Ren Daorong (任道鎔)

Overview

Ren Daorong was an official and Administrator.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Xiaoyuan	筱沅	Xiaoyuan

Life and dates

Death

AD 1905 逾三年
At at home · Age Value: 83
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 126

Age

83
Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 126

Attested activity

AD 1881 七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 108
AD 1895 二十一年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 112
AD 1902 二十八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 125
AD 1900 二十六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 120
AD 1900 光緒二十六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 472, passage 199
AD 1875 光緒元年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 102

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AD 1872 十一年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 99
AD 1863 同治二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 92
AD 1851 to AD 1861 咸豐中
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 90
AD 1878 四年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 104

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Career and standing

governor of Shandong 山東巡撫
AD 1881 七年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 108
Yellow River commissioner 河道總督
AD 1895 二十一年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 112
prefect of Shunde 順德府知府
AD 1863 同治二年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 92
county magistrate of Dangyang 當陽知縣
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 91
Fengxian district director of studies 奉賢訓導
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 90
governor of Zhejiang 浙江巡撫
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 122

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intendant of the Kai-Gui-Chen-Xu Circuit 開歸陳許道
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 99
Jiangxi judicial commissioner 江西按察使
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 103
Zhejiang provincial treasurer 浙江布政使
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 104
Received
Stripped of office
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 110

Places and affiliations

At Yixing in Jiangsu 江蘇宜興
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 88

Learning and skills

Earned
Credential selected tribute student 拔貢
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 89

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Topic river commissioner stationing
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 116

Events and relationships

Defended province during Boxer uprising
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passages 120-121
Defended
Military · Commander · At Shahe 沙河
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passages 94-95
Dredged rivers
Public works · Supervisor
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passages 96-97
Relation Recommended by · Person Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 98
Relation Recommended by · Person Zeng Guofan (曾國籓)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 98

Assessments and attributes

Assessment rooted out river-work abuses and practiced economy · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 450, passage 218

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 450Volume 450 Biographies 237: Li Henian, Wen Bin, Ren Daorong, Xu Zhenyi, Wu Dacheng · 9 passages

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任道鎔，字筱沅，江蘇宜興人。 Ren Daorong, styled Xiaoyuan, was a native of Yixing in Jiangsu.

會捻眾北犯，道鎔率練勇守沙河。 When Nian forces pushed north, Daorong led local militia in the defense of Shahe.

道鎔與鄰郡合濬，又濬郡北響水河，复民田萬餘頃。 Daorong joined neighboring prefectures in dredging it and also cleared the Xiangshui River north of the prefecture, restoring more than ten thousand qing of farmland.

授江西按察使，省獄羈囚四百餘人，道鎔便宜訊決，三月而清。 Appointed Jiangxi judicial commissioner, he found more than four hundred prisoners still held in the provincial jail; exercising discretionary authority to hear cases, he cleared the backlog within three months.

道鎔分別新舊案，定限清結。 Daorong sorted new cases from old ones and set firm deadlines for clearing each.

道鎔言：「官吏不相屬，則令難行，不如仍舊便。」 Daorong argued: "When officials do not answer to the same chain of command, orders are hard to enforce; it is better to keep the old arrangement."

道鎔務節費，歲以餘帑還司庫。 Daorong practiced strict economy and each year returned surplus funds to the provincial treasury.

道鎔處以鎮靜，練河標三營助省防。 Daorong kept his composure and drilled three battalions of river garrison troops to help defend the province.

道鎔剔河工積弊，務節減，振禕督工嚴，盡革中飽，尤以勤廉者，皆足收一時之效，然徒治標，非治本計也。 Daorong rooted out long-standing abuses and practiced strict economy; Zhenyi supervised works rigorously and stamped out embezzlement through diligence and integrity—all achieved useful short-term results, but these were palliatives, not a fundamental cure.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 1 passage

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明年，拳黨入京，乃宣知大亂將作，適調吏部稽勳司主事，遂請急南歸，浙撫任道鎔延主浙江大學堂。 The next year the Boxer faction entered the capital; Naixuan knew great disorder was imminent; just then he was transferred to principal clerk in the Ministry of Personnel's Records of Honors Office, and he requested urgent leave to return south; Zhejiang Governor Ren Daorong engaged him to head the Zhejiang Grand Academy.