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Peking to Lhasa : vol.1 | |
北京からラサへ : vol.1 |
LAN-CHOW TO TANGAR 105
Liang began to decline about 1915 and in 1920 he
died, partly from chagrin at the growing influence
of Ma Ch'i.
The Mohammedans of Kansu are believed to
have come from Samarkand about the 8th century
A.D. They gradually adopted Chinese customs
though retaining their old religion. About a
hundred years later the Salars also came from
Samarkand and settled round Sun-hwa on the
Yellow River to the west of Lan-chow. Being
more remote they retained most of their Turkish
customs.
Ma Ch'i had a certain number of regular troops
but depended chiefly on his raw levies. Each
village when called on had to provide a couple of
men, and the village had to pay their families for
a substitute to work in the fields and also provide
the soldier with a horse if he was a cavalry soldier
and a rifle and two hundred rounds. These levies
were quite untrained but were of good fighting
material.
Pereira gives an interesting account of Ma Ch'i's
methods in fighting the Goloks, a Tibetan tribe
who had hitherto never been conquered. Ma
Ch'i sent Mohammedan and Chinese traders among
them to act as spies. When the time was ripe for
attack he called out his levies, of whom 20 per cent
were buglers. But he did not attempt to attack
the Tibetans : he simply made his buglers blow,
while with some old Krupp guns he fired at the
rocks ; and the noise of the bugles and the guns
and shock of the shells on the rocks so terrified
the Goloks that they fled. Ma Ch'i then pursued
them and slew them in large numbers.
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