JAO BROKEN UP. 79 HiaDggwo, completely defeated him, slew over 100,000 men, and broke up his army. Jao enacted very severe laws, which drove large numbers of Chiang and Hoo (Tibet and Hunnish) families out of the country; for, notwithstanding the massacre, many had again collected. As these were on their way to their respective countries they heard that their native lands were at war. They " fell out by the way," and scarcely a fifth of those departing ever saw their native country. But if Jao's laws were severe, the power to equally and justly enforce them was gone. And it was not severe laws, but anarchy, which drove Bohai into making an alliance with Wei, which power was making great preparations to restore its lost prestige. And, in the following spring, General Hoong started as Chin (Shensi) Wang, thus making another ominous gap in the defensive power of Jao. After the precautions taken to prevent desertion of Hienbi (p. 78), the Yen General Ping marched south, and captured Yichow, then took Changan, whose Commandant had fled. Jwun returned thence to Loongchung, where he, by sacrifice, informed his ancestors of the extension of the Yen power. After Ping, at Nanan, defeated a force sent against him by the Commander of Lookow, he pressed on to Lookow. Kooyoo, with its magistrate, opened its gates ; and General Yijoong, seeing that the power of Jao was about to gasp its last, made his peace with Jwun, and was made Great Doodoo of the Six Yi (barbarians of the west), his son being made a Commander. Bohai was also hesitating whether it should not join Yen ; while Joongshan * had fallen before General Go, who sent many of its ministers and people to Eichow. It was now evident that the absorption of the rich country of Jao into the poor country of Yen was only a matter of a few months, and as there was no Congress of Berlin to compel an unscrupulous Power to disgorge, Wei rushed in to scramble for a share of the spoil. The attack was again directed on the Capital, and, as might be expected, with more complete success
- The present Tisgchow.
