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Sun Kewang was a Southern Ming Warlord later Prince of Qin.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 248Volume 248 Biographies 35: Xu Dingguo, Zuo Menggeng, Tian Xiong, Zhang Tianlu, Sun Kewang · 11 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.
可望乃不受景國公命。
Kewang therefore refused to accept the title of Duke of Jing.
可望復遣使請封，議封澂江王。
Kewang sent envoys again to request a title. The court debated enfeoffing him as Prince of Chengjiang.
可望襲貴陽，復遣文秀攻嘉定，入四川。
Kewang raided Guiyang and again sent Wenxiu to attack Jiading and advance into Sichuan.
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.
可望聞之怒，召至貴陽面數之，畏知以冠擊可望，亦被殺。
When Kewang heard of this he was furious. He summoned Weizhi to Guiyang and rebuked him to his face. Weizhi struck Kewang with his official cap and was put to death.
可望遣兵伺於都勻，邀止之。
Kewang sent troops to lie in wait at Duyun and turned him back.
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;
而馬吉祥、龐天壽輩方欲戴可望行禪讓，可望遂自設內閣六部等官，立太廟，定朝儀，改印文為八疊。
while Ma Jixiang, Pang Tianshou, and their faction wished to place the imperial crown on Kewang through a ritual abdication. Kewang therefore established his own Grand Secretariat, Six Ministries, and other offices, founded an imperial ancestral temple, fixed court ritual, and changed official seals to the eight-fold style.