Chen Pengnian (陳鵬年)

Overview

Chen Pengnian was an official and Canal Governor.

Life and dates

Death

Natural
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 300, passage 168

Attested activity

AD 1709 四十八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 212
AD 1705 康熙四十四年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 100
AD 1644 to AD 1911 清一代
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211
AD 1720 to AD 1723 雍正初
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 300, passage 166

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Career and standing

calligrapher 書人
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211
Suzhou prefect acting provincial treasurer 蘇州知府署布政使
AD 1709 四十八年 · Acted as
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 212
acting provincial treasurer 署布政使
Acting
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 149
Grand Canal governor 河道總督
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 300, passage 166
prefect of Jiangning 江寧知府
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 100
prefect of Suzhou 蘇州知府
Restored
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 148

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Sentenced
Death sentence · Authority A Shan (阿山)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 101

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Lived under
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 212

Learning and skills

Skill running script 行書 · Level ranked · Domain calligraphy 書
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211

Events and relationships

Proposed salary deductions
Administrative · Proposer
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 212
placed in fine grade, upper rank for running script 佳品上，行書
Critical · Subject · Ranked · With Shichen (世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211
Relation Rival of · Person Gali (噶禮)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 150

Assessments and attributes

fine grade, upper rank: running script 佳品上，行書
Assessment fine grade, upper rank · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Shichen (世臣)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 503, passage 211

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 212

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 265Volume 265 Biographies 52: Tang Bin, Lu Longqi, Zhang Boxing · 1 passage

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陳鵬年以蘇州知府署布政使，議司庫虧三十四萬，分扣官俸役食抵補，伯行諮噶禮會題，不應。 Chen Pengnian, acting treasurer as Suzhou prefect, proposed covering a 340,000-tael deficit by docking salaries and ration payments. Boxing asked Gali to co-sign the memorial; Gali refused.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 278Volume 278 Biographies 65: Mu Tianyan, A Shan, Ga Li · 10 passages

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四十四年，疏劾江寧知府陳鵬年貪酷，並以妓樓改建講堂，凟聖諭，大不敬。 In Kangxi 44 he impeached Jiangning Prefect Chen Pengnian for greed and cruelty, and for converting a brothel into a lecture hall—profaning the sage's teaching, a grave offense.

命會桑額及河道總督張鵬翮集讞，坐鵬年罪至斬，上特命來京，事具鵬年傳。 He was ordered to join Sang E and Canal Director Zhang Penghe in judgment; Pengnian was sentenced to death, but the emperor ordered him brought to Beijing instead—the full account is in Pengnian's biography.

其失民心，獨劾陳鵬年一事耳。」 He lost popular support only over impeaching Chen Pengnian."

知府陳鵬年初為總督阿山劾罷，上復命守蘇州； Prefect Chen Pengnian had first been impeached and dismissed by Governor-General A Shan; the emperor restored him to Suzhou;

鵬年素伉直，忤噶禮。 Pengnian had always been upright and outspoken and clashed with Ga Li.

噶禮續劾宜思恭虧帑，又論糧道賈樸建關開河皆有所侵蝕，遂及鵬年覈報不實，鵬年復坐罷。 Ga Li continued impeaching Yi Sigong for treasury shortfalls, charged Grain Intendant Jia Pu with embezzling on canal works, and extended the charge to Pengnian for false verification; Pengnian was dismissed again.

噶禮复密疏鵬年虎丘詩怨望，上不為動。 Ga Li also sent a secret memorial claiming Pengnian's Tiger Hill poem showed resentment; the emperor was unmoved.

即如陳鵬年稍有聲譽，噶禮欲害之，摘虎丘詩有悖謬語，朕閱其詩，初無他意。 Even Chen Pengnian, who had some reputation, Ga Li tried to ruin by seizing on irreverent words in his Tiger Hill poem—I read the poem and saw no ill intent.

鵬年初扼於阿山，繼挫於噶禮，皆欲中以危法，抑又甚矣。 Pengnian was first blocked by A Shan, then crushed by Ga Li; both tried to trap him with capital charges—an even graver wrong.

幸賴聖祖仁明，隴其復起，鵬年致大用，伯行亦終獲全。 Fortunately the Sage Ancestor was benevolent and clear-sighted: Longqi was restored, Pengnian rose to high office, and Boxing ultimately survived unscathed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 300Volume 300 Biographies 87: Chen Qi Yuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, Liu Erwei · 2 passages

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以河道總督陳鵬年疏薦，擢山東兗寧道。 On the recommendation of Grand Canal Governor Chen Pengnian, he was promoted to the Yan-Ning Circuit in Shandong.

鵬年卒，齊蘇勒為河督，以工事劾甸，行河至濟寧，士民群聚乞還甸。 When Pengnian died, Qisule became canal governor and impeached Dian over engineering. When Qisule traveled the canal to Jining, gentry and commoners gathered in crowds begging for Dian's return.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 503Volume 503 Biographies 290: Yi Shu Er · 1 passage

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