42 HIEKBI. While Chiang or Tibet on the west^ and Hienbi on the north-east> continuallj harassed their Chinese neighbours, many individuals and families from both states crossed, for reasons of their own, into Chinese territory, acknowledging the sway over them of first the Han and then the Wei emperors. They were granted lands on the Chinese side of the border, and gradually became an important factor in the political game. They proved that "blood was thicker than water by keeping up communi* <»itions, generation after generation, with the free descendants of their ancestors ; and many a plundering horde, at the proper time, was guided into the proper route by these refugees and their descendants. The Wei dynasty had fiGtllen into the shade before the rising star of the dynasty of Tsin (Jin), which assumed imperial style in A.D. 265, having sprung from the seat of the ancient Tsin kingdom in the south of ShansL In 280, its census embraced two and a half million fEimilieef, or about twenty million souls. The Hienbi immigrants had proved so vexatious a portion of Chinese people, that the advisers of the Tsin Emperor urged him to drive them all beyond the border, back to their original home. But, nothwithstanding their oft- proved treachery, he refused meantime to meddle with them. The Hienbi were qpread over a great extent of country, all along the western border of the present Liaosi, and were divided under a number of chiefs ; one of whom, Mohoo, moved southwards, and, after some fighting, established a separate kingdom, making a capital in the neighbourhood of Changli, which is now 110 li west of Shanhaigwan in Chihli, but which was then included in LiaosL He added Loongchunghien soon thereafter, but died without accomplishing anything great; succeeded by his son Mooyen, and he by his son Boogwei, who attacked the northern parts of Liaotung, and, in 281, ravaged the Chinese neighbourhood of ChanglL Moyoong Shan, his brother, succeeded him two years after, and sought to put to death Hwi, or Kwei, the son of the deceased king. Kwei, having got timely warning, fled into Liaotung, whence he was summoned, in 286, to take his father's throne, for the people had risen
