渠犁 / Quli (Western Regions)

Overview

渠犁 / Quli enters the wiki through Hanji 429 as the Western Regions屯田 base from which 郑吉 tries to rescue 车师国. It matters as a logistics node rather than as a full polity biography in this source.

Current Profile

The episode says Zheng Ji leaves a small garrison at Cheshi and returns to Quli. When Xiongnu attacks Cheshi, Zheng draws on Quli屯田 troops, reportedly seven or eight thousand, and marches more than one thousand li to rescue the position. The distance and force imbalance leave him surrounded, which helps trigger 魏相’s warning against turning a rescue mission into a broader Xiongnu expedition.

After Xuan accepts Wei Xiang’s remonstrance, Han moves Cheshi’s people to Quli while leaving the old Cheshi land to Xiongnu. Quli therefore functions as a safer Han-controlled holding and settlement base in the episode’s final arrangement.

Key Characteristics

• Western Regions base tied to Han屯田 in the Cheshi crisis.
• Rear position to which Zheng Ji returns after leaving a small Cheshi garrison.
• Source of the rescue force that becomes surrounded by Xiongnu.
• Settlement destination for Cheshi’s population after Xuan chooses limited extraction.
• Logistics node that reveals how distance constrains Han frontier commitments.

Evidence

Rescue base:

• Hanji 429 says Zheng Ji returns to Quli after leaving three hundred soldiers at Cheshi.
• Hanji 429 says Zheng Ji leads Quli屯田 troops to rescue Cheshi and is surrounded.

Settlement node:

• Hanji 429 says Xuan moves Cheshi’s people to Quli after Chang Hui extracts Zheng Ji.

Qualifications

This page is limited to the episode’s 64 BCE Cheshi crisis. It does not reconstruct Quli’s full geography, administrative status, later role, or relationship to all Western Regions屯田 systems.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 429’s Quli屯田, rescue-distance, and Cheshi-population relocation layer.

Relationships

• 郑吉 / Zheng Ji (Western Han) - officer who uses Quli as his base and source of rescue troops.
• 车师国 / Cheshi Kingdom (Western Han) - contested position whose people are moved to Quli.
• 魏相 / Wei Xiang (Western Han) - remonstrator whose state-capacity argument responds to the rescue crisis.
• Tuntian System / 屯田制 - related agricultural-military logistics pattern.
• 边疆资源整合治理 / Frontier Resource Integration - broader resource-and-settlement governance frame.