胤祹 Yìntáo

Yuntao, Prince Luyi of the First Rank

Yuntao, Prince Luyi of the First Rank, was the twelfth son of Shengzu. In the tenth month of the forty-eighth year of Kangxi he was enfeoffed as a beizi. From then on, whenever there was a tour, he always accompanied it. In the fifty-sixth year, when the Empress Xiaohuizhang died, he was made acting Comptroller of the Imperial Household Department, and was relieved only when the great business was nearly finished. In the fifty-seventh year he handled the affairs of the three Plain White Banners, Manchu, Mongol and Chinese-martial. In the sixtieth year, because the emperor had been on the throne for sixty years, he sent Yuntao to sacrifice at the three imperial tombs at Shengjing. In the sixty-first year he was appointed Lieutenant-General of the Bordered Yellow Banner, Manchu. When Shizong came to the throne he advanced him to Prince Lu of the Second Rank. In the second year of Yongzheng the Imperial Clan Court impeached Yuntao for not handling affairs with reverence and care, and asked that he be stripped of his rank; he was ordered to hold his place above the gushan beizi. In the second month, because the ceremonial notes for Shengzu's enshrinement in the ancestral temple and the golden register for the enfeoffment of a consort had omissions and errors, he was reduced to Duke Who Guards the State. In the fifth month of the eighth year he was again made a prince of the Second Rank. When Gaozong came to the throne, he was advanced to Prince Lu of the First Rank. In the seventh month of the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong he died, and was given a posthumous name. Edit

His son Hongkun died before him and was buried by the precedent for an Heir Prince; his other sons were not enfeoffed. Gaozong ordered that the emperor's fourth son Yongcheng be made Yuntao's heir, to inherit the rank of prince of the Second Rank. In the forty-second year he died and was given the posthumous name Duan. In the fourth year of Jiaqing he was posthumously made a Prince of the First Rank. His son Mianhui inherited as beile. In the first year of Jiaqing he died and was posthumously made a Prince of the Second Rank. Yilun, son of Mianqin, Prince Cheng of the Second Rank, was made his heir and inherited as a beizi, and advanced to beile. His sons and grandsons were reduced one degree at each succession by the rule, and inherited as Dukes Who Guard the State. Edit

In the forty-second year of Qianlong, when Gaozong made a southern tour and the imperial carriage, on its return, halted at Zhuo Department, there was a Buddhist monk who, leading a boy, came to receive the emperor. The boy said that he was a son by a concubine of Yongcheng, abandoned by the secondary consort Lady Wang, and that the monk had reared him to adulthood. The emperor asked Yongcheng's principal consort, of the Yi'ergenjueluo clan, who said that Yongcheng's son had died young of smallpox. He therefore ordered them to come to the capital, and ordered the Grand Councillors to question them. The boy sat upright and called the high officials by name, and the high officials did not dare to decide the case. Baocheng, a secretary of the Grand Council, stepped straight forward and slapped his cheek, and shouted at him, whereupon the boy admitted that he was the son of a Liu family and that the monk had taught him to tell falsehoods. The monk was beheaded and the boy was sent to garrison duty at Yili; he still called himself an imperial grandson and did many unlawful things. The emperor ordered that he be sent instead to garrison duty at Heilongjiang; on the road at Kulun, Songyun, the Minister in charge of affairs at Kulun, reproved him for his lawlessness, had him bound and brought out and strangled, and Gaozong praised his clear and decisive judgment. Edit