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In the ninth year of Yongzheng (1731), because Abao, the king of Alashan Banner, had repeatedly made military exploits in the war against Galdan of the Junggar tribe, the Qing court awarded Dingyuanying as the son of Abao, the king of Zhasakduoluo County, Alxa Heshuote Banner. At the place where he lived, Prince Abao immediately began to repair the Dingyuan Camp according to the rank of the county king. At the same time, the imperial court allocated 5,000 taels of silver to reward him for building the Alxa Palace in Beijing. Legend has it that in Prince Abao’s dream, the holy ancestor Genghis Khan once visited, and a bison lay quietly at the foot of the ancestor, which was the sacred cow of Dingcheng, which shows that it is God’s will to move the palace to Dingyuan Camp. Therefore, when Lord Abao was repairing the city outline, he specially built a section of the city wall that looked like a cow's tail on the east side of the city wall, making Dingyuanying a veritable "City of Lying Ox". In the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), Prince Abao passed away, and his second son Luobu Zangduoerji took over
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