Special attention was paid to the province of Shensi, whose conditions were taken more or less as a model.
The rising soon assumed the proportions of a civil war, and the infection spread to the neighbouring province of Shensi.
On being asked, he said he came from Shensi; and there was an air of straightforwardness about all his remarks.
These men formed a part of the emperor's guards and were under the command of members of the Shensi gentry.
It attacked the province of Shensi, but the Chinese and the Liao attached the greatest importance to that territory.
