瓦克達 Wǎkèdá

Son: Wakeda, Prince Qianxiang of the Second Rank

Wakeda, Prince Qianxiang of the Second Rank, was the fourth son of Daishan. In the first year of Tiancong, when the army attacked Ningyuan and defeated the Ming Brigade General Man Gui, Wakeda fought hard and was wounded. In the fifth year of Chongde he went with Duo'ergun to besiege Jinzhou; when enemy soldiers came out to gather firewood, Wakeda attacked them with a dozen or so horsemen and cut them down. In the sixth year Hong Chengchou came to relieve Jinzhou with 130,000 men and halted at Songshan; enemy horsemen came to seize our red-coat cannon, and Wakeda, with Mandahai, fought and drove them off; it rained, and they fought again and defeated them again. When they pressed on against Chengchou's infantry, the vanguard corporal Feiyasiha lost his horse, and Wakeda carried him out riding double. The jalan janggin Haning'a fell from his horse, badly wounded, and the enemy surrounded him several ranks deep; Wakeda went into their lines and brought him back. When Shuotuo was condemned to death, Wakeda was implicated with him and struck from the imperial clan. Edit

In the first year of Shunzhi he went with Duo'ergun through the Shanhai Pass and pursued Li Zicheng to Qingdu. He then went with Ajige from beyond the frontier toward Suide. In the second year, when Zicheng fled to Huguang, he followed on his heels to Anlu. The rebels were just escaping by boat; Wakeda, with the bayara standard commander Aobai, waded across and landed, shot the rebels dead and seized their boats to ferry the main army over. In the third year, when merits were assessed, he was restored to the imperial clan and given the rank of General Who Guards the State, third class. He went with Duoduo to suppress Tengjisi, Tengjite and others of the Sunite tribe; at the Tula River he killed three grandsons of Tengjisi, two sons of Tengjite and eleven taiji of the Ka'erka, and took their baggage. At Bu'erhatu Mountain he joined forces again with the Beizi Bohetuo, pressed on and took more than a thousand heads, captured more than eight hundred people, and took camels, horses, cattle and sheep beyond counting. He also defeated the troops of the Tushetu Khan of the Ka'erka. In the fourth year he was raised to Duke Who Guards the State. Edit

In the fifth year the emperor, mindful of the poverty of the imperial clan, gave Wakeda six thousand taels of silver and raised him to Prince of the Second Rank. When Erchuhu'er of the Ka'erka raided the frontier, he went with Ajige to guard Datong. He then took part in the campaign against the rebel general Jiang Xiang and besieged Hunyuan. In the sixth year he and Mandahai attacked Shuozhou and brought down its walls with cannon fire. They moved on to attack Ningwu, held by Xiang's generals Liu Wei and Zhao Menglong, who set fires, abandoned the city and fled. Xiang's general Yang Zhenwei killed Xiang and surrendered to Ajige, and Wei and Menglong also surrendered to Wakeda; Jingle, the Ninghua garrison post, Bajiao Fort and the other strongholds were all pacified. In the tenth month he replaced Mandahai as Grand General Who Conquers the West, to suppress the remaining bandits of Shanxi. The Ming Grand Secretary Li Jiantai had surrendered and then rebelled again, holding Taiping. Wakeda besieged him for more than twenty days; with nowhere left to turn, he came out and surrendered. An edict ordered the execution of Jiantai and his brothers, sons and nephews, and the confiscation of his family property. He recovered thirty-six counties under Pingyang one after another. In the seventh year the army returned. In the eighth year he was given an honorific title, put in charge of the Ministry of Works and took part in the deliberations of state. In the ninth year he was found guilty in a matter, relieved of the ministry and removed from the deliberations. He died. In the tenth year of Kangxi he was given a posthumous name. Edit

Wakeda had once been stationed with the army at Pingyang, where he kept the troops in check and gave the people peace. After he died, the people of Pingyang built a shrine and sacrificed to him. The year after his death his sons Liuyong and Ha'ersa were given the grade of a General Who Supports the State, third class. In the sixth year of Kangxi, Liuyong and Ha'ersa petitioned that Wakeda's merits had been many; Ha'ersa was made Duke Who Guards the State and Liuyong a General Who Guards the State. In the eighth year Liuyong again complained that his own rank was low and protested at the unfairness. The Prince Counsellors and others said that the earlier ranks had been obtained by currying favour with the regents and should both be revoked; the emperor ordered both to be reduced to the grade of a General Who Supports the State. In the twenty-first year Ha'ersa petitioned again that Wakeda's rank had been granted for merit and by precedent could be inherited. He was ordered to inherit as Duke Who Guards the State, and his son Haiqing was made Duke Who Assists the State. Ha'ersa rose by stages to Right Clan Supervisor. In the twenty-fifth year an edict rebuked him for scheming for advancement, and he and Haiqing were both stripped of their ranks. Liuyong was then made to inherit as Duke Who Guards the State. In the thirty-seventh year he was stripped of the rank again, for idleness. In the forty-third year of Qianlong, Gaozong, recording Wakeda's merits, ordered his fourth-generation descendant Dongfu to hold the rank of General Who Guards the State, to be inherited for all generations. Edit