ABSTRACT
Kau Ti was fifty years old when he dispossessed Shun Ti of the throne, and he reigned but four years. The royal historian of the time had absolutely nothing of importance to record regarding the founder of this dynasty, who seemed deficient in some of the more heroic qualities. In the first year of this Emperor's reign, the king of Wei, To-Pa Hung, who had succeeded to the throne when his father Fung was murdered by his wife, passed a law in imitation of his Chinese neighbours, that no person should be allowed to marry another of the same family name. The king of Wei, whose proclivities were altogether Chinese, issued an edict commanding his people to adopt the dress of their neighbours and abandon their own. During the campaign the king of Wei died, and was succeeded by his son Suan Wu Ti. During the second year of Tung Hwun's reign the palace at Nanking was burnt, when the Emperor built another and much more magnificent one.
