Honorific Prefix: | First Class Duke Weiyong |
Changling | |
Office: | Chief Grand Councillor |
Term Start: | 1823 |
Term End: | 1824 |
Predecessor: | Cao Zhenyong |
Successor: | Cao Zhenyong |
Office1: | Grand Secretary of the Wenhua Hall |
Term Start1: | 1822 |
Term End1: | 1838 |
Office2: | Assistant Grand Secretary |
Term Start2: | 1821 |
Term End2: | 1822 |
Office3: | General of Ili |
Term Start3: | 1825 |
Term End3: | 1827 |
Predecessor3: | Deying'a |
Successor3: | Deying'a |
Term Start4: | 1815 |
Term End4: | 1817 |
Predecessor4: | Songyun |
Successor4: | Jinchang |
Office5: | Viceroy of Shaan-Gan |
Term Start5: | 1825 |
Term End5: | 1825 |
Predecessor5: | Nayancheng |
Successor5: | Ošan |
Term Start6: | 1817 |
Term End6: | 1822 |
Predecessor6: | Hening |
Successor6: | Zhu Xun |
Term Start7: | 1813 |
Term End7: | 1814 |
Predecessor7: | Nayancheng |
Successor7: | Siyanfu |
Term Start8: | 1807 |
Term End8: | 1809 |
Predecessor8: | Fang Weidian |
Successor8: | Cai Tingheng |
Office9: | Viceroy of Yun-Gui |
Term Start9: | 1825 |
Term End9: | 1825 |
Predecessor9: | Han Kejun |
Successor9: | Zhao Shenzhen |
Birth Date: | December 18, 1758 |
Birth Place: | Beijing, China |
Death Place: | Beijing, China |
Changling (; Manchu: cangling; December 18, 1758 – January 26, 1838)[1] born in Sartuk clan (Chinese: 薩爾圖克氏), was a Qing dynasty official of Mongol descent. He began life in 1775 as a secretary of the Grand Council, after taking the Xiu cai degree at the Manchu examination. In 1787 he fought in Taiwan, and in 1792—95 against Nepaul. In 1800 he was in command of the expeditionary force sent against insurgent bands in Hubei, and subsequently in various operations undertaken from time to time against disturbances caused by the evil influence of secret societies. He became successively Governor of Anhui and Shandong, and in 1807 Viceroy of Shaan-Gan. In 1808 he was impeached on several charges and stripped of his rank, and then banished to Ili. A few months later he was once more employed, and gradually rose again to the highest posts. In 1825 he was General of Ili. In 1826, when the rebel Jahangir Khoja crossed the frontier and began his depredations, capturing Kashgar, Yangihissar, Yarkand and Khoten, he was appointed Generalissimo; and by the end of 1827 had captured Jehangir and put an end to the rebellion. The prisoner was sent to Beijing in a cage, and brained in the presence of the Daoguang Emperor, who conferred on Changling a triple-eyed peacock's feather. He was canonised as Wenxiang, and admitted into the Temple of Worthies.[2]