King Tang of Shang, had 94 ice men who helped to make a dish of buffalo milk, flour and camphor.

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Tang Hui campaigned vigorously for the death penalty for the men who did it.

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Two criminal drifters, Song and Tang, have developed a scam: they befriend one of the many uprooted men looking for work and tell him that they know of a job at a rural mine, but that the man must pretend to be their brother in order to be hired.

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