Tea certificates were issued by the magistrates of the following localities: Ch'ien-shan and sixteen other hsien in Anhui; Shan-hua and sixteen other hsien in Hunan. In Hupeh, certificates were issued by the magistrate of Chien-shih to tea merchants. In Hsien-ning and six other chou and hsien, tea planters also received certificates to sell tea (Hu-pu tse-li, 32:4-5).

Besides, bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in; and men of trick and cunning are not always men of desperate resolves.

Nay, pray you let him ſtay a greater Fits Menaphon, than warring with a Thiefe: Create him Prorex of Affrica, That he may win the Babilonians hearts, Which will reuolt from Perſean gouernment, Unleſſe they haue a wiſer King than you.

It was about this time that Emperor Ai-tsung, who had fled Kai-feng in hopes of mounting a counteroffensive, committed suicide in Tsʻai-chou, Honan.