed the traitors and Lou county.

6th Month [27 June – 26 July], En exploited the victory to sail the sea, and before long arrived at Dantu. His combat soldiers were more than 100 000. Liu Laozhi was still garrisoning Shanyin. The capital district was shaken.

Gaozu with multiple double marches arrived together with the traitors. At that time the multitudes' strength was already lacking, and additionally were tired and troubled due to the long march. Yet the defending army of Dantu did not have aspirations for contending. En led a multitude of several ten thousand, and with drums and clamour climbed Mount Suan. The resident people all carried the burden and stood up [?]. Gaozu led his command to run and strike, greatly routing him. Those who died from throwing themselves [?] from the peak into the water were a considerable multitude. En used rows of shields [?] to carry himself, and just managed to turn back on a boat.

Although he was broken and routed, he still relied on his multitudes' strength, and straight-away turned toward the Imperial City. His towered ships were tall and large, faced with [?] the wind he could not advance. After ten days he therefore arrived at Baishi. Soon after he learned that Liu Laozhi had turned back, and the imperial court was prepared. He thereupon ran towards Yuzhou [“Yu Island”].

8th Month [25 August – 23 September], used Gaozu as General who Establishes the Martial and Grand Warden of Xiapi. He led the navy to pursue En to Yuzhou, and again greatly routed En. En fled south.

11th Month [21 December – 19 January 402], Gaozu pursued En to Hudu. Reaching Haiyan, he again routed him. In the three battles, he also took many captives. The prisoners and tallied [dead] were accordingly several ten thousand. En, since from this there was starvation and famine, illness and pestilence, and the greater half were dead, ran from Jiakou to Linhai.

1st Year of Yuanxing, 1st Month [18 February – 19 March 402], the General of Agile Cavalry, Sima Yuanxian, campaigned west against the Inspector of Jing province, Huan Xuan. Xuan likewise led a great multitude from Jing and Chun, and came down [river] to punish Yuanxian. Yuanxian dispatched the General who Garrisons the North, Liu Laozhi, to resist him. Gaozu Assisted his Army Affairs. They stayed on Lizhou [“Li Island”].

Xuan arrived and Gaozu requested to strike him, but [Laozhi] did not permit it. He wanted to dispatched his son Jingxuan to go to Xuan and request peace. Gaozu and Laozhi's sister's child He Wuji of Donghai both firmly requested. He did not follow. Thereupon he dispatched Jingxuan to go to Xuan. Xuan overcame the capital district, and killed Yuanxian. He used Laozhi as Interior Clerk of Kuaiji. He was afraid and then beseeched Gaozu, saying:

[If he] readily snatches my troops, calamity is likely to arrive. Now I will go north to Gao Ya[zhi] at Guangling and raise the affair. Are you, Sir, able to accompany my departure?

He replied, saying:

The General, though with several ten thousand sturdy soldiers, looked to the wind and surrendered in submission. The other one recently gained his aspirations, his power shakes Under Heaven. With the people of the Three Armies' feelings, and the capital already distant [?], what can be gained by arriving in Guangling! [I], taboo [i.e. “Yu”], will turn back and return to Jingkou, that is all.

Laozhi rebelled [?] and left, and strangled himself to death.

He Wuji spoke to Gaozu, saying:

Where can I go?

Gaozu said:

[The General] who Conquers the North left [but] will surely not escape. You Sir can follow me and return to Jingkou. Huan Xuan is surely able to defend and control the northern front. I will serve him together with you Sir. If not so, I and Sir will plot against him. Right now are the days of Xuan concealing his feelings and relying on calculations [?]. He surely wants to employ our kind.

Huan Xuan's senior cousin Xiu, as [General who] Consoles the Army, was headquartered at Dantu. He used Gaozu as Army Assistant of the Central Troops, with army and commandery like before.

Sun En, since after he had fled in defeat his followers on the journey gradually scattered, feared to live to be captured. He therefore, in Linhai, threw himself in the water and died. The remaining multitudes pushed forward En's younger sister's husband Lu Xun as their master. Huan Xuan wished moreover to restore tranquillity in the eastern lands, and used Xun as Grand Warden of Yongjia. Xun, though he accepted the instructions, yet his robbing and brutality did not stop.

5th Month [16 June – 15 July], Xuan again dispatched Gaozu on an eastern conquest. At the time Xun had entered Dongyang from Linhai.

2nd Year, 1st Month [8 February – 8 March 403], Xuan again dispatched Gaozu to rout Xun in Danyang. Xun fled to Yongjia. He then pursued and routed him, and beheaded his chief leader Zhang Shidao. He pursued and punished to Jin'an. Xun sailed the sea to flee south.

6th Month [5 July – 3 August], promoted Gaozu to Interior Clerk of Pengcheng.

Huan Xuan became King of Chu, and wanted to plan usurpation by force. Xuan's senior cousin the General of Guards, Qian, screened off [?] people. He asked Gaozu, saying:

The King of Chu's merits and virtue are plentiful and weighty, the Four Seas are returning to the embrace. The feelings of the imperial court, all say [we] ought to be ceding and yielding. What do you Sir think about it?

Gaozu already had aspirations and desire to plot against Xuan, he therefore submissively demurred, and replied saying:

The King of Chu is the son of Xuanwu [Huan Wen], his merits and virtue overshadows the generation. The House of Jin is small and weak, the people have long expectations for change. To exploit fortune to abdicate and replace, how is it impermissible?

Qian happily said:

[If] you Sir say possibly so, it readily will be truly possibly so.

12th Month [30 December – 27 January 404], Huan Xuan usurped the rank of Emperor, and moved the Son of Heaven to Xunyang. Huan Xiu entered court, and Gaozu followed to come to imperial district. Xuan saw Gaozu, and spoke to the Minister over the Masses, Wang Mi, saying:

Yesterday [I] saw Liu taboo, his manners and temper are not regular. [He] probably is an outstanding person.

Always when visiting gatherings [?], he immediately pulled out and welcomed [him?] with the abundantly devotion, bestowing and conferring considerable wealth [?]. Gaozu more and more hated him. Someone advised Xuan, saying:

Liu taboo acts like a dragon and walks like a tiger, his looks and vision are not ordinary. [I] fear he will not be a subordinate person. [We] ought to anticipate him [?].

Xuan said:

I soon intend to pacify and wash clean the Central Plains. With no Liu taboo [I] cannot possible turn over to the great affair [?]. When Guan and Long are pacified and settled, afterwards [we] will separately discuss it, that is all.

Xuan therefore sent down a decree, saying:

Liu taboo, though lacking control of multitudes [?], again and again broke the bewitching spear point. Sailing the sea in thorough pursuit, out of ten he put to the end eight of them. The various generals fought strongly, many were heavily wounded. From the head of the host down to the generals and soldiers, all are equally suitable for discussing rewards, to thereby narrating merits and zeal.

Before this, when Gaozu was on the eastern conquest against Lu Xun, He Wuji accompanied him to Shanyin, and urged him to raise up righteousness in Kuaiji. Gaozu, considering as Xuan had not yet occupied the furthest rank, and moreover since Kuaiji was distant and remote so aid for the affair would be difficult, waited for him to usurp in rebellion and the affair to be brought forth. He proceeded calmly to Jiakou to plot against him, and did not worry over not achieving [it].

Reaching the point when Huan Xiu returned to the capital, Gaozu relied on using metal wounds [?] for the onset of illness, that he was not capable of follow on the travel. Then he and Wuji returned together on the same boat, to plan for establishing a prospering restoration. Hence he and his younger brother Daogui, Liu Yi of Pei commandery, Meng Chang of Pingchang, Wei Yongzhi of Rencheng, Tan Pingzhi of Gaoping, Zhuge Changmin of Langye, Wang Yuande of Taiyuan, Xin Huxing of Longxi, and Zhong Houzhi of Dongguan, all together made righteous plans.

At the time Huan Xiu's younger brother Hong was General who Conquers the Caitiffs and Inspector of Qing province, headquartered at Guangling. Daogui was Hong's Army Advisor of the Central Troops, Chang was the province' Master of Accounts. He therefore ordered Yi to secretly go and approach Chang, assemble followers on the north side of the Jiang, and plan to rise up with troops and kill Hong. Changmin was the Inspector of Yu province, Diao Kui's Army Assistant of the Left Army's Office. He planned to occupy Liyang in response [?]. Yuande and Houzhi planned in the capital district, to assemble multitudes and attack Xuan, and issue forth together at the appointed time.

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Biography of Lu Xun

[A direct descendant of Han’s Palace Attendant Lu Zhi 盧植 and Wei’s Minister of Works, Lu 盧毓. From JS100.]

Lu Xun, courtesy name Yuxian, child name Yuanlong, was the great grandson of the Assistant Officer Palace Gentleman to the Minister of Works, Chen. His pair of pupils were glinting and penetrating, the pupils made four movement [?]. He was good at the draft and clerical scripts and had ability for board games.

The sramana Huiyuan was a perceptive judge, he saw and spoke to him, saying:

Lord, though your body ventures with manners unaffected, yet your aspirations remain unconventional.

Xun married Sun En's younger sister. When En made chaos, he and Xun exchanged plans. En was by nature ruthless and cruel, Xun always admonished and stopped him. People and gentlemen often relied on [him] thereby to help [them] escape. En perished, the remaining multitudes pushed forward Xun as the ruler.

2nd Year of Yuanxing, 1st Month [8 February – 8 March 403], he robbed Dongyang, 8th Month [2 September – 1 October], he attacked Yongjia. Liu Yu punished Xun and arrived in Jin'an. Xun was in dire straits, he sailed the sea to go to Panyu, and robbed Guang province. He expelled the Inspector, Wu Yinzhi, and administered himself the affairs the affairs of the province, with the title of General who Pacifies the South. He dispatched envoys to present tribute. At the time the Imperial Court had recently executed the Huan clan, inside and outside there were many worries. Therefore they for the moment made use of Xun as General who Conquers the Caitiffs, Inspector of Guang province and Commander of the Palace Gentlemen who Pacifies the Yue.

In the middle of Yixi [405 – 418], Liu Yu attacked Murong Chao. The Grand Warden of Shixing set up by Xun, Xu Daofu, was Xun's elder sister's husband. He sent people to urge Xun to exploit the absence and set out. Xun did not follow. Daofu therefore arrived at Panyu, and explained to Xun, saying:

The Imperial Court persistently considers you Lord to be an illness of belly and heart. Excellency Liu does not yet have the return day. To not exploit this opportunity, then [you are] guarding the calm of a single day. Suppose after pacifying Qi, Excellency Liu himself leads the multitudes to arrive in Yuzhang, and dispatches a sharp host to go beyond the peaks, even with the Lord's godly martial ability, [you will] certainly not be able to do it.

Today's chance ten thousand [times] cannot be lost. As soon as we overcome the capital district, Liu Yu, even if he turns back, there is nothing he will be able to do about it. Lord, if you do not agree, [I] readily will lead the multitudes of Shixing straight towards Xunyang.

Xun was considerably unhappy with this recommendation, but there was nothing by which to reject his plan, he therefore followed it.

Earlier, Daofu had secretly desired to outfit warships, he therefore sent people to hew ship timber in the mountains of Nankang, and falsely stated he wanted to send them down to the capital and trade them. Later he claimed his strength was small and he was unable get them delivered, and so would sell them cheaply in the commandery, the price reduced several times. The inhabitants were greedy and cheap, sold clothes and things, and bargained for them.

The Gan was stony and waters quick [?], and setting out ships was very difficult, everyone stored them. It went like this four times, for that reason ship registers greatly accumulated, and yet the hundred families had no suspicions about it. When Daofu raised troops, he relied on the sales contracts and took them, nobody got to secret away and hide. He then combined strength to outfit them, after ten days he was ready.

Thereupon he raised multitudes to rob Nankang, Luling and Yuzhang commanderies, the wardens and stewards all consigned and delegated to run and flee. The General who Garrisons the South, He Wuji, led the multitudes to resist him, his army was defeated and he was murdered.

Xun dispatched Daofu to rob Jiangling, he had not yet arrived when he was defeated by the government army. He hurried to run and inform Xun, saying:

[I] request to combine strength to attack the Imperial Capital. If we overcome it, Jiangling will not be anything to worry about.

They therefore joined banners and went down, their armed soldiers were a hundred thousand, the sterns and bows numbered a thousand. They defeat the General of Guards, Liu Yi, at Sangluo Island, and passed by to arrive at Jiangning.

Daofu habitually made audacious decisions, and knew Liu Yu had already returned, and wished for potency or loss [?] in a single battle. He requested from Xinting to arrive at Baishi, burn the ships and go up, to make several marches [?] and attack him. Xun had many plans but made few decisions, and wished to use stratagems that were ten thousand times secure, because of that he did not listen. Daofu since Xun never decided, therefore sighed and said:

I in the end was misled by Excellency Lu, the affair will surely be unsuccessful. To cause me to get be a gallant hero spurring and hurrying along, Under Heaven is not enough to settle!

Yu feared their stealthy [?] onrush, and therefore palisaded Shitou, cutting off Zhapu, to thereby resist them. Xun attacked the palisades but did not profit, the warships were overturned by a violent wind, and people were dying. He deployed the columns on the southern bank, fought and again achieved defeat. He therefore advanced to attack Jingkou, and robbed and plundered the various counties without obtainig. Xun spoke to Daofu, saying:

The host is aged, and is not able to repeatedly bestir. [We] can occupy Xunyang, combine strenght and attack Jing province, and calmly once more go down and strive and measure with the capital. It is still possible to succeed.

Following that he ran south from Cai Island, and again occupied Xunyang. Yu had previously dispatched a crowd of leaders to pursue and punish, he himself commanded the great multitude to carry on the advance, and again defeated Xun at Leichi.

Xun wished to escape and turn back to Yuzhang, he therefore with full strength palisaded and cut of Zuoli. Yu instructed the multitudes to attack the palisades. Xun's multitudes , though fighting to the death, were still unable to withstand. Yu exploited the victory to strike them. Xun fled on a single boat, he gathered the scattered soldiers and obtained more than a thousand people, and turned back to guard Guang province.

Yu had previously dispatched Sun Chu to follow the sea way and occupy Panyu city. Xun attacked him, but did not bring him down. Daofu guarded Shixing, and because of the defiles strengthen himself. Xun therefore assaulted Hepu, and overcame it. He advanced to attack Jiao province, and e arrived at Longbian. The Inspector, Du Huidu, deceived and then defeated him.

Xun's might was at end, and he knew he could not escape. He first poisoned his wife and children, more than ten people, and also summoned his performers and concubines, and asked them, saying:

I now will kill myself, who of you are able of the same?

Many stated:

Sparrows and rats are greedy for life, approaching death truly people feel difficulty. [?]

It was also stated:

An official still must die. So-and-so, why desire to live!

Hence he wholly poisoned those who expressed death, and following that threw himself in the water. Huidu took his corpse, and beheaded it, and his father Gu. The co-partisans where altogether captured, and he transmitted the head[s] to the Imperial Capital.

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Annals of Gaozu of Song, Part 5

[This completes Songshu scroll 1, the Annals of Gaozu continues in Scroll 2.

The full Scroll 1 can be read here: https://bookofzhou.tumblr.com/ss001]

During His Excellency's northern attack, Xu Daofu still had aspirations of spying through the side-door. He urged Lu Xun to exploit the absence and set out. Xun did not follow. Daofu therefore came to Panyu to explain to Xun, saying:

Originally [we] dwelt outside the mountain peaks, why attend to the pinnacle here. Just consider Excellency Liu's difficulties to be enemies with him [like?] before [?]. Now soon [to] shake up the troops, strengthen the cities and go down [?], [we do] not have a day's circle. Consider this thought to return [dare-to] die soldiers, to ambush and assault the followers of He and Liu, is like turning around the palm, that is all.

To not exploit this opportunity, then [you are] guarding the calm of a single day. Suppose after the pacifying Qi, the short time to rest the armour and rear the multitudes will not exceed an interval of one or two years, [and then] surely [there will be] a letter with the imperial signet to summon you Lord. Suppose Excellency Liu himself leads the multitudes to arrive in Yuzhang, and dispatches a sharp host to go beyond the peaks, even with the General's godly martial ability, [I] fear [you will] not be able to do it.

Today's chance ten thousand [times?] cannot be lost. As soon as we overcome the capital district, [we will] upset his foundation and root. Excellency Liu, even if he turns back, there is nothing he will be able to do about it.

Xun followed it, and therefore led the multitudes beyond the peaks. That month, he robbed Nankang, Luling and Yuzhang. The various commandery wardens all consigned and delegated to run and flee.

At that time news of pacifying Qi had not yet arrived, they then hurried messengers to travel to His Excellency. At first when His Excellency had vanquished Qi, he desired to stop and headquarter at Xiapi, to purify and cleanse He and Luo. But not long after summoning envoys arrived, and the very day he led back the host.

The General who Garrisons the South, He Wuji, fought with Xu Daofu in Yuzhang, and achieved defeat. Wuji was murdered. Inside and outside shook in terror. The Imperial Court desired to receive the Driving Carriage and run north to go to His Excellency. Soon after they learned the thieves had decidedly [?] not arrived, people's feeling were a little calmed.

His Excellency arrived at Xiapi, he used ships to transport the supply wagons, and himself led spirited and sharp [troops] to march home. He arrived at Shanyang, and heard Wuji had been murdered. He then worried the imperial district had lost the defences, and therefore rolled up the armour and made combined marches, and with several thousand men arrived above the Huai [?]. He heard from travellers accordingly tidings from the Imperial Court. People said:

The thieves have still not yet arrived. If Excellency Liu returns, there readily will be nothing to worry about.

His Excellency was very happy, and on a single boat went beyond the Jiang. He arrived directly at Jingkou, the multitudes were greatly calmed.

4th Month, guiwei [20 May], His Excellency arrived at the Imperial City, he loosened the strictures and rested the armour.

The General who Consoles the Army, Liu Yi, unyieldingly petitioned for a southern campaign. His Excellency sent Yi a letter which said:

I in the past practised striking the bewitching thieves, and understood their changeable manners. They recently obtained a perfidious edge, their spear-points cannot be taken lightly. [We?] ought certainly to finish outfitting and making ready, and launch together with younger brother.

He also dispatched Yi's junior cousin Fan to go and halt him. Yi did not follow, and with a naval host of 20 000 set out from Gushu.

At first when Xu came down, he sent Daofu towards Xunyang, [while] he himself robbed the various commanderies within Xiang. The Inspector of Jiang province, Daogui, dispatched an army [and?] arrived at Changsha. [He?] was defeated by Xun. He straight-away arrived at Baling, and wanted to go towards Jiangling.

Daofu heard Yi was coming up, and hurried messengers to report to Xun, saying:

Yi's troops and multitudes are very abundant, success and defeat in affairs are bound up with this, [we] ought to combine strength to dash him. If this achieves victory, Under Heaven will have no affairs again [?]. With foundation and root already settled, there will be no worries of the above face [?] not being pacified.

Xun the very day set out for Baling. He joined banners with Daogui and went down. He separately had eight ships with nine tree-trunks, and erected four storeys, 12 zhang tall.

His Excellency, since to the southern hinterlands were overturned and lost, petitioned to deliver distinctions and ribbon, a decree did not listen.

5th Month [18 June – 17 July], Liu Yi achieved defeat at Sangluo Island, he abandoned the ships and ran on foot. The remaining multitudes who did not manage to get away were all captured by the thieves.

Earlier, when Xun arrived at Xunyang, he heard His Excellency had already come back, but did not believe it. When he had routed Yi, he therefore scrutinized news of the triumphant entry [?], he also saw and lost colour [?]. Xun wished to withdraw and return to Xunyang, and advance to pacify Jiangling, and occupy the two provinces to thereby withstand the Imperial Court. Daofu said they ought to exploit the victory and straight-away advance, he firmly disputed it. He doubted and discussed for many days, and then was following.

The news of Yi's defeat arrived, inside and outside were restless and agitated. At the time the northern host began to come back, with many cuts, wounds and illnesses. The Imperial City's fighting soldiers did not fill several thousand. The thieves had already routed the Jiang and Yu headquarters, with more than 100 000 fighting soldiers, the ships and chariots did not break for a hundred li. Those who returned from running in defeat equally voiced their manly flourishing.

Meng Chang and Zhuge Changmin feared the thieves would gradually pressure, and desired and embrace the Son of Heaven to go beyond the Jiang. His Excellency did not listen. Chang firmly requested and did not stop. His Excellency said:

Now the weighty headquarters on the outside are overturned, the strong thieves on the inside are pressured. People feel imperilled and frightened, and do not have a firm will. Suppose in one morning [we] move and act, we will readily ourself loosen the tiles and collapse the earth. Likewise, how can we get to arrive north of the Jiang! If we do get to arrive, it will not go beyond delaying a day or month, and that is all.

Now the troops and soldiers, although few, are self-sufficient accordingly for a single battle. Suppose they manage to cross, then subjects and ruler are resting together. If after all ill fortune must arrive, I will then die guarding the altars of soil and grain, corpse athwart the temple gates. Consequently, it coming from accordingly aspirations of personal dedication to the state [?], [I am] not able to run far away to seek a living among the grasses. I have already decided, Sir must not speak of it again!

Chang feared they would not cross, and therefore made a petition which said:

Your Subject [and?] taboo on the northern punishment campaign, the multitudes were all not in agreement. Only Your Subject aided taboo in acting out the plan. This caused to make strong thieves exploit the space, and the altars of soil and grain were imperilled and pressured, the fault of Your Subject. Now [I] vigilantly call attention to the duty, thereby apologizing to Under Heaven.

When the sealed memorial was finished, he then looked up to drugs and then died.

And so [he] greatly began rewarding recruitment. Those who threw in to personally attend righteousness as one climbed the sections [?] of the capital walls. He set out the reside with the people and administer Shitou fort, and established the serrated banners and stern precautions.

At the time debaters said they ought to divide the troops and defend the various fords and strategic places. His Excellency considered it as:

The thieves are multitudes and we are few. Suppose we divide the troop garrisons, then people estimate empty and true. Moreover if a single place is unsuccessful, it will dispirit the hearts of the Three Armies. Now we assemble the multitudes at Shitou, following that we ought respond and hurry. Then we will make the thieves have nothing by which to estimate many or few, and also the multitudes' strength will not be divided. Suppose the followers travels to move and assemble, [we can] with composure readily discuss it, that is all.

He moved to garrison Shitou, and then fenced the Huai [?] and cut off Chupu. Afterwards the crowd of thieves greatly arrived. His Excellency planned against them, saying:

Suppose the thieves advance straight from Xinting, and their spear-point cannot do it, [we?] ought furthermore to turn around and escape, and the affair of victory or loss cannot yet be measured. Suppose they turn to anchor at the western bank, this is a complete capture, that is all.

Daofu wished from Xinting and Baishi to burn the ships and go up. Xun had many doubts and few decisions, he always worried about what was ten thousand times secure. He spoke to Daofu, saying:

The great army had not yet arrived, Meng Chang readily looked at the wind and cut out himself. The great momentum speaks of it [?], myself will plan the day's dispersing chaos [?]. Now to decide victory or loss in a single morning, and then not certainly settling its road, and moreover kill and wound gentlemen and soldiers, is not as good as restraining the troops and wait for it.

His Excellency at that time climbed the walls of Shitout to thereby look at Xun's army, and began to see it pull out towards Xinting. His Excellency looked left and right and lost colour. [They] then turned towards anchoring at Cai Island. Daofu still wished to go up, Xun forbade it. From that point the multitude armies moved and assembled. They restored and set in order Yuecheng, and built the Chapu, Yaoyuan and Tingwei Ramparts. All were guarded using replete multitudes [?].

The General of the Best of the Army, Liu Jingxuan, garrisoned the northern suburbs, the General who Assists the State, Meng Huaiyu, garrisoned the west of Danyang commandery, the General who Establishes the Martial, Wang Zhongde, garrisoned Yuecheng, the General who Broadens the Martial, Liu Huaimo, garrisoned the Jianyang Gate.

He made the General who Soothes the Boreal, Suo Maio lead Xianbei with barding and tiger markings, more than a thousand charging cavalry, everyone with five coloured cloaks, to arrive at Xinting from north of the Huai. The thieves all assembled to look, everyone feared and and dreaded them. And still [they] hoped there were those in the imperial district and the Three Wu who submitted to them [?]. They dispatched more than 10 warships to come and pull out Shitou's palisades. His Excellency instructed spirited crossbowmen to shoot at them, and sent out immediately to destroy and sink [them]. Xun therefore desisted and did not again attack the palisades.

They prepared hidden troops at the southern bank, and sent the weak and old to altogether sail the warships towards Baishi. His Excellency worried they would consequently march up from Baishi, and therefore led Liu Yi and Zhuge Changmin to set out north and resist them. He kept the Army Advisor Xu Chite to guard the southern bank, and instructed [him] to firmly defend, and not move. His Excellency then left. The thieves burnt Chapu and marched up. Chite's army fought and was defeated, the dead and gone were more than a hundred people. Chite abandoned the remaining multitudes, and on a single boat crossed the Huai. The thieves thereupon led several ten thousand to garrison Danyang commandery.

His Excellency led the various armies to hurry back. The multitudes worried the thieves would pass by [?], and all together spoke to His Excellency undertake to straight-away turn back and resist in battle. His Excellency had previously divided off an army to turn back to Shitou, the multitudes were not aware of it. He loosened the armour and rested the soldiers, washed and bathed, drank and ate, and then set out to arrange and deploy at the southern embankment. Since Chite had disobeyed his place and duties, he beheaded him.

He instructed the Army Advisors Chu Shudu and Zhu Lingshi to lead sturdy and brave soldiers, more than a thousand people, beyond the Huai. The crowd of thieves were several thousand, all with long swords, spears metalled and extended [?], the finest armour gleaming in the sun. Rising and jumping, they strove to advance. Lingshi was leading many Xianbei, good at marching with the spears. They side by side joined up and deployed to wait for them. The thieves' meagre troops were not able to oppose, the dead and wounded were several hundred people. They therefore withdrew and ran. When the sun set, the multitudes likewise came back.

At the defeat of Liu Yi, the Master of Accounts for Yu province, Yuan Xingguo, had turned to rebellion, and occupied Liyang to thereby submit to the thieves. The Interior Clerk of Langye, Wei Shunzhi, dispatched the general Xie Bao to punish and behead him. Xingguo's Marshal assaulted Bao. Shunzhi did not save him but withdrew. His Excellency in anger beheaded him. Shunzhi was the younger brother of Yongzhi. Hence the merited subjects shook in fear, and did not dare not to employ instructions.

6th Month [18 July – 15 August], furthermore conferred on His Excellency Grand Commandant and Overseer of the Palace Writers, and additionally Yellow Battle-Axe. He accepted Yellow Battle-Axe and firmly declined the remainder. Used the Marshal, Yu Yue, as General who Establishes Power and Inspector of Jiang province, to set out from Dongyang to Yuzhang.

7th Month, gengshen [25 August], the crowd of thieves fled south from Cai Island, and turned back to garrison Xunyang. Dispatched the General who Assists the State, Wang Zhongde, the Grand Warden of Guangchuan, Liu Zhong, the Grand Warden of Hejian, Kuai En, to pursue them. His Excellency turned back to the Eastern Office, and greatly set in order the navy. All the great warships were multi-storied, their height more than 10 zhang.

Lu Xun dispatched his great general Xun Lin to rob Jiangling. Huan Qian previously had run from Jiangling to the Qiang, and again from the Qiang to join Shu. The bogus ruler Qiao Zong used him as Inspector of Jing province. Qian and Qiao Daofu# led an army of 20 000, and set out to rob Jiangling. Just then they met with Lin, they were a hundred li apart from each other. The Inspector of Jing province, Daogui beheaded Qian at Zhijiang, and routed Lin at Jiangjin. He pursued him to Zhuting and beheaded him.

Earlier, at the flight of Xun, His Excellency knew he would certainly rob Jiangling, and at time [?] dispatched the Interior Clerk of Huailing, Suo Miao, to lead a cavalry army to march the roads and aid Jing province. He also dispatched General who Establishes Power, Sun Jigao, led a multitude of 3 000, from the sea roads to assault Panyu.

The Inspector of Jiang province, Yu Yue arrived at Wumu Peak. The thieves dispatched more than a thousand people to occupy and cut off the road to the peak. Yue's vanguard, the Grand Warden of Poyang, Yuqiu Jin, attacked and routed them.

His Excellency set in order the troops [and made] great preparations.

10th Month [13 November – 11 December], he led the Inspector of Yan province, Liu Fan, the General who Soothes the Boreal, Tan Shao, and others, with a naval host for a southern attack. He used the General of the Rear, Liu Yi, to oversee [the affairs of the] Grand Commandant and stay to guard the office, rear affairs all entrusted to him.

That Month, Xu Daofu led a multitude of 30 000 to rob Jiangling. The Inspector of Jing province, Daogui, again greatly routed him, the cut off heads numbered more than 10 000. Daofu fled and turned back to Penkou.

Earlier, at His Excellency's dispatching of Suo Miao, Miao on the road was cut off by the thieves. Daofu's defeat later just came through [?]. Since Xun had gone up east, Jiangling had been severed and cut from news of the capital district, what came through all stated it was already lost. When Miao arrived, they just then knew Xun had fled.

When Xun began to flee south from Cai Island, he kept behind his close partisan Fan Chongmin with 5 000 people and more than a hundred tall warships to defend Nanling. Wang Chongde and others heard the great army was about to arrive, and therefore advanced to attack him.

11th Month [12 December – 10 January], they greatly routed Chongmin's army, burnt his warships, and gathered his scattered soldiers.

Xun's defensive troops in Guang province did not consider the sea way to be guarded against. That Month, the General who Establishes Power, Sun Jigao, exploited the sea to suddenly arrive. But the walls and moat were steep and orderly, and the troops were about several thousands. Jigao burnt the thieves' warships, and with all his strength then went up. He attacked them on four sides, and the very day slaughtered their city. Xun's father used a light boat to run to Shixing. Jigao consoled their former populations, massacred their friends and partisans, and directed the troops to guard prudently.

Earlier, when His Excellency dispatched Jigao, the multitudes all together considered the sea way to be difficult and remote, and surely to arrive would be difficult. And moreover to divide and clear away the visible strength, two or three were not essential [?]. His Excellency did not follow. He counselled Jigao, saying:

The great army's engagement in the 12th Month, surely will rout the bewitching caitiffs. Sir presently will arrive in Guang province, and upset their nest hole. Now at the day of the thieves running and fleeing, they will have no place to return to and take refuge.

Jigao accepted the instructions and went, and at the appointed time achieved victory.

Xun just then was ordering the troops travelling on warships, and made various attack preparations. His Excellency wished to steer using long calculations, and therefore garrisoned the army at Leichi [“Lei Pond”]. The thieves made it known they would not attack Leichi, they would steer and sail straight-away downwards [?]. His Excellency knew they desired battle, and moreover worried that at thieves' defeat in battle, some would enter the sea at Jingjiang. He dispatched Wang Chongde with 200 warships at Jiyang to go down and cut them off.

12th Month [11th January – 8 February], Xun and Daofu led a multitude of several ten thousand, lashed together [?] the warships and went down. Front and rear shielded each other, and one could not see the juncture of bow and stern. His Excellency wholly set out light and swift to engage the warships, he personally held the banner and drum, and instructed the army strike them with concerted strength. He also sent up infantry and cavalry to the western bank. The Army Advisor of the Right Army, Yu Lesheng steered the warships and did not advance. He beheaded and toured [?] him. Hence the multitude armies equally leapt and vaulted to be first in the fight.

Within the army there were many ten thousand jin spirited crossbowmen [?]., on arriving they could not but break and sink. His Excellency in the middle of the flow was anxious about it, because of the strength of the wind and water. The thieves' warships were fully anchored on the western bank. The sent up army first prepared fire implements, and then threw fire to burn them. The smoke and flames stretched to the sky, the thieves' multitudes were great defeated. They pursued the flight until night and then returned. Xun and others turned back to Xunyang. Earlier, when he had divided off the and dispatched the foot army, they could not but doubt and grumble [?]. When they burnt the thieves' warships, the multitudes then happily acknowledged.

He summoned Wang Chongde, and requested he come back to be the vanguard. He kept the General who Assists the State, Meng Huaiyu, to guard Leichi. Xun heard that great army had gone up, and desired to flee towards Yuzhang, he therefore with full strength palisaded and cut of Zuoli. The great army arrived at Zuoli and was about to fight. The banner pole held by His Excellency snapped, and the snapped off banner sank into the water. The multitudes all grumbled with fear. His Excellency happily laughed and said:

In a bygone year at the battle of Fuzhou, the banner pole likewise snapped. Now it is again so, the thieves will surely rout.

Then they attacked the palisades and advanced. Xun's troops, though fighting desperately, were unable to endure. The various armies exploited the victory and ran them off. Xun fled on a single boat. Those who were killed or thrown into the water and died were altogether more than 10 000 people. He accepted their surrendering adherents, and pardoned their compelling and plundering.

He dispatched Liu Fan and Meng Huaiyu to quickly pursue them. Gathered his scattered soldiers, they still were several thousand people, and straight-away turned back to Guang province. Daofu turned back to guard Shixing. His Excellency turned around from Zuoli. The Son of Heaven dispatched Palace Attendants and Yellow Gates to reassure the host on the journey.

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