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168 SINLO. tsacrifioe the lives of so many innooent men for the sake of one or two guilty ones. Towards the end of this year (648), General Wan Chua returned from CbolL The discreditable fact that he had been driven out by defeat, is left to be guessed at from the fact that he was transported to Hiangchung ; for defeats which can be glossed over are invisible in Chinese histoiy. He had sailed with 30,000 men from Laichow the preceding year ; but how many he brought back is unknown. Sinlo was in distress at the same time ; for only a few months before did she get the emperor's appointment oiP a new king, and now she had to report thirteen of her cities taken by BaijL In this same year (648), with TookUe actively liostile on the west and north-west, and Gaoli defiant in the east^ Koogo, a Kitan general, submitted to Tang, and was made Doodoo of Soongmo; a prefecture created for him north of Liwchung, the original seat of Eitan. Meantime ship building was going on without cessation, to the great distress of the carpenters, who complained of their grinding slavery; and the emperor complained in his turn, as he had done oftener than once before, of the persistency with which his ministers deprecated war on Gaoli And this emperor, the ablest of the Tang dynasty, and its real founder, passed away with Corea unconquered, and Gaisoowun still in power. His ninth son began to reign in the summer of 649 ; and though he was so attached to his father that he would not leave him day nor night in his illness — ^tasting no food for several days, his hair becoming grey with anxiety — ^he at once reversed his father's policy; disbanded the Liaotung armies; and stopped the expense of "building with eaxih, and working in wood." Two years after, Baiji sent 'in ambassadors with tribute ; to whom the emperor said, that they must desist from fighting with Gaoli and Sinlo, else be must march against them. And in the following year, all the three eastern kingdoms forwarded tribute. But in 554, Gaoli sent their General Angoo at the head of native and Mogo troops against Eitan, in the north and north- west of Liaotung ; the Eitan being then very steady adherents