Middle Met
Second Brother Middle Met (Shinasthana: 中兄中戊; trung-kmrang-trung-met; r. c. 170 – 163 BCE) ruled the city of Tsinh in the Middle Archaic Period, located in modern-day Themiclesia. He was part of the eponymous ruling house of Tsinh and was venerated in its 10th sacramental generation in the sacrament calendar of the 3rd and 4th centuries CE. The paired ancestress is Spouse Qwi.
Only a few stories can be verified about his relatively brief rule. But even so, he stands out from the many others on the list of rulers who have no historical events credited to them, even apocryphal ones. It is reported in multiple texts that he "made nine barons" (九矦命). This figure is possibly reported independently, since the compiled oracular records provide only four enfeoffments, none of which generated enfeoffment charges in the Book of Charges.
In the canon of rulers, he is preceded by Ting IV and followed by Younger Sin. There is a considerable probability that events of his rule were conflated with those of Ting IV, for the reason that Ting IV is usually credited with at least 49 regnal years and yet does not have historical events. The notion that he enfeoffed nine barons is highly unusual in a reign of the length of Middle Met, though equally the event may have been remembered simply because it was unusual.