Tuojin (托津) | 24 Histories

Overview

Tuojin was a Grand Secretary.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1820 嘉慶二十五年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 365, passage 117
AD 1811 嘉慶十六年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 355, passage 106
AD 1824 道光四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 352, passages 149, 156

Key source chapters

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 355 Volume 355 Biographies 142: Kui Lun, Guang Xing, Chu Peng Ling 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352 Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng 1 passage
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 365 Volume 365 Biographies 152: Jue Luo Bao Xing, Zong Shijingzheng, Zong Shixien, Chen Guanjun, Zhuo Bingtian 1 passage

Career and standing

grand councillor 樞臣
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 365, passage 117
Grand Secretary 大學士
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 352, passage 156

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 352, passage 156; Draft History of Qing 365, passage 117

Events and relationships

Hesitated on succession
AD 1820 嘉慶二十五年 · Political · Councillor
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 365, passage 117
Investigated redemption case
Legal · Investigator
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 352, passage 156

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng · 1 passage

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詔斥含混取巧，命大學士托津等查訊，侍郎恩銘、常英、司員恩德等皆有賄囑情事，崶亦解任就質，坐失察司員得賄，嗣子知情，親屬撞騙，議奪職遣戍，因年老，從寬，命效力萬年吉地工程處。 The throne denounced this as evasive trickery and ordered Grand Secretary Tuojin to investigate. Vice Ministers Enming and Chang Ying and Secretary En De were all implicated in bribery. Feng was removed to give testimony, punished for failing to detect a secretary's bribes, his son's knowledge of them, and relatives' fraud, and recommended for dismissal and exile. Because of his age he was spared and sent to serve at the imperial mausoleum construction office.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 355Volume 355 Biographies 142: Kui Lun, Guang Xing, Chu Peng Ling · 2 passages

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十六年，偕尚書托津清查南河工帑，劾罷廳營四十八員，复偕尚書崇祿往福建讞獄。 In the sixteenth year he joined Minister Tuojin in auditing the southern canal works treasury and impeached forty-eight bureau officers; later he went with Minister Chonglu to Fujian to judge cases.

既而疏劾百齡、師誠受關道鹽員饋銀，又劾陳桂生弊混，命大學士托津、尚書景安往按，至則百齡、師誠嗾屬員多方沮格，所劾並不得實。 He then memorialized that Bai Ling and Shicheng had accepted silver from customs and salt officials and again accused Chen Guisheng of mixed abuses. Grand Secretary Tuojin and Minister Jing An were sent to investigate; on arrival Bai Ling and Shicheng had their subordinates obstruct the inquiry at every turn, and none of the charges held.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 365Volume 365 Biographies 152: Jue Luo Bao Xing, Zong Shijingzheng, Zong Shixien, Chen Guanjun, Zhuo Bingtian · 1 passage

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樞臣托津、戴均元等猶豫，禧恩抗論，眾不能奪。 Grand councillors Tuojin and Dai Junyuan wavered, but Xi'en's insistence carried the day.