In their eyes, the United States goes beyond the sum of our individual ambitions, beyond the differences of individual, wealth and faction.
Chin Kuei's faction proved more influential, and in 1141, Yue Fei was imprisoned and executed, and a peace treaty was signed that relinquished the northern territory.
In 1216 a war faction persuaded Xuanzong to attack the Song, but in 1219 they were defeated at the same place by the Yangtze River, where Prince Hailing had been defeated in 1161.
Because of his hawkish views, expressed at a time when the displaced court was controlled by a peace faction, Lu failed to advance in his career as an imperial official.
"Good riddance" Thersites: "I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come any more to your tents: I will keep where there is wit stirring and leave the faction of fools.
