. Peking and the overland route. ojrether withmost of the temjiKs and other struetures in the eiielosureby Chia Chiny ^1;>2J-unufhs, fa\orites of the seraglio, andtreacherous syco])hants ruled the c<)untry and controlled. Coal Hill from the EjimI 48 the persons of the Emperors to their own ends. ChungCheng was an ardent reformer throughout his reign andstruggled manfully up to the very moment when he sawhis city in flames, to reshape officialdom and put thecentral government upon a substantial foundation. Hebegan by drastic measures, and at one time executedmore than 200 high court offic
. Peking and the overland route. ojrether withmost of the temjiKs and other struetures in the eiielosureby Chia Chiny ^1;>2J-unufhs, fa\orites of the seraglio, andtreacherous syco])hants ruled the c<)untry and controlled. Coal Hill from the EjimI 48 the persons of the Emperors to their own ends. ChungCheng was an ardent reformer throughout his reign andstruggled manfully up to the very moment when he sawhis city in flames, to reshape officialdom and put thecentral government upon a substantial foundation. Hebegan by drastic measures, and at one time executedmore than 200 high court officials in a palace cleansingmovement. Good men were hard to find however, andthough he changed prime ministers 4-7 times he wasreduced to palace eunuchs for advisers at the last andlost his capital through the treachery of the generals towhom he had entrusted his greatest fortifications. ^^ hile the ^lanehus were building an Empire in Man-churia with the capital at ^lukden, a revolution startedin Shensi about 1630 under the leadership of a man namedLi Tze Cireng, who gathered under his standard thehordes of starving and desperate countrymen who hadturned bandits as a last;ueans of earning a living. Aftera succession of vi
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