Wumeng chiefs

Who he is

Title

Chiefs of the Wumeng bu

Since

not known

Born

not known

Family

Yi (Wuman) lineages; the later Wumeng chiefs are a Yuan and Ming matter

Confidence

low

Chinese Wikipedia (昭通市, 大理国).

Overlord

Dali by title (the bu list); the Song court claims nothing here in the sources we read

What it holds

• The Zhaotong basin (Zhuti)
• The hills toward the Jinsha and Sichuan
• Control of the Five Foot road between Qujing and Yibin

Allies and rivals

Dali (title), the Song markets at Yibin and Luzhou (South China map), Mangbu to the east, Mu'ege and Ziqi farther east.

How things stand that morning

No event dated.

Wealth

Horses, herds, and tolls on the road.

Military

Chiefs' retainers.

Threats

• Dali or Song pressure is not recorded for these years

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. 1278The Yuan set up the Wumeng circuit (Chinese Wikipedia, 昭通市).Depends on: The Mongol conquest of Dali. Stopped by: No conquest.

Places of note

• Zhaotong (Zhuti): Zhuti, the Zhaotong basin.

Where the sources disagree

• Board 'zhuti-zhaotong' calls Zhuti 'contested' and puts it under Dali. The South China research (scc) anchors Zhaotong as dali. We anchor the basin as chiefs because the Wumeng are among the bu and the evidence of Dali government here is only the list.

Evidence: A Tang-period note and the Yuan and Ming lists.

On the map: County units of modern Zhaotong prefecture; the real range of the Wumeng is not known.

Primary sources for Chiefs of the south-west

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. Read online
• History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
• Draft Compilation of the Collected Statutes of the Song, Various; the Song huiyao were compiled by the Song state, the surviving draft reassembled by Xu Song from the Yongle dadian in the nineteenth century (the original Song compilations date from the eleventh to the thirteenth century; the surviving extracts were recovered in 1809 to 1820 and printed in 1936). Dated extracts from the Song government's own statute collections, arranged by office. Read online
• Miscellaneous Notes on Court and Country since the Jianyan Era, Li Xinchuan (李心傳) (first series 1202, second series 1216). A contemporary handbook of the Southern Song state, written in Sichuan by the historian Li Xinchuan and finished in its first part in 1202, two years after the start of 1200. Read online
• Notes in Answer to Questions about the Lands beyond the Passes, Zhou Qufei (周去非) (1178, after service in Guangxi). A Guangxi official's notes, written twenty years before 1200, on the south-western frontier of the Song and the countries beyond. Read online