巴布海 Bābùhǎi

Babuhai

Babuhai was the eleventh son of Taizu. He was first appointed niru ejen. In the eighth year of Tiancong he was appointed first-class jala janggin. Once he was ordered to sacrifice at the imperial tombs together with Abai, General Who Guards the State, but Babuhai did not wait for Abai and went to sacrifice first. The ox had not arrived, so he took a villager's ox in its place and offered the sacrificial ox to the villager in compensation; the villager refused it because it was small, and brought a suit, and he was fined thirty taels of silver to pay the villager, but again he did not give it, and the villager sued again. Babuhai's conduct was reported to the emperor, who rebuked his foolishness and dullness, and said besides that he was ruled by his wife, who was a daughter of Yangguli. In the fourth year of Chongde he was appointed meile ejen and enfeoffed as General Who Guards the State. In the seventh year Babuhai said to the gushan ejen Tantai: "I was formerly dismissed from my post as meile ejen. Those fit to be meile ejen are more numerous than the grass and trees!" Tantai rebutted him in words, and he swore: "If my mouth runs against my heart, let Heaven and the sun bear witness!" Tuhai, under orders, was sent to select the poor and rich among the niru, and Babuhai said: "The niru I command is very rich." When the words were heard above, Babuhai said: "Am I not a son of Taizu? Tantai and the others instead grossly slander me." The court trial found all of it true, and the crime deserved death, but the emperor was lenient and only stripped his rank. When Shizu came to the throne, someone wrote an anonymous letter denouncing Tantai and threw it into the residence of Tazhan, Duke of the First Class. When his servant was questioned, he said it had been obtained from Babuhai's house. The palace supervisors arrested and questioned him; he did not confess, and Babuhai, his wife and his son Akala were all sentenced to death, and his household was confiscated and given to Tantai. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, when Tantai was put to death, his dependants and the property left behind were then handed over to Babutai. Edit