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 Prince Danjin Dorgi 丹津多爾濟 (d. 1738), was similarly rewarded. Soon afterwards Tsereng was made a High Jasak of the Khalkas. In the summer of 1732 a large number of the Eleuths (thirty thousand?) again invaded the Khalkas. Perhaps as an act of vengeance, they plundered the Tamir Valley, made captive two of Tsereng's sons, and carried away men and cattle. Tsereng, with twenty thousand soldiers, pursued the Eleuths and met them at Erdeni Tsu on September 23. The battle lasted the whole day and the Eleuths suffered a crushing defeat, losing a large number of men. The remnant fled westward and crossed the A]tai Mountains to their own country. They would have been annihilated had the armies under Marsai (see under ) and Hsi-pao co-operated to prevent this flight. For their failure to do so, Marsai was beheaded, Hsi-pao was degraded, and Danjin Dorgi, who in his report exaggerated his own part in the victory, was first rewarded but later degraded. Tsereng alone was given credit for this victory and was rewarded with the designation, Ch'ao-yung 超勇, to be added to his princedom. Later he was abundantly compensated for his losses from raids by the Eleuths, and the city of Tamir, including a palace, was built for him. He was made military governor of Uliasutai, a post created in that year, and concurrently captain-general of the League of the Sain Noin Khanate. Moreover, he was distinguished by the privilege of wearing the yellow girdle as though he were a member of the royal family.

In 1734 peace negotiations with the Eleuths began (see under ). An agreement over the boundary between the Eleuths and the Khalkas was reached in 1738 and, in the fourth year of Emperor Kao-tsung's accession to the throne (1739), the treaty was concluded, with the boundary set at the Altai Mountains where the pasture-land of the Khalkas extended. Thus ended, for the time being, the second war against the Eleuths, a war which began in 1717 (see under and ) and cost China thousands of men and more than seventy million taels silver. Tsereng took an active part in the entire war. Its final peaceful settlement rested not only upon his victories over the Eleuths, but also on his advice to both Emperors Shih-tsung and Kao-tsung. When the Eleuths tried to intimidate Tsereng by reminding him of the peril to his sons, then in captivity, he disregarded them. For this act of daring and selfdenial, the Emperor gave to Tsereng's eldest son, Cenggun Jabu 成袞札布 (d. 1771), the rank of Shih-tzŭ 世子, or "inheritor" of his father's princedom.

After 1735 Tsereng made his headquarters at Uliasutai. In 1741, owing to his advanced age, he was ordered to transact affairs from his home in Tamir when he could enjoy more comfort. When he died, nine years later, his body was removed to Peking and buried with that of his first wife, the princess, in the suburbs of the capital. One tablet commemorating him was placed in the Imperial Ancestral Temple and another in the Temple of Eminent Statesmen. He was canonized as Hsiang 襄. Throughout the Ch'ing Dynasty he and were the only Mongols whose memory was celebrated in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.

Cenggūn Jabu succeeded to the princedom and also served as military governor of Uliasutai (1750–54, 1756–71), with military and judiciary power over the four Khanates of the Khalkas as well as the Khobdo and Tanu Urianghai regions. In 1756 he helped to stabilize a minor revolt and for a time, in the following year, served as commander-in-chief of the armies sent to Ili to stabilize the Eleuths (see under and ). His kinsmen and his descendants were highly favored by the Ch'ing emperors. In response to his petition, the title, Sain Noin Khan was given in 1766 to the descendants of Shamba, with rights of perpetual inheritance. The son and successor of Cenggūn Jabu, named Lavan Dorji 拉旺多爾濟 (d. 1816), married Princess Ho-ching 和靜公主 (1756–1775), seventh daughter of Emperor Kao-tsung.

[1/302/7b; 1/526/17b; 3 shou 82/1a;, P'ing-ting Chun-ko-êr fang-lüeh, ch'ien-pien, chüan 28–32; , Hsiao-t'ing tsa-lu 10/26b; , Shêng-wu chi 3/15b; Ch'ing Huang-shih ssŭ-p'u (see under ) 4/13a, 17b; , Mêng-ku yu-mu chi, chüan 8; Yule, Sir Henry, Travels of Marco Polo, vol. 1, pp. 226–237; Ch'ing Kao-tsung shih-lu (Ch'ien-lung) 359/2a.]

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