{"book":"adl0978","page":38,"text":"Kunming, they were still molested. So this route still could not\nbe opened.\n\nOn the other hand more and more envoys went to Tahsia\nby the northern route from Chiuchuan. Because of the frequent\narrival of envoys, the foreign countries became sated with Han\nmoney and no longer treasured its goods. Since Chang Ch'ien\nwon respect and position through opening intercourse with\nforeign countries, other officers and soldiers following him competed\nwith each other in presenting reports to the Emperor describing\nstrange things and interests in foreign countries, and asking to\nbe sent abroad as envoys. Considering that few people were\nwilling to go to those extremely distant lands, the Emperor listened to\nthem and gave them missions and power to enrol people, no\nmatter what their origins. They were provided with company and sent\nabroad to enhance the intercourse. In travelling to and fro, it\nwas difficult to escape being robbed. If the envoys were remiss\nin their responsibilities, they were pardoned by the Emperor. But\nif their fault was serious, they incurred the anger of the Emperor\nwho would make them redeem their crime. Thus there was no\nend of excuses for going abroad as envoys and little fear to\noffend the law. The officials and soldiers who had followed them\nabroad also often praised foreign countries. Those who talked big\nwere made envoys and those who talked small were made deputies.\nThus braggarts and bad elements followed suit. Those people\nwere all of poor origin. They took the goods and gifts from the\nauthorities to profit themselves by selling at high prices to foreigners.\nNow the people in the foreign countries grew disgusted with the\n- 12 -","chars":1673,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00038.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":51,"title":"Tāyān : faṣl-i 123 Shī Chī yā asnād-i tārīkhī تايان : فصل ١٢٣ شى چى ىا اسناد تاريخى","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0978/38","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/38","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0978/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0978_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}