Honorific Prefix: | First Class Duke Zhongyong |
Fuheng | |
Office: | Chief Grand Councillor |
Term Start: | 1748 |
Term End: | 1770 |
Predecessor: | Necin |
Successor: | Yengišan |
Office1: | Grand Councillor |
Term Start1: | 1745 |
Term End1: | 1770 |
Office2: | Grand Secretary of the Baohe Hall |
Term Start2: | 1748 |
Term End2: | 1770 |
Office3: | Assistant Grand Secretary |
Term Start3: | 1748 |
Term End3: | 1748 |
Office4: | Minister of Revenue |
Term Start4: | 1747 |
Term End4: | 1748 |
Alongside4: | Liang Shizheng |
Predecessor4: | Haiwang |
Successor4: | Yengišan |
Birth Date: | 1720 |
Death Date: | July 1770 |
Death Place: | Beijing, China |
Relations: | Empress Xiaoxianchun (sister) Yonglian (nephew) Gurun Princess Hejing (niece) Yongcong (nephew) Mingliang (nephew) Mingrui (nephew) |
Children: | Fuk'anggan (son) Fulong'an (second son) |
Blank1: | Clan name |
Data1: | Fuca |
Blank2: | Courtesy name |
Data2: | Chunhe (春和) |
Blank3: | Posthumous name |
Data3: | Wenzhong (文忠) |
Allegiance: | Qing dynasty |
Branch: | Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner |
Serviceyears: | 1740–1770 |
Rank: | General |
Commands: | Burma Campaign (1768–1769) |
Battles: | First Campaign Against Jinchuan (1747–1749) Dzungar–Qing War (1755–1757) Sino-Burmese War (1768–1769) |
Fuheng (; ; Burmese: ဖူဟင်း; 1720 – July 1770), courtesy name Chunhe (春和), was a Qing dynasty official from the Manchu Fuca clan and the Bordered Yellow Banner of the Eight Banners,[1]
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 Dzungars in the 1750s when most at the court thought war was too risky. His nephew Mingrui was a son-in-law of the emperor, and led the Burma campaign of 1767–1768.[2] His son Fuk'anggan 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 malaria, which he contracted during his three-month invasion of Burma, when he got back to Beijing.[3]