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Qing Eight Banners permanently garrisoned Xinjiang frontiers
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Conquering massive territories is easy; keeping them is the hard part. The Qing dynasty secured the hostile, arid expanse of Xinjiang by forcibly transplanting entire families of their elite 'Eight Banners' warrior caste. These weren't temporary deployments; they were heavily armed, self-sustaining agricultural colonies meant to aggressively anchor Chinese authority in the dirt.
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