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Volume 243 Biographies 30: Sha Erhuda, Liu Zhiyuan, Ba Shan, Ka Ka Mu, Liang Huafeng, Liu Fangming, Hu Yousheng, Yang Minggao

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Biography 30
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Sha Erhuda; his son Bahai; Anzhuhu; Liu Zhiyuan; Wu Shoujin; Ba Shan; Zhang Dayou; and Kakamu
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Liang Huafeng; his son Nai; Liu Fangming; Hu Yousheng; Yang Minggao; Liu Guangbi; and Liu Zhongjin
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Sha Erhuda was of the Guwalgiya clan. His forebears belonged to the Suwan tribe and lived in Hurka. During the reign of the Grand Ancestor Nurhaci, he accompanied his father Guilehe in submitting to the Jin and was made a company commander. Early in the Tianming era he took part in the campaign against the Warka tribe. For his service he received the hereditary title of Chief Commander for Defense. In the first year of Tiancong, Emperor Taizong led the army against Ming in person, assaulting Dalinghe and besieging Jinzhou. Sha Erhuda served as an elite officer and won victory after victory. In the third year he again joined the campaign against Ming. Zunhua was taken and the army pressed toward the Ming capital. Sha Erhuda fought outside the city walls, routed the Ming forces, and was promoted to hereditary guerrilla colonel. Thereafter he was repeatedly dispatched with the elite officer Laosa and others to lead raiding cavalry into Ming territory, operating between Songshan and Xingshan. They captured eighteen Ming border soldiers along with a junior officer who oversaw them, and seized large numbers of livestock and weapons besides. At Dalinghe, the Ming commander Zu Dashou surrendered. Later, however, he returned to Jinzhou and resumed its defense for Ming. The emperor sent his generals to probe Jinzhou and ordered Sha Erhuda to post a letter on the hillside at the Thirteen Stations urging Dashou to submit. In the ninth year he joined Commander Balanqi of Baiqichao Ha and others on a campaign along the Amur and received an additional half-rank promotion. That winter he raided Jinzhou again. When he returned with prisoners, the court ordered him to distribute rewards to his officers and men.
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In the first year of Chongde he joined the invasion of Korea and defeated the enemy at Namhansanseong. In the second year he was appointed to the council of deliberative ministers. When the jalan commanders Dantai and Arjin traveled to Tumed for the trade fair, the emperor clarified the military routes and ordered Sha Erhuda to lead troops to Guihuacheng to protect the mission. In the third year he and the elite officer Wubai led eighty men on a border raid. At Hongshankou they met Ming forces and killed two assistant generals; they drove off Ming cavalry advancing from Luowenyu, captured their battle standard, and took forty horses; and they also broke Ming infantry advancing from Miyun, killing more than a hundred men. In the fourth year the emperor led an expedition against Ming in person. Sha Erhuda commanded elite troops from Yizhou toward Jinzhou, then took two hundred Tumed soldiers into the northern reaches of Ningyuan. With the jalan commanders Surde, Eshuo, and Budan he set an ambush and sent a few horsemen to bait the Ming army. When the Ming forces refused to come out and held their walls, they seized wood-gatherers and withdrew. In the fifth year he was promoted to hereditary second-class jalan colonel.
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In the third month of the sixth year he joined Prince Rui Dorgon in the siege of Jinzhou. Because he had camped too far from the city in defiance of the prince's orders, he was liable to lose his post and half his estate, but the emperor commuted the penalty to a fine. In the eighth month he was promoted to senior elite officer. The emperor took command against Hong Chengchou, deployed the generals to attack the enemy, gave Sha Erhuda horses, and posted his unit on the eastern side of Gaoqiao with these orders: "If the enemy breaks, cut them off on the main road from the western terrace of Xingshan and pursue them. Do not let them reach the city." He also warned him: "Your deeds have never matched your words. Now you must do better!" After the fighting began the Ming army was routed, but Sha Erhuda disobeyed orders and allowed more than two hundred fugitives to escape into the city. The emperor had him bound and questioned. Sha Erhuda kowtowed and said: "Execution is the only death I deserve. If you spare me, I will repay you with my life." The emperor pardoned him but demoted him to jalan commander. In the seventh year he and Zhumarha led an expedition against the Hurka tribe. Seventeen men including Karkamu submitted along with more than a thousand households, and they seized horses, mules, and other livestock. On their return the troops were feasted and rewarded with gifts of cloth and silk according to rank.
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西 調滿
In the first year of Shunzhi he distinguished himself in campaigns against the Kurka people and along the Amur. He also joined the campaign against Li Zicheng and helped break Tongguan. In the second year he took part in the assault on Jiangning and the capture of Hangzhou, and was promoted to hereditary first-class jalan colonel. In the fourth year he was made a meiren commander. He commanded troops garrisoned at Dongchang, put down the local bandits Ding Weiyue and Zhang Yaozhong, and received an additional half-rank promotion. In the fifth year he joined the campaign against the Jiangxi rebel Jin Shenghuan. He was appointed commander of the Vanguard Banner and again joined the council of deliberative ministers. In the sixth year he suppressed the bandits of Hejian. In the seventh year he was transferred to meiren commander of the Bordered Blue Banner Manchus. He rose by stages to first-class baron. In the seventh month of the ninth year he was ordered to take command of the garrison at Ningguta. In the tenth year he was promoted to banner commander, kept in charge of the frontier post, and given court dress and horses. In the seventh month of the fifteenth year, when Russian raiders struck the frontier, Sha Erhuda repulsed them and took many prisoners and heads. He died in the sixteenth year and was given the posthumous name Xiangzhuang. His son Bahai succeeded to his hereditary rank.
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西使
Bahai began as a company commander in the service of Emperor Shizu and rose by stages to reader-in-waiting of the Secretariat. After he inherited the hereditary post, the emperor told the Board of Personnel: "At the Ningguta frontier Sha Erhuda held command for many years and won the people's loyalty. Bahai is diligent and dependable and is fit to succeed his father. Appoint him commander of Ningguta." In the seventeenth year Russian raiders struck again. Bahai and Colonel Niari led their forces to the junction of the Amur and Songhua. Learning that the enemy were on the western frontier of the Feiyaka, they hurried to the Shichuan tribal border, split the river fleet, and lay in ambush along the shore. When the Russians came by boat, the hidden forces sprang up and attacked together. Five of our boats fared badly in the fighting. Eventually the Russians were beaten, abandoned their boats, and fled. Bahai pursued them and killed more than sixty men. Large numbers of Russians drowned. They captured the enemy boats along with muskets, cannon, and other arms, and in consequence more than a hundred and twenty Feiyaka households submitted. For his service he was awarded the additional title of light cavalry captain. The following year, because Bahai's victory report had omitted the setback suffered by five boats, he was stripped of both his inherited rank and the hereditary title granted for merit.
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西 調滿
In the first year of Kangxi the office of Amur general was created, and Bahai was again placed in command. In the tenth year the emperor made an eastern tour to Shengjing, and Bahai came to audience at the imperial camp. The emperor questioned him about the customs of Ningguta and of the Warka, Hurka, and other tribes, and Bahai answered in detail. He told him: "I had only heard of your abilities before. Now that you serve at my side, I understand you much better. Although the Feiyaka and Hezhe have submitted to us, they are by nature fierce and unruly and must be led through education and moral guidance. Above all, Russia must be watched with the greatest caution. Train your troops and horses and ready your equipment — Hangzhou, promoted to hereditary first-class jalan colonel. In the fourth year he was made a meiren commander. He commanded troops garrisoned at Dongchang, put down the local bandits Ding Weiyue and Zhang Yaozhong, and received an additional half-rank promotion. In the fifth year he joined the campaign against the Jiangxi rebel Jin Shenghuan. He was appointed commander of the Vanguard Banner and again joined the council of deliberative ministers. In the sixth year he suppressed the bandits of Hejian. In the seventh year he was transferred to meiren commander of the Bordered Blue Banner Manchus. He rose by stages to first-class baron. In the seventh month of the ninth year he was ordered to take command of the garrison at Ningguta. In the tenth year he was promoted to banner commander, kept in charge of the frontier post, and given court dress and horses. In the seventh month of the fifteenth year, when Russian raiders struck the frontier, Sha Erhuda repulsed them and took many prisoners and heads. He died in the sixteenth year and was given the posthumous name Xiangzhuang. His son Bahai succeeded to his hereditary rank.
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Bahai began as a company commander in the service of Emperor Shizu and rose by stages to reader-in-waiting of the Secretariat. After he inherited the hereditary post, the emperor told the Board of Personnel: "At the Ningguta frontier Sha Erhuda held command for many years and won the people's loyalty. Bahai is diligent and dependable and is fit to succeed his father. Appoint him commander of Ningguta." In the seventeenth year Russian raiders struck again. Bahai and Colonel Niari led their forces to the junction of the Amur and Songhua. Learning that the enemy were on the western frontier of the Feiyaka, they hurried to the Shichuan tribal border, split the river fleet, and lay in ambush along the shore. When the Russians came by boat, the hidden forces sprang up and attacked together. Five of our boats fared badly in the fighting. Eventually the Russians were beaten, abandoned their boats, and fled. Bahai pursued them and killed more than sixty men. Large numbers of Russians drowned. They captured the enemy boats along with muskets, cannon, and other arms, and in consequence more than a hundred and twenty Feiyaka households submitted. For his service he was awarded the additional title of light cavalry captain. The following year, because Bahai's victory report had omitted the setback suffered by five boats, he was stripped of both his inherited rank and the hereditary title granted for merit.
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In the first year of Kangxi the office of Amur general was created, and Bahai was again placed in command. In the tenth year the emperor made an eastern tour to Shengjing, and Bahai came to audience at the imperial camp. The emperor questioned him about the customs of Ningguta and of the Warka, Hurka, and other tribes, and Bahai answered in detail. He told him: "I had only heard of your abilities before. Now that you serve at my side, I understand you much better. Although the Feiyaka and Hezhe have submitted to us, they are by nature fierce and unruly and must be led through education and moral guidance. Above all, Russia must be watched with the greatest caution. Train your troops and horses, keep your arms in order, and do not let yourself be drawn into their deceptions. You hold a weighty post on the frontier. You must strive with all your strength to repay the trust I have shown you!"
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Beyond the frontier lived the Mo'erzhe people, who had paid tribute for generations. Bahai induced them to submit. Their leader Zhanukabukuo and others asked to move inward. Bahai petitioned to resettle them near Ningguta, created forty assistant commanders, and assigned them to Zhanukabukuo and his kinsmen to govern the people in divisions. They were called the New Manchus. In the winter of the thirteenth year Bahai led the assistant commanders to court. The emperor gave rewards according to rank and presented Bahai with a black-fox fur coat and a sable court robe. In the seventeenth year an imperial edict praised Bahai and Vice Commander Anzhuhu for their work in settling the New Manchus and awarded them the hereditary titles of first-class viscount and light cavalry captain.
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In the twenty-first year Bahai submitted a memorial proposing that officers and soldiers who captured ginseng poachers should be rewarded according to how much ginseng was seized. The emperor referred the matter to the ministries for deliberation and also warned that people who were not gathering ginseng must not be arrested indiscriminately. That same year the emperor made another eastern tour to Shengjing, visited Jilin, and inspected the hardships endured by the officers and soldiers. On returning to the capital, the emperor ordered Bahai to end the corvée labor of hawk-catching, sturgeon-fishing, and similar tasks. In the twenty-second year he was reported for falsely claiming crop failure. The ministry recommended dismissal and loss of his hereditary title, but the emperor, recalling Bahai's service in settling the New Manchus, removed him from the generalship and demoted him to third-class viscount. In the twenty-third year he was made commander of the Bordered Blue Banner Mongols and again joined the council of deliberative ministers. He died in the thirty-fifth year. His son Sige succeeded to the hereditary rank.
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Anzhuhu was a Guwalgiya Manchu of the Plain Yellow Banner. His family had long lived in Suwan. His father Aramu held the post of company commander. In the first year of Shunzhi he crossed into China with the army, fought Li Zicheng, and was killed in battle. He received a hereditary half-rank promotion. Anzhuhu inherited the rank and, through successive amnesty promotions, rose to third-class viscount. He was promoted to jalan commander and also served as a director in the Board of Punishments. He served under Grand General Irgen in the attack on Zhoushan and under General Jisheha in the suppression of bandits at Qi in Laizhou, distinguishing himself in both campaigns. In the sixth year of Kangxi he was made vice commander at Ningguta. In the fifteenth year a new vice command at Jilin Wula was created and assigned to Anzhuhu to help Bahai settle the New Manchus. His hereditary title was raised to the same level as Bahai's. In the seventeenth year he was promoted to commander of Shengjing. In the twenty-first year, during an eastern tour, the emperor saw many unburied bones of the fallen along the border and ordered Anzhuhu to search the region and give them proper burial. In the twenty-second year he asked to retire on grounds of illness. The emperor held him accountable for neglect of duty, removed him from office, and sent him to serve at Jilin Wula. In the twenty-fourth year he was made commander of the Solon. He died in the twenty-fifth year.
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At court Anzhuhu once complained that the troops under his command looked down on him. The emperor knew him to be weak and ineffectual, and when he died ordered his hereditary rank revoked.
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Liu Zhiyuan was a Han Chinese bannerman of the Bordered Yellow Banner. In the ninth year of Tiancong he was made a jalan commander. In the fifth year of Chongde he joined the emperor's campaign against Ming and attacked Jinzhou, destroying an enemy tower with artillery fired from five li east of the city. He then positioned cannon north of the city to bombard Liangmatai and killed many Ming soldiers. He soon succeeded Ma Guangyuan as banner commander of the Plain Yellow and Bordered Yellow Han Banners. In the sixth year he joined Prince Rui Dorgon in the siege of Songshan, destroyed four towers with artillery, captured the Ming generals Wang Xixian, Cui Dingguo, and Yang Chongzhen, and killed three assistant generals. In the seventh year he served under Prince Zheng Jirhalang at the siege of Tashan, battering the western wall with cannon until more than twenty zhang collapsed and the garrison was wiped out. He then destroyed the northern tower at Xingshan and breached its walls as well, until the defenders surrendered in fear. For this he received the hereditary rank of second-class jalan colonel. When the Eight Han Banners were reorganized, Zhiyuan retained command of the Bordered Yellow Banner. In the eighth year he followed Prince Zheng in taking Zhonghousuo and killed the Ming generals Wu Liangbi and Wang Guo'an, among others; then advanced on Qiantunwei, breached the walls with artillery, and was promoted to hereditary first-class rank.
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西 西 -9588- 便
In the first year of Shunzhi he entered China with the army and was ordered, with Banner Commander Li Guohan, to mop up the remaining rebels south of the capital. He then joined Banner Commander Ye Chen on the western campaign and helped capture Taiyuan. With Banner Commander Bahana he pursued rebels from Fenzhou to Pingyang and killed more than four thousand men. Rebel forces in Shanxi were finally eliminated. On the army's return he received special rewards. In the second year he marched into Huguang under Prince Shuncheng Lekedehun to fight Li Zicheng. Together with Guohan he defeated the enemy at Yingshan. When the surrendered general Ma Jinzhong rebelled again, he and Banner Commander Jin Li routed him at Wuchang, seized more than sixty boats, and then swept through Hubei. In the fifth year he was made Pacifier of the South and again marched into Huguang under Prince Zheng. In the sixth year he assaulted Xiangtan. When the Ming governor-general He Tengjiao came out in three divisions, Zhiyuan met him with divided forces, routed the Ming army, took the city, and captured Tengjiao. That night he drove his men in pursuit of Jinzhong and at dawn stormed his encampment. He then took Baqing and overran nine camps at Nanshanpo, killing the Ming generals Ma Youzhi and Hu Jinyu. Jinzhong fled and escaped capture. He also defeated the Ming generals Yuan Zongdi at Hongjiang and Wang Yongqiang at Bianshui Post. For his service, and through successive amnesty promotions, he rose to first-class baron with the additional title of light cavalry captain.
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In the eighth year he was posted to garrison Hangzhou with Jin Li. The Ming grand secretary Zhang Keting, with his generals Ruan Jin and Zhang Mingzhen, held Zhoushan for the Prince of Lu Yihai. Zhiyuan combined forces with Governor Chen Jin and Commander Tian Xiong, routed the Ming army at Hengshuiyang, and captured Jin. They pressed Luotou Gate, where Keting held the city for more than ten days until the attackers scaled the walls with siege ladders. Keting and the Prince of Lu's ministers Li Xiangzhong, Wu Zhongluan, and Zhu Yongyou set themselves afire and died. Mingzhen escaped with the Prince of Lu to Sanpan Island. Zhiyuan sent Commander Ma Jinbao in pursuit, defeated them, and burned their stockpiles; then defeated them again at Shacheng, resettled more than eight thousand five hundred households from the coastal inlets, and put them back to farming. For his service he was promoted to third-class baron.
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使 使 使 沿 -9589- 沿 滿
In the eighth month of the sixteenth year he was made Grand General Who Pacifies the Sea and posted to garrison Zhenjiang. He submitted a memorial: "At Jingkou the rivers converge, and Jiangnan's grain and revenue are shipped north from this point. Zheng Chenggong's recent invasion nearly severed this vital supply route. We should first train a naval force for coastal defense. There are three levels of coastal defense: the best is to patrol at sea and keep the enemy from entering the river; the next is to block them in the tidal channels and prevent a landing; the lowest is to muster troops in battle order and keep the enemy from reaching the city. But to train a navy we must first build ships, and we lack almost everything — firearms, sailors, and helmsmen. How can we fight the enemy in this state?" The emperor ordered the Board of War to direct Governor Lang Tingzuo to make the necessary preparations. In the seventeenth year he memorialized again: "The Jingkou fleet is supposed to build two hundred ships and recruit more than eight thousand sailors and helmsmen, but this cannot be done quickly. Coastal residents own sturdy double-masted sand junks, and their crews know the sea lanes well. I propose inspecting and requisitioning suitable vessels and paying their owners rations and wages. The existing war junks are too small and low-slung to be worth repairing. Coastal batteries, beacon towers, and bridges should be rebuilt taller and stronger under orders from the governors to the coastal prefectures and counties." The memorial was sent to the Board of War, and all his proposals were approved. Soon evidence surfaced that Zheng Chenggong's agents were in contact with Regional Commander Ma Fengzhi. Zhiyuan reported the matter, and the emperor ordered Vice Minister Niman to join him in the investigation. Fengzhi was convicted and executed.
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In the third year of Kangxi he was recalled to the capital and resumed his post as banner commander. In the fourth year he retired on grounds of illness. He was made Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent and left office, and his son Guang succeeded him as banner commander. When Oboi was disgraced, Zhiyuan and Guang were condemned as his allies, stripped of office, and sentenced to death, but the emperor showed mercy. Zhiyuan died soon afterward. His wife Hu appealed at the palace gates, arguing that Zhiyuan's services balanced his faults. An edict restored his rank, awarded third-class baron, and allowed Guang to inherit. After three generations the inherited title was reduced to third-class baron. Early in the Qianlong reign the title was fixed as third-class baron.
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Wu Shoujin was a Han Chinese bannerman of the Plain Red Banner, originally from Liaoyang. He submitted during the reign of the Grand Ancestor and, for service in the early campaigns, received the hereditary rank of guerrilla colonel. In the fifth year of Tiancong he was made vice minister of the Board of Revenue. In the eighth year, after a satisfactory performance review, he was promoted to hereditary first-class jalan colonel. When hereditary Han company commanders were first established, Shoujin was appointed to hold that post as well. In the third year of Chongde he was made left vice minister. In the fourth year he was convicted of bribery and sentenced to death, but was pardoned. He lost his hereditary title and vice ministership, and half his estate was confiscated, though he continued to serve as acting meiren commander of the Plain Red Han Banner. He was soon confirmed in the post.
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In the sixth year he joined Prince Rui Dorgon and Prince Wu Ying Ajige in the attack on Jinzhou. Shoujin's artillery took four towers at Tashan, captured the Ming generals Wang Xixian and Cui Dingguo, and killed large numbers of the enemy. In the seventh year he was promoted to banner commander of his own banner. He led troops against Songshan and Xingshan. When Ming forces encamped at Luhongshankou, he and Banner Commander Jin Li routed them. When Ming troops held two flank towers at Xingshan, he and Banner Commander Liu Zhiyuan broke them and took Xingshan. He was then ordered, with Meiren Commander Ma Guanghui and others, to go to Jinzhou to oversee the casting of artillery. In the eighth year he joined the assault on Ningyuan and helped take Zhonghousuo and Qiantunwei.
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In the first year of Shunzhi he entered China with the army and was again granted the hereditary rank of second-class jalan colonel. He followed Banner Commander Ye Chen into Shanxi and helped capture Taiyuan. He then served under Prince Yu against Li Zicheng, marched into Jiangnan, routed Ming forces, took Yangzhou and Jiangyin, and went on to capture Jiaxing. For his service he was promoted to first-class rank. In the fourth year he was made Pacifier of the West and posted to garrison Hanzhong. He died in the fifth year. His son Guobing succeeded to the rank. On the Huguang campaign he rose to meiren commander and received the additional hereditary title of light cavalry captain.
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Ba Shan was a Guwalgiya Manchu of the Bordered Yellow Banner. His family had long lived in Hada. His grandfather Badai submitted with his followers at the dynasty's founding and received a hereditary company command. Two generations later the line came to Ba Shan. In the fifth year of Tiancong he joined Emperor Taizong's campaign against Ming and took part in the siege of Dalinghe. When the garrison sallied forth, Meiren Commander Tunbulu, Company Commander Langge, and others were killed. Ba Shan charged into the fight and recovered their bodies. In the sixth year he joined the campaign against the Chahar. When fugitives from that tribe fled into Datong, he was sent to capture them. On the return march Ba Shan and Vice Minister Turgene commanded the rearguard. When Ming troops pursued, they laid an ambush and killed large numbers of the enemy. In the eighth year he received the hereditary rank of company captain. He was soon promoted to jalan commander.
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In the first year of Chongde he joined the emperor's invasion of Korea and, with Jalan Commander Tuntai and others, routed the enemy before the main army arrived. In the third year he also served as an administrative officer in the Board of Works. He followed Prince Yoto against Ming, entered through Qiangziling, pressed toward the capital, and defeated the forces of the Ming eunuch Feng Yongsheng; then assaulted Julu, led his men up scaling ladders to take the city first, and received an additional half-rank promotion. In the fifth year he joined Vice Ministers Samuska and Suohai in a campaign against the Hurka tribe and attacked Gualar Tun. In the seventh year he served under State-Supporting General Babutai in garrisoning Jinzhou.
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In the first year of Shunzhi he entered China with the army, led his infantry in defeating Li Zicheng, was promoted to vice minister of the Board of Works, and raised to hereditary third-class viscount. In the second year he was made meiren commander and posted to garrison Jiangning. In the third year he was put in charge of the Manchu garrison at Jiangning. A special post of grain-and-currency governor was created there, with Assistant Commander Etun appointed to it and given the additional rank of vice minister of the Board of Revenue to underscore its importance. At that time fortified camps sprang up across the north bank of the Yangzi, proclaiming loyalty to Ming. When Jiangning residents plotted to join the rebellion, Ba Shan learned of it through intelligence work and executed thirty conspirators. Soon afterward the Ming Prince of Lu'an Yishi attacked Jiangning with twenty thousand men in three columns. Ba Shan joined Grand Secretary Hong Chengchou in directing the defense, and Yishi was routed and fled. The full account appears in Hong Chengchou's biography. The former Ming Left Commissioner and Marquis of Jiading Hou Tongzeng had died in the second year. In the fourth year his son Yuanjing sent a message through the Prince of Lu Yihai, obtained an imperial letter and a letter from the general Huang Binqing addressed to Chengchou, and brought them back. Zhelin guerrilla colonel Chen Ke seized the documents, which contained a phrase about "killing the two generals Ba and Zhang from within" — meaning Ba Shan and Regional Commander Zhang Dayou. When the matter was reported, the emperor recognized it as an enemy attempt to sow discord. He issued an edict reassuring Chengchou and praised Ba Shan and Dayou for "vigilantly rooting out unrest and serving the state with loyal devotion."
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In the sixth year Jiangnan Governor Ma Guozhu campaigned against the Lu'an Mountain bandits. Ba Shan and Dayou combined forces, killed their leader Zhang Fuhuan, and pacified all the camps. Ba Shan was promoted to third-class baron. That year the office of grain-and-currency governor was abolished and not restored. In the ninth year General Jin Li campaigned against Zheng Chenggong and asked for reinforcements. The ministry approved two hundred troops from the Jiangning garrison, which Etun led with administrative officers Ehena and Ukuri to attack Haicheng. Chenggong's men tried to seize their artillery, but Etun and Ehena drove them off. Chenggong met them with more than a hundred thousand men. Etun led a full assault; Chenggong's forces retreated and destroyed the bridge behind them. Etun and Ukuri spurred their horses across the river anyway. Chenggong's army collapsed. They overran dozens of enemy camps and accepted the surrender of thousands. Ba Shan was soon recalled to the capital and replaced by Kakamu. In the eleventh year his service in pacifying Jiangning was recognized again, and his hereditary rank was raised to second class. He died in the twelfth year of Kangxi.
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His son Shushu succeeded to the hereditary rank. He served under Grand Secretary Tu Hai against Wang Fuchen, encamped at Hushanbi north of Pingliang, and routed Fuchen's forces. He then joined Commander-in-Chief Muzhan against Wu Sangui, defeated Sangui's forces at Songzi, and advanced to besiege Yunnan. He repeatedly routed the generals Hu Guobing, Liu Long, and Huang Ming, and trapped Ma Bao and Ba Yangyuan at Wumushan. For his service his hereditary rank was raised to first class. After his death his son Changqing inherited the rank of first-class viscount.
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Zhang Dayou was a Han Chinese bannerman of the Bordered Yellow Banner, originally from Liaoyang. When the Grand Ancestor took Liaoyang, Dayou came from Guangning as a battalion commander to submit and was made a company commander. Early in the Tiancong era, Ming border commanders sent agents to recruit newly submitted troops. Dayou exposed the plot. Emperor Taizong praised him and awarded the hereditary rank of guerrilla colonel. In the third year of Chongde he was made an administrative officer in the Board of Punishments. He was soon promoted to meiren commander of the Han Banners. In the fourth year, when the Han Banner system was reorganized, he was made meiren commander of the Bordered Yellow Banner. In the fifth year he joined Prince Rui Dorgon in the siege of Jinzhou. He led his banner troops to take Wulitai, Liangmashan, and Majiahu, and also captured Jintakou Tower. In the sixth year he served under Prince Zheng Jirhalang at the siege of Jinzhou. When Ming cavalry from Songshan tried to seize their artillery, Dayou drove them off. He then joined Banner Commander Liu Zhiyuan in taking Tashan, Xingshan, and the surrounding towers. For his service he was promoted to second-class jalan colonel. In the seventh year he was made vice minister of the Board of War. In the tenth month he joined Prince Abatai against Ming. They bridged the Hun River to cross the army and routed the forces of Ming governor-general Fan Aheng. In the eighth year he joined the assault on Ningyuan, took Zhonghousuo and Qiantunwei, and was promoted to hereditary first-class rank.
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In the first year of Shunzhi he followed Banner Commander Ye Chen into Shanxi, helped capture Taiyuan, and with Banner Commander Li Guohan pacified the prefectures and counties. In the second year, as the army pacified Jiangnan, he followed Banner Commander Wu Shoujin into Zhejiang and halted at Shimen. Ming forces made a night attack from Hangzhou and were repulsed. On the return march he captured Jiaxing. In the third year he and Ba Shan were ordered to garrison Jiangning and command the Han Banner and Green Standard forces. He was soon made regional commander of Jiangnan. For his service he was promoted to hereditary third-class meiren colonel. In the sixth year he joined the campaign against Zhang Fuhuan. Governor Ma Guozhu reported that Dayou had led from the front, braved danger, and broken the enemy line, ranking first in merit. He was promoted to hereditary third-class baron. He died in the ninth year. After three generations the inherited title was reduced to third-class baron. Early in the Qianlong reign the title was fixed as third-class baron.
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Kakamu was a Sahaliyan Manchu of the Bordered Yellow Banner. His forebears belonged to the Wula tribe. His father Tang'ali submitted during the reign of the Grand Ancestor with a hundred followers and was made a company commander. For service in the Liaodong campaigns he received the hereditary rank of guerrilla colonel. On a campaign against the Warka he shot a bear, was wounded by it, and died.
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Kakamu inherited command of the company. In the third year of Chongde he was made an administrative officer in the Board of Personnel. In the fifth year he joined the campaign against the Hurka. When the enemy held palisades and resisted, Kakamu broke through them, killing two hundred and capturing a hundred and thirty. In the seventh year he joined the campaign against Ming and assaulted Songshan. Because he failed to report a disciplinary violation by a banner officer, his hereditary rank was reduced to company captain. In the eighth year he was promoted to vice minister of the Board of Personnel. In the first year of Shunzhi he served as acting meiren commander. For entering China with the army he received an additional half-rank promotion. He was soon made a vice minister. In the fourth year his hereditary rank was restored to third-class jalan colonel. When Yunyang regional commander Wang Guang'en was arrested, his brother Guangtai rebelled and seized Yunyang. Regional Commander Sun Dingliao was killed in battle and the rebellion grew formidable. The emperor ordered Kakamu to lead troops against them. As the army approached Yunyang, Guangtai fled. Kakamu and Vice General Wang Ping pursued him, fought at Fang County, and killed more than a thousand rebels. Guangtai escaped to Sichuan, and Kakamu garrisoned Yunyang.
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In the fifth year Jin Shenghuan threatened Huguang from Jiangxi. Governor Luo Xiujin asked that Kakamu stay garrisoned at Jingzhou. In the sixth year he was recalled to the capital. In the seventh year he was made meiren commander of the Bordered Yellow Banner and rose by stages to third-class baron. In the eighth year he and Banner Commander Gadahun were ordered to lead troops against the Ordos Mongol chieftain Dorji. In the ninth year the army marched from Ningxia to Helanshan, killed Dorji, wiped out his followers, and brought back the survivors along with hundreds of horses and camels, more than a thousand cattle, and over ten thousand sheep.
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He was soon appointed to replace Ba Shan as commander of the Jiangning garrison. In the tenth year the Ming general Li Dingguo invaded Guangdong and Chaozhou regional commander Hao Shangjiu rebelled in support. Kakamu was made Pacifier of the South and joined Prince Pacifier of the South Geng Jingmao in suppressing Shangjiu. After more than a month of siege his men scaled the walls with ladders. Shangjiu drowned himself in a well, and Chaozhou and the surrounding counties were pacified. He then returned to garrison Jiangning.
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In the sixteenth year Zheng Chenggong launched a major invasion, took Zhenjiang, recaptured Guazhou, and advanced up the Yangzi. Kakamu, Governor Lang Tingzuo, and Regional Commander Guan Xiaozhong planned the defense and summoned Regional Commander Liang Huafeng to reinforce them. Meiren commanders Gaha and Mersai happened to be returning from Guizhou along the east bank of the Yangzi. They entered Jiangning and joined the defense. Kakamu said: "The enemy is strong. We should attack before they fully assemble." He picked elite troops for a counterattack. Chenggong's vanguard was pushed back slightly, and they captured more than twenty boats. Soon Chenggong's main force arrived — eighty-three linked camps with boats covering the river. Kakamu defended the city day and night. When Huafeng's reinforcements arrived, they agreed to send the Green Standard troops out first. Huafeng sallied from Yifeng Gate and Xiaozhong from Zhongfu Gate. Attacking from both sides, they routed Chenggong's forces and captured his generals Yu Xin and others. The next day Kakamu, Gaha, and Mersai led troops out through Shence Gate. Chenggong's army formed up on Baitushan. They split their forces to attack from both flanks while Huafeng led elite troops against the center. They captured the general Gan Hui and several subordinate officers and killed countless enemy soldiers. Chenggong's army collapsed and fled to sea. When the report reached court, the ministry recommended punishment for the loss of Zhenjiang and Guazhou. The emperor, weighing the great service in holding Jiangning, ordered the charges dropped.
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In the first year of Kangxi the garrison command was upgraded to a generalship, and Kakamu retained the post. He died in the seventh year. His son Layang'a received the titles of first-class viscount and light cavalry captain.
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Liang Huafeng, courtesy name Chongtian, was from Chang'an County in Shaanxi. He passed the military jinshi examination in the third year of Shunzhi. In the fourth year he was made garrison commander of Gaoshanwei in Shanxi. In the fifth year he served under Prince Ying Ajige against the rebel Jiang Xiang, took Yanghe, and captured Xiang's general Guo Eryong. He was promoted to seal-holding commander of Datong. At that time bandits rose across Datong, Zuowei, Hunyuan, Taiyuan, Fenzhou, and Zezhou in support of Jiang Xiang. In the sixth year Liang Huafeng attacked Datong, broke through at Beiyao Gully, and when the rebels held the mountain crest he hung bundles of firewood and set them ablaze; he captured their leaders Li Yi and Zhang Bao. He then took Hunyuan, swept Hancun, Yuhe Fort, and Zhangjia Fort, overran Jiazhuang, and captured its leader Wang Ping; he finally seized Hunyuan, captured the rebel chiefs Fang San and Tang Hu, and put them to death. He attacked Zuowei, accepted the surrender of Yungang and Gaoshan forts, and closed the siege. Huafeng took three arrow wounds yet fought with greater fury until the rebels surrendered the city. For his achievements he was promoted by special grace to assistant commander-in-chief and recommended for appointment as deputy general. Pressing on to Taiyuan, he met rebel sorties; an arrow pierced his left arm and others lodged in his thigh, but he fought harder still, captured the rebel-installed grand coordinator Jiang Jianxun, and took the city. He marched to raise the siege of Pingyang, attacked Fenzhou, and routed its leader Shen Hai. While attacking Xiaoyi he met Zhang Erde's relief force, smashed it in battle, took Fenzhou, and captured Erde. Shen Hai returned with another army but was beaten again and fled toward Lu'an. He captured Caojia Fort, Jigu Stockade, and Shanxin Fort in succession. The counties of Jiexiu, Pingyao, Qi, and Xugou all submitted. He advanced on Taigu, seized it and captured its leader Su Sheng, then took Lu'an while Shen Hai fled to Jiuxian Terrace. After taking Changzi he assaulted Jiuxian Terrace, but the slopes were too steep for cavalry; he turned to fire assaults; the rebels gave way and Shen Hai surrendered. He then secured Zezhou. In that year alone he won twenty-two engagements. In the seventh year he wiped out the remaining rebels at Niubi Stockade and captured their leader Yuan Zhong. Shanxi was fully pacified.
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In the eighth year he was temporarily posted as colonel of the Wuyong garrison in Jiangnan. He suppressed the lake bandits at Shimin and Lusi and captured their leader Yang Wanku. In the twelfth year he was promoted to deputy commander at Ningbo in Zhejiang. When the Ming commander Zhang Mingzhen held Pingyangsha on Chongming, Governor Ma Guozhu ordered Huafeng to serve as acting commander of Suzhou and Songjiang. Mingzhen attacked Gaoqiao; Huafeng rode to the fight, repeatedly routed him, and recovered Pingyangsha. In the thirteenth year he received formal appointment as Suzhou-Songjiang commander. Huafeng judged Pingyangsha too isolated at sea for timely garrisoning. He built coastal dikes over ten li to tie the shore to inland ground and channeled water for irrigation, turning salt flats into rich farmland.
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When Zheng Chenggong struck at Chongming he sent agents to unsettle the populace; Huafeng seized and executed them, met the attack in person, and captured generals including Hou Dingxiu, Gong Long, and Chen Yi. He also sent officers to ambush the enemy, killed General Chen Zheng, and brought in Zeng Jin and eleven others bound. Chenggong withdrew, but in the seventh month returned in force with a river-spanning fleet, claiming a million men; he seized Zhenjiang and drove on Nanjing, cutting communications between north and south. Huafeng raced to the rescue with three thousand men, reconnoitered from high ground, saw Chenggong's ranks disordered with foragers scattered abroad and troops idling on the rear lake, and at night led five hundred horsemen out Shence Gate to smash the fort at Baitu Hill. The next day he led men out Yifeng Gate while Grand Coordinator Guan Xiaozhong issued from Zhongfu Gate; pincering the foe they tore down the great standard, burned the timber palisade, put marksmen on rooftops with firearms, and poured down a storm of shot and stone until Chenggong's army broke; pursuit reached Longjiang Pass and captured Yu Zixin and others. Chenggong regrouped his survivors in linked camps on Baitu Hill, still numbering in the hundreds of thousands. On the following day he again marched out Shence Gate with Ka Ka Mu and others, struck straight at Baitu Hill, and drove his men uphill against fierce rebel resistance. Gan Hui, one of Chenggong's boldest captains, was taken alive when Huafeng plunged into the ranks. Chenggong's army lost heart and fled in uncontrollable rout; the pursuers cut them down and took many heads. As the chase reached the river Huafeng's advance detachments had already burned the fleet; Chenggong's men trampled each other and countless drowned in the water. Chenggong escaped by sea; Huafeng expected a renewed strike at Chongming and sent detachments ahead to prepare. Chenggong sailed out to hit Chongming while Huafeng raced back from Nanjing to reinforce; judging the position untenable Chenggong pressed civilian boats to cross at Baimao Pass; Huafeng intercepted him, struck across the current, and with cannon fire churning the waves routed him again; Chenggong leapt overboard and escaped. For his merits he received the third-class hereditary rank of adaha hafan along with a golden cuirass and sable cloak.
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In the seventeenth year he became grand coordinator of Suzhou-Songjiang with the titles Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent and Left Commander-in-Chief. Huafeng memorialized: "Suzhou and Songjiang lie on the coast over more than eight hundred li, yet standard garrison strength is barely two thousand. I ask that three thousand eight hundred provincial troops be reassigned to form six camps for coastal defense." The court referred the proposal and approved it. In the eighteenth year the throne again honored Huafeng's service and raised his hereditary rank to third-class ashan i hafan. Soon afterward the Jiang'an-Lufeng coordinatorate was abolished and Huafeng became grand coordinator of Jiangnan. Advisers urged, citing the Guangdong-Fujian precedent while Taiwan remained unreclaimed, that Suzhou-Songjiang adopt a coastal evacuation line and move inhabitants inland. Huafeng replied: "We post troops on the coast and levy abandoned shorelands to feed them. If the state has enough soldiers and the people keep their livelihoods, why uproot the frontier?" The emperor accepted his view when the memorial arrived. He died in the tenth year of Kangxi and was posthumously honored as Junior Guardian with the temple name Minzhuang. When the Kangxi Emperor visited Xi'an he dispatched officials to offer sacrifice at Huafeng's tomb. Early in the Qianlong reign the family rank was fixed as third-class baron.
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Nai was his second son. By inheritance he became mobile commander of the Left Camp in the Sichuan-Shaanxi governor's force. When Wu Sangui rebelled, Governor Hazzan ordered Nai to hold Heishuiyu and defeated Wang Fuchen at Guanyin Hall. He was transferred to mobile commander for the Xing'an garrison. Campaigning in Hanzhong he won repeated victories, captured Dazhou, and was promoted assistant commander-in-chief. After three promotions he rose to land commander of Fujian. In the forty-fifth year he became governor-general of Fujian and Zhejiang. On the emperor's southern tour he inscribed "An enduring glory on banner and tablet" and bestowed it on Nai. Earlier Governor Jin Shirong had argued that large seagoing vessels hid smugglers and decreed that fishing boats could not be double-masted and merchant hulls must be rebuilt with beams no more than eighteen feet. Nai protested that the rule did nothing for coastal defense but only harassed merchants; the emperor lifted the restriction. In the forty-seventh year he reported that Jia and Hu waters all fed Lake Tai along vital shipping routes and asked imperial funds for dredging; he also noted that branch channels had silted up and urged local dredging. The emperor replied that encouraging private dredging of branch streams might invite corrupt surcharges and ordered state funds for those works as well. In the forty-ninth year he resigned to observe mourning for his mother. He died in the fifty-third year.
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Liu Fangming, courtesy name Xiaowu, was a Han Bannerman of the Plain White Banner originally from Ningxia. Under the Ming he rose to commander at Liugou. He surrendered in the first year of Shunzhi and kept his former rank. In the second year he was posted to Ningxia and rewarded with silver, robes, and an official cap. Shaanxi had only just been settled; bandits were numerous and hardened troops still watched for chances to mutiny. Fangming drilled and reassured the garrison to build authority and choke off unrest; Governor Meng Qiaofang praised his ability in a memorial. When Wu Dading rose at Guyuan and He Zhen at Hanzhong, Fangming distinguished himself in both campaigns. In the third year, while he was marching to Gongchang against bandits, the Ningxia garrison mutinied and murdered Grand Coordinator Jiao Anmin. Fangming raced back, found deputy generals Wang Yuan and Ma De behind the revolt, sent Ma De to act as Huamachi deputy commander, and split Wang Yuan's following; when scouts reported Wang Yuan leaving the city to join rebel chief Hong Dagao, Fangming laid an ambush; Yuan fought hard when sprung upon, but Fan Chaochen, Jiang Jiucheng, and others struck from both sides; Yuan fled, was run down by Ma Ning, and brought back captive. Fangming sent another officer to hunt down and behead Hong Dagao. Ma De grew fearful when Wang Yuan was executed. In the spring of the fourth year, while Fangming and Hedong intendant Ma Zhixian were campaigning from Huian, Ma De rallied confederates, looted army stores, fled into the hills, joined He Hongqi and others through Honggucheng Pass, and stormed Anding. The Luoshan rebel Wang Yilin killed Colonel Zhang Chun in support and raided freely across Ninggu and Pingqing. Fangming advanced to Luanma River, routed the rebels, then moved on to Yuwang City, broke them again, killed Wang Yilin, chased Ma De with four riders to He'erping, bound and executed him by dismemberment, and restored order; he received third-class adaha hafan and was made Sichuan land commander and Pacification General of the West. He was soon ordered to remain at Ningxia as Right Commander-in-Chief. In the fifth year he put down the Xiangshan rebel Li Cai.
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Deputy Commander Liu Denglou had helped bring about Ma De's downfall. Denglou held Yulin Ningsai; he was powerful and crafty. In the sixth year he joined Jiang Xiang's Yan'an revolt, donned Ming dress, styled himself "Grand Coordinator for Pacification of the Great Ming," murdered Yanbian intendant Xia Shifang, and wrote to Fangming. Outraged at the insult, Fangming sealed the letter, showed it to Grand Coordinator Li Jian, and Jian reported to court. Denglou marched west on Huamachi, overran the Xingwu forts, and threatened Ningzhou. Meanwhile the Mongol Zhamusu of Dingbian Tun defected to Helan Mountain; Fangming's troops beat Denglou back, but Denglou fled to Dingbian, allied with Zhamusu, raided western Ningxia, crossed the Yellow River eastward, and seized Tiezhu, Huian, Hanbo, and other forts. As they threatened Lingzhou, Bordered Yellow Banner Commander Li Guohan arrived; the plan was for Li Jian to hold Ningxia against Zhamusu; Fangming would cross east with his force toward Yulin and meet Denglou at Guantuanzhuang, where he won a crushing victory. Denglou fell back to Hanbo; the army followed, cut his water, and closed the siege. Fangming himself pressed the southeast face of the fort, squarely in the hail of arrows and stones. His officers urged: "Move back a few paces from the enemy's point." Fangming glared and snapped: "If we die, we die—what is there to fear? And with so many wounded men, how can I shrink from the enemy's steel?" The men fought harder still; after twelve days they stormed the fort, killed Denglou, and the rest surrendered.
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After order was restored his hereditary rank rose to second class. He memorialized: "Ningxia stands isolated west of the river across a thousand li. Its garrison is repeatedly mobilized and too thin to hold the line. When future levies leave gaps, let recruits fill the posts immediately." He also asked that reduced-grade convicts be assigned to frontier settlement to rebuild population and prosperity." Both proposals were referred to the ministries and enacted.
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In the sixteenth year he was transferred to command the Jiangnan campaign's right route as Left Commander-in-Chief, bringing the three Ningxia camps to garrison Nanjing. When Zheng Chenggong struck Chongming, Fangming and Liang Huafeng defeated him together. In the seventeenth year he wrote: "I was ordered to suppress rebels, but the climate disagreed with me and my illness will not mend. The Ningxia troops I brought have trained for years and are men I rely on as my own right hand. Half of them have already been broken by dysentery and malaria in the south. Before I die in service I beg a fixed term for relief and rotation." The throne answered with a gracious edict." He soon died on campaign and was posthumously honored as Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent with the temple name Zhongsu. The court ordered his officers and men back to their Ningxia posts.
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Hu Yousheng came from Jinzhou. In Chongde 1, Dorgon and Prince Yu Duo besieged Jinzhou; the Daoist Cui Yingshi and townsfolk Zhang Shaozhen, Men Shiwen, Shike, and Qin Yongfu plotted surrender and sent Yousheng with a letter to arrange an inside rising. Prince Yu returned a reply for him to bring back. Ming scouts discovered the plot and jailed Yingshi and his confederates. Yousheng fled with Shaozhen, Shiwen, Shike, and Yongfu to the Qing side and each received robes, horses, households, and servants. Yousheng received the third-class hereditary rank of meiren janggin and entered the Bordered Yellow Han Banner. He campaigned repeatedly and rose to second class.
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In Shunzhi 4 he became commander of Southern Ganzhou. In the fifth year Jin Shengheng and Wang Deren rebelled at Nanchang and marched on Ganzhou. Deputy Commander Gao Jinku sallied and lost; Grand Coordinator Liu Wuyuan and Circuit Intendant Zhang Fengyi split the defense east and west while Yousheng led elite troops along the walls to respond. Deren's men mined the wall and prepared fire gear for an upward assault; Yousheng sealed the breach with stones. After three months supplies ran out; Yousheng sortied and routed Deren. Shengheng retreated when Tan Tai's southern expedition force arrived; Yousheng pursued and took many heads. Soon Li Chengdong returned; while his men dug trenches Yousheng attacked and smashed them. Further details appear in Liu Wuyuan's biography. When Ke Yongcheng left the Southern Ganzhou command for Huguang governor-general he asked to take two thousand garrison troops. Yousheng argued: "Ganzhou guards a river-and-lake choke point; Shengheng's revolt is unsettled; local troops know the terrain and should stay at post." The emperor agreed. In the sixth year Shengheng was killed and Chengdong fled to his death. After Tan Tai withdrew, local bandits remained; Liu Fei of Longnan, Ye Zhi, Zou Hua of Shicheng, Peng Shunqing of Yudu, and Chen Qilun of Ruijin still held out until Yousheng and Wuyuan sent officers to subdue them one by one. For his merits he received Left Commander-in-Chief, purple sable regalia, armor, sword, horse, and third-class jingkini hafan.
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In the tenth year Shang Kexi and Geng Jima cited his service and he was again made Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent. In the seventeenth year he retired for age. In Kangxi 3, Liu Wuyuan's son Hong asked added honors for the Ganzhou defense and Yousheng's rank rose to first class. He died in the ninth year; his son Qitai inherited and moved to the Plain White Banner. Two generations later the inheritance dropped to first-class ashan i hafan. Early in Qianlong the line was fixed as first-class baron.
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Yang Minggao was a Han Bannerman of the Bordered Yellow Banner originally from Liaodong. Under Taizong he brought over a hundred clansmen, became a company commander, and served concurrently in the Board of War. In the Chongde era he campaigned repeatedly, took Tashan and Xingshan, routed Ming governor Fan Zhiwan, and helped seize Qiantunwei and Zhonghousuo. In Shunzhi 1 he received the hereditary rank of niru janggin. In the second year he became a jalan commander. In the third year he rose to censorate commissioner.
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In the sixth year he became land commander at Zhangzhou in Fujian. The Ming Prince of Jianxin, You Mo, held Datian while Yanping Gaofeng and other local bandits rose in revolt. In the seventh year Minggao stormed Shijidian; You Mo fled to Yong'an and Deputy Wang Aichen ran him down and captured him. Gaofeng chief Chen Guang called in the Dehua bandit Zheng Wenjian; Minggao sent Han Shangliang and others to intercept and besiege the stockade. Chen Guang broke out but Minggao pressed the attack and many rebels died in the ditches. Advancing to Datian he routed the rebels, beat them at Longmen Bridge, captured Guo Qi and Liao Mingzheng, and received the surrender of every stockade.
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He then marched on Shaowu; rebels fled into Jiangxi's Xincheng; Minggao split into three columns with Wang Zhigang covering the rear, chased them thirty li, and captured Hong Guoyu, Li Anmin, Wang Hengmei, and countless horses, cattle, and guns. For his merits his hereditary rank rose to second-class adaha hafan. In the ninth year Chenggong from Xiamen seized Changchun, Zhangpu, Haicheng, Nanjing, and other counties and invaded Zhangzhou with over two hundred thousand men, encamping at Fengchao Hill. Minggao routed him; Chenggong fell back to Haicheng and the lost counties were retaken. Soon he returned, retook Zhangzhou, and recovered its districts. Censor Wei Yijie accused Minggao of negligence; Governor Tong Tai investigated and removed him from office. He died soon afterward.
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Liu Guangbi was a Han Bannerman of the Bordered Blue Banner from Liaoyang who had borne the surname Cao. In Tiancong 5 he was ordered to hold Yaozhou. He followed Taizong against Ming, besieged Dalinghe, and captured the three outworks beside the city. When the garrison sallied Guangbi led the charge; when comrades were trapped in the melee he fought them free. When Ming intendant Zhang Chun and Wu Xiang marched from Jinzhou to relieve the siege, Guangbi rode into the ranks and killed a deputy commander. In Chongde 5 he became jalan baturu. Besieging Jinzhou he and Li Guohan took Luhong Hill and neighboring forts. He repeatedly routed Songshan and Xingshan horse and foot. When Ming forces blocked the pass he and Guohan fought them off until they withdrew. After Jinzhou fell, artillery took Tachu and Xingshan and nearby forts. He received the hereditary rank of niru janggin for his service. In the seventh year he rose to meiren baturu of the Bordered Blue Han Banner. In the eighth year he and Liu Zhiyuan went to Jinzhou to supervise cannon casting. He then joined Prince Zheng Jirhalang against Ningyuan and took Qiantunwei and Zhonghousuo.
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In Shunzhi 1 he crossed the pass and fought Li Zicheng. He then followed Ye Chen into Shanxi and captured Taiyuan. In the third year he followed Prince Duanzhong Bolo into Zhejiang, took Jinhua, and helped pacify Fujian. In the fifth year he became vice minister of Rites. Campaigning with Tan Tai against Jin Shengheng he took Nanchang; Tan Tai asked that Guangbi act as Jiangxi land commander. In the sixth year he pacified Guangchang bandits and received formal appointment. Zhang Zisheng, Hong Guoyu, and other lake bandits held the eastern lakes in revolt. Guangbi led Chen Sheng and others to suppress them. Followers such as Dong Mingkui and Guo Chengmin surrendered. Under an amnesty his hereditary rank accumulated to first-class adaha hafan. In the thirteenth year he received a horse, bow, and arrows from the throne. In the sixteenth year he retired for age and illness. He died in the twelfth year of Kangxi.
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Liu Zhongjin was a Plain Blue Han Bannerman originally from Dongning Guard in Liaoyang. In Chongde 5, as company commander under Dorgon against Ming, he besieged Jinzhou, broke a thousand-horse sortie, and chased the enemy to the walls before withdrawing. He again defeated Ming forces at Songshan, Xingshan, and Luhong Hill pass. In the seventh year he joined Jirhalang against Tashan; when artillery breached the wall Zhongjin's men were first over and took the city. At Xingshan he again shelled the walls until they crumbled and the garrison surrendered. He received the hereditary stipend of half a junior official's salary. In the eighth year he joined Arjin and Haning'a against the Amur Hurka, took Boheli, Nuo'ergale, and Duli, and reduced four settlements including Dagaledasu and Chuokuchan. He was rewarded with sable and silver. He again campaigned at Ningyuan and took Zhonghousuo and Qiantunwei. His hereditary rank rose to jalan janggin.
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In Shunzhi 1 he entered the pass and became a Board of Revenue officer while serving as jalan baturu. He followed Ye Chen into Shanxi and captured Taiyuan. He then joined Prince Ying Ajige's western pursuit of Li Zicheng from Shaanxi into Huguang, routed Ma Jinzhong, and seized eleven boats. In the fifth year he became vice minister of War. In the sixth year he campaigned under the Prince Regent against Jiang Xiang, stormed Hunyuan and Zuowei, then Fenzhou, reducing each place with red-barreled cannon. In the seventh year he became Linqing commander in Shandong with the rank of vice commander-in-chief; his hereditary title accumulated to first-class adaha hafan with tosaha hafan added. In the tenth year he was transferred to the Fujian Right Route as Left Commander-in-Chief, garrisoning Quanzhou. In the eleventh year he resigned for illness. He died soon afterward.
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The commentator observes: when Manchu forces first entered China they were posted to the great cities; later they settled in long garrisons under resident supervisors. Sha Erhuda drew in the New Manchus; Liu Zhiyuan, Ba Shan, and Ka Ka Mu stabilized Jiangnan; Ka Ka Mu above all rallied combined strength to break a major foe. Han troops who submitted after the conquest remained outside the Eight Banners and were organized under the old system of provincial commanders and garrison generals. Liang Huafeng's relief of Nanjing ranked with Ka Ka Mu's achievement. Liu Fangming and Ma Zhixian held Ningxia; Hu Yousheng aided Liu Wuyuan at Ganzhou—each earned distinguished service. Men such as Yang Minggao who left central office to take field commands likewise proved equal to their posts. Fukacan's defense of Xi'an and Ukuri's guard of Shengjing are treated elsewhere and are not repeated here.
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