永璘 Yǒnglín

Prince Qingxi of the First Rank, Yonglin

Prince Qingxi of the First Rank, Yonglin, was the seventeenth son of Gaozong. In the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong he was enfeoffed as beile. In the first month of the fourth year of Jiaqing, when Renzong took over the government himself, he was enfeoffed as Prince Hui of the Second Rank, and soon afterwards the title was changed to Prince Qing of the Second Rank. In the third month, when Heshen was put to death, his residence was confiscated and given to Yonglin. In the first month of the fifth year, because the celebration of the seventieth birthday of the Dowager Noble Consort Ying had not been reported, he was ordered to withdraw from the Qianqing Gate and remain attending in the Inner Court. On the first day of the first month of the twenty-first year, at the banquet in the Qianqing Palace, Mian [...], Duke Who Assists the State, was late taking his seat, and Yishao pushed him to make him sit; this knocked a dish of food [vessel unclear] to the ground, and Yonglin informed the eunuch for reporting inside. An edict was received: "The princes may not hand their reports directly to the eunuch for reporting inside." Yonglin's stipend was docked. In the third month of the twenty-fifth year, Yonglin fell gravely ill; the emperor came in person to see him and ordered him advanced and enfeoffed as Prince of the First Rank. Soon afterwards he died, and was given the posthumous name Xi. The imperial sons were ordered to make an offering, and the emperor, who had just returned from visiting the tombs, again came in person. Edit