ce said, 'May I have ten thousand houses so that all the poor scholars in the world can find shelter and happiness.' Another poet said, 'To carry on the learning of the sages of the past and to open u...ertile plains of Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, with unimpeded access to Hebei, Beijing, and even the very heartland of China. The capital city itself would be exposed to the Liao cavalry.”"Back then, w...