Fu Heng Fukangan posthumously presented the title of the king of the county with the same title, what is the difference behind it?
Although there were not many first-class relatives and nobles in the Qianlong Dynasty and even the Qing Dynasty, it was not uncommon for a prominent family like the Fu Heng family to be found. Starting from Fu Heng, there were two county kings, three first-rank officers, five first-rank officers, Fu Heng's father and son, and four military department scholars.
The three Shun kings of the early Qing Dynasty, namely Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, Sun Kewang, the king of Yi, and Huang Fangdu in the last years of Kangxi, were Fu Heng and his son Fu Kang'an.
The focus of "Imperial History" is not to introduce the merits and glory of the Fu Heng family, but to the issue of the succession of titles after the death of Fu Heng and Fukangan. Under the system of the Qing Dynasty, the first-class duke was usually hereditary, and Fu Heng was the sole owner of the first-class duke and the prince of a province, so how would his descendants inherit it?
As for the dukes of the Qing Dynasty, it still needs to be explained.
Under normal circumstances, the emperor confers different ways on the dukes of merit, which means that the same duke has different gold content. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, when awarding dukes to meritorious officials, it was necessary to indicate the number of dukes conferred. If the number of dukes is not stated in the order in which they are conferred on the duke, the duke is limited to individuals and cannot be passed on to future generations.
For example, in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Huang Wu voluntarily surrendered to the Qing court and was made a duke by Emperor Shunzhi, but Emperor Shunzhi did not state in his edict that he was the first time he was knighted and whether it was hereditary. Therefore, Huang Wu, who was sympathetic to the Kangxi regime, separately handed over a leaflet to the imperial court to clarify how many times he had been hereditary and what his title of duke was. Emperor Kangxi knew Huang Wu's merits, so he issued an edict to allow Huang Wu to be hereditary first-class duke twenty-four times, that is, hereditary replacement.
There are also cases where the duke has been commended several times. Take Fu Heng as an example: In the thirteenth year of Qianlong, Fu Heng won the Battle of Jinchuan and was awarded the title of first-class duke by Emperor Qianlong for his loyalty and bravery. Twenty years later, Emperor Qianlong divided the provinces and once again named Fu Heng as a first-class loyal and brave duke. For Fu Heng, the two first-class loyal and brave princes are the greatest grace in the world. He didn't dare to accept it and asked Qianlong to take back his fate.
It is very rare for a first-class duke like Fu Heng to be knighted twice, and there are no other ready-made examples other than him. However, Fu Heng and Fu Kangan's first titles are obviously hereditary.
Fu Heng's "Coronation as the King of the District" and Fukangan's "Coronation as the King of the District" are fundamentally different.
In February, at the age of 35, Qianlong returned to Beijing to participate in the Battle of Fu Heng in Burma, and died of illness on the front line in April. Qianlong lost his brother-in-law and ordered the Zhenguo Mansion to collect the funeral expenses and posthumously give it away"Wen Zhong"。In the first year of Jiaqing, Qianlong thanked his brother-in-law for his merits and rewarded the king of the same palace.
Fukangan is more sympathetic than his father, Fu Heng. In the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong, Fukangan led his troops to pacify the Gurkhas, and was named Prince Jia, and was promoted to Prince Gong in the first year of Jiaqing. In May of the same year, Fukangan died in the army, and Emperor Qianlong issued a decree to crown him as the king of Jiayong County and be buried in Taimiao.
The difference between Fu Heng and the provincial king Fukangan is that"He was crowned king of the province"It usually means that he has the right to act as the real king of the province, but in reality he is not the king of the province. This is equivalent to treating an ordinary ** as a second-grade ritual book, which is a first-grade product, but his actual grade is still a second-grade product. This is equivalent to the treatment of the current deputy minister at the department level.
Because it is an honorary title, Fu Heng's"District King"The title can only belong to himself and cannot be passed on to future generations. In fact, after Fu Heng's death,"First-class loyal and brave duke"The title was inherited by his second son, Fu Longan, who inherited the title of first-class duke after the death of Fu Heng in the thirty-fifth year of Qianlong.
So far, Fu Heng's one-product great achievement has destroyed six generations of Fu Long'an's lineage, and the last successor, Song Chun, attacked and destroyed the one-product great achievement in the seventeenth year of Guangxu at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
The situation in Fukangan is different. If the reader is familiar with the titles of the Qing Dynasty, they will know that Beizi is a royal title, and the rank is much higher than that of the Duke of Guo. In addition, after Fukangan's death, Qianlong posthumously crowned Fukangan as the real prince.
Therefore, if the descendants of Fukangan inherit the title, the starting point is much higher. According to the provisions of the feudal inheritance system, the son of Fukangan should inherit the title of Baylor, and the grandson should inherit the title of Viscount of Bei, and then the titles of Zhengguo Duke and Vice Guogong.
In the first year of Jiaqing, Fukangan's son Delin inherited the title of Baylor. Speaking of this Delin, he is not an ordinary person, according to historical records, he is a military general, riding a bow and shooting horses, which is his forte. Emperor Qianlong was very fond of him, the so-called love house and Wu, although Delin was still young and had no outstanding contributions, but Emperor Qianlong still ordered him to inherit the title of Baylor.
Unfortunately, Delin was not as fortunate as his grandfather and father. Later, Qin Jiaqing** was very hostile to Fukangan, and constantly accused him of wasting soldiers during his leadership, which led to the corruption of the army, and Fukangan was also infamous for the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Battalion. Delin was also reprimanded by his father, and as a result, he lost his hereditary title of Baylor and was demoted to Baylor.
During the Jiaqing period, Delin suffered a lot, was reprimanded, and was finally expelled from the prince's palace and sent to the provincial city to repent. Fortunately, Emperor Jiaqing was still merciful, and Delin's son Qingmin died at the age of twenty-three when he inherited the title of prince in the Jiaqing Dynasty.
After the Qing Dynasty, Prince Pei's title was reduced only once, and his son Wen Qian inherited the Zhenguo Gong in the fifth year of Xianfeng, and since then, the title has not changed since the Zhenguo Gong. As for the first-class Fukangan Gong and Prince Qing Yiyun, according to the regulations, according to the inheritance standard of a high inheritance, he cannot be demoted.