Shi Le
A Sogdian merchant in China wrote a letter to another Sogdian referring to the Huns (Xiongnu) who had revolted as people who had previously been "property" of the Chinese Western Jin Emperor until their uprising against him and destruction of the capital at Luoyang. The Xiongnu rebel Liu Xuan (劉宣), a relative of Xiongnu rebel chief Liu Yuan said his own Xiongnu people were treated as slaves by their Han Chinese rulers and now was the time to revolt against their Han Chinese rulers after the Jin exhausted themselves in the War of the Eight Princes, saying "The Jin dynasty people use us like slaves. Now they are killing each other's flesh and blood. It is God's abandonment of them and let us recover the Han". The Jie chief Shi Le led a revolt of slaves against the Western Jin and joined Liu Yuan and the Han Chinese rebel Wang Mi. The Chinese had humiliated Shi Le and the other barbarian slaves by forcing them to wear cangues while transporting them. Ji Sang gave Shi Le his Chinese name. Shi Le originally joined a Han Chinese rebel, Ji Sang.