China: Yinti, Prince Xun (1688-1756), son of the Kangxi Emperor.
Yinti, Prince Xun (16 January 1688 — 13 January 1756) of the Aisin-Gioro clan was the Kangxi Emperor's fourteenth son, and the one who was said to be the favourite to succeed him. He was the brother of Yinzhen born to the same mother, the Concubine of the Wuya Clan (i.e. the Empress Xiaogong Ren). In 1718, after the defeat of a Chinese army along the Salween River in Tibet by the Dzungar general Tsering Dondub, he was appointed by the Kangxi Emperor as The Frontier Pacification General to lead an army of 300,000 into Tibet and defeat the Dzungar general. On 24 September 1720, Yinti's army took Lhasa and returned the Dalai Lama back to the Potala Palace. Yinti was planning a conquest of Dzungaria when on 21 December 1722 he was informed of his father's death and was summoned immediately back to the capital. The throne had been inherited by his brother Yinzhen, the Yongzheng Emperor. Yongzheng saw Yinti as a potential threat and placed him under house-arrest. Yinti was released after the Yongzheng Emperor's death in 1735.
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