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Chapter 9. The Happy VoluptuariesTSE-CHAN was Minister in Cheng, and governed forthree years, and governed well. [1]The good people complied with his injunctions, and thebad were in awe of his prohibitory laws.So Cheng was governed, and the princes were afraid of it.Tse-Chan had an elder brother, Kung-Sun-Chow, and ayounger, Kung-Sun-Mu. The former was fond offeasting and the latter of gallantry.In the house of Kung-Sun-Chow a thousand barrels ofwine were stored, and yeast in piled-up heaps.Within a hundred paces from the door the smell of drugsand liquor offended people's noses.He was so much under the influence of wine that heignored the feeling of remorse, was unconscious of thesafe and dangerous parts of the path of life; what waspresent or wanting in his house, the near or remotedegrees of relationship, [1] the various degrees ofrelationship, the joy of living and the sadness of death.Water, fire and swords might almost touch his person,and he would be unaware of it.