{"book":"adl0978","page":41,"text":"prince royal died young and while dying said to his father Kunmo:\n\"You must make Chingchu the prince and not replace him by ano-\nther one. \" Pitying him Kunmo promised and ultimately made\nChingchu the prince. Angry at being prevented from becoming the\nprince, Talu rallied his younger brothers and led his troops in a\nrevolt against Chingchu and Kunmo. Kunmo was old and in constant\nfear lest Chingchu be killed by Talu. He gave Chingchu more than\nten thousand horsemen and made him dwell apart. And Kunmo kept\nmore than ten thousand horsemen for himself. Thus the strength\nof the country was divided in three, with the greater part under\nthe control of Kunmo. That was also why Kunmo dared not enter\ninto special agreement with Chang Ch'ien.\n\nTherefore Chang Ch'ien dispatched his deputy envoys to Tay-\nuan, Kangchu, the Greater Yuehchih, Tahsia, Anhsi, Hindu, Yutien,\nGanmi and other nearby countries. Usun appointed guides and inter-\npreters to escort Chang Ch'ien home. Chang Ch'ien took with him\nan envoy from Usun comprising scores of men and scores of horses\nto show gratitude for the awards, with the purpose of making them\nsee the greatness of Han.\n\nChang Ch'ien returned to the court and was appointed Tahsing,\nan important post among the state officers. After a year and more,\nhe died.\n\nThe envoy of Usun, seeing that Han was such a populous and\nrich country, reported back to their own country. Thus Usun came\nto hold Han in greater esteem. After a year or so, the deputy envoys\nsent by Chang Ch'ien to Tahsia and other countries mostly\nreturned taking with them men of those countries. In this way\n\n-9-","chars":1615,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00041.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/adl0978/41","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/41","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."}}