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Following a bribery scandal involving top-ranking officials, known as the [[Makishi-Onga Incident]], Shô Tai issued a six-point set of orders (the ''[[kyojo rokkan|kyôjô rokkan]]'') aimed at eliminating corruption amongst the governments' officials.

Following a bribery scandal involving top-ranking officials, known as the [[Makishi-Onga Incident]], Shô Tai issued a six-point set of orders (the ''[[kyojo rokkan|kyôjô rokkan]]'') aimed at eliminating corruption amongst the governments' officials.

In [[1866]], after nineteen years on the throne, Shô Tai was finally formally invested as king by [[Chinese investiture envoys|representatives of Qing Dynasty China]].

In [[1866]], after nineteen years on the throne, Shô Tai was finally formally [[investiture|invested]] as king by [[Chinese investiture envoys|representatives of Qing Dynasty China]].

The King lost his mother in [[1864]], his queen in [[1868]], and his great-grandmother, the ''[[kikoe-ogimi|kikoe-ôgimi]]'', in [[1869]]; he was distraught with mourning when his close advisor [[Kishaba Choken|Kishaba Chôken]] advised him that a famine was on the horizon - people were trading their children for sweet potatoes. The following spring ([[1870]]), the famine had grown worse; the 28-year-old king ordered that the kingdom purchase rice & other grains and distribute them to address the famine. It is said no one died of starvation that year.

The King lost his mother in [[1864]], his queen in [[1868]], and his great-grandmother, the ''[[kikoe-ogimi|kikoe-ôgimi]]'', in [[1869]]; he was distraught with mourning when his close advisor [[Kishaba Choken|Kishaba Chôken]] advised him that a famine was on the horizon - people were trading their children for sweet potatoes. The following spring ([[1870]]), the famine had grown worse; the 28-year-old king ordered that the kingdom purchase rice & other grains and distribute them to address the famine. It is said no one died of starvation that year.