Chapter 753: Fukangan 2

When it comes to Fukangan, people often think of the merry Fu Dashuai. Fukangan was Fu Heng's third son and the nephew of Empress Xiaoxian of Emperor Qianlong. Fukangan has the most outstanding achievements among the brothers, the most prominent status, and has fought in the north and south all his life, experienced countless battles, won a hundred battles, and was the general of the Qianlong Dynasty.

Some people say that Qianlong's exceptional promotion of Fukangan is because of the personal relationship between Qianlong and Fukangan's biological mother, and some people say that Fukangan is actually Emperor Qianlong's biological flesh and blood. In real history, it should be said that this is nonsense. Fukangan was born in the eighteenth year of Qianlong, because he was a descendant of the Fucha family, Emperor Qianlong saw in him the shadow of his second son Yonglian and the seventh son of Yongcong, who died early, plus Fukangan was handsome, so since he was a child, Emperor Qianlong brought him to the inner court, raised him personally, and treated him like his own son. After Fukangan grew up, Qianlong entrusted him with an important responsibility, and was named Beizi during his lifetime, and gave it to the king of the county after his death, becoming the most favored minister of a generation.

At the age of nineteen, Fukangan commanded the army with the Dingxi general Wen Fu to conquer Dajinchuan, and then served as the general of Jilin, the general of Shengjing, the general of CD, the governor of Sichuan, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the governor of Liangguang, and the scholar of Wuyingdian University. He participated in major battles such as pacifying Jinchuan, suppressing Taiwan's Lin Shuangwen uprising, and repelling the Gurkha invasion.

He fought valiantly and resourcefully, but lived in luxury, and wherever the army under his command passed, the magistrates had to provide huge sums of money, and the front line was full of flesh and blood, while the barracks of Fukangan were still full of singing and dancing. But Qianlong's trust in Fukangan has not diminished at all, and he admits that his relationship with Fukangan is like that of father and son. Qianlong had long wanted to crown Fukangan as the king and let him enjoy the glory and wealth like the princes, but he couldn't do it because of family law.

So he ordered Fukangan to lead the army to fight and establish military merits as the basis for the crown. Therefore, every time Fukangan went on an expedition, Qianlong carefully selected generals for him and selected strong teams to make him win. And other generals also catered to Qianlong's will, deliberately not winning and fighting for merit, in order to return to Fukangan. Unfortunately, Qianlong did not have time to crown Fukangan as the king, he died, Qianlong tears for a long time, gave Wenxiang, posthumously presented the king of Jiayong County, and enjoyed the Taimiao.

In the 52nd year of Qianlong, Lin Shuangwen's uprising broke out in Taiwan. Lin Shuangwen, originally from Pinghe County, Zhangzhou, lived in Changhua County after coming to Taiwan, and became rich by raising people to cultivate land. The secret societies of the mainland were introduced to Taiwan, and soon spread throughout Taiwan, with a wide range of congregations. After Lin Shuangwen joined the association, he became the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society in northern Taiwan.

The Qing government strictly ordered the dissolution of the Tiandihui and the arrest of the Hui. Yu Jun, the magistrate of the county, led 300 troops to Datun and ordered the Zhuang people to capture the Xianhui party and burn the nearby villages, which aroused great indignation among the masses. Lin Shuangwen took the opportunity to raise troops, led the crowd to attack the Qing camp, and in just a few days, successively captured Changhua, Tamsui, and Zhuluo counties, and completely controlled the northern part of Taiwan.

Lin Shuangwen was promoted as the leader of the alliance in Changhua, Fengming system, and Jianyuan Shuntian. Zhuang Datian, the leader of the Fengshan Tiandi Society, responded to the uprising, proclaimed himself the generalissimo of Futian on the South Road, captured Fengshan, and joined forces with Lin Shuangwen to besiege the capital city of Taiwan, which was greatly inspired.

After the outbreak of Lin Shuangwen's uprising, the Qing court immediately sent the commanders Huang Shijian and Ren Chengen to lead more than 10,000 officers and soldiers to cross Taiwan. For months, there was no improvement in the military. Emperor Qianlong ordered the replacement of the commander-in-chief, and transferred Chang Qing, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, to Taiwan for unified command.

At this time, Lin Shuangwen invited Zhuang Datian to besiege Fucheng. The two rebel armies in the north and south concentrated 100,000 troops and began a large-scale attack on Fucheng in March of the 52nd year of Qianlong. In the fierce battle, because Zhuang Xishe led his troops to turn against each other, the siege was frustrated. Later, the two rebel armies in the north and south jointly attacked Fucheng several times, but they were unsuccessful.

In August of the 52nd year of Qianlong, the Qing court dismissed Chang Qing from his post and sent Fu Kangan, a co-organizer scholar and governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, as a general, and a famous general, Hai Lancha, as a deputy general, to lead the army to Taiwan in 600 warships. Arrived in Taiwan in November. After Fukangan arrived in Taiwan, he divided and disintegrated the rebel army, relieved the siege of Chiayi in five ways with superior forces, and successively captured Douliumen, Dali Muyi, Jijipu and other military important places. forced Lin Shuangwen and others into the Fan Society.

Then he attacked all over Taiwan, captured Lin Shuangwen in Lao Quqi in the first month of the 53rd year of Qianlong, and sent him to Beijing, and then executed him at Lingchi in Beijing's vegetable market. A month later, Zhuang Datian was also captured by Fukangan and Hailancha, and was killed in the capital of Taiwan. Lin Shuangwen's uprising ended in failure. To this day, the monument of Fukangan still stands in Chiayi Park in Taiwan.

In the middle of the eighteenth century, the Gurkha ruled Nepal, established a new dynasty, and continued to expand their power outward. In the 53rd year of Qianlong, under the pretext that the Tibetan authorities were leviing too heavy trade taxes, he sent troops to invade Tibet, China, and successively occupied the southern border cities of Nyalam, Jizhizong, and Tsongkha Dzong, and besieged Xiegar Zong.

In the 56th year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor appointed Fukangan as a general, Hailancha and Kuilin as counselors, and led the army to fight in Tibet through Qinghai. Subsequently, he dismissed E Hui and Chengde from their posts, and appointed Hui Ling as the governor of Sichuan and Kui Lin as the CD general. In the first month of the 57th year of Qianlong, when Fukangan led a large army to arrive in Qianzang, the Qing army and Tibetan soldiers in Tibet had already recovered Paijialing, Nyalam and other places. The king of the Gurkha sent an envoy to beg for peace.

Emperor Qianlong was determined to attack his heart and capture his head, so he refused to negotiate peace, appointed Fukangan as a general, and led the strong army to attack. 3,000 guerrilla troops including Guan Sheng and General Yuan Guohuang arrived at the front line one after another. Fukangan, Hailancha led the Qing army of 6,000 people, starting from Lazi, to Rongjier, Nyalam and other places, Fukangan's troops captured the Chamu Pass, recovered Jizhi, and at the same time Chengde, Dai Senbao and other troops recovered the Musa Bridge south of Nyalam.

Fukangan led the army into the territory of Gorkha from the Jizhire rope bridge, and smashed Yangbu, the capital of Gurkha, and the Qing army arrived at Wanggar, and had penetrated 170 miles into the territory of Gorkha without encountering any obstacles. The Gurkha troops had shrunk to the area north of Yangbu and were heavily armed. The Qing army broke through the Henghe defense line and then broke through the Dongjue defense line. After that, the Qing army was blocked in Yongya Mountain, and the enemy was attacked before and after, with serious losses, and the water and soil were not adapted, and the food and salary were not enough. There are still heavy mountains and rivers in the north of Yangbu, and the precautions are strict. The Gurkha authorities also sent another letter to the Qing government asking for peace, and Fukangan was ordered to negotiate peace with the Gurkhas, and the Qing army withdrew and returned to China.

In this campaign, Fukangan led the troops to be invincible, almost to Kathmandu, which was a very beautiful battle in China's anti-aggression war, and it was a battle that made the people raise their eyebrows, so Fukangan should also be classified as a national hero and a patriotic general who will go down in history.

After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Miao people in Guizhou and Hunan launched a series of anti-Qing uprisings. Among them, there were three major uprisings and about twenty or thirty small uprisings. From the thirteenth year of Yongzheng to the first year of Qianlong, the Miao peasants in the Jiuguhe area of Guzhou, Guizhou, could not bear the exploitation and oppression of the Qing Dynasty officials and Tusi, and under the leadership of Miao people Bao Li and others, they launched an uprising to resist the requisition of grain and send husbands.

In the 60th year of Qianlong, under the influence of the anti-Qing propaganda of the White Lotus Sect, the Miao peasants in Songtao, Guizhou, Yongsui, Fenghuang, Ganzhou and other places launched an uprising led by Shi Liudeng, Shi Sanbao, Wu August and Wu Bansheng to resist the exploitation and oppression of the government, landlords and usurers. The Miao people of the uprising put forward the slogan of "expelling the guest people and recovering the land" and the call of "the poor people follow me, and I will not spare the big household officials", and the Miao, Han, and Tujia people in various places rose up to respond, and the uprising soon developed into a vast area bordering the three provinces of northeastern Guizhou, western Hunan and eastern Sichuan.

In the 60th year of Qianlong, the Qing government dispatched Fukangan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, He Lin, the governor of Sichuan, and Funing, the governor of Huguang, to lead more than 100,000 troops from seven provinces to suppress it by different routes. The rebel army gathered in Pinglong promoted Wu August as the king of Miao, and Shi Liudeng and Shi Sanbao as generals. Fukangan and He Lin adopted the measures of suppression and appeasement, Wu Bansheng was captured, and Wu August was captured. The first battle was successful, and Emperor Qianlong made an exception to confer Fukangan as Beizi, and he was the first person outside the clan to be awarded such a prestigious title alive.

In the first year of Jiaqing, due to the long journey and intense fighting, Fukangan fell ill in the army, but he still continued to supervise the war, and finally became ill because of hard work.

Shi Sanbao was lured to Aoxi and captured, the leaders of the uprising were killed one after another, and the rebel army began to lose. Erle Dengbao replaced Fukangan and He Lin in the army who died of illness as the commander, mobilized heavy troops to besiege the rebel army, the last stronghold of the rebel army Shilongzhai fell, Shiliu Deng died in Guiyupo, Miaojiang was pacified, but unfortunately all this Fukangan can never be seen.

Emperor Qianlong was very sad, posthumously crowned Fukangan as the king of the county, and established a special shrine to pay tribute. In the history of the Qing Dynasty, except for Wu Sangui and a few Mongolian nobles in the early Qing Dynasty, only Fukangan was the only one who was crowned king with a different surname. His lifelong service to the country, especially in repelling the invasion of the Gurkhas, and stabilizing the frontier will never be erased.