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son, and Yin-mo-fu was installed as king of Ki-pin, receiving the seal and ribbon of investiture; that is, Wen-chung installed him as king but as a vassal of China. Wen-chung, be it noted, played the leading part, though he had no Chinese troops, for it is expressly stated at the beginning of the story that Ki-pin was too far away for Chinese troops to go there. Subsequently Yin-mo-fu himself, in the reign of the emperor Yuan-ti (48–33 B.C.), killed the escort of a Chinese envoy and sent an envoy to China to excuse himself; but Yuan-ti took no thought for such a distant land. In the reign of Ching-ti (32–7 B.C.) other envoys came (i.e. from Yin-mo-fu), but the emperor was advised not to notice them, the ground alleged for this advice being that they were not real envoys but only traders seeking trade.