daughter in marriage (see La Hau). Meanwhile, the eoontry
groaning nnder oppressiye taxation and forced labonr; and on one
occasion, when Lin Pang was in chaige of a partj of labonren
proceeding to carry ont some palace-bnilding operations to gratify
a whim of the First Emperor, so many of the men died of
exhaustion that the remainder decided to proceed no fiurther. Under
the leadership of Lin Pang they retired to the mountain fiutneans
between Eiangsn and Honan, until the death of the First Bmpennr
and the news of Gh'^n Sh6ng*s revolt in B.C. 209 caused the
people of P'ei to put to death their Magistrate and appoint Lin
Pang to rule over them, under the title of Duke of Pei. In B.G.
208 he joined with Hsiang Liang in ridsing to the throne of the
resuscitated Gh^u State, under the title of '^ ^E* ^^ grandson
of the former king who had been lured to GhHn and had never
returned. On the death of Hsiang Liang, he was appointed by the
young monarch to the command of the southern army; and proceeding
to Hsien-yang, the capital of Gh4n, he anticipated his rival, Hsiang
Chi, nephew of Hsiang Liang, by receiving the submission of TeH-
ying, the son of Fn Su, who had been set up as king by the
eunuch Chao Eao, after the murder by the latter of Hu Hai, the
Second Emperor. Now it had been agreed that whichever of the
generals should first enter Hsien-yang should be rewarded with the
Principality of Ch4n. Accordingly, no sooner had Liu Pang arrived
than he issued a proclamation abrogating the severe laws then
existing, and enacted three simple laws in their stead, referring
only to murder, bodily injury, and theft. The arrival however of
Hsiang Chi changed the face of affairs, and in the end Liu Pang
obtained only Ssttch'uan and a part of Shensi, with the title of
Prince of Han. From this moment these two men were at open
enmity, which culminated in the terrible battle at P^6ng-ch'6ng in
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