sentences:  As a result, he was promoted to be Governor of Xunzhou in Guangxi province (home province of the Taiping rebels), but died in 1858 before he was able to take up the new assignment.Xue Fucheng was the third of six surviving sons and had one older sister.His mother and grandmother were both from the prominent literati Gu () family of Wuxi, of which other notable members include scientist and polymath Y. H. Ku.