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delivering the Empire from such a curse, and was joined in his enterprise
by a certain sorcerer called Kao Hoshang
WANGCHU, a chief officer of the city, resolved to take the opportunity of
delivering the Empire from such a curse, and was joined in his enterprise
by a certain sorcerer called Kao Hoshang. They sent two Lamas to the
Council Board with a message that the Crown Prince was returning to the
Capital to take part in certain Buddhist ceremonies, but no credit was
given to this. Wangchu then, pretending to have received orders from the
Prince, desired an officer called CHANG-Y (perhaps the Chenchu of Polo”s
narrative) to go in the evening with a guard of honour to receive him.
Late at night a message was sent to summon the Ministers, as the Prince
(it was pretended) had already arrived. They came in haste with Ahmad at
their head, and as he entered the Palace Wangchu struck him heavily with a
copper mace and stretched him dead. Wangchu was arrested, or according to
one account surrendered, though he might easily have escaped, confident
that the Crown Prince would save his life. Intelligence was sent off to
Kbli, who received it at Chaghan-Nor. (See Book I. ch. lx.) He
immediately despatched officers to arrest the guilty and bring them to
justice. Wangchu, Chang-y, and Kao Hoshang were publicly executed at the
Old City; Wangchu dying like a hero, and maintaining that he had done the
Empire an important service which would yet be acknowledged. (_De Mailla_,
IX. 412-413; _Gaubil_, 193-194; _D”Ohsson_, II. 470.) [Cf. _G. Phillips_,
in _T”oung-Pao_, I. p. 220.–H. C.]