yaqub beg and his son ishana's corpses were "burned to cinders" in full public view. this angered the population in kashgar, but qing troops quashed a rebellious plot by hakim khan. surviving members of yaqub beg's family included his four sons, four grandchildren (two grandsons and two granddaughters), and four wives. they either died in prison in lanzhou, gansu or were killed by the qing government. his sons yima kuli, k'ati kuli, maiti kuli, and grandson aisan ahung were the only survivors alive in 1879. they were all underage children at that time. they were put on trial and sentenced to an agonizing death if they were found to be complicit in their father's rebellious "sedition". if they were innocent, they were to be sentenced to castration and servitude as eunuch slaves to the qing troops. afterwards, when they reached the age of 11 years, they would be handed over to the imperial household to be executed or castrated. in 1879, it was confirmed that the sentence of castration was carried out, yaqub beg's son and grandsons were castrated by the chinese court in 1879 and turned into eunuchs to work in the imperial palace.