LITERARY FUGITIVES. 47 soocess^ was eager to gain possession of Li's successor. The latter pretended to be willing to acknowledge Bun Us superior; but while he sent friendly messages, he set an ambusL Bun was gladly advancing to receive the submission of that official, when he was pounced upon by this ambush, seized and put to death, along with all his family. Chinyo had more important matters to attend to than avenging the death of his self-constituted, ambitious protector. For the internal anarchy of China had reached a climax, and the power and terror of the Huns increased in proportion. Chinyo was in such straits for men that he applied for a Hienbi army to revenge the death of the imperial commander, Li Jwun, who had been defeated by the Hun chief Shulua, taken and beheaded. The Dwan Hienbi, to whom he first applied, were in no hurry to go to> the appointed rendezvous ; and Chinyo, in his anger, commanded Kwei to raise the neighbourhood, and chastise Dwan. Kwei was only too ready to do what he was ordered to, and immediately sent off his son Han with an army, which defeated that of Dwan ; pursuing the latter from Hosinchung to Yanglo, an ancient city in the neighbourhood of the present Eangchow. But Han, hearing of the defeat of a Chinese contingent sent to second him, retired, leaving a garrison in Chingshan, whose site was near the present Yichow of Liaosi* The success of Han increased the renown of his father Kwei, who was already famous as a .waxrior and as a ruler, and especially celebrated as a refuge and hospitable entertainer of all fleeing from the anarchy inside the Chinese borders. At first, Chinyo was the centre to which literates, and people with much to lose, were attracted from northern Chinaw But when he himself was struggling in deep waters, they began to look elsewhere for shelter. They first tried Dwan, both in Liaosi and Liaotung ;
- Ajb Dwsn was north of Moyoong, it is moBt likely that Hofliiichimg was sooth
or south-west of Yanglo, and Yanglo was apparently north or east of Chingshan ; for as Han ultimately retired'* to the latter, from which (or Tooho) he was summoned to his father's aid, aU these places were to the north of the modem. kOW.
