Agui
Agui | |
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Chief Grand Councillor | |
In office 1779–1797 | |
Monarchs | Qianlong Emperor Jiaqing Emperor |
Preceded by | Yu Minzhong |
Succeeded by | Heshen |
Grand Councillor | |
In office 1776 – 1797 (as the Chief Grand Councillor since 1779) | |
In office 1763–1765 | |
Grand Secretary of the Wuying Hall | |
In office 1777–1797 | |
Assistant Grand Secretary | |
In office 1776–1777 | |
Minister of Personnel | |
In office 6 March 1776 – 27 June 1777 | |
Preceded by | Guanbao |
Succeeded by | Yonggui |
Minister of Revenue | |
In office 24 April 1773 – 6 March 1776 | |
Preceded by | Šuhede |
Succeeded by | Fengšengge |
Minister of Rites | |
In office 19 February 1773 – 24 August 1773 | |
Preceded by | Yonggui |
Succeeded by | Yonggui |
In office 4 January 1770 – 23 September 1770 | |
Preceded by | Yonggui |
Succeeded by | Yonggui |
Minister of War | |
In office 5 June 1768 – 8 August 1768 | |
Preceded by | Fulong'an |
Succeeded by | Toyong |
General of Ili | |
In office March 1767 – April 1768 | |
Preceded by | Mingrui |
Succeeded by | Iletu |
Personal details | |
Born | Agui September 17, 1717 Beijing, Qing dynasty |
Died | October 10, 1797 Beijing, Qing dynasty | (aged 80)
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Occupation | politician, general |
Unit | Plain Blue Banner Plain White Banner |
Agui (
Sino-Burmese War
On April 14, 1768,
When all was said and done, Agui took the majority of the emperor's wrath as Fuheng was on his deathbed. The emperor in acknowledging the retreat and defeat at the hands of the Myanmar, stated that it
made the Myanmar look down upon our celestial dynasty.
He also blamed Agui and others for not stopping Fuheng from the foolhardy decision to invade Myanmar if they knew that it would fail.[7] The Jinchuan uprising could not come at a better time for Agui, who would alter drastically, the emperor's opinion of him after his coming victories. Agui thought so negatively of his time in Myanmar that he had all correspondence and writings concerning this time destroyed upon his death.[7]
Ten Great Campaigns
He put down an uprising of the Jinchuan people west of Sichuan,[8] called the second Battle of the Jinchuan. This battle took place from 1771 until 1776.[9] During this battle, Agui expressed the importance in shangyun which was the policy of utilizing merchants in keeping the military stocked.[10]
In 1781, Agui went to
Agui also led campaigns to unify the Yili area and Taiwan island (1786-1787)[16] within the Chinese state.
He served as a minister to the
Agui's grandson was Na-yen-ch'êng who served as an official in Xinjiang after the Afaqi Khoja revolts.[17]
Footnotes
- ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
- ^ a b Dai 2004, p. 163
- ^ Dai 2004, p. 166
- ^ Dai 2004, p. 167
- ^ Dai 2004, p. 168
- ^ Dai 2004, p. 169
- ^ a b Dai 2004, p. 181
- ^ Hoiberg 2010, p. 1
- ^ Dai 2001, p. 39
- ^ Dai 2001, p. 75
- ^ Lipman 1998, pp. 110–111
- ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
- ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
- ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
- ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
- ^ Dupuy & Dupuy 1986, p. 704
- ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
References
- Dai, Yingcong (2004). "A Disguised Defeat: The Myanmar Campaign of the Qing Dynasty". Modern Asian Studies. 38 (1): 145–189. S2CID 145784397.
- Dai, Yingcong (December 2001). "The Qing State, Merchants, and the Military Labor Force in the Jinchuan Campaigns". Late Imperial China. 22 (2). Johns Hopkins University Press: 35–90. S2CID 145620289.
- Dupuy, R. Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor N. (1986). The Encyclopedia of Military History from 3500 B.C. to the Present (2nd Revised ed.). New York, NY: Harper & Row, Publishers. ISBN 0-06-181235-8.
- Hoiberg, Dale H., ed. (2010). "A-kuei". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. I: A-Ak – Bayes (15th ed.). Chicago, Illinois: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ISBN 978-1-59339-837-8.
- Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
- Lipman, Jonathan Neaman (1998). Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China. Hong Kong University Press. ISBN 962-209-468-6.