The Successors of Genghis Khan - Robert Bedrosian's Armenian ...

BEGINNING OF THE HISTORY OF QUBILAI QA'AN
He divided the countries of Nangiyas amongst the princes and set
a regular army upon each of the frontiers. The Emir Bolad Chingsang,101
who is fully informed on the conditions of those countries, states that
although it is the custom of the Nangiyas to include in the census only
persons of standing, who are the leaders of that people and possessed
of a following, the number of people in the census there is 99 tumens.
And no country is vaster than this, for it is written in books that the
beginning of the five climes is from that country. Nevertheless the
buildings in that country all adjoin one another. Those Mongol and
Jauqut troops settled there and never left the country: every commander
of a ttimen is stationed with a force of men in a specified area,
the governorship of which has been entrusted to him. And when the
taxes of that country are exacted, the Qa'an's yarligh is sent to that
commander, and in accordance with the command he arranges [the
collection of the tax] from all the towns belonging to that area and
sends it [to the Qa'an] ; and none of them has any connection with any
other employment. As for those prisoners, they have all become important
emirs and have provided themselves with summer and winter residences.
And God knows best what is right, and it is to Him that we return.
The events of Qubilai Qa'an's life from his birth until the time when
he ascended the throne of sovereignty and completely subjugated the
countries of Khitai and Machin have been related in detail. We shall
now record some other stories relating to his Empire, to the regulations
which he introduced, and to the armies which he assigned to every
area and frontier in those countries, if Almighty God so wills, the One
and Only.