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This man prays for the Three Kings to kill him instead of his brother in the text “The Metal-Bound Coffer.” A canon ascribed to this man defines 360 posts under six offices and helped “institute ritual and music.” A later thinker lamented that not dreaming of this deified author (10[1])of the Book of (10[1])Dreams signaled his decline. For refusing to write a speech comparing the Yǒnglè (“yohng-luh”) Emperor to this man, (10[1])Fāng Xìaorú (“fahng shee-OW-roo”) was “exterminated to the tenth degree.” After he suppressed the Rebellion of the Three Guards, this man codified (-5[1])the fēngjiàn (10[1])(“fung-jee-en”) system of fiefs and moved the nine dǐng (“deeng”) bronzes to a city (-5[1])he founded for deposed elites near modern Luòyáng (-5[1])(“lwoh-yahng”). This official’s abdication for his (10[1])nephew King Chéng (10[2]-5[1])(“chung”) legitimized the newly-formulated “Mandate of Heaven.” For 10 points, (10[2])Confucians idealized what official who served (10[1])as regent after the fall of the Shāng? (10[1])■END■ (10[6]0[3])

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