Yao Yanzhu (姚延著) | 24 Histories

Overview

Yao Yanzhu was an official and Judge.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Xiangxuan	象懸	Xiangxuan

Life and dates

Death

AD 1659 順治十六年
Execution · At Jiangning 江寧
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 68

Attested activity

AD 1649 順治六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 39
AD 1659 順治十六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 42

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Yao Chunxi (姚淳燾)
son 子
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 70

Career and standing

Prefect of Qingyuan, Guangxi 廣西慶遠知府
AD 1649 順治六年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 39
Left Administrative Commissioner of Henan 河南左布政使
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 52
Provincial surveillance commissioner of Jiangnan 江南按察使
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 41
Vice commissioner of Lingnan Circuit, Guangdong 廣東嶺南道副使
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 41
Prefect of Liuzhou 柳州知府
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 40
Prefect of Pingle 平樂知府
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 40

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Entered
Mourning leave
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 53
sentenced to strangulation 坐絞
AD 1659 順治十六年 · Suffered
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 65

Places and affiliations

At Wucheng, Zhejiang 浙江烏程
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 38

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1649 順治六年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 39

Works and attributed material

AD 1659 順治十六年
Speech · Speaker · With Lang Tingzuo (郎廷佐)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 45

Events and relationships

Assisted defense
AD 1659 順治十六年 · Military · Defender · At Jiangning 江寧 · With Lang Tingzuo (郎廷佐)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 43
Restored abducted women
AD 1659 順治十六年 · Humanitarian · Official · Quantity 1700
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 51
Spared accused spy
AD 1659 順治十六年 · Legal · Judge · With Kekemu (喀喀木)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 49
Tried jintan case
AD 1659 順治十六年 · Legal · Judge
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passages 60-61

Assessments and attributes

Assessment Kekemu was behind his death · Mode rumor
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 67
Assessment tempered stern measures with mercy; fulfilled his duty · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 225
Item shrine below Jiming Hill 雞鳴山下祠 · Relation Commemorated at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 69

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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 · 15 passages

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姚延著，字象懸，浙江烏程人。 Yao Yanzhu, courtesy name Xiangxuan, came from Wucheng in Zhejiang.

延著佐總督郎廷佐繕守備，安輯危城，閭閻不擾。 Yanzhu assisted Governor Lang Tingzuo in organizing the defenses, steadied the besieged city, and kept the populace from panic.

延著謂廷佐曰：「寇在門，不可興大獄、搖人心。」 Yanzhu told Tingzuo: "The enemy is at our gates—we cannot open a sweeping trial and unsettle the people."

延著嚴治反坐，多所全活。 Yanzhu cracked down hard on malicious prosecution and spared many innocent lives.

城民有升高而望者，邏者執之，總管喀喀木以為敵諜，延著力爭，得不死。 Patrols seized a townsman who had climbed up to look around; Commander Kekemu judged him a spy, but Yanzhu argued fiercely and the man was spared execution.

喀喀木部兵擾城市，延著捕得械斃之。 Troops under Kekemu were harassing the city; Yanzhu arrested the offenders and had them strangled.

吏卒私掠被難婦女，延著親駐江乾，召其家，遣還者一千七百人，以此忤喀喀木。 Clerks and soldiers were seizing women caught up in the turmoil; Yanzhu went in person to the riverbank, called their families forward, and restored seventeen hundred women to their homes—an act that put him at odds with Kekemu.

巡按馬勝聲疏聞，下廷佐令延著鞫其獄。 Censor Ma Shengsheng reported the matter to the throne; the case was referred to Tingzuo with orders for Yanzhu to hear it.

延著縶縣吏李鍾秀，訊得實，欲但坐體坤，餘皆減罪。 Yanzhu arrested county clerk Li Zhongxiu, questioned him until the facts came out, and sought to punish only Tikun while leniency for the others.

大受騰書京師為蜚語，欲並陷延著，御史馮班發其狀。 Dashou sent inflammatory letters to the capital hoping to drag Yanzhu down too, but Censor Feng Ban exposed what he was doing.

巡按何可化又疏劾延著讞從叛罪人史記青、管得勝傅輕比，又有王天福、韓王錫並縱不擬罪，與金壇獄並論，亦坐絞。 Censor He Kehua memorialized again, accusing Yanzhu of applying light statutes to the rebel criminals Shi Jiqing and Guan Desheng, and of releasing Wang Tianfu and Han Wangxi without punishment; lumped together with the Jintan affair, Yanzhu was also sentenced to strangulation.