福全 Fúquán

Ga'erdan sent the Yilagukesan Hutuketu to the army, asking that Tuxietu Khan and Zebuzundanba be seized and handed over to him. Fuquan listed his crimes and sent him back. The next day the Jilong Hutuketu came with seventy of his disciples and said: "The Boshuoketu Khan believed what Yilagukesan and others told him and crossed the frontier to raid, which was very wrong. But he only wanted his enemies Tuxietu Khan and Zebuzundanba, and was driven to this. He no longer dares to ask for Tuxietu Khan; he wishes only that Zebuzundanba be given to his teacher, the Dalai Lama. What greater honour could there be?" Fuquan said to him: "Even if Tuxietu Khan and Zebuzundanba are guilty, it is for the emperor alone to punish them; how could we send them to the Dalai Lama on Ga'erdan's word? And you go back and forth persuading; can you guarantee that Ga'erdan will not seize the chance to flee and plunder the people within our borders?" Jilong insisted that Ga'erdan would not dare to act rashly, and Fuquan agreed to send orders to all the armies to halt and not attack. At this time the armies of Shengjing and of the Wula, Ke'erqin and other tribes had not yet arrived, and the Elute were holding a strong position; so Fuquan, having defeated the Elute, wished to make use of Jilong's request to hold them in check by negotiation until the other armies arrived, and then fight again. Edit

The emperor sent Fuquan's memorial down to the princes and high ministers to deliberate together, and all said that Fuquan had not advanced at once, and, though he clearly knew that Jilong was persuading on Ga'erdan's behalf to slow our army, had deliberately listened to him and so let the opportunity slip. The emperor sent a stern edict reprimanding him; and because Yunzhi was at odds with Fuquan and would surely ruin matters if he stayed with the army, he recalled him to return to the capital first. Fuquan sent Wudan, the Guard Colonel Sai'erji and others with Jilong to instruct Ga'erdan. Ga'erdan knelt before the image of the Weiling Buddha, bowed his head to the ground and swore an oath, and sent Yilagukesan again with a memorial and a written oath to the army to beg pardon for his crimes, and went out beyond the frontier to await orders. The emperor granted this, but warned Fuquan again: "Although Ga'erdan admits his guilt and asks to submit, he is crafty and deceitful by nature; we must fear that he will break the pact as soon as we withdraw, and should still be on guard against him." In the tenth month Fuquan brought the army back and halted inside Hama'er Ridge. He memorialised: "The army's grain will run out by the tenth day of the tenth month. The Vice Minister E'erhetu, sent earlier with Yilagukesan to instruct Ga'erdan, has been gone more than a month and has not returned; I judge that Ga'erdan has already gone beyond the frontier and fled far away." The emperor, holding that Fuquan had moved the army inward on his own authority, said his offence would be judged on his return, and ordered the troops withdrawn to the capital at once, leaving Fuquan, Suo'etu, Mingzhu, Feiyanggu and Amida to follow behind. Soon Fuquan reported: "Ga'erdan has gone beyond the frontier; Yilagukesan and the others caught up with him outside the passes. Ga'erdan has written a memorial apologising for his offence." The emperor therefore ordered Fuquan too to return to the capital. Edit

In the eleventh month, when Fuquan and the others reached the capital, they were ordered to halt outside the Chaoyang Gate to await investigation. The emperor said: "When the Beile Amin abandoned Yongping, when Daishan, sent to Korea, did not act according to orders, and when Prince Ying's troops clamoured, statements were taken in every case; the same precedent should be used now." He also told Yunzhi: "Prince Yu is your uncle. If your statement differs from the prince's, you will surely be dealt with by law." Fuquan had at first meant to write down Yunzhi's faults and misdeeds in the army and report them to the throne; on hearing the emperor's command, he wept and said, "What more have I to say!" and took the blame upon himself. The princes and high ministers proposed to strip him of his title. Because of his merit in defeating the Elute, the emperor spared him the loss of his title, but removed him from the deliberations of state, fined him three years' stipend and took away three companies from him. Edit

In the thirty-fifth year he accompanied the emperor on his personal campaign against Ga'erdan. In the forty-first year he rebuilt the Temple of Confucius at the Imperial Academy. His eldest son Baotai was made Heir Prince. In the forty-second year Fuquan fell ill, and the emperor came twice to see him. The emperor was touring beyond the frontier when he heard that Fuquan's illness had become grave, and ordered the princes to return to the capital. When Fuquan died, the emperor turned back the same day. Attending the mourning, he removed the tassel from his hat, went weeping to the coffin and poured a libation of wine, and could not stop grieving. That day the Empress Dowager had come to the prince's mansion first; the emperor urged her to return to the palace, and himself went in by the Cangzhen Gate to stay in the Jingren Palace, and did not attend to the affairs of government. When the ministers urged the emperor to return to the Qianqing Palace, he said: "Staying in a side hall did not begin with Us; it is an old usage of Taizu and Taizong." Two days later he again attended the mourning, and bestowed two horses from the palace stables, two paired horses, six other horses and ten camels, together with python satin and silver. A posthumous name was conferred. A day later, when the funeral procession set out, the emperor escorted the Empress Dowager to the prince's mansion and wept bitterly, stopping only when the coffin had gone. It was ordered that, following the precedent of Prince Zheng, there should be additional sacrifices besides the regular ones. The censor Luo Zhan was put in charge of building the tomb, and a stele was set up. Edit

Fuquan feared power and influence and kept away from them, and the emperor's brotherly affection for him was very deep. He once ordered a painter to portray the two of them sitting side by side in the shade of a paulownia tree, to show his wish that they should grow old together. Fuquan had the Mugeng Garden, where he received scholars and officials with courtesy. His sons were Baotai and Baoshou. Edit