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0211 Ruins of Desert Cathay : vol.2
中国砂漠地帯の遺跡 : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000213
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M. Chavannes shows that the troops on the border were
composed of regular companies or 'tui,' organized under
imperial edict and permanently attached to particular
sections. Now a large number of records found at the
station T. VI. B mention the 'Ling-hu' (or 'barbarian-
suppressing') company in such a way as to leave no doubt
about its having garrisoned that station and had its head-
quarters there. Altogether some twenty companies are
thus named in the records from the various stations, and
in most cases it is still possible to determine the sections
of the line which they guarded. Curiously enough, a
record found at T. VI. B distinctly quotes an imperial
edict concerning the raising of the Ling-hu company and
two others which seem to have been located near by, and
directs the posting of the edict "in a place suited for
general information."

Each company had a commandant who is frequently
named as the recipient of orders sent from headquarters,
and his station is always referred to as a 'T'ing.' One of
the documents specifies 145 soldiers as attached to this
particular station, and M. Chavannes assumes this to
have been the approximate number for each company.
Under the company commandant the documents constantly
mention the officers in charge of the watch-towers ('hou-
chang') and the assistant attached to each of them. To
the soldiers placed under them, of whose number we are
not exactly informed, but who must have been posted by
reliefs, fell the duties of transmitting the fire signals, of
patrolling the line, and furnishing the fatigue parties for
collecting fuel, supplies, etc., to which our records so
often refer. Just as small groups of watch-towers were
garrisoned by individual companies, so the latter formed
sections of the 'barrier,' as the Limes is always spoken of,
under superior officers. Over the westernmost portion
of the Limes control was exercised by 'the military
commandant of the Jade Gate or Yü-mén,' who in turn
depended, directly or indirectly, on the governor of the
Tun-huang command.

In the files recovered from the office of the Ling-hu
company we have ample illustration of the administrative