Fushou 福寿

Other names

Origins and identity

• Ethnicity Tangwu 唐兀
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 212

Career and standing

• Chief Commissioner 正使
  Advanced
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 214
• Yeke Jarquchi 也可札鲁忽赤
  AD 1352 明年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 220
• Associate of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices and Rites 佥太常礼仪院事
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 216
• Commissioner of the Yannan Surveillance Commission 燕南廉访使
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 216
• Darughachi of Raozhou Circuit 饶州路达鲁花赤
  Appointed · At Raozhou Circuit 饶州路
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 215
• Pingzhang of the Huainan Branch Secretariat 淮南行省平章政事
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 221

Places and affiliations

• Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passages 214, 220, 233
• At Huainan 淮南 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 221
• At Jiangnan 江南 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 224
• At Raozhou Circuit 饶州路 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 215
• At Yannan 燕南 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 216

Learning and skills

• literacy and conversational skill 知读书，尤善应对
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 213
• Skill repartee and conversation 应对 · Level especially skilled
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 213

Works and attributed material

• I am a great minister of the state—if the city stands I live, if it falls I die—where else should I go? 吾为国家重臣，城存则生，城破则死，尚安往哉！
  AD 1356 十六年三月 · Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 233
• By the time a messenger obtains permission and returns, it will be too late. 比使得请还，则事有弗及矣
  AD 1351 至正十一年 · Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 218

Events and relationships

• repeatedly led troops out while Ming forces besieged Jiqing; city fell 大明兵围集庆，福寿数督兵出战…城遂破
  AD 1356 十六年三月 · Military · Defender · Defended besieged Jiqing · At Jiqing 集庆
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 231
• killed when disorderly troops gathered; body not recovered 乱兵四集，福寿遂遇害，不知所在
  AD 1356 十六年三月 · Military · Victim · Killed at fall of Jiqing · With Danisi (达尼达思), He Fang (贺方)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passages 235-236
• ordered wealthy citizens to contribute grain and organized complete defense of Jiqing 福寿因下令民多赀者皆助以粮饷，激厉士众，为完守计
  Military · Defender · Organized Jiqing defense · At Jiqing 集庆
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passages 228-229
• alone sat on a folding chair beneath Phoenix Terrace directing attendants as offices fled 福寿乃独据胡床坐凤凰台下，指麾左右
  AD 1356 十六年三月 · Military · Commander · Sat directing at Phoenix Terrace · At Phoenix Terrace 凤凰台
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 232
• pressed fighting at Hao and Si and fortified Shitou to block the river 福寿至，督战甚急…议筑石头，断江面
  Military · Commander · Urged battle and fortified Shitou · At Shitou 石头
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passages 222-223
• alone opposed waiting for imperial leave and urged immediate dispatch against Ying rebels 福寿独以谓…于是决议调兵
  AD 1351 至正十一年 · Political · Advocate · Urged immediate troop dispatch · With Halazhang (哈剌章), Xindu (忻都), Qielai (怯来)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passages 217-219

Assessments and attributes

• AD 1351 至正十一年
  Assessment handled the Ying rebellion crisis appropriately · Mode named-person-judgment Source Person Id Emperor Shundi (顺帝)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 220
• handsome and accomplished from childhood; literate and especially skilled in conversation
  Youth
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 144, passage 213