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Volume 219 Biographies 6: Princes 5: Tai Zong Zhu Zi, Shi Zu Zhu Zi

Chapter 219 of 清史稿 · Draft History of Qing
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Biographies 6
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Princes 5
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Sons of Emperor Taizong
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Prince Suwu Haoge, his son Prince Wenliang Mengguan, Mengguan's son Yanxin, and Duke of the State Yebushu
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Chenze Prince of Yu Suose, Zhuangke Prince Yunlu, and Prince of the State Prince of the State Kehou Gao Sai
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Duke of the State at Rank Changshu, Duke of the State Taosai, and Prince Xiangzhao Bomuboguo'er
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Sons of Emperor Shizu
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Yuxian Prince Fuquan, Prince Rong, Prince Gong Changning, and Prince Chunjing Longxi
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Emperor Taizong had eleven sons. Empress Xiaozhuangwen bore the future Shizu Emperor. The primary consort Minhuigonghe of the Khorchin Borjigit clan bore an eighth son. The grand consort Yijing of the Abahai Borjigit clan bore Prince Xiang Bomuboguo'er. The primary consort Niohuru bore Luobohui. The successor consort Ula Nara bore Prince Su Haoge and Luoge. The secondary consort Yehe Nara bore Chenze Prince Suose. The common consort Yanja bore Duke of the State Yebushu; another common consort of the Nara clan bore Prince of the State Gao Sai; a common consort of the Irgen Gioro clan bore Duke of the State at Rank Changshu; and yet another common consort bore Duke of the State Taosai. Luoge, Luobohui, and the eighth son all died in infancy and were never enfeoffed.
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Prince Suwu Haoge was Emperor Taizong's firstborn son. He first took part in campaigns against the Dongkui, Chakhar, and Ordos Mongols, distinguished himself, and was made a beile. In the eleventh year of Tianming, he joined Beile Daishan and others in a campaign against the Jarut, killing their beile Ezhaitu. In the first year of Tiancong, he defeated Ming forces at Jinzhou. In the tenth month of the third year, he joined Abatai and others he took the grain convoys at Tashan. In the second year, he and Jirhalang campaigned against the Mongol Gutu tabunang, put him to death, and absorbed his followers. He again led a detached column with Beile Manggu'ertai and others to scout the Tongzhou ford. As the main army neared the Ming capital, Haoge intercepted Ning–Jin relief troops outside Guangqu Gate. Enemy forces lay in ambush on the right; Haoge threw his own troops against them and drove the charge to the city moat until the Ming lines collapsed. He then joined Yuetuo and Sahalian in besieging Yongping and captured Xianghe. In the sixth year he joined the campaign against Chakhar, then moved the army into Ming territory and raided the Guihua region. In the sixth month he was promoted to heshuo beile.
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In the seventh year the court asked whether war against Ming, Korea, or Chakhar should take priority. He replied in a memorial: 'Against Ming, if we capture only Jinzhou while other strongholds refuse to yield, and if Mongols old and new beyond the frontier enter by the old road to tell each fortified post that we seek peace while their sovereign will not consent , the campaign will drag on indefinitely and risk exhausting our troops. We ought to answer them at length so that they will turn against their own sovereign. Then employ relay rotations, wait until the horses are in condition, and reinforce with Han troops and heavy cannon ; one force from Ningyuan and one along the old route to take Shanhaiguan in a pincer. Failing that, encamp to win over roving bandits, hold the army at Tongzhou, and attack when the enemy relaxes. Korea and Chakhar can wait for later planning.' In the eighth month he raided the Shanhaiguan region. In the eighth year he followed the emperor from Xuanfu toward Shuozhou. Haoge and Yangguli breached the frontier wall, sent a detachment in through Shangfang Fort, raided Shuozhou and Mount Wutai, accompanied the emperor to inspect Datong, and routed Ming relief forces.
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In the ninth year he joined Dorgon and others in receiving Lind Khan's son Eje of Chakhar, reached Tuolitu, and concluded an alliance. On the return to Guihua he raided Shanxi's frontier districts again, broke Ningwu Pass, and entered Daizhou and Xinzhou. In the fourth month of the first Chongde year he was made Prince Su and given charge of the Board of Revenue. Shortly afterward he was demoted to beile, stripped of his post, and fined a thousand taels of silver for siding with Yuetuo in leaking a resentful memorial. He soon joined Dorgon in the attack on Jinzhou while continuing to oversee the Board of Revenue. He also took part in the Korean campaign. He and Dorgon entered separately from Kuandian through Changshan Pass, captured Changzhou, and defeated Anzhou and Huangzhou forces below Ningbian. He sent officers again to defeat enemy reinforcements. At Xuantun Village the locals reported: 'The Huangzhou commander, learning the king is surrounded, has dispatched fifteen thousand men in relief—they have already marched three days.' Our troops forced a day-and-night march, caught them at Taoshan, and routed them. In the ninth month he lost his ministry post and was fined a thousand taels because Gushan ejen Emoketu had tried to force Boluo's daughter on Haoge as a bribe and Haoge had not punished him.
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In the ninth month of the third year he invaded Ming territory through a breach at Dongjiakou and defeated Ming forces at Fengrun. He then pushed into Shandong, accepted Gaotang's surrender, raided as far as Caozhou, and on the return captured Dongguang. He dispatched two thousand cavalry, routed Ming troops, and captured Xian County. When the army returned in the fourth month of the fourth year he received two horses and ten thousand taels of silver, resumed direction of the Board of Revenue, and was restored to his former title. He again joined Duoduo in defeating Ningyuan forces and killed the Ming general Jin Guofeng. In the sixth month of the fifth year he and Dorgon encamped to farm at Yizhou, harvested Jinzhou grain, and captured Platform Nine and two western platforms on the Xiaoling River. Ming forces made a night assault on the Bordered Blue Banner camp and were beaten off. He again engaged Hong Chengchou at Xingshan and joined Dorgon in besieging Jinzhou. He was demoted to prince of the second degree for keeping his camp too far from the city and again allowing troops to return home. In the sixth year he besieged Jinzhou again, defeated relief columns from Songshan and Shanhaiguan, and took more than five hundred horses.
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Chengchou marched one hundred thirty thousand troops to relieve Jinzhou; three of his encampments were overrun. When the emperor joined the army he planned to camp at Gaoqiao. Haoge and others, fearing a coordinated enemy pincer, asked to move the camp between Songshan and Xingshan instead. In the seventh year Xia Chengde of Songshan secretly sent envoys to surrender, offering his son Shu as hostage. Haoge sent both wings to scale the walls at night; the Eight Banners followed, and by dawn Songshan had fallen. Chengchou and Grand Coordinator Qiu Minyang were taken; over one hundred officers and more than sixteen hundred soldiers were executed. He moved forward to Xingshan and again joined Jirhalang in capturing Tashan. For this achievement he was restored to his former rank and rewarded with a saddled horse and one hundred bolts of python brocade.
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In the fourth month of the first Shunzhi year he lost his title after remarks insulting Prince Rui Dorgon were reported by gushan ejen Heluohui. In the tenth month, during the great enfeoffment of princes, Haoge was restored to his former rank in recognition of his service in pacifying the Central Plains. That winter he suppressed the Manjiadong bandits in Jining and sealed two hundred fifty-one mountain caves.
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西 西 西 西 西西 殿
In the third year he was named Grand General Jingyuan and marched west with Prince Yanxi Luolohun, Beile Nikan, and others. The army stopped at Xi'an. He sent Minister Xingne and others to rout the enemy at Binzhou and dispatched gushan ejen Dulei separately against Qingyang. He Zhen, Erzhihu, and Sun Shoufa then held Hanzhong and Xing'an; Wu Dading, Gao Ruli, Jiang Denglei, Shi Guoxi, Wang Kecheng, and Zhou Kede held Huixian and Jiezhou. From Xi'an the army advanced in columns. Denglei, Guoxi, Kecheng, and Kede all submitted; the rest scattered, and the towns they had occupied were recovered. Shaanxi was pacified. In the eleventh month he entered Sichuan. Zhang Xianzhong was at Xichong; Haoge sent banner officer Oboi ahead, then followed with the main force, routed the rebels at Xichong, and personally shot Xianzhong dead. He destroyed more than one hundred thirty rebel strongholds and took tens of thousands of heads. When victory was reported, the emperor commended him. By the eighth month of the fourth year Zunyi, Kuizhou, Maozhou, Rongchang, Longchang, Fushun, Neijiang, Baoyang, and the other districts had all been secured. Sichuan was pacified. When the army returned in the second month of the fifth year, the emperor feasted the troops at the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Prince Rui Dorgon and Haoge had long been at odds. Haoge was jailed for covering up a subordinate's false claims of merit and for promoting Jisai, brother of the condemned Yang Shan. He died in the third month.
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Prince Rui took Haoge's principal consort and once summoned his son Fushou to his mansion for archery. Heluohui told others, 'That ghost of a boy sets the heart pounding—why not do away with him?' Xihan reported it. Prince Rui said, 'That is Heluohui's view—you do not realize how fond I am of the boy.' In this way the boy was spared. In the first month of the eighth year, when the emperor assumed personal rule, he cleared Haoge's wrongful treatment, restored him posthumously as Prince Su of the first rank, and set up a commemorative stele. A posthumous title was conferred in the thirteenth year. The practice of granting posthumous titles to princes of the first rank began with Haoge. The posthumous epithet was prefixed to his title, yielding Prince Suwu. In the forty-third Qianlong year he was granted joint worship in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
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Haoge had seven sons, of whom two held noble ranks: Fushou and Mengguan.
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Fushou inherited the title, which was then changed to Prince Xian. He died in the eighth Kangxi year and was posthumously titled Yi. His son Danzhen succeeded to the title. In the thirty-fifth year he took part in the campaign against Galdan. He died in the forty-first year and was posthumously titled Mi. His son Yanhuang succeeded. He died in the thirty-sixth Qianlong year at eighty-two and was posthumously titled Jin. Fushou's grandson Yunzhu succeeded to the title. Under Qianlong he rose from third-rank aide-de-camp general of the state to Reader in the Grand Secretariat, then served as Transmission Commissioner and Vice Minister of Revenue at Mukden. He was moved to Vice Minister of War and then appointed Governor-General of the Grain Transport. He was condemned to strangulation for taking merchants' gifts and falsely claiming an imperial order to confiscate Salt Controller Jiqing's property. The emperor pardoned him, reappointed him vice commander-in-chief, and he later served as garrison general at Liangzhou and Suiyuan and as Minister of Works. He later succeeded to the princely title. In the forty-third year the house was again styled Prince Su. He died at eighty and was posthumously titled Qin. Danzhen's grandson Yongxi succeeded. He served as commander-in-chief. He was dismissed for misconduct. He died in the first Daoguang year and was posthumously titled Gong. His son Jingmin succeeded to the title. In the second Xianfeng year he died and was posthumously titled Shen. His son Huafeng succeeded to the title and held the posts of Grand Minister of the Interior and Head of the Imperial Clan Court. When the Firearms Brigade installed a mortar to make medicines on princely land, Huafeng resisted forcefully. The court rebuked him for lacking a sense of the larger situation and dismissed him as Head of the Imperial Clan Court and Grand Minister of the Interior. In the eighth year he died and was posthumously titled Ke. His son Longqin succeeded and served as Grand Minister of the Interior. In the twenty-first Guangxu year he submitted a memorial urging the court to heed honest counsel and strengthen the treasury; the emperor commended and accepted it. In the twenty-fourth year he died and was posthumously titled Liang. His son Shanqi succeeded to the title. In the thirty-third year he was appointed Minister of Civil Affairs. After the dynasty's abdication he withdrew to live at Dalian Bay. Many years later he died and was posthumously titled Zhong.
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Meng'an, Prince of the Commandery of Wenliang, was Haoge's fifth son. In the fourteenth Shunzhi year he received his enfeoffment. In the thirteenth Kangxi year he died. His son Foyonghui succeeded to the title. In the thirty-seventh year he was reduced to beile. He died. His son Kuihui succeeded as Duke Who Assists the State. He was stripped of his title for misconduct.
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Yanxin was Meng'an's third son. He was first enfeoffed as General Who Supports the State. He rose through the ranks to Banner General. In the fifty-seventh year he served under the Pacification Commissioner-in-Chief, Prince Yin'e, campaigning against Tsewang Araptan and encamping at Xining. In the fifty-ninth year he was made General Who Pacifies Rebels, marched on Tibet through Qinghai, routed Tsewang Araptan's general Tsering Donrub, and entered Tibet. Tibet was pacified. The edict read: 'General Who Pacifies Rebels Yanxin commanded Manchu, Mongol, and Green Standard forces along paths never traveled since antiquity, through miasmic gorges and poisonous streams where few had ever passed. He entered the uttermost frontier in person, destroyed the wicked foe, and his courage and strategy deserve praise! He was enfeoffed as Duke Who Assists the State.' Soon after he served as acting Pacification Commissioner-in-Chief. After Kuihui was stripped of his title, the court proposed that Yanxin inherit. He was raised to beizi and then again to beile. He was appointed General of Xi'an. In the fifth Yongzheng year the emperor found that Yanxin had banded with Aqina and others, secretly colluded with Yin'e, catered to Nian Gengyao, and embezzled one hundred thousand taels upon entering Tibet. His title was taken and he was handed to princes and ministers for trial. The finding charged Yanxin with twenty offenses, including factional backing, deceit, ingratitude, winning hearts for himself, greedy misrule, and military blunders, and called for decapitation. The emperor ordered imprisonment instead, and his descendants were reduced to red belts.
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Yepushu, Duke Who Assists the State, was Taizong's fourth son. He was first enfeoffed as General Who Guards the State. In the eighth Kangxi year he was promoted to Duke Who Assists the State. In the twenty-ninth year he died. His son Su'erdeng inherited at reduced rank as General Who Guards the State.
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Shuosai, Chenze Prince Su of the First Rank, was Taizong's fifth son. In the first Shunzhi year he received his enfeoffment. At that time Li Zicheng fled toward Tong Pass, while lands south of the Yellow River remained in Zicheng's hands. Shuosai followed Prince Yu Duo Duo to camp at Mengjin and attack Shaanzhou, routing Zicheng's generals Zhang Youzeng and Liu Fangliang; when Zicheng came out to meet them, he was routed again. The army entered the pass and beheaded his general Ma Shiyao. He soon joined the southern campaign, defeated the Ming Prince Fu Zhu Yousong, and received one dragon-embroidered gauze robe, two thousand taels of gold, and twenty thousand taels of silver. He later followed Duo Duo against the Khalkha while Prince Ying Ajige held Datong. When Jiang Xiang rebelled, Shuosai shifted his forces to relieve Daizhou and was promoted to prince. An edict declared: 'Boluo, Nikan, and Shuosai ought not to stand among the most highly favored. Because they are Taizu's grandsons, princely titles are now granted them. Their rank and stipends may not equal those of Princes of the First Rank.' In the seventh year, since no title between Prince of the First Rank and Prince of the Commandery was simply called 'prince,' he was again reduced to Prince of the Commandery. In the eighth year he was again raised to Prince of the First Rank. He served in turn as head of the Ministry of War and the Imperial Clan Court. In the twelfth month of the eleventh year he died and received a posthumous title.
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His eldest son Boguoduo succeeded, and the house was restyled Prince Zhuang. In the first Yongzheng year he died at seventy-four and was posthumously titled Jing. Without an heir, the Imperial Clan Court proposed that a son of Shenzu inherit. The Shizong Emperor consulted the Empress Dowager and made Shenzu's sixteenth son, Yunlu, Boguoduo's successor. A few days later the emperor issued a personal edict: 'People outside wrongly claim that I favor the Sixteenth Prince and had him inherit the Prince Zhuang title as a special mark of favor. I may enfeoff any younger brother as a prince of the first rank as I see fit—why should I need the Prince Zhuang succession to show favor to the Sixteenth Prince?'
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Yunlu was skilled in mathematics and versed in musical theory. Under Shenzu's instruction he helped compile the Shuli Jingyun. In the first Qianlong year he was charged with overseeing state affairs, also directed the Ministry of Works, and drew double princely stipends. In the second year, for exhaustion from overseeing affairs, he was additionally enfeoffed as Duke Who Guards the State, and Yunlu asked that Shuosai's grandson Ninghe inherit that rank. Soon after, though stripped of the added title for an offense, he was still richly granted fields and houses, which contemporaries praised. In the fourth year, for secret dealings with Hongxi, son of Yunreng, his double stipend was suspended and he was removed as Banner General. In the seventh year he was ordered, with San Tai and Zhang Zhao, to oversee the Music Bureau. Yunlu and others memorialized: 'After the plowing rite, the banquet should play Timely Rain and Sun, Bountiful Five Grains, and Household Plenty—the three pieces Jiang Tingxi wrote—but their music does not fit the rite and cannot serve as banquet music. We ask that new pieces be ordered.' They memorialized again: 'In Harmonious and Central Serene Music, the rule uses four sheng above the xiao and di. We ask that the sheng be raised to eight and the xiao and di to four.' They memorialized again: 'In the music treatises of the histories since Han, bells and chime-stones were each two, and within the metal and hide notes alone, both the bell-chime and special chime-stone appear separately. An ancient bell-chime from Xijiang has now been found; the yellow bell's straight measure has been fixed, and by raising and lowering pitch twelve bell-chimes have been cast. We hold that the system should be complete from start to finish, and ask that twelve special chime-stones be made after the Bell-Master's remnant method in the Zhou Rites, set apart with the bell-chimes as special suspended instruments. When the music ends the special chime-stone is struck, and only then is the wooden clapper played; at great sacrifices and great ceremonies, following the pitch of the corresponding month, one set each of bell-chime and special chime-stone should be placed The emperor approved all of it. In the twenty-ninth year, when Yunlu turned seventy, the emperor granted him a commendatory poem. In the thirty-second year he died at seventy-three and was posthumously titled Ke.
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He served as Grand Minister of the Interior and continued to oversee the Music Bureau and Imperial Clan Court. Hongpu, Duke Who Assists the State, had already died. His grandson Yongyan succeeded and served as Banner General, Leading Guard Grand Minister of the Interior, and Minister Before the Throne. In the tenth Jiaqing year, in the fifty-third year he died and was posthumously titled Shen. Without an heir, his collateral nephew Mianke succeeded. He served eight years as Banner General and Leading Guard Minister. When Lin Qing rebelled and his followers broke into the palace gates, Mianke armed himself to resist and wounded one man with an arrow; the court ordered his service reviewed for reward. The next year, as the emperor went to Mulan, Mianke reported a river bridge washed out by water, plainly hoping to block the journey. Deemed disloyal to the imperial will, he was fined and stripped of all offices. In the second Daoguang year he was reduced to Prince of the Commandery for shoddy repairs to the Long'en Hall at Yuling. In the fourth year, once rebuilding was finished, he was restored to Prince of the First Rank. In the sixth year he died and was posthumously titled Xiang. His son Yibo succeeded. In the eighth year, after the Baohuayu underground palace flooded, Mianke's old fault was revived: Yibo was demoted to Prince of the Commandery, and his sons Yizhen, Yihui, Yizhan, and Yigeng lost their posts. In the eleventh year, on the emperor's five-hundred-thousandth birthday, Yibo was again made Prince of the First Rank. In the ninth month of the eighteenth year he was stripped of his title for visiting a nunnery with Duke Who Assists the State Puxi to smoke opium. Learning that Yibo was frivolous and unrestrained, the emperor sent him into exile at Jilin; and because he also took a commoner's daughter as concubine, his exile was moved to Heilongjiang while Yunlu's great-grandson Mianhu succeeded.
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Mianhu was the son of General Who Assists the State Yongfan and grandson of Duke Who Assists the State Hongrang, descended from Yunlu's second son. In the twenty-first year he died and was posthumously titled Qin. His younger brother Mianhua inherited the title; in the twenty-fifth year he died and was posthumously titled Zhi. His son Yiren succeeded; in the thirteenth Tongzhi year he died and was posthumously titled Hou. His son Zai Xun inherited the title. In the twenty-sixth Guangxu year the Boxers entered the capital. Zai Xun joined Prince Duan Zai Yi, raised altars at his residence, and let them attack the foreign legations. Before long he was made Commander of the Metropolitan Infantry. When the emperor took the empress dowager to Taiyuan, Zai Xun went with them and was named superintendent of camp inspection for the traveling court. When peace was made with the foreign powers, the ringleaders were punished: his title was taken and he was granted suicide. His younger brother Zai Gong inherited the title.
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Bo'erguoluo, Shuosai's second son, was created Prince Hui. He lost his title after an offense. Once the Shizong Emperor had Yunlu succeed as Prince Zhuang, he created Bo'erguoluo's grandson Qiulin a beile and transferred every company that had belonged to Prince Hui. During the Qianlong reign he too was stripped of his title. His son Dejin inherited as Duke Who Assists the State. The line descended by degrees until it was held as General of Imperial Grace in hereditary succession.
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Gao Sai, Duke of the State styled Kehou, was Emperor Taizong's sixth son. He was first created Duke Who Assists the State. In the eighth Kangxi year he was raised to Duke of the State. Gao Sai made his home in Mukden, read on Mount Yiwulü, delighted in literature, played the zither and wrote verse, and called himself Master Jingyi. He died in the ninth year. The line fell by degrees until his great-grandson Zhongfu inherited as General Who Assists the State, then lost the title for an offense.
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Changshu, holding the rank of Duke Who Assists the State, was Emperor Taizong's seventh son. He was first created General Who Guards the State. In the eighth Kangxi year he was raised to Duke Who Assists the State. In the fourteenth year he was stripped of his title for an offense. In the thirty-seventh year he was given the rank of Duke Who Assists the State. He died the following year. In the first Qianlong year the Gaozong Emperor ordered a register of Taizu and Taizong's descendants without titles and granted Changshu's son Hailin the hereditary rank of General of Imperial Grace. Two generations later Huiwen died and the court ordered the line to cease inheriting.
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Tao Sai, Duke Who Assists the State, was Emperor Taizong's tenth son. He was first created General Who Guards the State. In the eighth Kangxi year he was raised to Duke Who Assists the State. He died in the thirty-fourth year. In the first Qianlong year Tao Sai's son Yude was granted the hereditary rank of General of Imperial Grace.
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Bomuboguo'er, Prince Xiangzhao, was Emperor Taizong's eleventh son. In the twelfth Shunzhi year he was created Prince Xiang. In the thirteenth year he died and received a posthumous title. He left no son and the title lapsed.
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The Shizu Emperor had eight sons: Empress Xiaokangzhang bore the future Shenzu Emperor; Empress Xiaoxian of the Donggo clan bore Prince Rong; Consort Ning of the Donggo clan bore Prince Yuxian Fu Quan; Lady Ba bore Niu'niu; Lady Chen bore Prince Gong Changning; Lady Tang bore Qishou; Lady Niu bore Prince Chunjing Longxi; and Lady Muketu bore Yonggan. Niu'niu, Qishou, and Yonggan all died young and were never enfeoffed.
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Prince Yuxian Fu Quan was the Shizu Emperor's second son. When he was still a boy the Shizu Emperor asked what he hoped to become, and he answered, 'I wish to be a worthy prince.' The Shizu Emperor marveled at the answer. In the sixth Kangxi year he was enfeoffed and appointed to deliberative councils. In the twelfth month of the eleventh year he asked to be released from those duties and was permitted. In the twenty-second year, when the emperor took the grand empress dowager to Wutai, Fu Quan went ahead to reconnoiter the route and was ordered to escort her. At Changcheng Ridge the emperor decided the pass was too steep and ordered Fu Quan to bring the grand empress dowager down first. In the twenty-seventh year the grand empress dowager died. After the secondary mourning rites the emperor said, 'Since the grand empress dowager first fell ill, Prince Yu has borne the same burdens as I have, with extraordinary labor.' He ordered the eldest imperial son and his ministers to escort the prince back to his residence. Grand Minister of the Imperial Bodyguard.
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In the seventh month of the twenty-ninth year, when Galdan drove deep into Uzhumuchin, Fu Quan was made Grand General Jingyuan with the eldest son Yinreng as deputy and marched out through Gubeikou. Prince Gong Changning was made Grand General Anbei and marched out through Xifeng Pass. Fu Quan asked that green-banner troops from Datong be sent to Shahu Pass to await orders. The emperor ordered six hundred cavalry and fourteen hundred infantry from the Datong garrison to the campaign and told the Lifan Yuan to send nearby Mongol troops from Arani's relay stations to follow the main force and set up posts. Fu Quan also asked that every intelligence report be forwarded to the army, and the emperor consented. As the army set out, the emperor bestowed the seal of command at the Gate of Supreme Harmony and escorted them to Dongzhimen. The emperor sent inner ministers Amida, Minister Arani, and Commander Aranda beyond the pass in turn, ordering each to unite with Fu Quan's army. The emperor crossed the pass himself and encamped at Mount Gurufuerjianjiahun. He ordered Prince Kang Jieshu to join Fu Quan and advance to Boluojiu Tun. He also appointed Prince Jian Yabu to assist Fu Quan's command. The emperor had already sent inner minister Sonin and Commander Sunu by separate routes. Fu Quan asked that Sonin encamp at Balin and wait for the main force; the emperor agreed, ordered Sunu to Balin as well, and pressed Amida, Arani, and the rest to hold the roads the army would pass. Returning from Boluohetun he encamped at Sheliwuzhu and sent word to Fu Quan: 'As the army drew closer to the enemy, scouting must be strict and alert. Galdan should first be restrained until the armies from Mukden, Ula, Horqin, and the other banners had come up.'
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Fu Quan sent Jelong Hutuktu and others with a letter to Galdan: 'You and I together uphold the Yellow Teaching. You pursued the Khalkha into our lands, and the emperor has sent us to judge the affair. Your envoy said, 'My khan acts according to the Dalai Lama's command. Good faith and proper ritual bear on weighty matters. Where shall we meet to discuss them?' He also sent a gift of one hundred sheep and twenty cattle. When Sunu's and Amida's armies arrived, Fu Quan wrote: 'Galdan's presence grows nearer daily. We have divided the main force into three columns, and each needs its own commander. From the assistant ministers down and the deputy commanders up, every officer in the ranks is eager to lead the charge and waits only upon the emperor's appointment.' The emperor appointed vanguard commander Maitu, vanguard guard commander Yang Dai, deputy commanders Jamusu, Sehe, Luomanse, and Hailan, and Ministers Jiletabu and Arani to the van; Commander Yang Wenkui with deputy commanders Kangkala, Yilei, and Segyin to the second column; Prince Sunu and Pengchun to the two wings; and inner ministers Tong Guowei, Sonin, Mingzhu, and Amida to accompany the prince in direct command. The army then advanced. On the first day of the eighth month the army reached Ulan Butong and met Eleuth forces. At dawn they formed ranks and moved forward. By late afternoon the fight was joined, and muskets and cannon opened fire. At the foot of the hills Eleuth soldiers stretched along the high far bank of the river, hidden in the trees. The army's right wing was hemmed in by drawn up as a living wall. Inner minister Tong Guogang and others were killed in the fighting. By nightfall the left wing broke in from the mountainside and put the enemy to rout. Many were cut down on the river cliffs and in the mire, and the army drew back slowly under cover of darkness. When word reached him, the emperor rebuked him in the strongest terms. He also sent down his instructions.
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Galdan sent the Hutuktu Yilagukesan to the front, demanding the surrender of the Tushiyetu Khan and the Jebtsundamba. Fu Quan recited his crimes and sent him away. The next day Jelong Hutuktu arrived with seventy disciples and said, 'The Bogdo Khan listened to Yilagukesan and the rest, crossed the border, and raided, which was utterly without reason. He sought only vengeance against his enemies the Tushiyetu Khan and the Jebtsundamba and was forced to this extremity. He no longer dares ask again for the Tushiyetu Khan. He is willing to give the Jebtsundamba to his teacher the Dalai Lama and calls that the highest honor.' Fu Quan answered, 'Even if the Tushiyetu Khan and the Jebtsundamba are guilty, judgment belongs to the emperor alone. How could we surrender the Jebtsundamba because Galdan asks? And as you shuttle back and forth with these words, can you guarantee that Galdan will not seize the moment to break away and plunder our people inside the frontier?' Jelong pressed his claim that Galdan would not act rashly, and Fu Quan agreed to send orders to every army on the march to hold their fire. The armies from Mukden, Ula, and Horqin had not yet come up, and the Eleuths still held the high ground. Having beaten them once, Fu Quan meant to hold Galdan in check through Jelong's plea and strike again when the rest arrived.
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The emperor laid Fu Quan's memorial before the princes and ministers for joint deliberation. All agreed that Fu Quan, knowing perfectly well Jelong was stalling for Galdan, had still chosen to listen and so let the moment pass. The emperor sent down a stern rebuke. Because Yinreng and Fu Quan could not work together, keeping Yinreng at the front would only wreck the campaign, and he was recalled to the capital first. Fu Quan, Wudan, guard company adjutant Sai'erji, and others went with Jelong to address Galdan. Galdan knelt before the Vajrabhairava Buddha, kowtowed, and swore an oath, then again dispatched Yilagukesan with a memorial and a written oath to the front, begging pardon and pledging to wait beyond the border for the court's command. The emperor assented, but warned Fu Quan again: 'Galdan may bow and beg mercy, yet he is treacherous by nature. The moment we withdraw he may break faith, and you must remain on your guard.' In the tenth month Fu Quan withdrew and encamped inside Hamar Ridge. He wrote: the army's grain would run out by the tenth day of the tenth month. He had earlier sent Vice Minister E'ergitu with Yilagukesan to treat with Galdan, and more than a month had passed without word. He believed Galdan had already fled deep beyond the frontier.' The emperor judged Fu Quan guilty of withdrawing on his own authority and reserved punishment for his return. He ordered the army to pull back to the capital at once and told Fu Quan, Sonin, Mingzhu, Feiyanggu, and Amida to stay behind. Before long a memorial arrived: Galdan had crossed out of the frontier, and Yilagukesan and his party overtook him beyond the pass. Galdan sent up a full memorial begging forgiveness.' He also ordered Fu Quan back to the capital.
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In the eleventh month Fu Quan and his party reached the capital and were told to stay outside Chaoyang Gate for questioning. The emperor said: 'When Beile Amin abandoned Yongping, when Daishan went to Korea and defied his orders, when Prince Ying stirred up the army—all were examined by oral testimony. The same rule applies now.' He also warned Yinreng: 'Prince Yu is your uncle. If your account does not match his, the law will take you.' Fu Quan had meant to put Yinreng's misconduct in camp on record and send it up. When he heard the emperor's order, he wept and said, 'What more is there for me to say!' He then accepted the blame as his own. The princes and ministers debated stripping his rank. For his service in defeating the Eleuths, the emperor spared the title but removed him from deliberative council, withheld three years' salary, and took back three company captains.
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In the thirty-fifth year he followed the emperor on the campaign against Galdan in person. In the forty-first year he rebuilt the Confucian temple at the Imperial Academy. His eldest son Baotai was named heir apparent. In the forty-second year Fu Quan fell ill, and the emperor came to see him twice. On tour beyond the passes, he heard Fu Quan was failing and sent the princes back to the capital. When Fu Quan died, the emperor turned back the same day. At the funeral he removed his court tassels, wept before the coffin, poured wine, and could not be comforted. That day the empress dowager had already gone to the prince's house. The emperor urged her back to the palace, entered Jingren Palace by Cangzhen Gate, and set aside all affairs of state. urged the emperor to return to Qianqing Palace. He said, 'Staying in a side hall did not begin with me. It is an old rule of Taizu and Taizong.' The next day he went to the mourning again and granted from the imperial stables two horses, two paired horses, six spare horses, ten camels, python brocade, and silver. A posthumous name was granted. Another day passed, and the coffin was borne to burial. The emperor brought the empress dowager to the prince's house, where they wept until the procession moved on. He ordered rites after the precedent of Prince Zheng: the usual offerings, with extra offerings besides. Censor Luo Zhan oversaw the tomb and stele.
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Fu Quan shied from power, but the emperor loved him deeply. Once he had painters set his own face beside Fu Quan's under the shade of a paulownia, as a sign that they would grow old together. He kept the Mugeng Garden and received scholar-officials with proper courtesy. His sons were Baotai and Baoshou.
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Baotai, first made heir apparent, succeeded to the title. In the second Yongzheng year he was stripped of his rank for fawning on Prince Lian YinSi and putting on plays while the court was in mourning. Baoshou's son Guangning inherited the line, and Baoshou was posthumously made Prince Dao. In the fourth year an edict read: 'Guangning governs badly and still keeps Baotai's factional ways.' His title was taken and he was put under lock and guard. His younger brother Guanglu succeeded. In the fiftieth Qianlong year he died and was posthumously named Zhuang. His son Lianghuan inherited as commandery prince. In the thirteenth Jiaqing year he died and was posthumously named Xi. His grandson Wenhe inherited as beile. Later generations declined by the usual rule until the line settled on hereditary Prince of the State.
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Prince Rong was the Shizu Emperor's fourth son. He died at two, before he had even been given a name. He was enfeoffed after death.
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Prince Gong Changning was the Shizu Emperor's fifth son. In the tenth Kangxi year he received his title. In the fourteenth year he was granted company captains. In the twenty-second year fire struck his residence, and the emperor came in person. That autumn, when the emperor took the grand empress dowager to Wutai, Changning went in attendance. In the twenty-ninth year Galdan pushed deep into Uzhumuchin. Changning was made Grand General Anbei, with Prince Jian Yabu and Prince Xin Ezha as deputies, and marched out through Xifeng Pass; at the same time Prince Yu Fu Quan, as Grand General Jingyuan, marched out through Gubei Pass. He went out first, but was soon told to bring his army and join Prince Yu. In the eleventh month, because he beat Galdan but did not pursue him to the end, he lost his seat in deliberative council and forfeited three years' princely stipend. In the thirty-fifth year he followed the emperor on campaign in person. In the forty-second year he died. The emperor was still on tour beyond the passes. He put the princes in charge of the funeral, granted ten thousand taels of silver, set Zaobao of the Imperial Household Department to build the tomb, raised a stele, and sent officials to sacrifice. When he returned to the capital, he went to the funeral himself. The third son, Haishan, inherited as beile. In the fifty-first year he lost his rank for letting eunuchs run wild. In the tenth Yongzheng year he was enfeoffed again. In the eighth Qianlong year he died and was posthumously named Ximin. After the first forfeiture, Changning's second son Manduhu inherited as beile, but lost rank again and again until he fell to Prince of the State; later Haishan's grandson Feisu inherited as beile. Later generations declined by the usual rule until the line held only hereditary Prince of the State, outside the Eight Privileges.
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Prince Chunjing Longxi was the Shizu Emperor's seventh son. In the thirteenth Kangxi year he received his title. In the fourteenth year he was granted company captains. In the seventh month of the eighteenth year Longxi's illness turned critical; the emperor came in person and sent for doctors. He visited again that same day. Longxi died in the hour of shen. The emperor mourned deeply and closed court for three days. The grand empress dowager wanted to go to the funeral, but the emperor pleaded so hard that she stopped. The emperor wanted to go again to make offerings, but the grand empress dowager forbade it and kept him in her palace. The next day he went to offer sacrifice, ordered state funds for the tomb, extra rites, and a posthumous name. His son Fuerhulun succeeded; the next year he died, and the emperor again closed court for three days. The year after that, when Prince Chun Longxi was buried, the emperor came to offer sacrifice. Fuerhulun left no son, no heir was chosen, and the line ended.
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