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Rh consequence banished to Mukden. In 1675, after twenty-one years of exile, and two years after Wu initiated his rebellion, Hao was pardoned and restored to his former rank. In 1677 he was appointed censor of the salt administration of the Huai River region and was promoted in the following year to the senior vice-presidency of the Censorate. Early in 1681 he became governor of Kwangsi, and died at that post two years later.

Hao Yü left 4 chüan of prose works, entitled 中山文鈔 Chung-shan wên-ch'ao; 4 chüan of verse, Chung-shan shih-ch'ao (詩鈔); 2 chüan of memorials, Chung-shan tsou-i (奏議); and 2 chüan of historical essays and comments, Chung-shan shih-lun (史論). He left also 3 chüan of miscellaneous notes, entitled 郝雪海先生筆記 Hao Hsüeh-hai hsien-shêng pi-chi, which was printed in the Chi-fu ts'ung-shu (see under ). As governor of Kwangsi he ordered the compilation of the provincial gazetteer, 廣西通志 Kwangsi t'ung-chih, which was printed in 1683. Accused by his successor of illegal appropriation of public funds in Kwangsi, he was posthumously deprived of all ranks and his family was asked to make restitution. But in 1685 the family was pardoned and in the following year, on the plea of his second son, Hao Lin 郝林, his ranks were also restored. Hao Lin was a chin-shih of 1682 and served Emperor Shih-tsung as senior vice-president of the Board of Ceremonies (1726).

[1/276/1a; 3/153/9a; 4/64/3b; 18/3/11a; Ting-chou chih (1849) 11/15b, 16b, 15/3a, (1934) 11/17a, 13/17a; 四焉齋文集 Ssŭ-Yen-chai wên-chi 7/17a.]

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HAOGE 豪格, Apr. 16, 1609–1648, Apr.–May, member of the Imperial Family, was the eldest son of. Early in life he distinguished himself in military exploits, and by 1626 had already been made a beile. During his father's reign (1626–1643) he was active in many of the expeditions carried out under the leadership of one or another of his uncles, and was promoted in 1636 to the rank of Ch'in-wang 親王 with the designation Su 肅. After the establishment of the Six Ministries in that year he was intermittently head of the Board of Revenue, but was twice punished for becoming involved in intrigues. When Abahai died in 1643, Haoge appeared to be the logical heir to the throne. He was then thirty-four years old, his next living brother being less than sixteen. At the council following Abahai's death Haoge's claims were put forward by, who had been practically co-ruler during the last reign (see under ). Despite this influential support Haoge felt obliged to refuse the throne through fear of his uncle. This uncle, the fourteenth son of Nurhaci, only thirty-one years old at the time, had shown himself to be the most capable of Nurhaci's children and was thought by some to have been his father's choice as heir. The accession of Abahai in 1626, had cheated him, it was felt, of his rightful position, and there was a desire in some quarters to see him succeed to the throne. Dorgon himself was too shrewd to accept the imperial title but he ensured for himself a position of power by forcing the selection of Abahai's ninth son,, a child of five, and nominating himself as regent. This led to extreme enmity between himself and Haoge, which Dorgon attempted to crush by stripping the latter of his princely rank. Haoge's military record, however, was too important to ignore, and late in the year 1644 he was restored to the rank of Ch'in-wang. In the following year he successfully stamped out some of the bandit groups in Shantung. In 1646 he was appointed to head an army for the conquest of Shensi and Szechwan whither the forces of had retired. He took the latter captive at Hsi-ch'ung, Szechwan, on January 2, 1647 and, according to some accounts, executed him with his own hands.

After another year spent in consolidating Manchu control of the province, Haoge returned in 1648 with his forces to Peking. He enjoyed only a month of liberty, for Dorgon found cause to throw him into prison on March 29, where he soon died. His consort was taken by Dorgon into his own household. Two years later Dorgon died and the young emperor began an independent reign. Early in 1651 he cleared Haoge's name, restored to him posthumously the rank and title of Prince Su, and erected a memorial tablet for him. In 1656 he conferred on him the posthumous name Wu 武, "martial". His was the first case of the extension of this Chinese practice to Manchu princes. In 1778 Haoge's name was entered in the Imperial Ancestral Hall because of his support to the founders of the dynasty. The hereditary rank of Su Ch'in-wang was handed down to Haoge's descendants, the holders of the title occupying fourth place among 280