Qing · Qing Official and Statesman

Heshen 和珅

First attested AD 1760; died AD 1799

Passages
145
Chapters
18
Histories
1

Overview

Heshen was a Qing Official and Statesman.

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Zhizhai 致齋 Zhizhai

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Family

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Key source chapters

  1. Draft History of Qing, Chapter 319 Volume 319 Biographies 106: Yu Minzhong, He Shen Son: Feng Shenyinde, Younger Brother: He Lin, Su Linga 60 passages
  2. Draft History of Qing, Chapter 322 Volume 322 Biographies 109: Dou Guangnai, Li Shufang, Fan Yibin, Cao Xibao, Xie Zhending, Qian Feng, Yin Zhuangtu 21 passages
  3. Draft History of Qing, Chapter 340 Volume 340 Biographies 127: Wang Jie, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui 12 passages
  4. Draft History of Qing, Chapter 356 Volume 356 Biographies 143: Hong Liangji, Guan Shiming, Gu Jiqi, Li Zhongzhao, Shi Chengzao 9 passages
  5. Draft History of Qing, Chapter 343 Volume 343 Biographies 130: Shu Lin Younger Brother: Guang Hou, Jue Luo Ji Qing, Jue Luo Zhang Lin, Fei Chun, Bai Ling, Bo Lin 8 passages

Origins and identity

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Source notes

References in the histories

145 passages

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 301Volume 301 Biographies 88: Ne Qin, Fu Heng, Fu Ling An, Fu Long An, Fu Long An, Feng Shenjilun, Fu Chang An · 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 318Volume 318 Biographies 105: A Gui, A Di Si, A Bi Da · 6 passages
定台灣二十人:大學士阿桂、和珅、王杰,協辦大學士福康安,領侍衛內大臣海蘭察,尚書福長安、董誥,總督李侍堯、孫士毅,巡撫徐嗣曾,成都將軍鄂輝,護軍統領舒亮、普爾普,提督蔡攀龍、梁朝柱、許世亨,總兵穆克登阿、張芝元、普吉保,散秩大臣穆塔爾。 For the pacification of Taiwan, twenty men were honored: Grand Secretaries A Gui, Heshen, and Wang Jie; Associate Grand Secretary Fuk'anggan; Inner Court Minister Hailancha; Ministers Fuchang'an and Dong Gao; Governors-General Li Shiyao and Sun Shiyi; Governor Xu Siceng; Chengdu General E Hui; guard commanders Shuliang and Pu'erpu; regional commanders Cai Panlong, Liang Chaozhu, Xu Shiheng, Mukedeng'a, Zhang Zhiyuan, and Pujibao; and Minister without Portfolio Mutar.
定廓爾喀十五人:大學士福康安、阿桂、和坤、王杰、孫士毅,領侍衛內大臣海蘭察,尚書福長安、董誥、慶桂、和琳,總督惠齡,護軍統領台斐英阿、額勒登保,副都統阿滿泰、成德。 For the pacification of Gurkha, fifteen men were honored: Grand Secretaries Fuk'anggan, A Gui, Heshen, Wang Jie, and Sun Shiyi; Inner Court Minister Hailancha; Ministers Fuchang'an, Dong Gao, Qing Gui, and Helin; Governor-General Hui Ling; Guard Commanders Taifeiying'a and E'erdengbao; and Vice Commanders A'mantai and Chengde.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 319Volume 319 Biographies 106: Yu Minzhong, He Shen Son: Feng Shenyinde, Younger Brother: He Lin, Su Linga · 60 passages
詔宣布和珅罪狀,略曰:「朕於乾隆六十年九月初三日,蒙皇考冊封皇太子,尚未宣布,和珅於初二日在朕前先遞如意,以擁戴自居,大罪一。 An edict announced He Shen's crimes, stating in part: "On the third day of the ninth month of Qianlong 60 I received my late father's investiture as crown prince, though it had not yet been publicly announced. On the second, He Shen ahead of me presented a ruyi scepter, taking the posture of one who had aided my accession—first great crime.
四年,和珅誅,廷臣論和琳藉勢邀功,上亦追咎其會剿苗匪,牽掣福康安,師無功,命撤出太廟,毀專祠,奪其子丰紳伊綿公爵,改襲三等輕車都尉。 In the fourth year, after He Shen was executed, court ministers judged that He Lin had relied on influence to claim merit. The emperor also blamed him for joining the Miao suppression and hampering Fu Kang'an so the army achieved nothing. He was ordered removed from the Imperial Ancestral Temple, his private shrine destroyed, and his son Fengshen Yimian stripped of the ducal title and made to inherit the third-rank Light Chariot Commandant instead.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 320Volume 320 Biographies 107: San Bao, Yong Gui, Cai Xin, Cheng Jingyi, Liang Guozhi, Ying Lian, Peng Yuanrui, Ji Yun, Lu Xixiong, Lu Feichi · 3 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 322Volume 322 Biographies 109: Dou Guangnai, Li Shufang, Fan Yibin, Cao Xibao, Xie Zhending, Qian Feng, Yin Zhuangtu · 21 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 335Volume 335 Biographies 122: Fu Senga, Yi Leitu, Hu Gui, Yu Jin Ao, Yin Dexi, Gang Ta · 1 passage
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 340Volume 340 Biographies 127: Wang Jie, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui · 12 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 342Volume 342 Biographies 129: Bao Ning, Song Yun Son: Xi Chang, Fu Jun, Dou Xinchuan, Bo Qi Tu · 1 passage
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 343Volume 343 Biographies 130: Shu Lin Younger Brother: Guang Hou, Jue Luo Ji Qing, Jue Luo Zhang Lin, Fei Chun, Bai Ling, Bo Lin · 8 passages
內閣學士尹壯圖論州縣虧空由於派累,疆臣中惟李世傑、書麟獨善其身,和珅尤忌之,命壯圖赴各省清查倉庫,自山西始,壯圖因獲譴。 Cabinet Academician Yin Zhuangtu argued that local deficits came from excessive levies. Among frontier governors only Li Shijie and Shu Lin had kept their hands clean, which Heshen especially resented. Heshen sent Zhuangtu to audit provincial granaries, starting in Shanxi, and Zhuangtu himself was punished in the affair.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 346Volume 346 Biographies 133: Heng Rui, Qing Cheng, Qi Shi Wu, Fu Zhina, Liang Lu · 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 351Volume 351 Biographies 138: Shen Chu, Jin Shisong, Zou Bingtai, Dai Liankui, Wang Yixiu Son: Zong Cheng, Huang Yue · 3 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng · 3 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 353Volume 353 Biographies 140: Da Chun | Son: Sa Bin Tu, Tie Bao Younger Brother: Yu Bao, He Ying, Jue Luo Gui Fang · 3 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 355Volume 355 Biographies 142: Kui Lun, Guang Xing, Chu Peng Ling · 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 356Volume 356 Biographies 143: Hong Liangji, Guan Shiming, Gu Jiqi, Li Zhongzhao, Shi Chengzao · 9 passages
內閣、六部各衙門,何為國家之成法,何為和珅所更張,誰為國家自用之人,誰為和珅所引進,以及隨同受賄舞弊之人,皇上縱極仁慈,縱慾寬脅從,又因人數甚廣,不能一切屏除。 In the Grand Secretariat, the Six Ministries, and every yamen—which rules were the state's and which Heshen's, who had been the court's own men and who Heshen's creatures, who had shared in bribery and fraud—the emperor might be merciful and wish to spare the coerced, and the numbers were too vast to purge everyone at once.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 359Volume 359 Biographies 146: Yue Qi, Jing Daoqian, Xie Qikun, Li Diantu, Zhang Shicheng, Wang Shaolan, Li Yichou, Qian Kai, He Shunwu · 1 passage
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 7 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 377Volume 377 Biographies 164: Bao Guixing, Gu Chun, Wu Xiaoming, Chen Hong, E Mushune, Xu Faji · 1 passage