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Sun Kewang was an Adoptive Son of Zhang Xianzhong.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- At Yanchang, Shaanxi 陝西延長
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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
孫可望，陝西延長人。
Sun Kewang was a native of Yanchang in Shaanxi.
獻忠據四川，使分將其眾，可望號平東將軍。
When Xianzhong held Sichuan, he had them each command a portion of his forces. Kewang styled himself General Who Pacifies the East.
可望與定國等率殘眾南竄，道重慶、綦江、遵義入貴陽。
Kewang, Dingguo, and the others led the remnant forces south through Chongqing, Qijiang, and Zunyi into Guiyang.
阿迷土司沙定洲亂雲南，可望率眾兼程赴之。
The Ami chieftain Sha Dingzhou rebelled in Yunnan. Kewang marched his forces day and night to reach the province.
可望入雲南會城，遣定國徇迤東，而與文秀率兵西出，得副使楊畏知，相誓扶明室，與俱至楚雄，略迤西諸府。
Kewang entered the Yunnan provincial capital, sent Dingguo to secure the eastern circuit, and marched west with Wenxiu. He won over Vice Commissioner Yang Weizhi, and together they swore to restore the Ming. They advanced to Chuxiong and subdued the prefectures of the western circuit.
可望遂盡有雲南，自號平東王，以乾支紀年，鑄錢曰「興朝通寶」。
Kewang then held all of Yunnan. He styled himself Prince Who Pacifies the East, dated his reign by the sexagenary cycle, and cast coins inscribed "Xingchao Tongbao."
時能奇已前死，可望並將其眾。
Ai Nengqi had already died by then, and Kewang absorbed his forces as well.
定國、文秀故等夷，不為可望下。
Dingguo and Wenxiu had originally been his equals and would not bow to Kewang.
可望假事杖定國，欲以威眾，隙益深。
Kewang used a pretext to have Dingguo beaten with the staff, hoping to intimidate the others. The breach between them only deepened.