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0046 Innermost Asia : vol.2
極奥アジア : vol.2
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reoccupied until A.D. 131, we must assume that Pan Yung gained possession of Turfān, which was
to serve as a base for the renewed conquest of the Western Countries, across the Kuruk-tāgh from
the side of Lou-lan. By the year 125 he had won a great victory over Chün-chiu 軍 就, king of
Posterior Chü-shih, who was killed. Then, aided by two chiefs of this tribe, he attacked and
defeated in the following year the Hu-yen king of the Huns, who probably held the Barkul valley.¹⁰

Decay of
Chinese
control. The warlike character of the people in occupation of Posterior Chü-shih at that time is brought
out also by the record of a great raid which the Chinese political officer in charge of this tribe
succeeded with their help in carrying far into the territory of the northern Huns in the year 134.
But in the very next year the king Hu-yen, of the Northern Huns, retaliated by invading Posterior
Chü-shih. A Chinese expedition was then sent to succour 'the six kingdoms of Chü-shih',
significantly declared to 'serve as the protection of the Western countries', but did not succeed
in its object.¹¹ By that time, in fact, the gradual decay of the Later Han power in Central Asia
had already set in.

Troubles in
'Posterior
Chü-shih'. The several expeditions subsequently undertaken from the Hāmi side against the Hu-yen king,
to which reference has been made above in connexion with the Barkul region,¹² failed to remove
the danger from this source by which the Chinese main line of communication was ever threatened.
In A.D. 153 trouble arose with the king of Posterior Chü-shih, A-lo-to 阿 羅多, who attacked
the town of Chü-ku, 且 固, where the Chinese had a military colony. With the help of a portion
of the tribe, the Chinese succeeded in forcing the rebel chief to seek refuge among the Northern
Huns. But he soon returned and, securing the support of his people, ousted his rival Pei-chün
卑 君, whom the Chinese had set up in his place. The political expedient by which the Chinese
administration tried to meet its difficult situation, and with the record of which the notice of Chü-shih
in the Annals concludes, is of interest and throws light on the more or less nomadic character of the
race then holding Posterior Chü-shih. While A-lo-to was reinstated, Pei-chün was removed to
Tun-huang 'with three hundred tents of the Posterior tribe, specially placed under his orders
so as to supply him with a fixed revenue'.¹³

Importance
of road
passing
Turfān. Though Chinese nominal supremacy over the 'Western countries' appears to have lingered
on under the Later Han for some time longer, no data concerning the Turfān region are furnished
by the records accessible to me in translation. The notices above surveyed suffice to illustrate
the increased importance to the Chinese that this region attained after the high road through Hāmi
and along the Eastern T'ien-shan had been opened. We find this importance strikingly expressed
in the words with which the Hou Han shu sums up its notice of the northern route into the Tārim
basin. 'These localities [of Kao-ch'ang and Chin-man] are the gates of the Western countries;
for this reason the Wu-chi-hsiao-wei have successively kept garrison there. . . . All these places
are fertile. That is why the Han have constantly disputed Chü-shih and I-wu with the Hsiung-nu
in order to dominate the Western countries.'¹⁴

Turfān
between
Later Han
and T'ang. The Chinese historical records of the periods that intervened between the downfall of the
Later Han dynasty, A.D. 220, and the years immediately preceding the advent of the T'ang,
A.D. 618, appear to contain but scant notices relating to the Turfān region or to the 'Western
countries' in general. But the few I am able to gather from among those rendered accessible by
the researches of M. Chavannes and Professor O. Franke seem to indicate clearly that political
relations with China and the influence of Chinese civilization, such as resulted from Han supremacy,
continued during these four centuries to be maintained both there and farther west in the Tārim
basin, though probably to a reduced extent and with interruptions.