Bi Zhenji (畢振姬) | 24 Histories

Overview

Bi Zhenji was an official and Scholar.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Liangsi	亮四	Liangsi

Life and dates

Death

AD 1679 康熙十八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 93

Attested activity

AD 1679 康熙十八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 88
AD 1646 順治三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 76
AD 1653 順治十年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 79

Career and standing

Professor at Pingyang 平陽教授
AD 1646 順治三年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 76
Assistant administrator of Jinan Circuit, Shandong 山東濟南道參議
AD 1653 順治十年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 79
Assistant instructor in the Imperial Academy 國子監助教
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 77
Administrative commissioner of Huguang 湖廣布政使
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 86
Provincial surveillance commissioner of Guangxi 廣西按察使
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 84
Vice director in the Ministry of Punishments 刑部員外郎
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 77

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Administrator of Jinquyan Circuit, Zhejiang 浙江金衢嚴道參政
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 84
Intendant of the Post Relay Circuit, Guangdong 廣東驛傳道僉事
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 82
Entered
AD 1679 康熙十八年 · Not reemployed due to age
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 92
Entered
Retired
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 86

Places and affiliations

At Gaoping, Shanxi 山西高平
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 75

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1646 順治三年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 76

Events and relationships

Pacified refugees
AD 1653 順治十年 · Administration · Pacifier · Quantity 7000
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 80

Assessments and attributes

Assessment had talent and strategic ability; rooted in integrity and diligence · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 224
Assessment in office never soiled by gain; returned with one servant and one horse · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Liu Jian (劉楗)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passages 90-91
Assessment integrity unrivaled; talent and strategy surpass others · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Wei Yijie (魏裔介)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passages 88-89

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 247Volume 247 Biographies 34: Peng Ershu, Lu Zhenfen, Yao Yanzhu, Bi Zhenji, Fang Guodong, Yu Pengju, Wang Tianjian, Yue Tingbiao · 8 passages

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畢振姬，字亮四，山西高平人。 Bi Zhenji, courtesy name Liangsi, came from Gaoping in Shanxi.

歲旱，流民踞山谷為盜，振姬晝夜馳三百里往諭之，悉就撫，全活者七千餘人。 During a drought year refugees had turned bandits in the mountain valleys; Zhenji rode three hundred li day and night to reason with them, and all came in to be pacified—more than seven thousand lives spared.

泰山香稅，歲羨餘七千金，例充公使錢，振姬悉以佐餉。 The Mount Tai incense tax produced an annual surplus of seven thousand taels, normally reserved for official travel expenses; Zhenji applied all of it to army rations.

時三籓使命往來絡繹，胥吏乘以私派折價，民苦之，振姬一繩以法，閱數月，減船數百，減費七萬有奇。 With the Three Feudatories' envoys constantly passing through, clerks imposed illegal surcharges and skimmed payments, to the people's misery. Zhenji enforced the law without favor; within months he cut several hundred boats from service and saved more than seventy thousand taels.

十八年，命廷臣舉清廉吏，裔介复疏言：「振姬清操絕世，才略過人。 In the eighteenth year the court ordered officials to nominate incorrupt administrators; Yijie memorialized again: "Zhenji's integrity is unrivaled in our time, and his talent and strategic ability surpass ordinary men.

楗亦言：「振姬居官不染一塵。 Jian also wrote: "In office Zhenji never soiled his hands with the slightest gain.

下部議，以振姬老，置勿用。 The ministries deliberated and, on the ground of Zhenji's age, set the recommendation aside without appointing him.

而述、振芬、振姬、天鑑皆有才略，根本尤在廉勤。 Ershu, Zhenfen, Zhenji, and Tianjian all had talent and strategic ability; above all they were rooted in integrity and diligence.