ABSTRACT
Wu-how plainly showed that though the legal farce had been played and a state pageantry had been gone through by which her own son had been made sovereign of China, she was the one that held the reins of government, and that hers was the mind that was henceforward to be supreme in the state. Chung Tsung, who now resumed the reign that had been interrupted for twenty-one years, was a comparatively feeble-minded, pleasure-loving man, and had the misfortume of having a wife who was both clever and ambitious. Chung Tsung would not listen to this wise counsel, and ere long the whole power fell into the hands of his queen Wei. Su Tsung began his reign with every prospect that he would scarcely be able to hold his own against the overwhelming forces that were everywhere in the field against him. When Tai Tsung ascended the throne there was disorder both in the palace and in the empire.
