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Rh for his achievement. In 1645 he followed Dodo to Nanking where he was given command of half the army to pacify nearby cities. He succeeded in taking Ch'ang-chou, Soochow, and Hangchow, but returned to Peking late the same year. In 1646 he was again sent to Chekiang, this time as commander-in-chief of the Manchu troops with the title P'ing-nan Ta Chiang-chün 平南大將軍. His aim was to conquer Chekiang and Fukien and this he accomplished in that year (1646, see under, , and ). From Fukien he sent a detachment south, which took Canton early in 1647. On his triumphal return to Peking he was made a prince of the second degree with the designation, Tuan-chung. In 1648 he and were commissioned to inquire into the situation in Mongolia, but a rebellion broke out simultaneously in Tatung, Shansi, and both laid siege to the city. When Dorgon personally conducted the siege of Tatung in 1649 he made Bolo a prince of the first degree, and placed him in command of an expedition to suppress another uprising in the same province. When the insurgents were subdued (late in 1649) Bolo returned to Peking. In the following year he was entrusted with the supervision of the Six Boards of the central government but was soon degraded to the rank of a prince of the second degree for failure to inform against the president of a Board, who had disobeyed orders. Early in 1651 he was reinstated in his original rank. He and the Princes (d. 1652) and  were trusted by Dorgon and were left in power after the latter died. Before long, however, Bolo aligned himself with the princes who had opposed Dorgon. Later he was once more degraded, this time for failure to report that Ajige, then in prison, was in possession of weapons. Eventually, the rank of a prince of the first degree was restored to him. After his death in 1652, he was canonized as Ting 定, and his rank was transmitted for a time to one of his sons. But when it was disclosed that Bolo while living had appropriated for his own use property which had belonged to Dorgon, he was posthumously (1659) deprived of all honors, and his descendants were also deprived of their ranks.

A small work, entitled 過墟志 Kuo-hsü chih, written about 1673, tells the story of a Manchu prince who, while engaged in the conquest of South China, married a Chinese widow, née Liu 劉. This work seems not to have disclosed the name of the prince in question, but according to internal evidence, Bolo is probably the one to whom it refers (see under ).

[1/223/8a; 2/2/39a; 3/首7/12a; W.M.S.C.K. 19/15a.]

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BUJANTAI 布占泰, beile of the Ula tribe, a part of the Manchu Hûlun nation, belonged to the Nara clan. He was descended from the same ancestor, Nacibulu 納奇卜祿, as the chieftains of the Hada tribe (see under ). Tradition has it that Nacibulu once attracted the attention of some Mongols who desired to make him subservient to them. When they tried to capture him, however, he successfully repulsed them, and when they shouted to inquire his name he responded with a defiant challenge, "Nara" (come on). In this manner the important Nara clan is supposed to have received its name. Nacibulu settled near modern Kirin on the Sungari river, which was often called simply the Ula, or "the river". There he was a successful hunter and trapper who attracted to himself many followers. Several generations later, two brothers among his descendants, Kesina 克什納 and Gudui juyan 古對珠延, became the ancestors of the Hada and Ula branches of the Nara clan. Buyan 布延, grandson of Gudui juyan, fortified the settlement on the Sungari and named himself beile of the Ula tribe. Two of his grandsons were Mantai 滿泰 and Bujantai, of whom the former succeeded to the position of beile.

The Yehe tribe under beile Bujai (布齋, 布戒) and assembled the various groups in the Hûlun nation, together with some Korcin Mongols, to oppose the spreading power of. Bujantai was sent with the Ula contingent, but was taken prisoner by Nurhaci when the confederation was defeated at Mt. Gure in October 1593. Nurhaci refrained from killing Bujantai and after keeping him three years as a retainer sent him back under escort to his tribe. The beile, Mantai, and his son having recently been executed by their tribesmen for misdemeanor, Bujantai was established as beile in his brother's place. He sent a sister as wife to Nurhaci's brother,, and in 1597 joined the Yehe and other tribes in a formal truce with Nurhaci. After about two years Bujantai received a daughter of Šurhaci for wife, and in 1601 he 17