quelling a rising of the aborigines, he gave full play to his zeal for reform. This gained him the love of the people, and even now, after a century and a half, the women and children of Chehkiang are still familiar with the name of "Governor Chao." But his arbitrary ways kept him in perpetual trouble, and he was repeatedly impeached, until in 1709 he was transferred to Peking as President of the Censorate. In 1711 he denounced the seditious work entitled 南山集孑遺錄, and its author 戴名世 Tai Ming-shih was executed. In 1713 he became President of the Board of Revenue, but did not get on with his colleagues. In 1715 he incurred a severe rebuke over the embezzlement of public funds by one of his sons, who was beheaded. Three years later he wished to retire, but was kept in office, all the sums due by him being remitted. A record of his government, entitled 寶政錄, was published by the Hunanese, and one of his clerks also published a collection of his official writings. Canonised as 恭毅 and included in 1730 in the Temple of Worthies.
182 Chao Shih 趙是. A.D. 1268-1278. Eldest son of Chao Ch'i. On the capture of Chao Hsien by Bayan in 1276, he was proclaimed at Foochow eighth Emperor of the Southern Sung dynasty by 陳宜中 Ch'ên I-chung, Lu Hsiu-fu, and other patriots. His mother, the concubine 楊 Yang, was entrusted with the Regency. Chang Shih-chieh, who had made the last attempt to hold the Yang-tsze with the fleet, and Wên T'ien-hsiang, also rallied to his standard; but the Mongol armies overbore all opposition, and the boy-sovereign had to be taken to sea, escaping the Mongol fleet only by a lucky fog. He wandered south along the coast, driven from refuge to refuge, until in the spring of 1277 an alarm in the north recalled the enemy's forces. Some successes now encouraged the vagabond Court; but the respite was short, and in the autumn Canton was again captured.
