Beginning with Şa-mo khan, known as the
founder of this dynasty and who had been called "Wei" by the Chinese, the Tabgaç
struggled for 70 years to take the smaller local states in the region of Ta-t'ong under
their domination. The development of Tabgaç to a big state was realized in the time of
Kuei (385-409), capturing the fertile lands of the South Chinese Hsien-pi (409). The state, of which the capital
had been P'ing-Ç'eng (in the north Şan-si in the region of Tai) from one side reached
the places nearby Peking and from the other side to the south of the bend of river
Huang-ho. There was no a serious development in the north direction because of the strong
political organized Juan Juans, the Mongolian originated inheritances of the H'yen-bi
(Hsien-pi). The, sometimes very impetuous passing battles, between the two states lasted
for 150 years.
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