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Volume 314 Biographies 101: Ce Leng, Yu Bao, Da Er Dang A, Ha Da Ha, Yong Chang, Jue Luo Ya Er Ha Shan, Fu De, Sa Lai Er

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Biographies 101
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Ce Leng; Tetong'e, Teqing'e, and Techeng'e; Yu Bao; Da Erdang'a; Ha Daha; and Zi Haning'a
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Yong Chang; Aisin Gioro Ya Erhashan; Fu De; and Salai'er
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祿滿 使
Ce Leng belonged to the Niohuru clan, came from the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner, and was Yinde's eldest son. Early in the Qianlong reign he served as an imperial bodyguard. That autumn in the second year the Yongding River broke its banks; the emperor released treasury funds and sent Ce Leng to Lugou Bridge to aid the flood victims. He rose through successive posts to General of Guangzhou and was appointed governor-general of the Two Guangs. Guangdong governor Tuoyong impeached provincial administration commissioner Tang Suizu for graft, and the case was sent to Ce Leng for investigation and adjudication. Ce Leng cleared Suizu of wrongful accusation, and the emperor commended his fairness. Soon after he was made Junior Tutor to the Heir Apparent and transferred to governor-general of the Two Jiangs. His younger brother Neqin had inherited their father's title and been raised to a first-rank duke, but was censured for misconduct during the Jinchuan campaign. In the tenth month of the thirteenth year Ce Leng was ordered to inherit the title as a second-rank duke and was again made governor-general of Sichuan and Shaanxi. Because the combined Sichuan-Shaanxi jurisdiction was too large, the post was soon split in two, and Ce Leng was left in charge of Sichuan alone. Grand Secretary Fu Heng had replaced Neqin as campaign commander, and Ce Leng was ordered to assist in military affairs. After Fu Heng accepted Jinchuan's surrender and the army withdrew to distribute rewards, Ce Leng was made Grand Tutor to the Heir Apparent.
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The Tibetan prince Dondrub Namgyal was treacherous and violent and plotted rebellion, and the emperor ordered Ce Leng to stand ready. That winter in the fifteenth year the Tibetan resident ministers Fu Qing and Labdon killed Dondrub Namgyal but were slain by his followers; with Tibet in turmoil, the emperor ordered Ce Leng and provincial commander Yue Zhongqi to lead troops and restore order. By then the Tibetan official Bandi had captured the rebel leaders Zhuoni and Luobuzangzhabu, and the forces had stood down awaiting further orders. Ce Leng reported the situation and asked to lead eight hundred men ahead while leaving troops at Dartsedo to await full mobilization. After Ce Leng reached Tibet, he worked with Zhongqi, Vice Minister Zhao Hui, and resident ministers Namuzha'er, Bandi, and others to settle regulations and draft Tibet's post-crisis charter; the full account appears in the Tibet biography.
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The Zagu chieftain Cangwang invaded the Suomo and Zhuokeji domains and rebelled, and Ce Leng and Zhongqi sent troops against him. The emperor judged Sichuan's forces still weakened after the Zhandui and Jinchuan wars and warned them to proceed carefully. The army won, Cangwang was taken, and his lands were annexed to direct rule. When Ce Leng's mother died he left office and returned to the capital in mourning. When floods hit the Huai and Yang regions in Jiangnan, he was sent with Minister Liu Tongxun to survey the disaster. His memorial exposing entrenched abuses in river works led to the dismissal of Governor-General Gao Bin and others, and Ce Leng was at once ordered to serve as acting governor-general of the Southern Rivers. When the river burst at Zhangjia Malu in Tongshan, the emperor decided river works were outside his expertise and reassigned him as governor-general of the Two Guangs. At that time the Dzungar leader Dawachi was weak and indecisive, and his people were riven by internal conflict. Intent on war, in the second month of the nineteenth year the emperor summoned Ce Leng, sent him to take the field, and appointed him Left Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier. When Amursana surrendered, Minister Shuhede in camp saw his treachery and feared another revolt; Ce Leng agreed with him to settle Amursana's tribes south of the Gobi while keeping Amursana, the headmen, and their best fighting men with the army. The emperor had hoped to use the newly surrendered Amursana against Dawachi; when he read Ce Leng's memorial he was furious, stripped Ce Leng of rank, reduced him to supernumerary service above military assistant to redeem himself, and sent his sons to provincial garrisons as common soldiers. The emperor then made Amursana Left Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier and had him guide the army against Dawachi. In the fifth month of the twentieth year the army took Yili, yet the emperor's edict still rebuked Ce Leng and Shuhede for timidity and obstinacy, saying they had nearly wrecked the campaign. Soon afterward, for the army's merit, Ce Leng was given vice commander-in-chief rank and ordered to lead a detached column to garrison Barkol.
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西 西 西
In the ninth month Amursana rebelled and fled; the emperor made Yongchang General for the Pacification of the West and ordered Ce Leng to serve as senior military assistant. Learning later that when Amursana rebelled Yongchang had withdrawn from Mulei and camped at Barkol, the emperor removed Yongchang and gave the command to Ce Leng. Soon an edict ordered Yongchang arrested and appointed Zhalafeng'a general in his place. Ce Leng reported that he was waiting on arms and equipment for the troops and would advance with the general. An edict also ordered Ce Leng arrested as punishment for cowardice. When blame was laid on Yongchang, Ce Leng was pardoned and ordered to serve under Zhalafeng'a overseeing supplies. Meanwhile Dzungar zaisang Keshimu and others overran Yili, and General for the Pacification of the North Bandi and others were killed in action. Ce Leng sent an urgent report and asked that the armies combine for a joint advance. The emperor again gave Ce Leng vice commander-in-chief rank as military assistant, and with Zhalafeng'a not yet arrived Ce Leng acted as general. Ce Leng joined Khalkha princes in a combined attack that defeated the Dzungar tribes; he was made grand minister and confirmed as General for the Pacification of the West. The emperor pressed the generals urgently to hunt down Amursana. In the second month of the twenty-first year Ce Leng heard that taiji Nuo'erbu and others had taken Amursana; he sent a victory dispatch, and the emperor reported the news at the imperial tombs. Ce Leng was raised to first-rank duke and given double-eyed peacock feathers, a jeweled hat finial, and a four-dragon surcoat. In the third month Ce Leng admitted his earlier report was false; the emperor halted the rewards and sharply ordered the army forward to capture Amursana. That month Yili was retaken and Amursana fled into Kazakh territory. In the fourth month Grand Secretary Fu Heng was sent to inspect the army, and Ce Leng and military assistant Yu Bao were arrested. Soon Ce Leng reported that he was pressing the Kazakh frontier and had ordered Amursana seized and sent in. The emperor then ordered Fu Heng back to the capital. Da Erdang'a marched by the western route and Ha Daha by the northern, joining Ce Leng in a combined advance, but the army lingered for months without finding Amursana. In the ninth month Da Erdang'a and Ha Daha pulled back and encamped at Hasalak. In the eleventh month Ce Leng and Yu Bao were again ordered arrested and sent to the capital in the cangue; en route they met Dzungar troops and were killed.
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His son Tetong'e had first been sent from Heilongjiang as a common soldier. In the twenty-third year he followed General Zhao Hui against Khoja Jahan as a bodyguard and was killed at the Black River fighting alongside Regional Commander Gao Tianxi and others. His portrait was hung in the Hall of Purple Splendor among the later fifty meritorious officials.
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Teqing'e had first been sent from Hangzhou as a common soldier. Starting as a clerk in the Shangyu reserve office he rose through eleven promotions and by the Jiaqing reign was made General of Chengdu. He twice acted as governor-general of Sichuan. When someone wrote a Fu on the Capital of Shu to denounce a senior official, supervising secretary Hu Dacheng reported it to the throne. Emperor Renzong sent Minister of Works Tuojin and Vice Director of the Court of Imperial Entertainments Lu Yinpu to investigate; Teqing'e was found to have covered up wrongdoing, demoted three ranks, and kept in post. He died soon afterward.
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西 竿 使 調
Techeng'e had first been sent from Xi'an as a common soldier. From a clerk in the pole-handling office he was twice promoted to third-rank bodyguard. When the army marched against Greater Jinchuan chief Suonuomu, Emperor Gaozong ordered Techeng'e to join the campaign. After two years of fighting he took Meimeika and other positions north of Zili; he stormed the highest fort at Ronggaerbo and seized the half-stone blockhouse on Kangsa'er Mountain; and broke the timber fort on Milagalamu Mountain—in each action Techeng'e distinguished himself and was appointed regional commander of Weining in Guizhou. In Qianlong year 42 the emperor noted that eminent old families often supplied successive chief commandants of the imperial guard and gave Techeng'e the post vacated by Fengsheng'e. After three further promotions he became Minister of Rites, then General of Chengdu, and three times acted as governor-general. He was soon appointed governor-general of Huguang. In the fiftieth year drought left Hubei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang hungry; Techeng'e asked to release Hunan granary grain to feed Hubei. Surplus grain was sold at regulated prices, and merchants hauling rice from Sichuan, seeing lower prices in Hubei, were able to forward supplies to Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The emperor praised him for looking beyond provincial boundaries and acting as a true grand minister should. He was soon transferred to governor-general of Yunnan and Guizhou, with Li Shiyao replacing him in Huguang. Shiyao reported that after the previous year's drought the people of Xiaogan were starving and raided wealthy families' grain stores; licentiate Mei Tiaoyuan rallied a crowd to resist, and twenty-three people were killed. The emperor was furious, had Techeng'e arrested, and confiscated his estate. He was soon given vice commander-in-chief rank and made Commissioner for Affairs at Wushi. He was also blamed for failing in Huguang to catch subordinates' embezzlement and for letting paperwork pile up, and was censured repeatedly. When the Jingzhou dike failed he was arrested again, tried for strangulation, and pardoned only after a long interval. He was made first-rank bodyguard and Commissioner for Affairs at Urumqi. Early in Jiaqing he was promoted from military assistant at Kobdo to Vice Minister of War but died before assuming the post.
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使 使便
Yu Bao belonged to the Ulanghan Jilemen clan and came from the Mongol Bordered White Banner. Starting as a clerk in the Court of Colonial Affairs he rose through three promotions to director. In Qianlong year 3 he was promoted to vice minister. In year 8 he led Dzungar envoys to Tibet for the tea-boiling ceremony and was granted peacock feathers. In year 12 he again led Dzungar envoys to Tibet for the tea ceremony and reported: "On the previous journey from Bayankhara Namuqitumulun to the Muruusu ford the route was treacherous, but as it was late autumn with little snow travel was still manageable. This winter's heavy snow makes a new route advisable: pass left of Hashaha Ridge behind Bayankhara Mountain, from Buru'er still to the Muruusu ford." The court approved the change. In year 16 he was made commander-in-chief of the Mongol Bordered Yellow Banner. In year 17, when Dawachi rebelled, he was sent with Minister Shuhede to guard the northern frontier. In year 18 Torghut taiji Tsewang and others surrendered, and he was ordered to hurry out and reward them. Knowing Yu Bao's expertise in Dzungar affairs, the emperor made him military assistant on the campaign. In year 19 Khoit taiji Amursana surrendered; Yu Bao was again sent to reward them and escorted them to court.
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In year 20, when Amursana rebelled, he was again sent on the northern route as vice minister and military assistant. The army camped at Haqike and sent troops to the Eshimona River, bringing in more than three hundred of Amursana's households. A mountain search captured Amursana's followers Demuqi Banza and others. The army pushed on to Anjiyaha, wiped out more than three hundred of Abagaqi's households, and surrounded the Banza nomads. Soon they captured the rebel lama Dashizangbu along with his wife and children. He was promoted to grand minister. In the twenty-first year Ce Leng reported that Amursana had been taken; rewards were handed out and Yu Bao was made a hereditary third-rank baron. Yu Bao captured Amursana's follower Dayong'a, who said Amursana was only a day away; Yu Bao sent him under guard to Ce Leng. He also took the rebel follower Wuxun, who reported that Amursana had just survived smallpox and still commanded eight thousand Olot and three thousand Kazakh troops; he too was sent to Ce Leng under guard. The emperor censured Yu Bao for shrinking back, and Yu Bao's army pushed forward again. He sent generals including Urden in pursuit to Kulongguiling and captured the rebel follower Elinqin, who said Amursana had already crossed into Kazakh territory; the force withdrew and camped at Gulzhah. The emperor was furious that Ce Leng and Yu Bao had let Amursana slip away. Ce Leng reported again that Yu Bao had sent an urgent dispatch claiming Amursana would be taken that day and the main army need not advance deep; the army was held back, both men were ordered arrested and sent to the capital, and then temporarily pardoned. Yu Bao defended himself, saying he had never sent a dispatch to stop Ce Leng's advance; the emperor replied: "Even if Yu Bao did not stop Ce Leng, through whose hands did Amursana escape? He was rebuked for cowardice and deceit, stripped of his baronage and military assistant post, and reassigned as commander of a detached column. Yu Bao reported that Amursana had only two or three followers left and had taken refuge with Kazakh Khan Ablai, and that he was leading troops to demand his surrender. The emperor said Yu Bao had clearly known the rebel was alone and powerless before pressing the pursuit, and rebuked him for playing it safe. Minister Aligun was sent to the army to arrest Ce Leng, with orders that if Yu Bao had already marched toward the Kazakhs his offense was pardoned, but if he had not, he was to be arrested too. Soon Da Erdang'a reported that Yu Bao's army had reached the Kazakhs, and Yu Bao was granted the rank of first-rank bodyguard. When the army lingered for months without capturing Amursana, he was again ordered arrested and sent to the capital together with Ce Leng. He died en route.
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祿滿
Da Erdang'a belonged to the Niohuru clan, came from the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner, and was the second son of Alin'a, Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs. He first inherited his great-grandfather Ejidu's first-rank viscountcy and rose through successive posts to Minister of Personnel. When Neqin fell from favor, he asked to join the campaign. When the army returned he was made Junior Guardian to the Heir Apparent. In Qianlong year 19 he was appointed General of Heilongjiang. When Ce Leng fell from favor he was ordered to inherit the title as a second-rank duke. That December the emperor used Amursana against Dawachi, made Bandi General for the Pacification of the North, and appointed Da Erdang'a military assistant. In the first month of the twentieth year he was ordered to lead Solon and Barhu troops to join the army. In the fifth month Yili was taken. When the army returned he was made associate grand secretary.
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西 西使 西
When Amursana rebelled he was made Left Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier and, with military assistant Ha Daha, marched out on the northern route to hunt him down. In the tenth month he was reassigned as Right Deputy General for the western route while Ha Daha took the northern route. In the twelfth month the general's seal was given again to Zhalafeng'a while Da Erdang'a remained military assistant. In the first month of the twenty-first year O'lecheyi and Salai'er were also given joint command of the general's seal. Da Erdang'a led his army to Zhuledusi to welcome Salai'er. When Ce Leng reported Amursana's capture, Da Erdang'a was also granted double-eyed peacock feathers. Soon he moved from Teneger to Anjiha and sent detachments to raid Tangut pastures. When Amursana fled into Kazakh territory, the emperor put the western route solely under Da Erdang'a and the northern route under Ha Daha, ordering them to press the Kazakh frontier and seize Amursana. In the fifth month he was again appointed Right Deputy General. Ce Leng was then stationed at Dengnuletai and ordered Da Erdang'a to withdraw. Da Erdang'a refused, and the emperor at once removed Ce Leng as General for the Pacification of the West and gave the command to Da Erdang'a.
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西 使 使 滿 西
In the eighth month the army halted at Yalira; Kazakh Khan Ablai sent chieftain Hoqibolgen with four thousand horsemen in two columns to follow Amursana toward Lulai while he himself led more than a thousand westward; they met below Hao'alake Mountain. When Da Erdang'a's army arrived it met Hoqibolgen's vanguard, lured them out of the valley, broke their center, killed more than five hundred seventy, and captured chieftain Chuluke. Pursuing the enemy to Nula they met Hoqibolgen's rearguard, broke through again, seized his banner, and killed more than three hundred forty. A zaisang in Amursana's party said Amursana had swapped his blue banner to join the fight, then changed clothes and fled after defeat. Ha Daha also defeated Ablai's army and captured chieftain Zhaohuashi. The two armies joined and sent Chuluke and Zhaohuashi back to convey terms to their chiefs. Amursana had fled only a li or two when he met Chuluke and the others and sent them back with a message in the guise of Kazakh chieftains, saying they would wait for Khan Ablai and seize Amursana to present him. Da Erdang'a believed them and held his army in place to wait. Amursana calmly packed up his belongings and got away. Learning that Amursana had escaped, the emperor ordered Da Erdang'a to surrender his double-eyed feathers, recalled him to the capital, and removed him as associate grand secretary. In the second month of the twenty-second year he was stripped of his title and demoted to vice commander-in-chief of the Manchu Bordered White Banner. In the eighth month Amursana's nephew Dashi was captured in camp and Ce Leng sent him to the capital in the cangue. The emperor first learned how halfheartedly Da Erdang'a and Ha Daha had pursued the fugitive rebel; both were stripped of rank and sent to Rehe as common soldiers. In the twenty-third year he was made third-rank bodyguard, led Xi'an garrison troops to the front, and was raised to second-rank bodyguard when the army distinguished itself. He died.
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Ha Daha belonged to the Guwalgiya clan, came from the Manchu Bordered Blue Banner, and was the son of Fu Erdan, General of Heilongjiang. Fu Erdan had first inherited his great-grandfather Feiyingdong's second-rank meritorious brave duke title; in Qianlong year 1 a retrospective judgment for military misconduct removed him, and Ha Daha inherited the title. By then Ha Daha had already risen from bodyguard to chief commandant of the imperial guard while also holding a meritorious old banner company captaincy. After inheriting the title he became commander-in-chief of the Manchu Bordered Red Banner and Minister of Works, was made Junior Guardian to the Heir Apparent, and served concurrently as acting Minister of War and metropolitan commandant.
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In the nineteenth year, during the campaign against Dawachi, he was made military assistant to General for the Pacification of the North Bandi on the northern route. He was soon made commander of a detached column. In the twentieth year Dawachi was taken prisoner. The army marched out again against Amursana; he was again made military assistant to Left Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier Da Erdang'a on the northern route. Ha Daha asked that Solon and Khalkha troops serve as vanguard, and the emperor praised his zeal. Soon he was ordered to replace Da Erdang'a as Left Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier on the northern route and moved his army to Buyantu. From Yiks Lake in the south to Uharkashuo, Uliastai, Zhabukan, and other strategic points in the north, he posted troops in detachments along the whole line. In the twenty-first year he was ordered to advance from the Altai, and an edict put the northern route solely under his command. The Telengut zaisang Dundok, Gurban Khoja, and others met our army and feigned surrender. Ha Daha saw through the ruse, executed Dundok, bound Gurban Khoja and the others, and wiped out their followers. The emperor praised his bravery, again made him chief commandant of the imperial guard, and granted double-eyed peacock feathers.
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The army reached Songhasalak Mountain, met Kazakh Khan Ablai leading a large force west from Bayan Mountain, fought him, and won. He again sent generals Hu'erqi, Eboshi, Qichebu, and others in pursuit, killing more than a hundred and capturing two hundred horses. Ha Daha did not know Ablai was with the army and failed to pursue to the end; while Da Erdang'a met Amursana, won the battle, and then let him get away. The two armies joined and withdrew. His double-eyed peacock feathers were taken and he was ordered to garrison at Kobdo as military assistant. Soon he was judged guilty of letting Ablai escape, stripped of his title and post as chief commandant of the imperial guard, and demoted to Vice Minister of War. He was soon promoted to minister and moved his garrison to Uliastai. In the eighth month of the twenty-second year an edict listed the offenses of Da Erdang'a and Ha Daha: "Both are descendants of meritorious old families who inherited titles and held sole command, yet they dragged their feet and watched from the sidelines, throwing away military opportunities as they did. All their offices were stripped and they were sent to Rehe as common soldiers. In the twenty-third year he and Da Erdang'a were both made third-rank bodyguards on campaign and both raised to second-rank bodyguard.
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His son Haning'a rose from a bodyguard with blue insignia to vice commander-in-chief of Ningxia. Ha Daha served as Left Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier while Haning'a served as commander of a detached column. Soon he was ordered to serve as military assistant to General for the Pacification of the West Da Erdang'a on the western route. He was soon ordered to Yili to assist Right Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier Zhao Hui. When Zhao Hui was trapped at Jierhalang, Haning'a was among those who fought their way out and was granted a hereditary third-rank commandant of light chariots. He again followed Zhao Hui against Bayar and distinguished himself above all others; he was given a jade thumb ring, purse, and snuff bottle. When Ha Daha lost his title Haning'a inherited it and was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Han Army Bordered Yellow Banner. In Qianlong year 23 he was again made military assistant to General for the Pacification of Rebellion Ya Erhashan against Khoja Jahan. During the siege of Kuche Khoja Jahan escaped, and Haning'a was arrested and sent to the capital together with Ya Erhashan. In the first month of the twenty-fourth year Ya Erhashan was executed in the marketplace. Because Haning'a was only a military assistant with less responsibility than the general, yet mindful of his hard fighting at Jierhalang, the emperor ordered him imprisoned awaiting autumn execution. In the eleventh month Fu De's army reached Badakhshan and sent envoys to demand Khoja Jahan bound and delivered. Noting that Da Erdang'a and Ha Daha were both in the army yet had not volunteered for service, the emperor issued a rebuking edict: "Haning'a's autumn sentence should be death; had Ha Daha achieved some merit one might still have pardoned him—how now can leniency be shown? Mindful of Feiyingdong's meritorious service, he could not bear to execute him in public. Haning'a was ordered granted suicide, and Ha Daha was to be urgently informed—but Ha Daha had already died in camp in the tenth month.
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Yongchang belonged to the Donggo clan and came from the Manchu Plain White Banner. From third-rank bodyguard he rose through successive posts to commander-in-chief of the Manchu Bordered Red Banner. In Qianlong year 5 he was sent to Anxi to investigate affairs, immediately made Military Commander of Anxi, stationed at Hami, and granted peacock feathers and a red velvet hat knob. In the fifteenth year he was appointed governor-general of Huguang. When the Luotian commoner Ma Chaozhu rebelled, he put the disturbance down. In the eighteenth year, as the emperor prepared to campaign against the Dzungars, Yongchang was made Imperial Commissioner and stationed at Anxi. He was soon transferred to governor-general of Shaanxi-Gansu and given the rank of Junior Tutor to the Heir Apparent.
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Choros taiji Amursana surrendered, reporting that Dawachi was tyrannical and violent. The emperor decided on war, summoned Yongchang to the capital to instruct him in military operations, and then made him General for the Pacification of the West with the rank of imperial minister. The emperor then relied on Amursana and the surrendered zaisang Salai'er to take Dawachi; Amursana was made deputy to General for the Pacification of the North Bandi on the northern route and Salai'er deputy to Yongchang on the western route, both directed to serve as the army's vanguard while Yongchang was ordered to supervise the vanguard in advancing first. Yongchang ordered every column to march together at forced pace, and the emperor rebuked the error. When Yongchang's army halted at Barkol, he was ordered back to Suzhou. Yongchang returned to oversee supplies and proposed various plans, none of which the emperor approved. When the army secured Yili and captured Dawachi, an edict rebuked him: "Yongchang knew only that the army marches as grain follows, and clung pedantically to talk of relief supplies. Now that victory is won, why worry that grain will be insufficient? Taking grain from the enemy has always been the winning calculation. If one followed Yongchang's memorials, relay transport would take more than several tens of days — how could that avail? He was then demoted to Left Vice Minister of Personnel.
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When Amursana rebelled and attacked Yili, Yongchang's army held to one side; the emperor rebuked his cowardice, stripped him of his posts as imperial minister and General for the Pacification of the West, and made him military assistant with the rank of deputy lieutenant-general. Among the Olot taiji who refused to follow Amursana in rebellion, zaisang Zhamu Can and others led several thousand men to Yongchang to request attachment and settlement. Yongchang suspected a ruse, took the zaisang as hostages, and retreated at forced pace; fearing pursuit, he summoned Ce Leng to his aid and ordered Amindao to withdraw as well; together they encamped at Barkol. The emperor ordered his rank stripped and him arrested and sent to the capital; on the road at Lintong he died en route. His household was still registered for confiscation and his son Lalin was sent to garrison duty.
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Aisin Gioro Ya Erhashan, courtesy name Weiwen, came from the Manchu Plain Red Banner. In Yongzheng year 3 he passed the translation examinations, rose four ranks from Secretariat secretary, and in Qianlong year 3 was appointed Commissioner of the Transmission Office. Censor Qiu Jiuhua memorialized that the Nine Ministers deliberated unfairly and, in a separate memorial, requested that descendants of ministers in the Hall of Worthies be employed. Ya Erhashan impeached Jiuhua as a disciple of the former vice minister Li Zongwan; Zongwan's ancestor Du Ne was a minister in the Hall of Worthies, and Jiuhua's attack on the Nine Ministers' unfair deliberations was a show of stern uprightness that in truth aimed to restore Zongwan. The emperor said: "Employing descendants of Hall of Worthies ministers is no more than empty titles and minor ranks; one uses them only when their talent proves suitable. How could one who had been vice minister and punished for crime be immediately restored because he was a descendant of a Hall of Worthies minister? Li Zongwan may be foolish, but he would not scheme thus. Jiuhua's criticism of the Nine Ministers' unfair deliberations hit squarely on the age's abuses. The ministers who read it ought to reflect deeply and warn themselves. If one redirects anger at the man who offered advice, that is shamelessness! He ordered Ya Erhashan dismissed from office. Prince Zhuang Yunlu and Prince Ping Fupeng were ordered to join grand secretaries and those below in a strict interrogation; Ya Erhashan said he had learned the words from Right Commissioner of Transmission Chen Lüping and therefore requested that both be stripped of rank. The emperor rebuked the princes and ministers for improper deliberation, stripped Ya Erhashan of rank, and referred Lüping to officials for judgment. In the fourth year he was specially recalled as prefect of Long'an in Sichuan. In the fifth year he left office in mourning. In the sixth year he was appointed prefect of Songjiang in Jiangnan and transferred to prefect of Suzhou. In the ninth year he was promoted to intendant of Tingzhang in Fujian. Ya Erhashan won reputation and achievement at Songjiang and Suzhou, and when he left the people missed him. In the thirteenth year, as Fujian provincial surveillance commissioner, he served as acting governor of Jiangsu. On the Shangyuan Festival commoners destroyed standard coin; Ya Erhashan judged according to law, then pleaded leniency because the number was small; the emperor rebuked his excessive leniency and stripped him of rank but kept him in post. In the fifteenth year Ya Erhashan judged district magistrates including Xu Weimei who had failed to complete regular tax collection by less than one percent, and all were impeached and dismissed. Governor-General Huang Tinggui impeached him improperly and referred him to officials for judgment; his rank should have been stripped, but he was still ordered to remain in post. Soon he entered the capital as Vice Minister of Revenue. In the sixteenth year he was again sent out as governor of Zhejiang. In the nineteenth year he again entered the capital as Vice Minister of Revenue, was ordered to serve at the Grand Council, and soon appointed Vice Minister of War.
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In the twentieth year, as the army campaigned against Amursana, he was appointed military assistant and marched out on the northern route. In the twenty-first year he was ordered to shift to the western route and stationed at Barkol to manage affairs. He memorialized requesting that the surrendered Bukunut people be moved to Ulan Usu to pasture together with the earlier surrendered Galjazad people. Before long Choros Khan Galjzadorgi rebelled; the Galjazad Khask Xila and others responded, and the surrendered Muslim Manggarik followed as well. Ya Erhashan captured his partisans together with his son Bai Hezhuo. In the twelfth month the emperor commended Ya Erhashan for conscientiously handling military affairs and granted him the rank of imperial minister. The surrendered Khoit chief Shakdurfmanji took no part in Amursana's rebellion; he led his people to Barkol and settled near the city on pasture land. When Galjzadorgi Bayar rebelled, the emperor sent a confidential instruction to Ya Erhashan ordering him secretly to watch Shakdurfmanji's movements. Ya Erhashan was himself inwardly suspicious; supplies also failed to arrive on time, and when Shakdurfmanji requested grain he could not provide it; he therefore sent lieutenant general Yan Xiangshi with five hundred men into their camp as if lost and seeking lodging. That night heavy snow fell; Xiangshi sounded the horn and led troops in a surprise attack on their dwellings. Shakdurfmanji started up in alarm; he and his wife embraced each other and did not release until death, and more than four thousand of his people were annihilated. Ya Erhashan reported in a memorial that Shakdurfmanji was in contact with the Choros rebel Zhanalgarb and had been executed to forestall future trouble. He also dispatched troops to Lukchak to suppress Manggarik, and the emperor praised his bold advance.
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In the spring of the twenty-second year Right Deputy General for Frontier Pacification Zhao Hui led troops from Yili in pursuit of Galjzadorgi and others, and Ya Erhashan sent guardsman Tulunchu with eight hundred men to reinforce Zhao Hui's army. Provincial Military Commander Fu Kui's army reached Yanchi, encountered Manggarik leading thirty-two men across the border to spy on news of Bai Hezhuo, seized and killed him, and Ya Erhashan reported the matter in a memorial. The emperor held that Manggarik was the rebel ringleader who ought to have been tried and executed, and ordered Fu Kui arrested and sent to the capital. Zhao Hui's army from Jirhalang to Tinalar was surrounded by the enemy and was relieved only when Tulunchu's reinforcements arrived. Soon Ya Erhashan was recalled to the capital and appointed Vice Minister of Revenue. In the fourth month he was again appointed military assistant and ordered to be stationed at Jirhalang. In the ninth month he was promoted to Minister of War. In the twelfth month he was ordered to move his station to Lukchak and superintend military colonies.
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In the second month of the twenty-third year he was appointed General for the Pacification of Rebellion and commanded troops against Khoja Jahan. In the fifth month the army reached Kuche, where Abdukelimu, a headman under Khoja Jahan, held the city. Ya Erhashan directed the army in surrounding the city and cutting off its water and fodder, and repeatedly defeated the garrison when it sallied. In the sixth month he defeated relieving rebels at Tomorok. Khoja Jahan personally led eight thousand men armed with the finest bara muskets across the Aksu desert to relieve the city. Ya Erhashan directed troops in battle south of Kuche and beheaded more than a thousand. Khoja Jahan, wounded, entered Kuche, and his banner was captured. Kuche's city leaned on a hill and was densely built with willow branches and sand-soil, so strong that cannon assault could not breach it. Provincial Military Commander Ma Desheng planned to enter by mining; a tunnel was dug one li north of the city and had already reached the wall. Ya Erhashan pressed the operation urgently, and our troops entered the tunnel at night carrying torches. The garrison, seeing the fire, dug a transverse ditch inside the city; water flooded the tunnel and all our troops perished. Headman Odok told Ya Erhashan: "Kuche's food is nearly exhausted; Khoja Jahan is sure to flee. West of the city the Egen River is shallow and fordable; the northern mountains open onto the desert route to Aksu. Troops should be divided to hold these two passes, and Khoja Jahan can be captured." Ya Erhashan, because Odok had newly surrendered, did not trust him. Eight days later Khoja Jahan under cover of night led four hundred horsemen out the west gate, forded the Egen River, and escaped. Several days later Abdukelimu again fled by night. The remaining headmen Alanar and others led the old and weak out of the city to surrender. Ya Erhashan interrogated townspeople indiscriminately, declared Shayniyasi and four others diehard followers of Abdukelimu, and had them killed.
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When the memorial arrived, the emperor learning Khoja Jahan had not been taken was greatly angered and stripped Ya Erhashan of rank. Ya Erhashan impeached Deputy Lieutenant-General Shundene for laxity and Ma Desheng for missing the opportunity. The emperor said: "Ya Erhashan first impeached Shundene, then impeached Ma Desheng, without a single word acknowledging his own fault. Does he not reflect that as supreme commander, on whom rests the responsibility for directing the generals? If this is not punished by law, where does the law of the state stand? He ordered Zhao Hui to reach the army and execute Shundene as a public example, and Ya Erhashan and Desheng arrested and sent to the capital. In the first month of the twenty-fourth year, when they arrived under arrest, princes and ministers were ordered to join in judgment; for Ya Erhashan's offenses of keeping the army long encamped, wasting supplies, and missing opportunities, he was sentenced to decapitation and executed. Two days later Desheng was also beheaded. After Ya Erhashan's death, the Gaozong Emperor knew Shakdurfmanji had shown no sign of rebellion and composed a poem denouncing the killing of those who had surrendered.
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Fu De belonged to the Guwalgiya clan, came from the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner, and was garrisoned at Jilin. Early in the Qianlong reign he rose from guardsman to third-rank bodyguard. In the thirteenth year he followed Grand Secretary and campaign commander Fu Heng against Jinchuan, captured the rebel partisan A'kou, and was promoted to second-rank bodyguard. When the army returned he rose in succession to deputy lieutenant-general. In the twentieth year, as the army campaigned against the Dzungars, he was ordered to escort Choros taiji Galjzadorgi and others to the army. He was promoted to military assistant and supervised relay stations on the western route. The Tanggute tribes under Amursana, seeing Amursana enter Yili, plotted to flee. In the twenty-first year Fu De led troops to Etamhu'er, encountered more than a thousand Tanggute massed in woods and reeds, killed more than twenty in the attack, and pursued them into Sepaikou Mountain. The rebels held difficult ground and fought in separate bands; six stockades were stormed and the slaughter was beyond reckoning. The Tanggute tribes fled toward Yili; the pursuers reached Chahan'orbo, where they again encountered a thousand Kazakh troops united with the Tanggute force. Fu De charged with fierce resolve, took more than a hundred heads, recovered more than thirty plundered Jaisaq-Ghazat households, and captured more than forty men including taiji Enkebayar. The emperor commended Fu De's vigor and made him Mongol commandant of the Plain Yellow Banner.
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In the twenty-second year General for the Pacification of the Frontier Chengun Zhabu went to Barkol and made Fu De his military assistant. Right Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier Zhao Hui reported that he was advancing on a route separate from Chengun Zhabu's; Fu De was ordered to join Zhao Hui's force. Amursana again raided the Zanagarbu pastures; Fu De pursued and crushed him, recovering the Bardamut otoks. Tracking the rebel chieftain Bayar, he pressed deep into the wilds in pursuit and took five passes. At Aidengsu, Kazakh Khan Ablai sent envoys to submit. Amursana fled into Russia and soon died. The rebel chieftains Kazakh Sila and Bukuqahan remained at large; Fu De was ordered to hunt them down. In the twenty-third year Tuilibai of the Right Wing Kazakhs and Turzhan, a Muslim of Tashkent, both came over, and envoys were sent to audience at court. The emperor noted that Fu De had served long in the field and had worked effectively to win over the Western Kazakhs, and granted him the hereditary rank of Cloud Cavalry Captain.
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Ya Erhashan had made no headway against Khoja Jahan; Zhao Hui replaced him and advanced boldly until his army was surrounded; Fu De was made Right Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier and sent to relieve him. In the first month of the twenty-fourth year the army camped at Hureman, met five thousand rebel cavalry, and fought on and off for five days and four nights. Military assistant Aligun arrived with horses; columns wheeled out in a charge and the rebel mass collapsed; fifteen barut, dozens of senior begs, and more than a thousand rebels were killed. Chieftain Burhanuddin took a musket ball and was gravely wounded; bearers carried him into the city, then he fled to Kashgar. Zhao Hui broke out of the encirclement and, for his service, was enfeoffed a third-rank count. The army moved up to the Yarkand River, defeated the rebels again, and he was raised to first-rank Count Chengyong. Khoja Jahan's followers invaded Khotan; Fu De went to its relief and routed them. Pressing the attack on Yarkand, the Khoja brothers abandoned the city and fled; pursuers beat them at Aletuer and again at Yixihorkor Lake, driving them into Badakhshan. The army followed in pursuit and ordered him seized and delivered; Sultan Shah, Khan of Badakhshan, sent in Khoja Jahan's head. On the army's return he was raised to first-rank Marquis Jingyuan Chengyong, given the double-eyed peacock plume, his son was made a bodyguard, and he was appointed Chief Bodyguard. In the twenty-fifth year he was again made imperial presence grand minister, had his portrait placed in the Hall of Purple Glaze, was granted horseback riding in the Forbidden City, and was ordered to serve on the Grand Council. Soon after he was made Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs and Mongol commandant of the Plain Yellow Banner. When Deputy Lieutenant-General Laoge's embezzlement of official camels was exposed and tried, testimony said horses had been sent to Fu De's ranch—and that he kept several thousand head of livestock. The emperor said a man of Fu De's sudden fortune could scarcely keep a ranch; Commandant Barpin was sent to investigate and soon reported household assets of more than thirty thousand taels. Prince He and others were ordered to sit in judgment; they found that Fu De had kept official horses when he marched, extorted livestock from Mongol princes, and traded in silk, cloth, tobacco, and tea for profit; he was jailed, the legal officers recommended death, and the emperor commuted the sentence to imprisonment awaiting execution. In the twenty-eighth year he was pardoned and made supernumerary grand minister. In the thirty-third year General Mingrui died on the Burma campaign; Military Assistant Eledeng'e was punished for dawdling. Eledeng'e had also been garrisoned at Jilin and was connected with Fu De; Fu De was judged for a bad recommendation, removed as supernumerary grand minister, and imprisoned; the legal officers recommended death, and the emperor ordered his case held in deferred execution. In the thirty-sixth year he was pardoned and made third-rank bodyguard.
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In the thirty-eighth year General Wenfu marched against Jinchuan and his army was routed at Mugumu. Elite and Firearms camp troops were sent to reinforce Agui; Fu De was made first-rank bodyguard and expedition commander and followed Deputy General Mingliang on the southern route. Fu De advanced from the old stockades at Zhendeng and Meilie, took Debujialamas Temple, the Deli ridges, Rizhai, Cerdansemu, and other passes, then pushed on to Senggezong, Mana, Rongbuzhai, Kakaqiao, and others; he was made deputy lieutenant-general to fill the next vacancy. He pushed on and took the Shaxilimudangar blockhouse and Yangquanhe Bridge. In the forty-fourth year he asked for three thousand troops to be sent to Yixi to help Mingliang, and the request was granted. Attacking Gazapudelou, he took five stockades; attacking the Burzanir ridge, he took five riverside stockades; attacking the Genge'ete ridge, he took three major blockhouses and eight stockades; attacking Gazapuderwo, the rebels abandoned their blockhouses and fled; the pursuers reached Ma'erbang, where they begged to surrender. Fu De had served two years without any major breakthrough; the throne rebuked him again and again; now the ministries were ordered to assess merit for reward.
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After Jinchuan was pacified, Agui impeached Fu De for reckless rewards and for diverting native troops' salt-and-provisions silver until the accounts would not balance; the case went to Guilin for verification, and Yuan Shoutong was sent to Sichuan to join Agui in completing the dossier. Fu De secretly sent in a Manchu memorial denouncing Agui; the emperor ordered him transported to the capital under guard. At court interrogation he fully confessed to reckless rewards and to keeping six ingots of silver for himself; he had also taken fifty taels of gold from Prefect Zeng Chengmo, and had impeached Deputy General Guangzhu and ordered him reduced to common soldier without awaiting approval—whereupon Guangzhu killed himself. The Manchu memorial also claimed that "Agui held the yellow sash and spoke insolently"; judged guilty of a false charge of treason, he was sentenced to decapitation by statute and executed.
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Salai'er was a Mongol of the Plain Yellow Banner. Originally a Zunghar headman, he had served the Zunghar taiji Dashdawa as zaisang. In Qianlong year 15, amid Zunghar civil war, Salai'er led his forty-seven households in surrender and was settled in Chahar. He was enrolled in the banners and made supernumerary grand minister. The Zunghar taiji Lama Darja asked that Salai'er be returned; the request was refused. He was made military assistant and sent out on the northern route. In the nineteenth year the Uriankhai Demuchi Zhamucan crossed the frontier; Salai'er met him with five hundred men, captured Zhamucan, and sent back Shouling, Shuodai, Nekule, and nine others. When word reached court, he was made inner grand minister. Later the men who had been sent back reported that zaisang Yardu and Demuchi Amaohai wished to submit and asked to pasture at Ulan Gumu and Kemukemqike. Salai'er said that if Yardu and the others came in person they could pasture at the Tesi River, otherwise they would be driven beyond the Altai; he also asked that Zunghar troops be placed at his disposal. Minister Shuhede thought this unwise; the emperor told Salai'er to act as circumstances required. Shuhede was ordered to work with Salai'er, Cheleng, and others to choose trustworthy taiji and zaisang to lead two hundred men; bodyguard Yongzhu was also told to join Supervisor Amin'dao in selecting five hundred Chahar Banner troops and placing them under Salai'er to win over and drive off the enemy.
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When Salai'er's troops reached Zhuokesuo, the Uriankhai zaisang Yardu, Chegen, Chilun, Chadak, Tubushen, and Majidai and their otoks fled beyond the Altai. Salai'er memorialized: "The Uriankhai have fled far off, but they cling to their old pastures and will surely return. If we muster troops and strike quickly then, they will be easy to bring to heel. I ask that the troops be withdrawn for now." The request was granted. When Khoit taiji Amursana surrendered, Salai'er was ordered to welcome him, express the court's regard, and distribute rewards. Soon after, with Khalkha prince Chemchukjab and others, he attacked the four zaisang Yardu, Chegen, Chilun, and Chadak at Chahan Usu with eighteen hundred men, routed them, and seized cattle and horses beyond reckoning. Earlier a Zhakhcin zaisang named Kukxin Mamute had violated a border post; pursuers failed to take him, but Daqing'a lured him in and captured him. The emperor rebuked him for timidity and ordered Mamute set free. Mamute moved his herds to Bulahan Tuohui and did not submit at once. On the road he met Tongmamute, was taken captive, and was bound at Nohaikebtule. Salai'er learned of it through scouts, swept around from behind Ulan Mountain to seize Tongmamute by surprise, escorted Kukxin Mamute to camp, and settled his households and livestock at Kubkeerkele. The emperor commended him, granted him a hereditary viscounty, and made him Chief Bodyguard and inner grand minister of the Plain White Banner.
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When the court resolved to campaign against Dawachi, Salai'er was made Right Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier. In the first month of the twentieth year he led the army out on the western route with military assistant Erceng'an and others. As the army marched, surrendered Zunghars plundered along the way. The emperor admonished Erceng'an to convey his wishes to Salai'er and have him rein them in. Amursana asked to move his pastures to Uliastai and rally the Khoit tribes. The emperor saw his intent as unreliable and told Salai'er to guard against him while pressing him to advance. Salai'er and others reported that the Zhakhcin Demuchi Bahmanji with more than three hundred households and zaisang Dundok with more than a thousand had surrendered. He again sent bodyguard Hujitu to win over Galjzadorgi, a taiji of Dawachi's clan; soon Galjzadorgi led more than thirty men including taiji Nohaiqiqi in surrender, and an edict enfeoffed him Khan of Choros. The emperor commended Salai'er, took the purse from his own belt and gave it to him, and also granted the double-eyed peacock plume. In the third month Salai'er, with generals Heqi and Qinuhun, led troops from Luokelun toward Bortala and joined Bandi's northern-route army. A memorial stated: "Choros taiji Gunbuzhab and others have been won over; all have led their followers in surrender, more than four thousand households in all. The Khojas of Yarkand and Kashgar sent a jade platter to sue for peace; each was ordered back to his original pastures; the surrendered people asked for land to farm and herd and were sent to Turpan and Mangalike to receive allotments. More than two hundred of Amursana's followers and more than eight hundred impoverished Elinhabirga households were placed under the Zhakhcin zaisang; those with livestock were given seed grain and set to farming and herding. Setting out from Luokelun, he also sent a fast dispatch to Dawachi setting out the stakes." The emperor commended his careful planning and granted him an imperial court necklace set with precious stones.
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Salai'er's army reached Dengnuletai; General Bandi and others reached Nichugun; the two armies united. Dawachi was at Geden on the west bank of the Ili and made no preparations. In the fifth month the western-route army crossed at the Gulezha ford over Tuimo'erlike Ridge straight to Geden; Dawachi fled in alarm and was captured soon after. Yili was pacified; an edict enfeoffed Salai'er first-rank Duke Chaoyong, with a precious-stone hat knob and a four-round-dragon robe. In the sixth month the army returned. Amursana was summoned to court; Salai'er, Bandi, and Erceng'an garrisoned Yili and left five hundred troops as guard. In the seventh month Amursana plotted rebellion and dawdled on the road. Bandi and others sent repeated memorials reporting it; Salai'er said the same. The emperor secretly ordered the ministers to seize and punish him, but they could not bring themselves to act; Amursana fled. His followers Keshimu and others rose in revolt; Bandi and Erceng'an were killed; Salai'er doffed his uniform and went over to the enemy. In the twelfth month Salai'er sent envoys to Barkol administrative commissioner Heqi with word of Amursana's movements and a request for troops to strike him. Heqi reported the matter; the emperor had General Ce Leng convey his regards and sent a purse and snuff bottle to be presented when Salai'er arrived. He also ordered Court of Colonial Affairs vice director Tangkalu to oversee their pastoral camps.
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In the first month of the twenty-first year Salai'er broke free and reached Turfan. Da Erdang'a, military assistant at Barkol, marched out to meet him. Salai'er submitted a plea for pardon; the emperor ordered him to garrison at Teneger and restored him as Right Deputy General for the Pacification of the Frontier. In the third month Ce Leng reported: "Bodyguard Baning'a returned from Yili and said that during Keshimu's revolt General Bandi and others had marched from Gulezha to Konggesi to face the rebels. As soon as the rebels appeared Salai'er wanted to run. Erong'an said, 'When the enemy comes we should fight — why run away in panic? Salai'er answered, 'What do you know about this? He spurred his horse away and the troops followed. Bandi and his party were left with only clerks, bodyguards, and sixty guardsmen. That night the rebels came and Bandi and the others killed themselves." The emperor ordered Salai'er brought to the capital for trial; because he was a surrendered tribesman his life was spared and he was imprisoned. When Bandi's body was brought back, Keshimu was taken and his head offered in sacrifice before Salai'er's eyes. As rebel leaders were captured one after another, he was soon released from prison. In the twenty-fourth year he was made minister without portfolio, vice commander-in-chief of the Mongol Bordered White Banner, and attendant at the Gate of Heavenly Purity. He was soon promoted to grand minister and again made a second-rank Earl of Chaoyong. He died. His portrait was hung in the Hall of Purple Splendor.
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The commentary observes: The dynasty esteems hereditary ministers, but after long peace wealth and comfort usually leave them unfit for duty; sent to war, they are often cowed before battle is even joined — how could campaigns not go wrong? Men like Ce Leng held armies yet dallied with the enemy — their failing was exactly this. Ya Erhashan was a literary official; his massacre of surrendering troops likewise came from inner cowardice. Fu De was of humble birth, rose through fierce fighting, earned merit but could not restrain himself, and finally came to ruin. Salai'er was treacherous and his offenses conspicuous; only as a surrendered tribesman did he receive the court's mercy — how fortunate!
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