{"book":"adl0978","page":42,"text":"pressed by Han and the territory formerly ruled by Prince Hunshe\nis void of people. If, taking advantage of this opportunity, we should\nbribe Usun with a large sum of money -- for the barbarian peoples\nused to covet Han goods - and induce its people to move\neastward to take dwelling in the area formerly of Prince\nHunshe, and to enter into brotherhood (matrimonial relations) with\nHan, it is bound to heed our advice. In that case Hsiungnu would\nbe deprived of its right arm. In bringing Usun into alliance with\nus, we will be able to collect Tahsia and the other countries to\nits west as our outer subjects.\"\n\nThe Emperor approved of what Chang Ch'ien had said and appoin-\nted him Changlangchiang (commander of guards) and sent him on\nthe mission. Chang Ch'ien took with him 300 men (each with two\nhorses), more than ten thousand heads of cattle, and thousands of\npieces of gold and silk cloth, as well as many deputy envoys who\ncould be sent by him to other nearby countries.\n\nWhen Chang Ch'ien arrived in Usun, King Kunmo of Usun\nreceived him with no greater ceremony than if he had been an envoy\nfrom the Khan. Being greatly hurt and aware that the bar-\nbarian people were covetous, Chang Ch'ien said, \"The Emperor has\nsent you awards. If you do not pay obeisance, I will take the awards\nback with me.\" Kunmo then stood up and made an obeisance, but\notherwise behaved as before. Conveying the idea of the Emperor,\nChang Ch'ien said: \"If Usun should move eastward to settle down\nin the Han Emperor would give Kunmo a princess for wife. \"Usun was\ndivided and its King was old.They were far from Han and ignorant\nabout its size. They used long to be subordinate to Hsiungnu and\nwere near to it. Their officials were all afraid of the Huns and reluc-\ntant to move. The King was unable to dictate in this matter. So\nChang Ch'ien could get no definite reply from him.\n\nKunmo had more than ten sons. The middle son was called\nTalu who was a strong man skilled in commandership. He dwelt\napart in command of more than ten thousand horsemen. His elder\nbrother was the prince royal, who had a son called Chingchu. The\n- 8 -","chars":2118,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0978/00042.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/adl0978/42","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0978/canvas/42","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."}}