{"book":"adl0978","page":40,"text":"the foreign countries to the northwest began to have intercourse\nwith Han. As Chang Ch'ien was the one who blazed way, later\nenvoys who went there all styled themselves commissioners of\nKnight of Far sight in making pledges to foreign countries which\ntrusted his faith.\n\nAfter the death of Chang Ch'ien, the Knight of Far sight,\nHsiungnu learnt with anger about Usun's intercourse with Han\nand wanted to attack it.\n\nWhen Han's envoy passed through southern Usun and reached\nTayuan, the Greater Yuehchih and other neighbouring countries,\nthe King of Usun became afraid and asked the envoy to accept\nhorses as offerings and expressed the wish for a Han princess\nto seal the brotherhood (matrimonial relations). When the Emperor\nsought counsel from the state officers, they all said that:\n\"The girl must not be sent before the betrothal presents are brought\".\n\nBefore that the Emperor had consulted the Book of Changes\nwhich augured that a divine horse would come from the northwest.\nAfterwards he got the horse from Usun which was very good, and\nnamed it the \"heavenly horse.\" Then he obtained the horse from\nTayuan which sweated blood and was even stronger. So the Usun\nhorse was renamed the \"extreme west\", and the Tayuan horse\nwas named the \"heavenly horse\".\n\nIt was then (121 B.C.) that Han began to build the defences\nto the west of Lingchu. The Chiuchuan County was established\nto increase contact with the foreign countries to the northwest\n\n— 10 —","chars":1453,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00040.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/adl0978/40","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/40","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."}}