Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . rulers having been content with theinferior title of Wang, or prince. He adoptedthe convenient decimal division in his admin-istration as well as his coinage. His domin-ions were divided into ten provinces, each ofthese into ten departments, these again intoten districts, each of which held ten regulated the calendar, originating theChinese cycle of sixty years, and he en
Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . rulers having been content with theinferior title of Wang, or prince. He adoptedthe convenient decimal division in his admin-istration as well as his coinage. His domin-ions were divided into ten provinces, each ofthese into ten departments, these again intoten districts, each of which held ten regulated the calendar, originating theChinese cycle of sixty years, and he encour-aged commerce. He seems to have been awise ruler and to have been the first of thegreat Emperors. His grandson, who wasalso Emperor, continued his good work andearned the reputation of being the restoreror even founder of true astronomy. But the most famous of Hwangtis succes-sors was his great grandson Yao, who isstill one of the most revered of all Chineserulers. He was diligent, enlightened,polished, and prudent, and if his wordsreflected his actions he must have been mostsolicitous of the welfare of his people. Heis specially remarkable for his anxiety to dis-cover the best man to succeed him in V-^c. 20 CHINA: PAST AND PRESENT. government, and dlringthe last twenty-eightyears of his reign he associated the ministerChun with him for that purpose. On his death he left the crown to him, andChun, after some hesitation, accepted thecharge, but he in turn hastened to secure theco-operation of another minister named Yuin the work of administration, just as he hadbeen associated with Yao. The period cov-ered by the rule of this triumvirate is con-sidered one of the most brilliant and perfectin Chinese history, and it bears a resem-blance to the age of the Antonines. High Idea of Princes. These rulers seem to have passed theirleisure from practical work in framing moralaxioms, and in carrying out a model schemeof government based on the purest considered that a pri
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