CHAPTER XLI

_THE TARTARS_

From ancient times Tartars intimately connected with the Chinese--

How the Chou state had to migrate to avoid the Tartars--Chou

ancestors had originally fled from China to the Tartars--Chou

family's subsequent dealings with the Tartars--How Ts'in replaced

Chou as the semi-Tartar or westernmost state of China--Tartars for

many centuries in possession of Yellow River north bank--Once

extended to Kiang Su province--Confucius' knowledge of the

Tartars--Tartar attacks in the eighth and seventh centuries B.C.--

Causes of the Protector system--Incompetence of Emperors to stave

off Tartar attacks--Ts'i's extensive relations with the Tartars--

The Second Protector and his adviser--Rude treatment of the Second

Protector by the orthodox Chinese states--Ts'u's bluff hospitality--

Second Protector had to check Chinese instead of Tartar ambitions--

Tsin's Tartar admixture--Comparison with Roman adventurers--How

Tartars have in modern times ruled China and Asia.

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