A Chinese Biographical Dictionary 395examined by the Emperor Wa Ti; but on being sent on a mission

to the Hsiung-na, he failed to satisfy his Majesty's expectations. He sabsequently rose to be a Privy Councillor, and was ennobled as Marquis. He still continued to live in most frugal style, giving all his salary to poor and deserving strangers, for whom he opened a kind of guest-house. He is even said to have used the same cotton quilt for ten years. He was impeached as a traitor by Chi An, but this only resulted in attaching the Emperor more strongly to him. Noted also for his filial behaviour to his stepmother, for whom he wore mourning during the fall period of three years.

1031 Kimg-Sim Lung ^ ^ f| . Srd cent B.C. Said by Tsou Ten to be the wisest man in the State of Ghao. He was also noted for his skill in arguing on the "hard and white'* (see Hui TzH).

1032 Kung-snn O ^^ H (T. 子都). A very handsome man, who lived about 700 B.C. He won the prize of a chariot, offered to whosoever should prove the strongest man in the army of the Earl of Gh«ng.

1033 Kung-sun Shu ^ -^ Jjfc or 公孫叔 (T. 子陽). Died A.D. 86. The conqueror of Shu, modern Sstich'uan, where he established himself under the title of the 白帝 White Emperor. The son of a former Governor of Honan, he was himself Governor of Shu between A.D. 14—22. In A.D. 23 he invited the rebel 宗成 Tsung Ch'dng to Sstich^uan; but finding him to be a mere bandit, he slew him and received the submission of his followers. In 24 he proclaimed himself Prince, and in 25 Emperor of Shu, with white as his Imperial colour and his capital at Ch'dng^tu. His rule was acknowledged by Wei Hsiao, to whom he sent 10,000 troops to fight against the Emperor Euang Wu Ti. In SS he captured ^ |1| Wu-shan, I-ch'ang, and || ^ I-tu. But in 37 the Han generals Wu Han and J^ ^ Ts'dn P'dng forced the passive,

and invested Gh^Sng-tu. The White Emperor died of a wound he