 Yang was a monarchist and supported the Khanate and as a result the Khanate's status as a vassal was undisturbed.When Yang Zengxin was assassinated in 1928, the warlord governor Jin Shuren succeeded him as the governor of Xinjiang, who's period of rule was marked by strife, corruption and ethnic intolerance.Upon Maqsud Shah's death in 1930 Governor Jin Shuren replaced the Khanate with the three provincial administrative districts of Hami, Yihe, and Yiwu.