Qinyu Shad

Qinyu Shad was a younger brother of Tulan Khan. Tulan ruled the eastern Göktürks after Bagha in the years of the civil war. Qinyu Shad was therefore a prince of the house of Ashina.^[1] The Sui Shu names him for his death: his brother killed him in battle.^[1]

The tribes under Qinyu Shad grew strong and prosperous.^[1] Tulan, whom the Sui Shu calls Yongyulü, was jealous of him and attacked him.^[1] Qinyu Shad was beheaded on the field.^[1] The Bei Shi tells it in the same words.^[2] Neither history gives the place, the forces or any cause beyond Tulan’s jealousy.^[3]

The Sui Shu gives no year. It tells the killing after the affair of Yang Qin. Yang Qin was a refugee who had tried to stir up Tulan’s wife, the princess Dayi.^[1] In the same year, it goes on, Tulan sent another brother, Rudan Tegin, with a jade staff to the Sui court.^[1] The Zizhi tongjian enters the affair of Yang Qin under 593.^[4] One translation of the Sui Shu sets that affair and the embassy of the jade staff in 593.^[5]

The edition of the Sui Shu used by that translator writes the last character of the name as 沙, sha, which he takes for the title shad. The Bei Shi has 設.^[5]