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極奥アジア : vol.2

success of this expedition.³⁵ The town of T'ien-ti 田地, by which probably Kao-ch'ang, i. e. Kara-khōja, is meant,³⁶ was quickly taken by a surprise attack. Ch'ü Chih-shêng 翕智盛, who had succeeded his father on the throne, was invested in the capital, and soon surrendered, after showers of stones thrown by the Chinese engines of siege had produced panic in the town.³⁷

Protector-
ate of
An-hsi
established. The whole territory was then occupied and turned into the district of Hsi chou 西州, with the Protectorate of An-hsi 安西 established at its head-quarters. This Protectorate was for a short while shifted to Kuchā, after the first conquest of this territory in 648. But in consequence of a change of policy on the accession of the Emperor Kao-tsung, it was brought back again to Turfān in 650 and then located at Kao-ch'ang.³⁸ The head-quarters of the newly formed Chinese district appear to have been left at the capital, i. e. Chiao-ho, the present Yār-khoto. Not until Chinese power had been extended over the whole of the Tārim basin and the territories north of it, by a final victory over the Western Turks, was the An-hsi Protectorate transferred, A.D. 658, to its definite location at Kuchā.

Organiza-
tion of
Turfān
territory. The territory secured by the taking of Chiao-ho and its king is stated to have comprised three districts, five 'sub-prefectures', twenty-two towns, eight thousand households, thirty thousand inhabitants and four thousand horses. Whether the figures of population here given may be considered as approximately accurate it is impossible to say. The mention that in T'ien-ti (Kao-ch'ang) alone more than seven thousand prisoners were taken might well suggest some under-estimate. A similar inference may be drawn from the assertion attributed to Ch'ü Wên-t'ai that if the Chinese force that got through the desert were to number less than thirty thousand men, his own army would be able to master it.³⁹ However this may be, it is clear that the great strategic importance of Turfān was from the first fully recognized by those who prepared the Emperor T'ai-tsung's plans for the extension of Chinese supremacy into the Western countries. A sign of the special value attached by them to the possession of this foothold may be recognized in the fact that the Emperor decided upon the complete incorporation of the territory within the administrative limits of the empire, instead of allowing it to remain under a vassal chief, as was urged by memorials reproduced at length in the T'ang shu, and as was done in the case of the states subsequently reduced within the Tārim basin.⁴⁰

N. slope of
T'ien-shan
occupied. The conquest of the Turfān basin was supplemented at the same time by the occupation of the adjoining territory on the northern side of the T'ien-shan. Ch'ü Wên-t'ai had relied on the help of the Western Turks, secured by a treaty with their supreme chief, and one of their Shê-hu (Jabgu) had been placed in the town of Kagan-stūpa, corresponding to the later Pei-t'ing.⁴¹ But overawed by the Chinese advance he surrendered the territory, which was turned into the Chinese district of T'ing 庭.⁴² Thus firmly posted astride as it were of the T'ien-shan, the Chinese were in safe possession of a base which secured the routes both north and south of the mountains for the farther advance, and which was capable of furnishing supplies for the forces needed to effect it.

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