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 .. . HEADS OF CRIMINALS DISPLAYED FOR A WARNING. 85 86 CHINA: PAST AND PRESENT. sought to treat him with indifference and tothrow him into the shade. But the splendorof his work was such that they had to con-fer on him the title of Prince, and to makehim Viceroy of Yunnan and the adjacentterritories. He exerted such an extraor-dinary influence over the Chinese subjectsthat they speedil
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 .. . HEADS OF CRIMINALS DISPLAYED FOR A WARNING. 85 86 CHINA: PAST AND PRESENT. sought to treat him with indifference and tothrow him into the shade. But the splendorof his work was such that they had to con-fer on him the title of Prince, and to makehim Viceroy of Yunnan and the adjacentterritories. He exerted such an extraor-dinary influence over the Chinese subjectsthat they speedily settled down under hisauthority; revenue and trade increased, andthe Manchu authority was maintained with-out a Tartar garrison, for Wou Sankweisarmy was composed exclusively of Chinese,and its nucleus was formed by his old garri-son of Ningyuen and Shanhaikwan. A Cunning Plot. There is no certain reason for saying thatWou Sankwei nursed any scheme of per-sonal aggrandizement, but the measures hetook and the reforms he instituted were cal-culated to make his authority to becomegradually independent of Manchu a time the Manchu Government sup-pressed its apprehensions on account of thispowerful sa
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