From Esen's death to 1481 different warlords of the Kharchin, the Belguteids and Ordos Mongols fought over succession and had their Genghisid khans enthroned. The Mongolian chroniclers call some of them the Uyghurs and they might have had some ties with the Hami oasis.C. P. Atwood. Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire, p. 408 During his reign, Manduulun Khan (1475–1478) effectively won over most of the Mongol warlords before he died in 1478.
