復 Fù

His son was Fu. Edit

Fu, courtesy name Chuyang, entered office through his father's privilege and rose to Administrative Supervisor of Jiangling. Wei Boyu thought him able and memorialized to have him made Magistrate of Jiangling. He was promoted to Vice Governor, and served as Prefect of Rao and Su Prefectures. When Li Xilie rebelled, the Military Commissioner of Jingnan, Zhang Boyi, was repeatedly hard pressed by the rebels, and because Fu had won the hearts of the men at Jiangling, the court called him away from mourning for his mother to be Vice Governor and serve as Adjutant of the field army, assisting Boyi. When Boyi was dismissed, Fu was moved to Prefect of Rongzhou and concurrently Commissioner for Pacification of the region under it. Before this, during the disorders of Xiyuan, officials had made rebels they captured into slaves and kept them at labor for good. When Fu arrived he had them seek out their relatives and set every one of them free. In his three years at Rongzhou the people came to depend on him for peace. He was transferred to Military Commissioner of Lingnan. At that time the Commissioners for Military Affairs of Annan, Gao Zhengping and Zhang Yingji, had died, and their subordinates Li Yuandu, Hu Huaiyi and others used their troops to coerce the prefectures and counties and indulged in villainy and extortion. When Fu arrived he lured Huaiyi in and had him beaten to death and banished Yuandu, and the southern frontier became orderly and quiet. He taught the people to make pottery and tiles, issued engraved proclamations to instruct the Man and Lao, recovered Qiong Prefecture and set up an Area Command there to settle its people. He was summoned and appointed Chief Minister of the Court of the Imperial Clan, and served as Prefect of Huazhou. In the tenth year of Zhenyuan, when the Military Commissioner of Zhenghua, Li Rong, died and his army mutinied, Fu was made Acting Minister of War and replaced Rong as Military Commissioner. Fu ordered military farmland to be opened to feed his army, and no tax fell on the people, so all were pleased. He was given the added title of Acting Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs. He died at fifty-nine, was posthumously made Grand Minister of Works, and was given the posthumous name Zhao. Fu held one regional command after another and was praised for good government wherever he went, but he was rather fond of wealth and was mocked for it in his day. Edit

His father's cousin Ruoshui was General-in-Chief of the Left Imperial Insignia Guard and concurrently Receptionist. He was of imposing appearance, served at court for thirty years and knew many of the old ceremonies. Whenever he announced the Emperor's thanks or led the bowing at audiences, his comings and goings were easy and graceful and well worth watching. Edit