One of Liu's earliest lieutenants was Wu Jui who was with him in the first of the great adventures which gained him fame, the ta of the capital city of the First Emperor with his son and successor, the Second Emperor. (It was the father who arranged that his descendants were to be numbered " from one (himself) to Ten-thousand"—the plan failed with the "Second" of the ten thousand.) The leagued bels had agreed in full conference under the presidency of the "Right-eons Emperor" that the actual conqueror of Shensi should be the primus of them all. Hsiang Yit had no idea that the honour could fall to
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.