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The war Tiger: Adventures and wonderful fortunes of the young Sea Chief

The war Tiger: Adventures and wonderful fortunes of the young Sea Chief

Dalton, William
Ballin, G-Ph

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1544818831
ISBN13: 9781544818832
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 20 2017
Pages: 324
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
PREFACE. As free use is made in the following story of the names of personages who played important parts in and during the last Tartar Conquest of China, the Author believes that a slight sketch of that turbulent epoch may not be uninteresting to his readers. Twenty-two dynasties have given some two hundred and forty Emperors to the Celestial Kingdom; of these, two were Tartars, who obtained the throne by conquest and bloodshed. In the course of time, however, the first Tartar family, with the whole of their race, were either massacred or driven from the land by a Chinese leader, who, by mounting the throne, founded the celebrated family of the Mings. The last of the Ming Emperors, Wey-t-song, had not been many years upon the throne, when, from a wise and energetic man, he became so indolent, and regardless of all but his pleasures, that the people became oppressed by the magistrates; indeed, to use a Chinese phrase, to such an extent did the big fish eat all the little ones, that a famine grew in the land, which caused the starving people to arise in rebellion throughout the empire. Taking advantage of this disorder, several ambitious lords collected together bands of vagabonds, set themselves up as petty kings, and plundered and oppressed the innocent people, till the land grew damp with their tears. At the same time, the chief, or king, of the Mantchou Tartars, learning that China was like a house divided against itself, rode with a large army upon the frontier of Pe-tche-Lee, the capital province.

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