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- ↑ Records of the Three Kingdoms Scroll 6 Wei Book 6 Note Spring and Autumn Annual of the Nine Provinces
- ↑ (However he trusted and employed various petty men, enjoyed receiving flattering words, was unrestrained in will and extravagant and excessive, not knowing the hardships of sowing and reaping. Huà Yàn and Kǒng Shùn all were treacherous flatterers and petty men, but he trusted in them as belly and heart; Wáng Xiū and others were only given office and nothing more. However he was able to care for guest retainers, admired reputation and respected scholars, sending his wife’s younger brother to command troops inside, sending him to plunder from Fújǐng outside, robbing fields; he separately sent two officers to recruit soldiers from subordinate counties, those with bribes were allowed to go, those without were seized. The poor and weak were many, so that they fled and hid in the hills and wilderness, and troops were sent to capture and search, as if hunting for birds and beasts. Cities with ten thousand households, the registers did not pass several hundred, and collecting taxes, out of three not even one entered. He sought worthy scholars, but did not obtain them; he did not deploy armies by season, and the resident clan factions, he also could not punish.) Jiǔzhōu Chūnqiū (九州春秋)
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