Yuan · Prince of Weishun and Military Commander

Kuanchepuhua 寬徹普化

First attested AD 1326; died AD 1365

Passages: 14
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Kuanchepuhua was a prince of Weishun and Military Commander.

Life and dates

Death

AD 1365 至正二十五年
At Chengzhou 成州 · Circumstances died while forced to farm there
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 112

Attested activity

AD 1326 to AD 1365 泰定三年至至正二十五年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 117, passages 96, 112

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Descendant of Shizu Emperor (世祖)
grandson 孫 · 2 generations
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 95
Child of Togan (脫歡)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 95
Parent of Bet Temür (別帖木兒)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 104
Parent of Baonenu (報恩奴)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 110
Parent of Da Temür (答帖木兒)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 104
Parent of Foxianu (佛家奴)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 110
Parent of Heshang (和尚)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 113
Parent of Jiedainu (接待奴)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 110

Kinship Role daughters-in-law (consorts and concubines of his sons) · Quantity unknown · Fate captured
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passages 110-111

Career and standing

Bestowed
AD 1328 天歷初 · Items gold, fifty taels 金五十兩, silver, fifty taels 銀五十兩, silk, thirty bolts 幣三十匹
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 99
Bestowed
Item gold seal 金印
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 96
Restored
AD 1354 至正十四年 · Item seal 印
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 108
Prince of Weishun 威順王
AD 1326 泰定三年 · Enfeoffed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 96
Impeached for lawless conduct by Hubei surveillance commission
AD 1342 至正二年 · Outcome Court took no action
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passages 102-103
Seal revoked after fleeing Wuchang
AD 1352 至正十二年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 105

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Summoned and degraded under forged edict
AD 1339 順帝至元五年 · Authority Bayan (伯顏)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 100

Places and affiliations

AD 1326 泰定三年
At Wuchang 武昌 · Relation Posted to command
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 96
AD 1354 至正十四年
At Wuchang 武昌 · Relation Restored to command
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 108
At Shaanxi 陜西 · Relation Fled to
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 111

Events and relationships

Again led his sons and household keshik in repeated victorious campaigns against rebels
Military · Commander
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 107
Marched with Bet Temür and Da Temür to Jingang Terrace and was defeated by Ni Wenjun
AD 1351 至正十一年 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 104
Ordered with Tiemu'er Buhua to hold Huaiqing
AD 1356 至正十六年 · Military · Garrison commander · With Tiemu'er Buhua (帖木兒不花)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 109

Assessments and attributes

Assessment allowed keshik and other officers to prey on the people's livelihood, causing great suffering · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 99
Item annual and daily support from Huguang Branch Secretariat 錢糧衣裝及飲膳 · Relation Received
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 98
Item five hundred assigned keshik guards, expanded to one thousand 怯薛丹五百名，又自募至一千名 · Relation Commanded
Directly stated · History of Yuan 117, passage 96

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History of Yuan, Chapter 117Volume 117 Biographies 4: Belgutei, Jochi, Tula, Yahudou, Kuanchepuhua, Tiemu'er Buhua · 14 passages

○寬徹普化 ○ Kuanchepuhua

寬徹普化，世祖之孫，鎮南王脫歡子也。 Kuanchepuhua was a grandson of the Shizu Emperor and son of Prince of Zhennan Togan.

泰定三年，封威順王，鎮武昌，賜金印，撥付怯薛丹五百名，又自募至一千名。 In the third year of Taiding he was enfeoffed as Prince of Weishun and posted to Wuchang with a gold seal, five hundred keshik guards assigned to him, and recruits of his own bringing the total to a thousand.

文宗天歷初，賜寬徹普化金銀各五十兩、幣三十匹，仍鎮湖廣，而寬徹普化縱怯薛等官侵奪民利，民頗患苦之。 At the opening of the Tianli reign under Emperor Wenzong, Kuanchepuhua received fifty taels each of gold and silver and thirty bolts of silk, and remained in command of Huguang — yet he allowed his keshik and other officers to prey on the people's livelihood, to the people's great distress.

至正二年，湖北廉訪司糾言，寬徹普化恃以宗室，恣行不法。 In the second year of Zhizheng the Hubei surveillance commission impeached him, charging that Kuanchepuhua, trusting in his imperial birth, acted lawlessly at will.

十一年，徐壽輝為亂，起蘄、黃，寬徹普化與其子別帖木兒、答帖木兒引兵至金剛臺，壽輝部將倪文俊敗之，執別帖木兒。 In the eleventh year Xu Shouhui rebelled, rising in Qi and Huang; Kuanchepuhua marched with his sons Bet Temür and Da Temür to Jingang Terrace, but Ni Wenjun, a general under Xu Shouhui, routed them and took Bet Temür prisoner.

十二年，壽輝偽將鄒普勝陷武昌，寬徹普化與湖廣行省平章和尚棄城走，詔追奪寬徹普化印，而誅和尚。 In the twelfth year Zou Pusheng, a rebel general of Xu Shouhui, seized Wuchang; Kuanchepuhua and Huguang pingzhang Heshang fled the city, an edict revoked Kuanchepuhua's seal, and Heshang was put to death.

寬徹普化復率領王子並本部怯薛丹，屢討賊立功。 Kuanchepuhua again led his sons and household keshik in repeated campaigns against the rebels, winning distinction each time.

十四年，詔寬徹普化復鎮武昌，還其印。 In the fourteenth year an edict restored Kuanchepuhua to Wuchang and returned his seal.

十六年，命寬徹普化與宣讓王帖木兒不花以兵鎮遏懷慶，各賜黃金一錠、白金五錠、幣帛九匹、鈔二十錠。 In the sixteenth year Kuanchepuhua and Prince of Xuanrang Tiemu'er Buhua were ordered to garrison Huaiqing with troops; each received one ingot of gold, five of silver, nine bolts of silk, and twenty ding of banknotes.

兵至漢川縣雞鳴汊，水淺船閣，不能行，文俊以火筏盡焚其船，接待奴、佛家奴皆遇害，而報恩奴自死，妃妾皆陷，寬徹普化走陜西。 At Jiming Ford in Hanchuan the water ran shallow and the fleet grounded; Wenjun sent fire-rafts and burned every ship. Jiedainu and Fojianu were killed, Baonenu took his own life, the women were all captured, and Kuanchepuhua fled to Shaanxi.

二十五年，侯伯顏答失奉寬徹普化自雲南經蜀轉戰而去，至成州，欲之京師，李思齊以取蜀為名，扼不令行，俾屯田於成州以沒。 In the twenty-fifth year Hou Berdadashi conducted Kuanchepuhua from Yunnan through Shu, fighting their way north to Chengzhou. When he wished to proceed to the capital, Li Siqi, on the pretext of recovering Shu, barred his way and set him to farming at Chengzhou, where he died.

五年，伯彥擅權，矯制貶帖木兒不花及威順王寬徹普化。 In the fifth year Bayan seized power and, by forged edict, degraded Tiemu'er Buhua and Prince of Weishun Kuanchepuhua.

十六年，命帖木兒不花與寬徹普化以兵鎮遏懷慶路，賜金銀各一錠、幣帛九匹、鈔二十錠。 In the sixteenth year Tiemu'er Buhua and Kuanchepuhua were ordered to garrison the Huaiqing circuit; each received one ingot of gold and silver, nine bolts of silk, and twenty ding of banknotes.