Military background
Dexiu was a member of the Irgen Gioro clan of the Bordered White Banner. The family was associated with Daokai, but its date of allegiance is unknown. According to volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Eight Banner Manchu Clans*, Dexiu entered military service from an unattached Banner status and participated in fighting at Renqiu in Shandong. He was the second to scale the city walls and received the hereditary rank *yunqiwei*. Three imperial acts of grace raised that distinction to third-class *qingche duwei*. Dexiu also formerly served as a *chengshouwei*, a garrison or city-defence officer. The order of his assault—second, not first—must be preserved.
Hereditary succession
His eldest son Ehe inherited the merit title and later retired because of illness. Succession continued through Ehe's son Erde and then Zhaochang, at which stage increments derived from imperial grace were removed. The genealogy lists the resulting current inheritance as *yunqiwei*. This reduction reflects the terms of inheritance, not an assumption that all hereditary ranks declined automatically in every generation. Inheriting a merit rank also does not imply appointment to the ancestor's *chengshouwei* position.
Civil service among descendants
Dexiu's second son Shulu formerly served as Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate, a senior office of imperial oversight. Grandson Shulin held the rank of *langzhong*, while another grandson, Shumin, was a successful provincial examination candidate (*juren*), an educational qualification rather than a substantive office. Great-grandson Shuzhaokui served as a *zhushi*. The cited text does not identify the ministries employing the departmental officials.
Uncertainties
The precise locality of Daokai, service dates and complete documentation of the military reward and its subsequent reductions require consultation of original Banner and appointment records.
Sources and Bibliography
- Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 4 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 5 — zh.wikisource.org
Source links were inherited from the research manuscript. Individual assertions have not all been independently verified against archival originals.
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