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By now many of you know the ins-and-outs of bracketology as far as hockey goes. However, as the Notre Dame hockey bandwagon continues to gather steam, I'd like to take a moment just sittin' right there, to tell you how I became the prince ... er ... wait, I'd like to take a moment to describe the process in some detail.
I'll also provide an example in a reply to this that will serve as a template for reading future bracketology predictions that DiDi, Mr.W, and I (and others) enjoy doing passing the days until the field is actually announced. This is handy to read through and get an even better sense of exactly what types of accommodations have to (and don't have to, but may) be made in filling the bracket.
Yes, there are other resources out there, and they're quite good. Jason Moy over at USCHO as well as their FAQs and liketype articles at INCH provide excellent primers on the subject. But by recreating them in message board format here, I figure that it's more easily approachable for questions from those posters going through this for the first time (or going through it for the Nth time but also often confused by the process).
Tournament Selection
There are 16 teams in the tournament. Each conference receives an autobid, given to its tournament champion, and the remaining teams are filled by the highest ranked non-autobid selections as ranked by the Pairwise. The Pairwise is a measure using RPI, games against "good" teams, games against common opponents, and head-to-head matchups, to do an all-pairs ranking of the teams vying for an NCAA tournament berth (referred to as TUCs, chosen as teams with a .500 RPI or better, which is approximately the top-25 to top-30 in the RPI).
In order to make the tournament, you must be a conference autobid winner, or you must be in the remaining available places and have a record above .500 (a new rule recently). You must also not be on probation or in the process of reclassifying to division 1 status, but that isn't a factor this season.
Generally, the top 15 in the Pairwise make it along with the autobid from AtlanticHockey (who often doesn't have anyone in the top 16). Though clearly it can happen that a non-top-15 team wins the conference tournament from a major conference, in which case that costs one of the "bubble" (13-15) teams a spot. As of right now, the conference leaders in the AHA are not in the top 16 (Mercyhurst, RIT, and Air Force are not even TUCs), so there are only 15 available spots in the tournament and only 11 available at-large bids.
Tournament Seeding
The first thing that happens is that the 16 teams are placed into four bands, based on overall rank in the PWR: #1-#4 are in band 1, #5-#8 are in band 2, #9-#12 are in band 3, and #13-#16 are in band 4.
NB: I usually use the convention "1-seed, 2-seed, 3-seed, 4-seed" for what the NCAA calls "bands". I use the convention #1, #2, ... #16 for the overall seeding.
Initial Tournament Placement
There are four regionals. This year they:
-- East: Bridgeport, CT hosted by Yale.
-- Midwest: Green Bay, WI hosted by Michigan Tech.
-- Northeast: Worcester, MA hosted by Holy Cross.
-- West: Saint Paul, MN hosted by Minnesota.
For each band, if any team is the host of a regional, those teams get placed first regardless of bracket integrity. This year there will almost certainly be at least one, as the Gophers are #7 in the PWR. The other three hosts are .500 clubs who would likely need to win their conference tournaments to get a bid.
However, let me assume for my first discussion below that there are no host teams involved so that the bracket integrity is perfect:
The 1-seeds get placed first:
#1 gets placed in its closest region.
#2 gets placed in its closest available region.
#3 gets placed in its closest available region.
#4 gets placed in the remaining region.
The 2-seeds get placed second:
#5 gets placed in #4's region
#6 gets placed in #3's region
#7 gets placed in #2's region
#8 gets placed in #1's region
The 3-seeds get placed third:
#9 gets placed in #1's region to play #8
#10 gets placed in #2's region to play #7
#11 gets placed in #3's region to play #6
#12 gets placed in #4's region to play #5
Finally the 4-seeds get placed:
#13 gets placed in #4's region
#14 gets placed in #3's region
#15 gets placed in #2's region
#16 gets placed in #1's region
Scrutinized Tournament Placement
Now we have
From here we examine these eight first round games.
-- Are there any conference matchups in the first round? If so, can we swap teams within the same band in order to avoid this -- for example, swapping the #14 with the #13 to avoid having #3 and #14 from the same conference play each other. If so, do so.
-- Are the higher 1-seeds playing in unfavorable locales? If so, change them if the committee feels it necessary. At some point this is unavoidable that one of the top seeds will be in the same bracket with a host team. However, it is undesirable to have the #1 or #2 overall seed playing a true road game, and especially undesirable if that is against a team known to host a tremendous home ice advantage. The concern is greatest in the first round, but may be considered for the regional in general.
This probably isn't that big a deal this year, because if BU or BC were to be top seeds, even if HC or yale sneaked into the field, BU or BC would be the majority fanbase even at a "road" site. The one interesting thing this year would be Minnesota-Duluth as a potential #1 overall seed playing in the same regional as Minnesota at home -- Green Bay could actually be a friendlier spot for them even though Saint Paul should be their actual most natural site that most years they'd love to have.
-- Are there significant travel or attendance exploitations that can be done with a simple within-band swap?
For example, can we keep a northeastern team in one of the two east coast regionals instead of shipping them out to MSP, or can we bring Duluth or North Dakota (if they make the field) back to the Green Bay regional to increase fan interest if it might otherwise be Ohio State, Merrimack, Cornell, and Denver or something like that.
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Closed 14 months ago
#20210 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Always allow the standard attributes for all elements when filtering content using kses for posts.
Reported by: | westi | Owned by: | |
Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 3.5 |
Component: | Formatting | Version: | 3.4 |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | needs-patch |
Cc: | westi |
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comment:3 in reply to: ↑ description duck_ — 21 months ago
Good idea.
What would be nice is if we can come up with a way adding these globally allowed attributes on the fly (e.g. in wp_kses_attr()) rather than having to specify them over and over again that monster global array. The problem there is continuing to disallow them for commenters.
Replying to westi:
We should always allow the standard attributes: class, id, style and title.
For reference: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#global-attributes
I think the four mentioned here are the best to start with.
comment:4 follow-up: ↓ 8 westi — 21 months ago
While it would be nice to specify them on the fly it would break any code which overwrites the global.
I guess we could build the global array using a function at include time though.
comment:5 nacin — 21 months ago
I chatted a bit with ryan (in the context of #17977) about updating kses to stop relying on global arrays, and in general make customization here suck a bit less. We had some ideas but decided not to run with it for 3.4. It would be nice to change how things work rather than hacking around the existing global arrays.
comment:6 solarissmoke — 21 months ago
Related: #16713
Can probably close that ticket as one specific instance of the issue raised here.
comment:7 SergeyBiryukov — 15 months ago
Related: #21825
comment:8 in reply to: ↑ 4 scribu — 15 months ago
- Keywords needs-patch added
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While it would be nice to specify them on the fly it would break any code which overwrites the global.
I guess we could build the global array using a function at include time though.
That's exactly what I was thinking of. +1
comment:9 ryan — 15 months ago
That's what wp.com has been running with for a long while. It adds a few tags and adds some of the global attributes to various tags.
comment:10 ryan — 15 months ago
comment:11 ryan — 15 months ago
- Introduce wp_kses_allowed_htm() which accepts a context string and returns and array of allowed tags.
- Removes explicit declarations of class, id, style, and title from $allowedposttags
- wp_kses_allowed_htm() dynamically adds the global attributes to every tag for the 'post' context
- No longer calls wp_kses_array_lc() every time wp_kses() runs. Instead it runs once if CUSTOM_TAGS is true. Plugins directly passinga custom allowed_html array would no longer get the lc treatment. We need to see if that would be a problem.
- wp_kses_data() and wp_filter_kses() pass current_filter() for the $allowed_html argument to wp_kses().
- wp_kses_allowed_htm() handles being passed a filter name for a context. If the filter is not a recognized one it defaults to using $allowedtags as was done before for wp_kses_data() and wp_filter_kses().
- wp_kses_allowed_htm() recognizes user_description and pre_user_description out of the box. For these it takes $allowedtags and inserts rel attribute support.
- wp_kses_allowed_htm() allows plugins to override the return values for the default contexts and support arbitrary context via a wp_kses_allowed_tags filter.
- Maybe @todo wp_kses_hook() can now pass a string context for $allowed_html to the pre_kses filter. We might have to pass the result of wp_kses_allowed_htm() instead if it turns out that plugins are digging in $allowed_html.
- @todo There are several spots in $allowedposttags where array() can be replaced with true. If we go with this I'll tidy that up.
So, basically, $allowed_html can now be passed around as a string context that wp_kses_allowed_htm() will turn into the proper array when needed. This reduces a lot of array passing and avoids making new globals for every possible context. Some of the kses filter functions now pass current_filter() as the $allowed_html context allowing us to support custom allowed html for any field in any filter context. wp_kses_allowed_html() is sort of like default-filters.php for kses.
comment:12 ryan — 15 months ago
BTW, this passes unit tests but is otherwise untested.
comment:13 ryan — 15 months ago
Also, instead of calling _wp_add_global_attributes against $allowedposttags every time wp_kses_allowed_html() runs it can be run once against $allowedposttags inside the ! CUSTOM_TAGS block. @todo
ryan — 15 months ago
Run _wp_add_global_attributes() one time only. Handle an array being passed to wp_kses_allowed_html().
comment:14 ryan — 15 months ago
In [21790]:
comment:15 ryan — 15 months ago
comment:16 ryan — 15 months ago
- Milestone changed from Future Release to 3.5
comment:17 nacin — 15 months ago
In [21796]:
comment:18 ryan — 14 months ago
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed


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Things I liked:Typical Hatsan, the materials are of good quality the fit and finish is utilitarian. The plastic is a proper grade and not toy like. Overall feel is much more like a shortened carbine rather than a oversize pistol. Cocking effort is not bad with the longer extension, stiff but thats the trade off for this power level. Things I would have changed:Sights are crude, the rear blade is way wide and the front is a big fiber optic ball. It suggests this gun is for quick handling but I would prefer a bit more precise sight picture. The quattro trigger is ok, again this is obviously not a target gun. What others should know:Unfortunately my experience was bad, I received the dreaded oversize barrel. I was reluctant to order a Hatsan as my previous ones had been only so so for accuracy on their spring guns. This one though matched everything I needed as its a "truck" gun that has to fit in my sidcar's length limited compartment. The barrel was so bad it was dangerous in my opinion, shooting into a target trap center at 10 yards would not guarantee a hit(in the trap). It had a huge burr at the pellet entry and reverse push through a pellet, well it fell till it hit the burr at the end. I then had a decision, return it for credit or replace with the next unknown. That unknown is a problem since now I can certify they are still shipping recent builds that should not even be in the box. I talked to Rick Eutsler who had been helping Hatsan USA work through the initial product problems. He suggested I pay to send it to Hatsan USA and he assured me their airgunsmith will make it right. Within two days of receipt Hatsan USA was confirming my barrel was bad and a new gun had been test shot and had none of the barrel issues and its on its way. I cannot recommend Hatsan to anyone who would not know how an airgun should preform. I am pleased with Hatsan USA who did everything they can to make it right with no negotiation required. My real concern is Hatsan Turkey, they have no demonstrable QC on their barrels and their is nothing you can do if the bore isn't good. Things I liked:Build Quality, weight, extendable stock Things I would have changed:cocking effort, noise reduction What others should know:Great gun overall. Built like the real deal. Things I liked:great trigger great stock little hard to cock very accurite good power Things I would have changed:sights are a little to coarse for my kind of shooting Show Other ReviewsCreate an online review and share your thoughts with other customers
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ATTENTION!!! There are no playable humans in this. There is no human-vampire romance. To hell with cliches, we're breaking those new traditions! We are relying on the older vampire myths and are trying to do this as realistically as possible. Better study up on you're old-fashioned, non-pussified blood suckers, because you're taking a ride you'll never forget!
Vampires are rare, gifted beings with an added curse. While they are given a slew of powers and a powerful intellect, they must feed on the blood of humans (and ONLY humans) to survive. The slightest bite of food or the smallest sip of drink will cause heavy vomiting, since the body refuses to accept food anymore. They are located only in certain areas of Eastern Europe, particularly spots in Romania. Our story begins with the first vampire...
They called him Alessandro. It meant "Defender of Mankind" in an old language. The name has been put to shame since he was born. Alessandro is the only case of a vampire who has been born, not created by fangs or rituals. He is truly the vampire god, for he has lived for well over a millennial, and is the root of all vampires. Alessandro would have turned the entire population into vampires by now, but he makes them a rare occurrence so his race can live off the humans without a shortage. So far, there is only about 1-3 in most Romanian villages and towns.
Alessandro has always kept the world rule-free for vampires, leaving them able to figure it out for themselves. But there is one rule he enforces with absolute seriousness: Always kill the living when feeding, never let them become a vampire. It's for this reason that Alessandro made three heirs that would perform the duties of vampiric reproduction. They were Dario, Leandro, and Thana.
Dario was the first to be gifted with vampirism and the trust of Alessandro. He was symbolized by the color red, and so all his subjects have red eyes. Dario's tree of vampiric children are often given the wisdom of the vampire race, which means they are often the ones to help enforce and uphold the rules of the vampire families. They are also very intelligent and very quick-witted. They cannot handle silver, but are by far the fastest vampires on foot.
Leandro was the second, and he was symbolized by the color gold. All his subjects have golden eyes, or rarely silver. Some even have mixed silver-gold eyes. His subjects bare the traits of high wealth, an inclination to count money frequently, and are the only vampire type that can touch and handle silver.
Thana was the third, and the only female of the group. She is symbolized by the color purple. The eyes of her subjects are often of changing colors, however. They are primarily reddish-brown, purple or grey when in a content and calm state. Thana's children of the night often are very creative, and considered incredibly strange by other vampire families. They are the ones that came up with wearing cloaks. Her children are the most physically superior, having incredible reflexes, immense strength and powerful senses. Their incredible sense of smell makes garlic (and any other smelly items) unbearable to be around.
The three vampires families are currently in a state of peace, but trouble is brewing. A disease is spreading to humans, otherwise known as the Black Plague. It kills the humans before the vampires can get to them, and the humans are blaming vampires for the plague. Someone needs to do something, before they both get wiped out.
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Pennsylvania Coal Alliance CEO John Pippy on regulation's impact on the coal industry and the sector's potential for growth.
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Have been taking -- hit since president Obama's reelection Mitt Romney was a big supporter producing clean coal but now the President Obama will be in the White House.
-- -- the four years there a lot of questions what does the future of the coal industry look like.
Joining us out of Fox Business exclusive interview with CEO of the Pennsylvania coal lives John -- -- good to see you sir thanks for coming in appreciate it.
-- -- -- -- -- I I you must I mean most coal people I know we're rooting for Romney in this of course they reduce what we saw this huge run up.
In coal stocks as soon as Mitt Romney mentioned it in the first debate saying he was a fan of coal.
And then of course we've seen this drop off I think we could put together a two day chart to show you how much.
Cole has dropped in two days but it's something like 20%.
What are you expecting the president to be any less hostile to coal during his second term that he wasn't a first term.
Well if the president is as true to what he said about.
Our groups coming together -- I think there's a chance that we can bring this energy debate back into the middle ground what would represent.
Most of middle America and don't know anyone who looks -- object to it objectively realizes.
Coal natural gas oil wool all -- far more energy portfolio.
And so that's for open.
How world concern because you know the if the EPA particular.
-- has on the side of the of the radical left point in many cases as try to get radical later they had a war coal.
-- I think now the time for us to come together.
Now the election's over and have a really are good discussion about the future of energy not only here in the United States but in the rest -- world.
Because -- to -- deficit.
They're using coal as their primary source of energy they -- five times as much as we do in China and India so to have to hamstring our guys just wanna make sense what.
Well let me let me just get you on that comparison though -- -- walking around with face masks in many cities in China because of real pollution.
Surely -- not against all regulation -- make sure that it's at least another thing.
What are we need to get rid -- what what is there are certain particular phrase in the EPA language that you feel is unnecessary.
For the the issue here is really our biggest child with a green how good the CO2.
Bill as far as -- since talks.
That is what people considered acid -- The -- -- -- now we have decreased our missions by over 90%.
So if you walk around a coal fired power plant especially the newer ones.
You'd be your you don't even realize that you're fishing outside it there and join it if we want to be leaders in energy -- we should be doing shipping that clean coal technology.
To China and India so that they are not polluting in their part of the world.
John trying to figure out where your optimism is coming from we just we're just getting word now by the way that there is a group of fifty EPA staff members are putting together.
A new greenhouse gas emissions standard.
That would essentially ban all construction of all new coal fired power plants.
We are that coming out any day now.
Why would you be at all optimistic.
Although the good reality isn't and that's a child who -- -- -- house.
-- we need these people -- look at reality the reality is.
The rest of the world that is going to need 55% more energy over the next funny years in the United States we're NE 20% more energy.
That need cannot be filled by just one source whether it be.
Our renewal bulls and natural gas a domestic oil we we were going to need a very diverse portfolio.
So if we can get away from that rhetoric if we can tell them.
Why -- you limiting us and that it would -- as a relates to CO2.
When we're just a small percentage less than 3% of all CO2 in the atmosphere is man made and then US cold is a small point.
Percentage of that less than 3% of that so it you would have no environmental impact no benefit.
Global -- -- admit that.
But what -- you would have is 800 billion dollars of new costs associated with it so we would artificially inflate our energy costs.
And that's a conversation we're having that's why I think you saw a lot of heavily democratic -- Go the other direction on the selection because they see it.
John Pitney CEO of the Pennsylvania coal alliance -- it's holding up a big chunk of that right now.
We're holding up coal right now as we speak -- that's the luckily as it's your inferred tough couple years we wish you the best job very.
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Athlon, Crazee, Kangxi himself said that it would be an easy mission for him. Smurf, I guess it was because everybody else was doing it? I am surprised that an astute Kangxi did not know about it. Or perhaps he did, but he did not care? I guess because he did not have to campaign to be elected 'emperor' ... Ace, thanks for the info. I incorporate your note into my source file, it becomes note 1, hence you will see the notes in this chapter will start with 2. Anh, you are welcome. When are you coming home?
BTW, I used to get 'wuxia xiao shuo' from Qiqi.com, but apparently the site is no longer there. Can anybody tell me other source? I know that I can search it, but since my reading skill is inadequate, it will take me a long time. I think it was Ace who pointed out the site for Jin Yong's work, but I am looking for Gu Long, Liang Yusheng, Huang Yi, etc.
If there is one thing I don't like about Jin Yong's work, it's the reference to classical literature ... oh, and Happy Fourth to those of you in the US.
Yangzhous banquet was very elegant and very rich in variety. Just the pre-banquet tea, fruits and delicacy were already more than a dozen varieties. Although Wei Xiaobao was born and raised locally, he could not know everything. After drinking a round of tea, the sun was gradually tilting to the west, the sun illuminated the several thousand Chinese peony outside the canopy, like glorious and magnificent luster of gems, just like brocade clothes. But the more Wei Xiaobao looked at it, the angrier he got, thinking about the grudge of the past, when he was beaten and humiliated by the monks of the Temple. Right then and there he was thinking of having all the Chinese peony pulled and burned, but he must have a legitimate pretext to do that.
While he was mulling over this, the Inspector-General Ma You said with a laugh, Wei Daren, listening to Darens accent, it seems that you have lived in Huai Yang region before. Huai Yangs water and soil is rich, thus it produces talented persons, as well as good flowers.
The rest of the officials only knew that the Imperial Envoy was a Yellow Banner Manchu, the last several days the Inspector-General heard him speaking, he could detect Yangzhou accent in his speech, thereupon he seized this opportunity to flatter him a little bit.
Wei Xiaobao was thinking about the hateful monks of Chanzhi Temple. Yangzhous monks are no good, he blurted out.
The Inspector-General was startled, he was not sure what Wei Xiaobao was referring to. The administrative commissioner Mu Tianyan was a very perceptive, as well as highly educated; he interrupted, Wei Darens observation is very true. Yangzhou monks selfishly concerned with gaining advantages for themselves, they fawn on local authorities, humiliate the poor; they were just like that since ancient times.
Wei Xiaobao was greatly delighted; he laughed and said, Thats right. Mu Daren is a scholar, you knew that it was written in the books.
Mu Tianyan said, Isnt the story of Jade Green Muslin Covering by Wang Bo of the Tang Dynasty set in Yangzhou?
Wei Xiaobao just loved to hear stories; he hastily asked, What is the story of yellow cloth [huang bu] versus sandy dragon [bi sha long, same pronunciation, different characters from Jade Green Muslin Covering]?
The story happened in Yangzhous Shita [stone pagoda] Temple, Mu Tianyan said, During the early Qian years of the Tang Dynasty, the Shita Temple was called Mulan [lily magnolia] Courtyard. When the poet Wang Bo was young, his family was poor
Wei Xiaobao thought, Turns out this person was called Wang Bo, not a piece of yellow cloth. He heard Mu Tianyan continued, he lived away from home in Mulan Courtyard. The monks in the temple rang a bell to signal meal times, when Wang Bo heard the bell, he went to the dining hall to eat. The monks disliked him, there was one time when everybody ate first, and rang the bell after they all finished eating. Wang Bo heard the bell, he went to the dining hall, but saw that the monks had already dispersed, the food had already been eaten clean
Wei Xiaobao slapped the table and angrily said, Damn monks are so repulsive.
Thats right, Mu Tianyan said, Just a meal, how much does it cost? At that time Wang Bo was very ashamed, he inscribed a poem on the wall, Attending a lesson from west to east, ashamed returning to black after-meal bell.
What kind of fellow was this Hui Li [return black]? Wei Xiaobao asked.
The numerous officials had been in contact with him these past few days, they knew that the Imperial Envoy was not a scholar; in fact, a lot of famous, rich and honorable banner men did not come from academic field, hence nobody thought it strange. Mu Tianyan said, Hui Li means monk.
Wei Xiaobao nodded. So they are the bald thieves, he said, And then what happened?
Mu Tianyan said, And then Wang Bo became a high-ranking official, the imperial court sent him to guard Yangzhou, and he returned to Mulan Courtyard. Naturally those monks were fawning on him. He went to see if the poem he inscribed on the wall was still there or not, but he saw a piece of expensive jade green muslin pasted on the wall, covering the two lines of poem he wrote, in order to avoid it being damaged. Wang Bo was deeply moved, he added two more lines after the original poem, Thirty years ago dust covered the surface, only now it is covered with jade green muslin.
Surely he arrested those bald thieves and had them flogged? Wei Xiaobao asked.
Mu Tianyan said, Wang Bo was an elegant scholar, he thought that the two lines of poem already ridiculed them, hence he let it pass.
Wei Xiaobao thought, If it were me, how could I give up that easily? But if I had to write a poem, I dont have that kind of skill. Laozi can only defecate, cannot write a poem.
After the story, the tea was removed and the wine was poured. Wei Xiaobao looked around. He caught Wang Jinbao on separate table was pouring a cup of wine into his mouth; the way he drink was very straightforward. Wei Xiaobao had an idea, General Wang, he said, You told me once that the war-horses that eat Chinese peony are especially full of power and grandeur, didnt you? While he spoke, he winked at him.
Wang Jinbao did not understand his intention, This he stammered.
Wei Xiaobao said, His Majesty selects and uses famous species of good horses: Mongolian horses, Western Region horses, Sichuan horses, Yunnan horses, what have you. His Majesty instructed us to raise those horses carefully, didnt he?
Wang Jinbao knew about Kangxi accumulated war horses with diligent care. Daren is right, he said.
You are well acquainted with horses character, Wei Xiaobao continued, When we were in Beijing, you said that if war-horses are fed Chinese peony, their running speed will double. His Majesty loves horses like this, we as his servants should uphold the Holy Sages intention. If we dig the Chinese peony in this place and send it to the Capital, so that the Ministry of Wars carriage manager can feed the horse. When His Majesty finds out, his dragon countenance will surely be very pleased.
When the people heard this, their countenance looked extremely strange; Chinese peony flowers can strengthen the horse? It was the first time that they heard about it. Looking at Wang Jinbao, they noticed his expression was ambiguous, apparently he disagreed, but did not dare to object blatantly. Yet Wei Xiaobao kept saying His Majesty this and His Majesty that, he was lifting high the Emperors hat; who would dare to show the slightest objection? They all could see that these several thousand famous varieties of Chinese peony would be destroyed in his hands. Henceforth Yangzhou would lose one scenic spot. But why did this Wei Daren hate these Chinese peonies so much? Everybody looked at each other in dismay, nobody could say anything.
Prefectural magistrate Wu Zhirong said, Wei Darens scholarly knowledge is profound, indeed worthy of other peoples admiration. This Chinese peonys root is called Scarlet Peony. The Compendium of Medical Herbs[2] mentions that its function is to reduce internal blood clot and improve blood circulation. The name Chinese peony [shaoyao] itself has the character yao [medicine] in it; apparently the people of old recognized its good medicinal character. When the horse eats Chinese peony, its blood vessels unimpeded, naturally it can run like flying. When Daren returns to the Capital, lowly officer will have all the Chinese peony flowers here dug out and have Daren carry it back to the Capital.
When the other officials heard this, in their hearts they all scolded Wu Zhirong as despicable and shameless, in order to curry favor with a superior officer, he was willing to go as far as destroying Yangzhous beautiful scenery. Wei Xiaobao clapped his hands and said, Wu Daren is capable and experienced. Very good, very good.
Wu Zhirong felt much honored; he hastily stood up to bow and said, Thank you for Darens compliment.
The administrative commissioner Mu Tianyan walked out of the canopy toward a cluster of Chinese peonies. He picked a big Chinese peony, as big as a rice bowl, and returned to the table; with both hands he presented the flower to Wei Xiaobao and said with a laugh, Would Daren please stick this flower on your hat? Lowly officer has a story for Daren to hear.
Hearing that he was about to listen to another story, Wei Xiaobao received the flower; he saw that the Chinese peonys petals were dark red, with a yellow line running right the in middle of each petal, it was indeed a tender and beautiful flower, hence he inserted it onto his hat.
Mu Tianyan said, Congratulations Daren, this Chinese peony has a name; it is called the Gold Band All Around. It is a very rare variety, there is a writing in the ancient books that whoever can see this Gold Band All Around, in the future he could be the Prime Minister.
Wei Xiaobao laughed and said, How can there be such thing?
Mu Tianyan said, The story originated during the Northern Song Dynasty. In those days Han Weigong [Duke of Wei], Han Qi, was guarding Yangzhou. In the Chinese peony garden, right here, in front of the Chanzhi Temple, suddenly four big flowers bloomed on one Chinese peony tree, the petals were dark red, with gold thread right in the middle; it was precisely this Gold Band All Around. This kind of Chinese peony had never been seen before, it was extremely rare. His subordinates promptly reported this, Han Weigong graced the garden with his presence to enjoy the scenery; he was very happy. Seeing there were four flowers, he thought about inviting three guests to enjoy the flowers together.
Wei Xiaobao took down his hat to look at the flower again; indeed the red and yellow produced stark contrast, it was exceptionally marvelous. The lines of golden stripes may not be found in a hundred flowers.
Mu Tianyan said, At that time there were two well-known persons in Yangzhou, one was Wang Gui, the other Wang Anshi[3]; both were people of talent and learning, of knowledge and experience. Han Weigong thought, there were four flowers, but only three people; unavoidably everything is fine except for one small defect. If he were to invite other person, their prestige may not fit the other three. While he was hesitating, suddenly someone came to pay respect to him; it was Chen Shengzhi. He was also a famous scholar. Han Weigong was greatly delighted; the next day he held a big feast in front of the Chinese peony garden. He had the four Gold Band All Around flowers picked and inserted into each mans hat. This story is called The Feast of Four Prime Ministers with flowers on their hats. These four men later on became Prime Ministers.
Wei Xiaobao laughed and said, Interesting. These four honorable friends were all famous intellectual, people who could write poem and write essays. Xiongdi cannot be compared to them.
That is not necessarily so, Mu Tianyan replied, During the Northern Song Dynasty, only intellectuals can become Prime Ministers. Our Great Qing conquered the world on horseback. The ones esteemed the most by His Majesty are brave and cunning heroes and warriors. Hearing the comment brave and cunning heroes and warriors, nine characters [you yong you mou de ying xiong hao han], Wei Xiaobao could not help but was very happy. He nodded his head repeatedly.
Mu Tianyan continued, Han Weigong was conferred the title Duke of Wei Country, it goes without saying. Wang Anshi was bestowed the title Duke of Jing Country, Wang Gui was made Duke of Qi Country, and Chen Shengzhi became Duke of Xiu Country. Not only these four famous feudal officials became Prime Ministers, they were all bestowed the title Country Duke; not only each one had riches and honor, they also had long life. Wei Daren attained much in your youth, right now you are bestowed the title Bojue [Earl/Count], if you are promoted one more level, you will be Houjue [Marquis]; one more level and you will become Gongjue [Duke]. Even Wang [King] or Qinwang [Prince (royalty)] is just a matter of time.
Wei Xiaobao laughed aloud and said, If only it will be according to Mu Darens golden mouth, then everybody here will also be promoted and gain wealth.
All the officials rose and held the wine cups with both hands; they said, Congratulations to Wei Daren for your upcoming promotions, Gong and Hou for ten thousand generations.
Wei Xiaobao also stood up and drank the toast together with the numerous officials; he thought, This official is both scholarly and eloquent, he can tell stories and attract peoples attention. If I call him to Beijing to work for me, I can frequently listen to his stories, wont it be better than listening to the storytellers? By nature this man is a big king of flattery, he was given the name Mu Tianyan [lit. admiring heavens countenance]; clearly he always wanted to have an audience with the Emperor.
Mu Tianyan continued, Afterwards Han Weigong led the troops to guard the western border. Seeing him, Western Xia people were scared to death, they did not dare to send any troops to disturb the border. At that time the Western Xia people feared two Song Dynasty ministers, one was Han Weigong, Han Qi; the other was Fan Wenzhenggong[4], Fan Zhongyan. At that time there was a saying, With a Han in the army, western thieves hear it and their hearts tremble; with a Fan in the army, western thieves hear it and were frightened that their guts busted. In the future Wei Daren will lead the troops to guard the western border, there will be a saying, With a Wei in the army, western thieves see it and hastily kneel down![5]
Wei Xiaobao loved it very much; he said, These two characters western thieves are very clever. Ping Xi Wang that western Suddenly he remembered, Wu Sangui has not yet risen in rebellion; I cannot call him western thief. Hastily he corrected himself, Ping Xi Wang is guarding the western border, we have peace and security without any problem; he has rendered very great merit.
Wu Zhirong said, Ping Xi Wang is brave and resourceful, he performs high service through hard work, he was bestowed the title Qinwang, the heir apparent has become the Prince Consort. In the future Wei Daren will have great riches and great honor, will live as long as Mount Nan, definitely you will be no different than Ping Xi Wang.
In his heart Wei Xiaobao cursed, Hot piece mama, you want me to be no different than Wu Sangui that big traitor. This old turtle will have his head removed any day, you want me to be the same as him?
[2] Compiled by Li Shizhen, c. 1596.
[3] Wang Anshi (1021-1086), Song Dynasty politician and writer, one of the Eight Giants.
[4] Duke of Wenzheng, wen (culture/literature/gentle) zheng (upright/just) being his posthumous title.
[5] In these three phrases, the word tremble (han) rhymes with the surname Han, the word busted guts (po dan) rhymes with the surname Fan, and the word knee down [xia gui] rhymes with the surname Wei.


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