and retired into private life, calling himself 隱翁. On being further pressed, he took to his bed and refused all food for fourteen days, dying at the age of 79.
1028 Kung Sui (T. 少卿). 1st cent. B.C. A native of Fing- yang in Eiangsu, who serred under Wang Ho at |^ ^ Ch^ang-i in Shantung. When the latter was acting in a misgoided way, Eung Sui ¥rith tears in his eyes besought him to desist; and accordingly, when later on all the officials of Nan-ch'ang were put to death, he alone was spared. In B.C. 73, when over seventy years of age, he was sent as Goyeruor to Po-hai in order to check the brigandage which prevailed. Instead however of occupying himself directly with the brigands, he set to work to foster agriculture, persuading the people to sell their knives and sworcb, and buy oxen and calves. He succeeded so well that he was promoted to a higher post, and died in office at a great age.
1029 Kung-sun Ch'iao (T. 子產 and 子美). B.a 581—521. A grandson of Duke Mu of Chfing, who roee to be Prime Minister of his native State. When he had ruled for three years, so great was the change eflfoeted that '^doors were not locked at night and lost articles were not picked up on tiie highway." In 535 he compiled a Penal Code for the regulation of pnnishments. Confucius, who had described him as a truly benevolent man, wept when he heard of his death. The entire populace gare way to lamentation, and the women laid aside their ornaments for a space of three months. Later critics hold that though he made the people love him, he fiuled to teach and to elevate ttem. In 1857 his tablet was placed in the Confudan Temple.
1030 Kung-sun Hung (T. 季少). Died B.C. 121. A poor scholar of the Han dynasty, who was a swinehord antil pait forty years of age when he took to the study of the Classics. In B.C. 140 he secured the first place among the scholars personally
