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Three feudal princes" and the revolt in Northern Mongolia were results of my own tactics. The silver reserve in the treasury has never been used by me except for military campaigns and famine relief. Knowing that this money is the flesh and blood of my...

The Government of China (1644-1911). - Page 33
by Pao Chao Hsieh - 1925 - 414 pages
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History - 1925 - 440 pages

...end of that period he wrote an essay in something of a diary style about what he had been doing and how he had been doing it. The sincere tone of his...ordered special decorations or preparations for my visits.u Each of my palaces is run with ten or twenty thousand taels of silver, which is less than...

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