Mingsioi ( Manchu:

) or Mingxu () was the Qing

General of Ili The General of Ili ( Officially ), also known in western sources as the Kuldya Military Governor, was a position created during the reign of the Qing Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735-1799) to "pacify" Dzungaria (now part of Xinjiang) and suppress uprising ...

in 1864-66, charged with the overall command of the Chinese troops in

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest ...

. Mingsioi's predecessor, Cangcing () was sacked after the defeat of Qing troops at

Wusu UsuThe official spelling according to , (Beijing, ''SinoMaps Press'' 1997); as the official romanized name and transliterated from Mongolian, also known as Wusu, is a county-level city with more than 100,000 residents in Xinjiang, China. It i ...

during the Dungan revolt. Mingsioi commanded the defense of the Ili Region against the

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and

Taranchi Taranchi () is a term denoting the Muslim sedentary population living in oases around the Tarim Basin in today's Xinjiang, China, whose native language is Turkic Karluk and whose ancestral heritages include Tocharians, Iranic peoples such as ...

rebels for the next two years. With most of

and Gansu under rebel control, he could not expect to receive any aid from China; meanwhile neighboring

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would not be interested in seriously helping the Qing against the Muslim rebels either. Mingsioi's last stand was on March8, 1866 at his headquarters at Fort Huiyuan. As the rebels were seizing the fort from its starving defendants, Mingsioi assembled his family, staff, treasury, and tea into his palace and set off the gunpowder.

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