Qing · Southern Ming Yongli Emperor

Prince of Gui 桂王

Attested AD 1645

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Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

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Prince of Gui was a Southern Ming Yongli Emperor.

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AD 1645 順治間
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 248, passage 201

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 248Volume 248 Biographies 35: Xu Dingguo, Zuo Menggeng, Tian Xiong, Zhang Tianlu, Sun Kewang · 9 passages

明桂王在肇慶，乃遣畏知奉表乞王封，桂王封可望景國公，賜名朝宗。 The Ming Prince of Gui was at Zhaoqing. Kewang sent Weizhi to present a memorial requesting a princely title. The Prince of Gui enfeoffed Kewang as Duke of Jing and bestowed the name Chaozong.

使以敕印往，而桂王諸將爭欲得可望為強援。 The envoy was dispatched with the edict and seal, but the Prince of Gui's generals each sought to win Kewang as a powerful ally.

會我師克韶州，桂王走梧州。 When our army took Shaozhou, the Prince of Gui fled to Wuzhou.

我師定兩廣，桂王至南寧，乃遣使封可望冀王，可望猶不受，復使畏知詣桂王，而遣其將賀九儀等以五千人先驅，取起恆及諸臣阻秦封者盡殺之。 After our army pacified the two Guang provinces, the Prince of Gui reached Nanning and sent envoys to enfeoff Kewang as Prince of Ji. Kewang still refused. He sent Weizhi to the Prince of Gui again, while dispatching his generals He Jiuyi and others with five thousand men ahead to seize Yan Qiheng and all the ministers who had blocked the Qin enfeoffment and put them to death.

桂王乃真封可望秦王，而留畏知授大學士。 The Prince of Gui then formally enfeoffed Kewang as Prince of Qin and retained Weizhi, appointing him Grand Secretary.

桂王遣大學士文安之督師四川，將以招川中諸鎮。 The Prince of Gui sent Grand Secretary Wen Anzhi to Sichuan as supreme commander, hoping to win over the garrisons there.

可望將移桂王自近，挾以作威。 Kewang planned to bring the Prince of Gui close at hand and use him to assert his own authority.

桂王奔廣南，可望遣兵迎入安隆所，改為安龍府，歲供銀八千、米百石，窮迫不可堪； The Prince of Gui fled to Guangnan. Kewang sent troops to bring him into Anlong Subprefecture, which was renamed Anlong Prefecture. He was allotted eight thousand taels of silver and one hundred piculs of grain a year—a poverty so grinding it was unbearable;

桂王益憂懼。 The Prince of Gui grew ever more anxious and afraid.