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This time he barely escaped with his life, and the city authorities forbade every one, on pain of death, to lease or sell property to him or in any way accommodate the barbarian missionary. But meanwhile Kai Bok-su was keeping his eye on Bang-kah, and when the territory around had been possessed, he went up to Go-ko khi and made the daring proposition to A Hoa.
The people of Mi were disobedient, Daring to oppose our great country, And invaded Yuean, marching to Kung . The king rose, majestic in his wrath; He marshalled his troops, To stop the invading foes; To consolidate the prosperity of Kau; To meet the expectations of all under heaven. He then determined the finest of the plains, And settled on the south of Khi , On the banks of
Splendid look the new temples, The work of Hsi-sze, Very wide and large, Answering to the expectations of all the people. Kang was a city with some adjacent territory, in the present district of Thang, that had been taken from Lu by Khi. The poet desires that Hsi should recover these and all other territory which had at any time belonged to Lu.
I spoke to a mason who has done much work for us, and who employs many workmen, and requested him to employ Khi for the carrying of bricks and mortar and such work, if he had an opening for him. He consented to do so and employed him for a short time. But Khi's fellow workmen did not like his religion and succeeded in getting him discharged.
Oh! in the Khi and the Khue, There are many fish in the warrens; Sturgeons, large and snouted, Thryssas, yellow-jaws, mud-fish, and carp; For offerings, for sacrifice, That our bright happiness may be increased. From a reference in the Analects, III, ii, to an abuse of this ode in the time of Confucius, We learn that it was sung When the sacrificial vessels and their contents were being removed.
He died in the succeeding reign of Wu, more than ninety years old; and we are told that all the scholars of Khi who got a name in those days for their acquaintance with the Shih sprang from his school.
Hau-ki was the same as Khi, who appears in Part II of the Shu as Minister of Agriculture to Yao and Shun, and co-operating with Yue in his labours on the flooded land. The name Hau belongs to him as lord of Thai; that of Ki, as Minister of Agriculture.
The names of ten of his disciples are given, all of them men of eminence, and among them Khung An-kwo. When the Catalogue of the Sui Library was made, none of them were existing. The text of Khi. ii. The Han Catalogue mentions five different works on the Shih of Khi.
Then on its first appearance there were current the explanations of the odes that were given in connexion with the texts of Lu, Khi, and Han Ying, so that readers could know that it was the work of later hands, and not give entire credit to it.
Hsuean Kiang was a princess of Khi, Who, towards the close of the seventh century B.C., became wife to the marquis of Wei, known as duke Hsuean. She was beautiful and unfortunate, but various things are related of her indicative of the grossest immoralities prevailing in the court of Wei. How rich and splendid Is her pheasant-figured
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