Fuheng (; ; ; 1720 – July 1770),

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Chunhe (春和), was a

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official from the

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Fuca clan and the

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of the

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, and was a younger brother of the

Empress Xiaoxianchun Empress Xiaoxianchun (28 March 1712 – 8 April 1748) of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Fuca clan was an imperial consort of the Qing dynasty. She was the first wife of the Qianlong Emperor. Life Family background Empress Xiaoxianchun's p ...

. He served as a senior minister at the court of his brother-in-law, the

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from the 1750s to his death in 1770. He is best known for leading the Qing troops in the fourth and last invasion of Burma in the

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. Prior to his appointment as the commander-in-chief of the Burma campaign, Fuheng was chief grand councilor to the emperor, and one of the emperor's most trusted advisers. Fuheng was one of the few senior officials that fully backed the Qianlong Emperor's decision to eliminate the

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in the 1750s when most at the court thought war was too risky. His nephew

Mingrui Mingrui (, Manchu: , ''mingšui'', , ; (?March 1768) was the first General of Ili from October 1762 to March 1767 and then Governor-general of Yunnan and Guizhou from April 1767 to March 1768. A son-in-law of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dyn ...

was a son-in-law of the emperor, and led the Burma campaign of 1767–1768. His son

Fuk'anggan Fuk'anggan (Manchu:, Möllendorff: fuk'anggan; ; 1748–1796), courtesy name Yaolin (), was a Manchu noble and general of the Qing Dynasty. He was from the Fuca clan () and the Bordered Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners. Fuk'anggan's father, ...

was a senior general in the Qing military. Fuheng was unsuccessful in the Burma campaign. In December 1769, he signed a truce with the Burmese, which the emperor did not accept. He died of

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, which he contracted during his three-month invasion of Burma, when he got back to Beijing.

Family

*Princess Consort, of the Yehe-Nara clan (福晋那拉氏): **Fulong'an, Duke Zhongyong (一等忠勇公福隆安; 1746 – 1784),married Qianlong Emperor's fourth daughter second son ** Fuk'anggan, Prince Jiayong of the Second Rank (嘉勇郡王福康安; 1753 – 1796), third son *Concubine, of the Li clan (李氏): **Fuchang'an, Marquess of Chengjing (誠靖侯福長安; 1760 – 1810), adopted son *Concubine, of the Sugiya clan (孙佳氏) *Unknown: **Fuling'an, Knight Commandant of the Cloud (雲騎尉福靈安; d.1767), first son **Lady Fuca (富察氏; d.1813) ***married Prince Yongxing, Qianlong Emperor's 11th son with Consort Jia, and had issue ( two sons and two daughters) **Lady Fuca (富察氏) *** married Chunying, Prince Rui, and had issue (two sons)

In fiction and popular culture

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in ''

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References

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Family

In fiction and popular culture

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