The strategic and naturally rich province of Liao-ning was turned into an under-supplied and severely mismanaged backwater. In an effort to make a name for himself and prove the efficacy of his leadership in the province, Mao Yuan-hsin fabricated a series of 'new events' in Liao-ning.

We are prepared to substantiate our assertion, that two-thirds of the shoal that have of late rushed into our professional main, have been attracted by commissions and offices; have been called in fact to qualify themselves by standing for appointments, without cherishing a hope of maintaining themselves by practice, or even designing to make the attempt. Else why this inflood at a time when courts of quarter sessions are all but abolished, so far as the bar are profited thereby, bail practice annihilated, motions of course made by attorneys'-clerks at the Judges' Chambers, instead of by junior barristers at Westminster, […]

[…] the number of people who either dogmatically don’t believe in, or else agnostically or uncaringly, simply don’t bother about immortality is now considerable.

He ſung how Earth blots the Moons gilded Wane, […]