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Volume 524 Biographies 311: Frontier Dependencies 7: Tannu Uriankhai, Altai Uriankhai, Altai Nuur Uriankhai

Chapter 524 of 清史稿 · Draft History of Qing
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西西
Tannu Uriankhai lies north of Uliastai, bordered on the southeast by the Tüsheet Khan division, on the south by the Sayin Noyan Khan division, on the west by Altai Uriankhai, on the southwest by the Zasagtu Khan division, and on the north by Russia. It has five superintendents: Tannu, Sarajik, Tojin, Kubusukul Nuur, and Chimchik River.
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西
In the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi, Bobei, Assistant State Duke of the Khoto Torghut under the Zasagtu Khan division, marched with the main force to the Tui River to check the Dzungar leader Tsewang Arabtan. He said, "The Dzungars remain restless and depend on the Uriankhai as a barrier. I ask leave to go and win them over; if they resist, let us seize them by force. The Zasak taiji Jinamida Ariya and Gendun Lobzang's men are all seasoned fighters; I ask to take them with me." The emperor approved the plan and granted his request. In the ninth month the Uriankhai leader Galdan Ermai brought his people in to submit. Galdan Ermai had earlier lived on the Chui River. Once, after he crossed the border to hunt, Bobei seized him and sent him in; the emperor pardoned him and told him to return home. Now he was about to send his son Holochuna to offer surrender. When Bobei arrived, he moved their herds to Tes. That winter Galdan Ermai fled; Bobei chased him to Hurkhan Shibar and captured him. In the fifty-ninth year Bobei rounded up fleeing Uriankhai and was promoted to beile rank. At the time he was serving under Western Campaign General Qilide. In the sixth month of the sixtieth year the Council of Princes and Ministers replied to Qilide that the 2,530 Uriankhai just brought in should be settled at Bayan Nuur, with three hundred troops drawn from the Tsetsen Khan division and other banners and taiji sent to garrison the area jointly. In the second year of Yongzheng the emperor said, "I asked Beile Bobei how the Uriankhai under his charge make their living. He reported that he had borrowed more than eighteen thousand taels of provisions from General Qilide, bought livestock to distribute, and given each household a livelihood; they are now better off than before. The debt was to be repaid year by year from his beile stipend. I consider the Uriankhai all my people—how can my own subjects be made to borrow provisions from me? The silver borrowed need not be repaid. Qilide was informed accordingly." In the third year Galdan Ermai fled again, crossing through Alik into Dzungar lands. Bobei sent his son Elinqin to cut him off at Toji and take him, while he himself went to Kemkemchik to hunt down rebel bands and put them to death.
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西
When the Oirats and Khalkha first fought, they were settled at Kobdo and Ulan Gumu by mistake. After Galdan's defeat the Khalkha western frontier ran to the Altai; from Kemkemchik on the northern slopes of the Tannu range to Bomu and beyond, all was Uriankhai pasture held by Bobei and the returned Oirat beile Lingwangbu. In the fourth year Tsewang Arabtan claimed Kemkemchik had once belonged to the Dzungars and asked for it back. The emperor refused, fearing he would seize a chance to harry the Uriankhai, and ordered Bobei to lead a thousand of his men with Vanguard Commander Ding Shou to garrison Tes on the southern slopes of the Tannu Mountains as a guard. Soon the Court of Colonial Affairs was told, "I have reflected that the Kemkemchik Uriankhai all belong to Bobei. Galdan Ermai is already in custody; let Bobei care for him and house him at the public lodge. But remember that they have always lived by hunting in the woods beyond the Khalkha frontier, that they border Dzungar Uriankhai lands, and that they also adjoin Russia. Bobei and the other ministers should go and instruct them to prepare on their own against any surprise." In the third month a minister was sent with cloth, silk, and tea to reward the Kemkemchik Uriankhai and to choose respected elders among them as leaders.
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西
In the fifth year the imperial son-in-law Tsewang Rabdan and others made a treaty with Russia. From between Kyakhta and Ergui the boundary markers ran west to Kenje Fengda Honin Ridge, Bomu at Kemkemchik, and Shibina Ridge. Along this ridge the border was split down the middle. Five-sable Uriankhai on each side were left to their former masters, while each side also exacted tribute of one-sable Uriankhai from the other. From the day the border was fixed, the mutual levy of one-sable Uriankhai was abolished.
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貿 貿西
In the sixteenth year of Qianlong the Khoto Torghut Zasak Beile Chingunjab was stripped of his rank for letting his people cross the patrol line to trade with Dzungar Muslims and settle secretly among the Uriankhai. Elinqin was ordered to succeed him, and rules were set for Uriankhai movement across the patrol boundary. In the twenty-first year Chingunjab forced the Uriankhai into revolt; when the imperial army arrived, they all deserted him. In the twenty-fifth year a superintendent's seal for Tannu Uriankhai was cast and issued. In the second year of Jiaqing the Uliastai Participating Minister Elechun was dismissed and punished for extorting the Uriankhai. In the third year of Daoguang trade between the Uriankhai and Han merchants was banned after Shanxi traders' private purchases of sheep led to lawsuits. In the sixth month of the twenty-fourth year Uliastai General Guilun reported that Superintendent Chuidunjab's demands were endless, and he was removed from office. During the Xianfeng reign the boundaries of Tannu Uriankhai were reported to the throne.
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西 使西 使 使 西 沿 使 使 使 西 使西西西 使西便 使使使 沿西西 西西
In the tenth year a border treaty was made with Russia; Sabin Daba in this region was the first sector where the western frontier was marked out. In the eleventh month of the third year of Tongzhi Uliastai General Mingyi and others reported, "Within Tannu Uriankhai grazing lands the Russian envoy's earlier negotiating paper says Tannu Ol Daba is the Tannu ridge; from the Sabin Daba marker the line runs west first, then south. The maps and gazetteers the envoy submitted also list boundary place-names from along the Sayan ridge to Kuitun oboo. Our older maps do not show these names, but following the route the envoy indicated, Urga Minister Wensheng later sent boundary maps from the fifth year of Yongzheng; the names differ, yet the lines largely match. Tannu Uriankhai pastures may look as if Russians could hem them in, but grazing in the two western leagues would not be affected. When the markers are set next year, the matter should be settled in consultation with Lin Xing, Cheren Dundob, and the others." In the eighth month of the fourth year Lin Xing and others reported that Commissioner Yue Songwu, starting from an on-site survey at Bogusuk Dam with Tannu Uriankhai Superintendent Fanqier and checking each station against the map, found Tannu Ol Daba matched the boundary Russia had drawn. Sayan Mountain could not be surveyed for lack of a trail. At Tannu Ol Daba and other points on the border to be divided—Zhuru Nuur, Tasqiler Mountain, Haratasur Mountain, and Debu Sekha Mountain—they chose sites for markers and submitted joint-survey maps." The Russian boundary commissioner could not come at that time. In the ninth month Mingyi and others, citing urgent military affairs, asked to postpone setting the boundary with the Russian envoy. In the sixth year Russians crossed the border into Superintendent Maidar's pastures at Ukgol and built houses and planted fields. The Zongli Yamen protested to the Russian envoy, and only then did the Russian official at Urga order them sent home. That year the court ordered Lin Xing and others to set up boundary markers along the western frontier adjoining Russia. In the sixth month Rongquan was ordered to meet Russian officials at once and set up Uliastai frontier boundary markers. In the fifth month of the eighth year Rongquan and Russian envoy Murumtsev met on this tribe's southwestern Saylugem ridge to set the first markers. They set out on the twenty-sixth, followed the ridge to Bogusuk Dam at the southwestern tip of the region, and erected the first marker, with Kobdo's to the south and Russia's to the west. About eighty li northeast, at Tasqiler Mountain, they set the second marker on the summit. Another ninety li northeast brought them to Zhuru Nuur. The Russian envoy proposed markers only as far north as Chabuqiya Dam on the Tannu range, then a straight line northwest to Sabin Daba—a route he called shorter and easier. Rongquan argued that the Russian route lay entirely within this tribe's pastures; accepting it would not only depart from the original map but would cut off most of their grazing. After repeated negotiations he followed the original map and set the third marker at Hargen Mountain southeast of Zhuru Nuur. Following the north shore of the lake for some twenty li, they set the fourth marker at Chabuqiya Dam on the southern slopes of the Tannu range. They followed the southern Tannu slopes west past the Modotu, Zhaladun, Wurtu, and Chahan Zhaksutu rivers, along Haratasur Sea Mountain to the Shakru River, then northeast some 250 li to Kusier Dam on this tribe's western frontier, where they set the fifth marker. Ninety li northwest they reached the end of Tannu Ol Daba and set the sixth marker west of the Hala River where the Chulacha stream runs below the mountain. Turning north and east along the Sayan range past the Manahu, Monak, and Haolashi rivers, from Kara Nuur to Sur Dam, about 150 li, they erected the seventh marker. Another 360 li north and east along the continuous ridges to Sabin Daba, they set the eighth marker on the eastern summit beside the old marker. Under the original map, from Bogusuk Dam on Saylugem Mountain, land left of the red line was Chinese and land to the right was Russian. The work was finished on the twenty-second of the sixth month, but the Altai River and Amuha River regions of this tribe had all fallen to Russia.
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使
In the fifth year of Guangxu the Uliastai General reported that the Chimchik River superintendent said Russian merchants had built several trading posts in Tannu Uriankhai territory and that since spring groups of thirty to ninety Russians had been panning gold inside the Tannu range north of the Chimchik River, all in violation of regulations. He asked the Zongli Yamen to protest to Acting Minister Keshande and have frontier officials stop it. In the fifth month of the seventh year the Uliastai General reported Russians living at Sarluq with ten wooden huts and more than a hundred gold pits nearby, and protested to the Russian consul at Urga to have frontier officials enforce the ban.
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西 西 使 使
In the fourth month of the fourteenth year Uliastai General Dugar reported, "On the outer border of Tannu Uriankhai under my jurisdiction, from northwest of Bogusuk to Sabin Dabahan, China has set boundary markers that are inspected jointly each summer. The ridge runs east and south toward Uliastai; territory to the left of the ridge belongs to China, as the treaty states. Yet Russians have been mining east of Sabin Dabahan and west of Honizhang Dabahan on Tannu riverbanks at Erlidang, Sabtar, Budabagor, Cherik, Jingge, and elsewhere. An earlier inspection found forty-five pits; digging near Sabtar and Cherik continues on a large scale. At the Wuke and Duolun rivers Russians including Mingulai have cleared fields more than 1,300 chang long and over 820 chang wide. Russians including Yagur have built sturdy houses at fifteen sites—Salatamu, Bomu, Eqibrak, Duolun, Wuke, Cherik, Tolebo, Sasidok, Miganglule, Zhakule, Hadanu Eqiyisk, Muama, the Ake River mouth, the Jiergahu River mouth, and Jierzhalak—several hundred of them pushing deep into Chinese territory. This year Assistant Commandant Rongchang and others were sent to Jierlalik in Uriankhai territory to negotiate with Russian officials over mining, building, and farming. The Russians only stalled and refused to act; the Zongli Yamen should investigate each case and report back." The Zongli Yamen soon replied, asking the generals to survey the boundary, trace the causes, cite the treaties, and press the Russians hard. If they remain obstinate, either notify our minister in Russia to demand a settlement from the foreign ministry, or estimate the cost of their buildings and pay them to leave at once, with the local generals to decide as circumstances require and report to the throne." In the tenth month Xianglin and others reported that Jiyu and others had left the Uriankhai seal office in the sixth month from Yinmugaltai, spent more than two months surveying Cherik and other places, and had fully documented Russian mining, building, and farming inside the border. The Zongli Yamen was ordered to demand that Russians who had crossed into Tannu Uriankhai to mine, build, and farm in violation of treaty be sent home.
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In the eighth month of the twenty-fifth year Participating Minister Zhirui reported the Chimchik River superintendent's request for an official seal; Lianshun was told to investigate and report back. A follow-up memorial explained that Chimchik River and the Tannu superintendent are a thousand li apart, with the Uriankhai of Oirat Zasak Beizi Dakdan Dorji of the Sayin Noyan division in between. When disputes arise, messages cannot get through and everything must go through the Tannu superintendent rather than directly to Uliastai. Chimchik River has 2,013 households and nearly ten thousand registered males. The Tannu superintendent's annual exactions are also routine. It also borders Russia, and frontier affairs are frequent. The ten sumu have united in petition; they are already estranged from the Tannu superintendent and neither side will yield. If trouble breaks out, it will be hard to control. If the court's grace, long awaited, were granted at last, they would surely hold their own frontier and serve as a shield for us. Eastern Uriankhai already received a seal, so precedent makes it hard to refuse on grounds of regulations; we ask that a seal be granted." The request was approved.
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調 貿 貿鹿貿 貿貿
In the twenty-sixth year Lianshun and others were ordered to ready the frontier defenses. The Boxer rising had begun, and Chinese and foreigners alike were uneasy. Lianshun ordered Tannu Uriankhai Superintendent Gunbodorji, Sarajik Superintendent Balejinima, Tojin Superintendent Lingkui, Kubusukul Nuur Superintendent Keshkjiergal, and Chimchik River Superintendent Haidubu to raise troops and drill militia without delay. Gunbodorji and the others each raised a force within days. He also arranged supplies for the troops, reinforced key posts, treated Russian merchants well, and warned against provoking border clashes. In the twelfth month of the twenty-eighth year Lianshun again asked for rewards; Keshkjiergal received a second-rank hat button and Haidubu a second-rank peacock feather. That year Lianshun wrote, "The Uriankhai have been under imperial civilization for nearly two hundred years and are scarcely different from the Khalkha Mongols. Our merchants still obey the old rules and dare not trade there in secret. Russian traders in Uriankhai territory are beyond counting. They build houses and live there year-round, buying up antlers, fox, wolf, otter, lynx, sable, and squirrel pelts in huge quantities, so that when Uriankhai come to Uliastai with tribute furs there is often nothing left to trade. The only remedy is flexibility: Uliastai merchants who used to trade in Uriankhai may register and go, with the general's office issuing six-month passes as regulations provide, while barrier garrison troops are ordered to inspect strictly and bar contraband." The proposal was approved.
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In the first year of Xuantong General Kunxiu reported that Chimchik River Superintendent Haidubu and the ten sumu elders recommended his eldest son Darugabuyin Badarhu as diligent and widely respected, and asked that he succeed as superintendent; the request was granted.
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西西 西 西 西
The region has a mild climate and rich soil, with irrigation suitable for wheat. It has gold, copper, asbestos, and other minerals, and abundant forests. Dabuxun Mountain yields rock salt that supplies this entire region and northern Kobdo. The Tannu, Sarajik, and Tojin superintendents each have four assistant commandants; Kubusukul Nuur has two; Chimchik River has ten. Sarajik is also known as Sargig and Tojin as Taoji; their superintendents hold no official seals. Kubusukul Nuur is also called Kusugu Nuur and Chimchik River as Kenmucik; these offices have seals. The Zasagtu Khan division's Right Wing Right Banner also has five assistant commandants: north of Lake Kusugur, northeast of the Khakmu River, west of the Gedeler River, west of the Moshik River, and at the Zhakur headwaters. The Sayin Noyan division's Oirat beizi banner has thirteen assistant commandants along the southern slopes of Mount Erge Khan, bordering Altai Nuur Uriankhai to the west. Three assistant commandants serve the Jebzundamba Khutuktu's followers along the Khakmu River to the west. Altai Uriankhai lies west of Kobdo, bordered on the east by the Oirats, on the southeast by the Zhakhachin and the Bulgan River New Torghut and Khobchak New Khoshut, on the south by the Hoboksar Old Torghut, on the northeast by the Dorbod, and on the north by Altai Nuur Uriankhai. They are organized in left and right wings, with four left-wing banners and three right-wing banners.
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They were originally subject to the Dzungars. In the eighteenth year of Qianlong the Khalkha Zasagtu Khan taiji Dashpensok, serving with Northern Route Participating Minister Salar, seized the Uriankhai Zhamutu and others who had crossed into the Kobdo patrol zone. In the first month of the nineteenth year Salar and others were ordered to campaign against Dzungar Uriankhai who had crossed the barrier line. The Northern Route command released the Uriankhai Mamut and others who had been lured into capture and sent them back to their tribes. In the second month the Dzungar Uriankhai leader Kumu submitted. In the third month Shuhede was sent to Zhuokeso to join Salar in pacifying the Uriankhai. The Uriankhai soon moved their herds to the Irtysh region, and the troops were ordered to withdraw for the time being. That month the Northern Route headquarters was moved to Uliastai as the Uriankhai submitted. In the seventh month Sayin Noyan beizi Chemchukjab, Bandi, Salar, and others defeated Uriankhai zaisang at Chahan Usu and accepted their surrender. In the tenth month Bandi and Salar subdued the Dzungar Uriankhai zaisang Mamut and Tongmamut living in the Altai, bringing in more than a thousand households. From the Altai they marched to Solbi Ridge and on to Chahan Tohui Ebe Khoshu in Bulghan, capturing zaisang Kukxin and others. In the eleventh month Chingunjab, Khoto Torghut beile, was raised to junwang for helping pacify the Uriankhai. Uriankhai households were organized into banners with assistant commandants; zaisang Chegen, Chilen, and Chadak were made superintendents; and Kukxin was ordered to farm on the Irtysh.
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西
In the first month of the twentieth year Chadak's forces reached the upper Irtysh and captured the Baoxin zaisang and others. Chadak was made vice commander-in-chief and Uriankhai superintendent Chilen received the same rank, with orders to win over the Uriankhai of Khan Hatun. Uriankhai tribute and levies were waived for one year. In the second month the Uriankhai under Chadak and Chilen were organized into seven assistant commandant districts. In the third month Uriankhai zaisang Dutachi was executed for letting submitted people he had guided escape. Zasak taiji Gendun of the Zasagtu Khan division and others were posted at Hailatu, Kobdo, and elsewhere to oversee Uriankhai pastures and receive defectors. In the fourth month the Uriankhai of Khan Hatun submitted. In the fifth month the submitting Uriankhai zaisang Tubxin was made superintendent. In the tenth month the Uriankhai were rewarded for supplying livestock to Hadaha's army marching west. In the third month of the twenty-first year the rebel stirred up the Uriankhai and blocked the Kazakh trade route. Hadaha was ordered to suppress the rebel Uriankhai. A Kirghiz zaisang named Gurban Khoja slipped into Uriankhai lands with more than a thousand households; Sayin Noyan junwang Chebudenjab and Cheden Sanbil intercepted and captured him. In the sixth month Chingunjab rebelled and tried to win both the new and old Uriankhai to his side. When the imperial army arrived, they all submitted. In the tenth month the new and old Uriankhai were rewarded for raising troops to fight Chingunjab, and Chadak was made grand minister of the interior.
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In the second month of the twenty-second year Chadak and others were ordered to block Dzungar rebels such as Tsewang Rabdan from fleeing into Uriankhai lands. In the fourth month the followers of the Oirat rebel Chebuden Dorji were assigned to Chadak and others. Chadak and others were rewarded for capturing Khoit rebels; his son the bodyguard Baichubushen, Chilen, Hongguor, and others received silk and tea in varying amounts. In the ninth month Chebudenjab and others were ordered to guard the Uriankhai against the rebel and his followers. In the tenth month Altai Nuur Uriankhai submitted; offices and rewards were granted, Chadak's Uriankhai were set at two sables per household per year, and salaries at half the rate of interior officials. In the eleventh month the Uriankhai, Zhakhachin, and others were ordered to return horses and camels. Uriankhai leader Bohele submitted again and was reappointed superintendent. In the second month of the twenty-third year Uriankhai households were merged and enrolled; both new and old Uriankhai were allowed to farm at Ulan Gumu and graze along the Chui River, Leheshuo, and elsewhere. Soon the Kobdo Uriankhai were ordered to move to the southern slopes of the Altai. In the third month of the twenty-fourth year Junwang Chebudenjab was again put in charge of Uriankhai affairs. In the eighth month Uriankhai vice commander Monijab and others won over Ertchuk households, placed them under Uriankhai ministerial jurisdiction, and granted offices in varying ranks. That year the Irtysh south of the Altai was assigned as this tribe's pasture. In the twelfth month Chadak and others were ordered to guard against Kazakh raids on the Uriankhai. In the fourth month of the twenty-fifth year the scattered followers of former superintendent Ala were placed under Chadak and others for joint administration. Superintendent Zabukhan let bandits escape through negligence; the emperor pardoned him for his youth and ordered Chadak to send men to assist him.
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貿
In the seventh month of the twenty-sixth year private trade between the Uriankhai and Kazakhs was banned. In the third month of the twenty-seventh year the expansion of Uriankhai barrier posts was approved. In the ninth month Altai Uriankhai were strictly forbidden to steal Kazakh horses. In the tenth month Kukxin, a Uriankhai who had submitted but fled to Russia, was raiding Kazakhs in China's name; Chadak and others were ordered to capture him. In the twelfth month seals for the left- and right-wing Uriankhai superintendents were cast for Chadak and Tukushen, and the old Altai Uriankhai superintendent seal was withdrawn. In the first month of the twenty-eighth year Kukxin was captured and executed; the households he had won over were divided among Chadak and others. In the twelfth month of the thirty-eighth year New Torghut junwang Sheleng married this tribe's minister without regular rank Wurtunason; officials were warned that the Uriankhai border Russia closely and Hutuling'a and others must watch the frontier carefully hereafter. In the sixth month of the forty-ninth year aid silver was granted to the Uriankhai troops under Altai station minister Chadak.
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滿 使 調 調 祿
In the eighteenth year of Daoguang Kazakhs crossed secretly into Altai Uriankhai; Uliastai Participating Minister Cheren Dorji was ordered to drive them out with Mongol troops. Kobdo Participating Minister Yushu sent director-rank Hachuxian to drive the Kazakhs Yiman and others who had entered Uriankhai lands toward Uliastai. In the eighth month they were pursued and defeated at Shalaburak. In the ninth month Kazakhs who entered Uriankhai again were driven beyond Kukshin Alin and the officers were rewarded. In the eleventh month Cheren Dorji reported that the Kazakhs who had entered Torghut Uriankhai lands were fully driven out; more than ten captives were released. In the twelfth month Uriankhai vice commander Chebokedash and others received peacock feathers for driving off Kazakhs who had slipped into the pastures. In the fourth month of the nineteenth year Kazakhs entered Uriankhai again; Cheren Dorji was again ordered to drive them out. In the eighth month Altai Uriankhai Right Wing minister Dashjikba was severely censured for failing to report when troops were mobilized. Altai Left Wing minister Darmazhala, who had promptly driven out the Kazakhs, received a first-rank hat button and was to receive further commendation. In the twenty-second year Kobdo Participating Minister Guqing reported, "Darmazhala constantly pleads illness to avoid duty and governs poorly. His post oversees four Uriankhai banners across vast pastures bordering Russia—a weighty responsibility. We ask that he be removed and commandant Tanggalu act in his stead."
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西 便
In the tenth year of Xianfeng a western frontier treaty was concluded with Russia. In the eighth month of the third year of Tongzhi Kobdo Participating Minister Guangfeng reported that Khazaks under Prince Aji were living at seventeen places within the barrier line in Altai Uriankhai territory, including the Qilin River region. While the border has not yet been fixed, they cannot be expelled all at once. If relocation proves unavoidable after demarcation, the Tarbagatai Participating Minister should choose a site for them." In the eleventh month Russians crossed into this tribe's Kushiyamodo and Tabutu regions and caused trouble. Mingyi protested to the Russian Siberian governor to investigate troops who had caused trouble at the barrier posts and to station troops only after boundary commissioners from both countries set markers the following year. In the fourth year, because of Muslim rebellions in Ili and Tarbagatai, Uriankhai courier stations were set up to relay dispatches and supplies from Kobdo to Tacheng. In the twelfth month Tarbagatai Participating Minister Xilin impeached Guangfeng for abolishing the Uriankhai courier stations and blocking dispatches and supplies. Guangfeng and others were ordered disciplined and told to restore the stations. In the fifth month of the fifth year Tarbagatai fell; Brigade Commander Tukur moved his Oirat troops into this region.
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使 使西西沿 沿 西 西滿滿 調
In the third month of the seventh year Kuichang was ordered to set up Kobdo boundary markers with Russian officials along the Russian border. In the ninth month Kuichang reported that the Russian envoy had not come and asked to wait until the following year to set the boundary jointly. In the eighth year Kuichang and Russian boundary commissioner Babukuofo surveyed the line from Bogusuk Dabaha on the northeastern Kobdo frontier, southwest along Saylugem Mountain to Kuitun Ola, then west along the Great Altai to the mountains between the two Hailiutu rivers; turning south along that range to Chaqirmos Ola; then southeast along Lake Zaisan, following the Kara Irtysh to the Manitu Gatulegan barrier post, where the border between the two countries was fixed. Twenty markers were set: Bogusuk Dabaha first, then Dorbod Dabaha, Tabutu Dabaha, Boleqier, Chagan Bulinhasu, Ulan Dabaha, Bahanas Dabaha, Sarnakai, Barhas Dabaha, Baibarta Dabaha, Kurchumu, Teleketi, Guoluomubai, Salatao, Saleqin Cheku, Teles Ailike, Eriyaburak, Qiyinkirish, Chaqirmos, and finally Manitu Gatulegan. The work was completed between the twenty-fifth of the fifth month and the third of the seventh month. In the tenth month Gunggazhalcan was sent to the Altai to gather followers and arrange resettlement; this tribe's annual sable tribute for the year was waived. Later Ili Solon troops and Tacheng Oirat forces were moved to the Altai and placed temporarily under Gunggazhalcan's command. In the tenth year Acting Ili General Rongquan reported that the thousand-li stretch from west of Kobdo's five Zhakhachin stations to Hoboksar required courier posts on the spot or the supply line would be cut. Uriankhai zhanggai were ordered to establish three stations on the west wing—Chahan Tongge, Tok Oboo, and Degtu Aman—and three on the east—Dorutu Aman, Erqi Saihan, and Uriyas. This became the main route between Kobdo and Tacheng. In the eleventh year Gunggazhalcan's Solon and Oirat troops were transferred to Tacheng.
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In the eleventh month of the twelfth year Muslim rebels slipped into the New Torghut Bulgan River region, raided this tribe's border, and courier-station troops fled in disorder. Urumqi Brigade Commander Xilun led his militia from south of the Altai to the south bank of the Wulungu River, pursued the rebels to the lower Hobok River, and defeated them. The rebels fled to northern Suilai County; Kobdo Participating Minister Baoying ordered the Uriankhai to restore the military courier stations to their original sites at once.
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西退 西 西 便便
In the seventh month of the seventh year of Guangxu Gunggazhalcan, while winning over Kazakhs at Dayan in Uriankhai territory, killed chief Keboshi's son without authorization; Xilun was ordered to send him home at once. In the eighth year Russia proposed redrawing the Kobdo and Tacheng border and sought to occupy the Kaba River region. Kobdo Participating Minister Qingtai reported that several hundred Russians had suddenly arrived at the Kaba River. The new treaty identifies Kuitong Mountain as the Altai range. Allowing them to resurvey the line would do real harm." In the eighth month Altai Left Wing ministers reported to Qingtai that the previous border had already taken much Uriankhai northwestern territory; if the Kaba River were lost as well, the Mongols would have nowhere to live and swore they could not yield. Qing'an and Erqing'e were told to consult Jinshun and Sheng Tai on how to proceed. In the ninth year Erqing'e and Participating Minister Sheng Tai went ahead to the frontier, surveyed strategic border points, and verified the principal mountain and river names. Fearing that losing the Kaba River and Kuitong Mountain would leave Uriankhai and Kazakhs homeless, they argued with Russian officials for over ten days. The border was redrawn at the Alakhbiek River west of the Kaba River, gaining more than 130 li, and new markers were erected. When finished, Erqing'e resettled both Uriankhai wings at Dayan Nuur by the northern route, assigning summer pastures along the Helimutu, Yamatu, Yaoluotu, and Xilibulak rivers and winter pastures along the Handagaitu, Taliyatu, Qingge, and Wulungu rivers, while Tacheng kept a garrison on the Kaba River. On Jinshun's memorial, Gunggazhalcan was ordered to return the Altai Uriankhai pasturelands and resettle the Mongols there. In the seventh month of the twelfth year Shakduerjab and others again urged Gunggazhalcan to move his followers back to Tacheng. In the thirteenth year Liu Jintang was told to find a site in Xinjiang for Gunggazhalcan's resettlement. In the second month of the fifteenth year Liu Jintang reported moving Gunggazhalcan's followers to Bayingou in Kurkara Usu and returning the land borrowed from Kobdo. Disciples recruited near Chenghua Temple were allowed to remain in the Kaba River region. Tacheng had garrisoned the borrowed land from the start and could not withdraw lest Russia push south; the request was granted. In the sixth month of the eighteenth year Shakduerjab, Erqing'e, and Kuifu reported that the borrowed Kaba River land could not yet be returned because Mongols and Kazakhs lacked room after Tacheng's two border settlements, and asked for a three-year extension. The Uriankhai were destitute; Tacheng Kazakhs were to provide livestock, refugee households were to be resettled, and troops stationed; the plan was approved. Kobdo repeatedly asked for the Kaba River back; Tacheng resisted, and the dispute was never settled.
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In the twenty-sixth year the frontier was militarized; Participating Minister Ruixun ordered each Uriankhai banner to raise two hundred men, half mounted and half on foot, to garrison its territory. When the crisis passed, they were withdrawn. The Uriankhai banners were repeatedly commended for protecting Russian trade goods and keeping the pastures secure. In the intercalary fifth month of the twenty-ninth year ministers Erke and Shunu Sanyin Bolek received first-rank hat buttons; superintendents Woqierjab, Sundunjab, Gunbujab, and Wazirjab received second-rank buttons; and vice commander Chahan Bolek was also rewarded. In the twenty-ninth year Tacheng returned the Kaba region to Kobdo. In the fifth month of the thirtieth year a Kobdo Resident Minister was posted to the Altai with Xiheng in the post, still based at Chenghua Temple. In the seventh month of the thirty-second year Altai was assigned one cavalry battalion and one artillery company, a Kaba River defense commissioner was appointed, and sixteen relay posts from Shazhagaitai to Chenghua Temple were established with five Mongol cavalrymen and ten horses each. Colonization was opened at Chenghua Temple, Kuke, Hobukemu, and the Kaba River; government buildings were erected with 130,000 taels in annual funds and over 310,000 taels in startup capital. In the twelfth month this tribe's seven banners were placed under Altai administration. In the fourth month of the thirty-fourth year Xiheng reported suspending the upper Burultoqai canal, trying the lower canal for another year of planting, and temporarily turning the Kemuchi official farm over to civilians. In the second month of the third year of Xuantong Acting Resident Minister Yannian proposed opening the Hongdun canal seventy li from Chenghua Temple to settle farmers. The ministries were notified.
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西 西 西西
The land supports farming and grazing, with mines and salt deposits. This tribe has seven assistant commandants; the vice commander and the left and right wing ministers each also serve as superintendent of one banner. After redemarcation there were eight barrier posts from Alakhbiek in the right wing southward to Aktas, then northeast through Kezina'asi, Sas, Hujirtu Burak, Usun Hujirtu, east to Hubusu and Luogaibu, ending at Huodong Nuor in the left wing. Notable mountains include Xijiketu, Gailatu, Homuda, and Halawen'erchang. Notable rivers include the Chahan Xilu, Sagesai, Sakbudo, Qingge, and Irtysh. Altai Nuur Uriankhai lies northwest of Kobdo, bordered on the east by Tannu Uriankhai, on the south by Altai Uriankhai, and on the west and north by Russia.
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They were originally subject to the Dzungars. In the ninth month of the twenty-second year of Qianlong Sayin Noyan Zasak Beile Chemchukjab pacified the Altai Uriankhai. Teleboke Zharnak, zaisang of the Altai Nuur Uriankhai, arrived with his people. Chemchukjab was ordered to set tribute and reward regulations and proclaim the court's benevolence. In the twelfth month zaisang Teleboke and others of Altai Nuur Uriankhai were made superintendents. In the autumn of the twenty-third year superintendents Alashan and Enke rebelled; Chemchukjab captured Alashan and his followers. Enke's elder brother fled to the Hatun River and was captured that winter. The tribe was soon organized as two banners, each with a superintendent, paying annual raccoon-dog pelts as tribute under the Kobdo Participating Minister. During Daoguang border inspection grew lax; Russians built a fort on the Chui River in this region, and Chinese boundary inspectors often failed to reach the markers.
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西 西
In the tenth year of Xianfeng a western frontier treaty was signed; Russia's demarcation list cut off this entire tribe's territory. In the seventh month of the sixth year of Tongzhi Guangfeng reported that the Russian Yashidara authorities had told the Altai Nuur superintendents that Altai Nuur, Choluoshibai, Bashikus, and the Chui River were Russian grazing lands. Anyone who claimed they were Chinese pastures was to be seized and sent to the Russian authorities. Russians also came to Choluoshibai to log timber; Superintendent Chahan was told to reason with them and wait until boundary commissioners fixed the border, after which the new line would apply—but for now they must not log or build houses and provoke trouble. Russian troops seized Chinese inspectors at the Hatun River—including Zasak Zanajab, taiji officers, and Mongol soldiers—blocked border inspection routes, and declared this tribe's pastures Russian territory, barring Chinese passage. In the tenth month Superintendent Mangtai reported that Russian officials had taken thumbprints from more than 140 of his banner's people and more than 240 of Superintendent Chahan's. In the ninth month Mingyi, Xilin, and Boleguosuo surveyed the western border with the Russian commissioner under the negotiating list; this tribe's land passed out of Qing control. At first those who had sincerely submitted were to be moved inside the barrier posts, but Superintendent Mangtai said both banners wished to move entirely inside to graze. Guangfeng told them, "Those who remain on land assigned to Russia must stay on their old homes, keep their livelihoods, and after the border is fixed will not be harmed as before." Mangdai and others were ordered to leave the posts and return to pasture, and the plan for inward migration was abandoned.
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This tribe has four assistant commandants.
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