Overview
Zaiyuan was a Royal Family Member and Official.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Death
Attested activity
AD 1861 十一年七月
AD 1860 十年
AD 1858 咸豐八年
AD 1861 咸豐十一年
AD 1861 咸豐十一年
AD 1860 咸豐十年
Key source chapters
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 387
Volume 387 Biographies 174: Zong Shisushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Jiao Youying, Chen Fuen
17 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 389
Volume 389 Biographies 176: Bai Jun, Lin Kui, Rui Chang, Quan Qing
5 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 133
Volume 133 Treatises 108: Military 4, Local Militia
3 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 394
Volume 394 Biographies 181: Xu Guangjin, Ye Mingchen, Huang Zonghan
3 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 390
Volume 390 Biographies 177: Jia Zhen, Zhou Zupei, Zhu Fengbiao, Dan Maoqian
2 passages
Places and affiliations
Qing 清
Relation Served
- Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Works and attributed material
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 133Volume 133 Treatises 108: Military 4, Local Militia · 3 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 387Volume 387 Biographies 174: Zong Shisushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Jiao Youying, Chen Fuen · 17 passages
肅順恃恩眷，其兄鄭親王端華及怡親王載垣相為附和，擠排異己，廷臣咸側目。
Sushun relied on the emperor's favor; his elder brother Prince Zheng Duanhua and Prince Yi Zaiyuan backed one another, squeezed out opponents, and officials in court watched them with unease.
敵軍近逼通州，乃改命怡親王載垣、尚書穆廕往議，誘擒英官巴夏禮置之獄，而我軍屢敗之餘不能戰，車駕倉猝幸熱河，廷臣爭之不可。
When the enemy neared Tongzhou, Prince Yi Zaiyuan and Minister Mu Yin were sent instead; they tricked and seized the British envoy Parkes and put him in prison. But with our forces already beaten repeatedly we could not fight on; the court fled in haste to Rehe, and ministers' protests availed nothing.
十一年七月，上疾大漸，召肅順及御前大臣載垣、端華、景壽，軍機大臣穆廕、匡源、杜翰、焦祐瀛入見，受顧命，上已不能禦硃筆，諸臣承寫焉。
In the seventh month of 1861 the emperor's illness turned grave. Sushun, the imperial chamberlains Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and Jingshou, and the grand councilors Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Du Han, and Jiao Youying were called in to receive his deathbed charge. He could no longer hold the vermilion brush himself, and the ministers wrote at his dictation.
肅順等梗其議，擬旨駁斥，非兩宮意，抑不下，載垣、端華等負氣不視事。
Sushun and his party obstructed the proposal and drafted a rejecting edict that did not reflect the two palaces' intent, yet they still withheld it; Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and others in a fit of pique refused to conduct affairs.
九月，車駕還京，至即宣示肅順、載垣、端華等不法狀，下王大臣議罪。
In the ninth month the court returned to Beijing; on arrival the unlawful conduct of Sushun, Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and the rest was announced and referred to the princes and grand ministers for judgment.
下宗人府獄，見載垣、端華已先在，叱曰：「早從吾言，何至今日？」
Thrown into the Imperial Clan Court prison, he found Zaiyuan and Duanhua already there and shouted at them: "Had you listened to me sooner, how would you have come to this?"
載垣咎肅順曰：「吾罪皆聽汝言成之也！」
Zaiyuan turned on Sushun: "Every crime of ours was made by heeding you!"
詔謂：「擅政阻皇太后垂簾，三人同罪，而肅順擅坐御位，進內廷出入自由，擅用行宮御用器物，傳收應用物件，抗違不遵，並自請分見兩宮皇太后，詞氣抑揚，意在構釁，其悖逆狂謬，較載垣、端華罪尤重。」
The edict declared: "In usurping power and blocking the empress dowager from ruling behind the curtain the three were alike guilty; yet Sushun had presumptuously sat on the imperial seat, come and gone freely in the inner court, used objects reserved for the traveling palace, collected supplies due the court yet defied orders, and even asked to see the two empress dowagers separately with a tone meant to provoke—his treason and frenzy outweighed even Zaiyuan and Duanhua's crimes."
賜載垣、端華自盡，斬肅順於市。
Zaiyuan and Duanhua were granted suicide; Sushun was beheaded in public.
十年，命偕怡親王載垣赴通州，與英法聯軍議和，解桂良等欽差大臣關防授之。
In 1860 he was ordered with Prince Yi Zaiyuan to Tongzhou to negotiate with the allied armies; the seals of Guiliang and the other imperial commissioners were transferred to them.
十月，肅順、載垣、端華等伏法，穆廕與匡源、杜翰、焦祐瀛並罷直軍機，議罪。
In the tenth month, after Sushun, Zaiyuan, and Duanhua were executed, Mu Yin with Kuang Yuan, Du Han, and Jiao Youying were all dismissed from the Grand Council and brought to trial.
及議上，詔曰：「穆廕等於載垣等竊奪政柄，不能力爭，均屬辜恩溺職。
When judgment came in, the edict read: "Mu Yin and the others, when Zaiyuan and his party seized power, failed to resist; all were ungrateful and negligent of duty.
惟以載垣等凶焰方張，受其箝制，均有難與爭衡之勢，其不能振作，尚有可原，著即革職，加恩改發軍台效力贖罪。
Yet because Zaiyuan's party was then at the height of its power and had them in its grip, they had little chance to resist; their failure to act still admitted some excuse. Mu Yin was stripped of office but, by grace, sent to frontier military posts instead of Xinjiang to redeem his guilt.
文宗召對，孚恩與怡親王載垣等爭論於上前，載垣等以失儀自劾，詔原其小節，予薄譴，而斥孚恩乖謬，降三級留任。
Emperor Xianfeng called them for audience; Fuen disputed with Prince Yi Zaiyuan and others before the throne. Zaiyuan and the rest impeached themselves for impropriety; an edict pardoned their minor faults with light censure but condemned Fuen as wrongheaded and demoted him three ranks while keeping him in post.
初，孚恩以議禮忤載垣、端華、肅順等，及再起，乃暱附諸人冀固位。
Fuen had first clashed with Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and Sushun over court ritual; when he returned to office he courted them in hopes of holding his place.
詔謂：「孚恩當大行皇帝行幸熱河，命諸臣議可否，孚恩有'竊負而逃，遵海濱而處'之語，意在迎合載垣等。
The edict declared: "When the late emperor fled to Rehe, ministers were asked whether the move was wise; Fuen quoted 'carrying one's burden and fleeing to dwell by the sea,' plainly to please Zaiyuan and his party.
大行皇帝上賓，留京諸大臣中獨召孚恩一人赴行在，足證為載垣等心腹。
When the late emperor died, Fuen alone among ministers left in Beijing was summoned to Rehe—proof enough that he was Zaiyuan's trusted man.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 389Volume 389 Biographies 176: Bai Jun, Lin Kui, Rui Chang, Quan Qing · 5 passages
柏葰素持正，自登樞府，與載垣、端華、肅順等不協。
Baizhan had long been known for integrity; once he joined the Grand Council he fell out with Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Sushun, and their faction.
會御史孟傳金疏劾本科士論未孚，命覆勘試卷，應議者五十卷，文宗震怒，褫柏葰等職，命載垣等會鞫，得柏葰聽信家人靳祥言，取中羅鴻繹情事，靳祥斃於獄。
When Censor Meng Chuanjin charged that the examination essays had failed to satisfy scholarly opinion, the papers were re-examined and fifty were found suspect. Emperor Wenzong was furious, stripped Baizhan and others of rank, and ordered Zaiyuan's group to investigate. They established that Baizhan had heeded his retainer Jin Xiang and passed Luo Hongyi; Jin Xiang died in custody.
惟載垣、端華、肅順等因律無僅關囑託明文，比賄買關節之例，擬以斬決。
But Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and Sushun, finding no statute that covered entreaties alone, applied the precedent for buying examination favor and proposed execution—
由載垣等平日與柏葰挾有私仇，欲因擅作威福，竟以牽連蒙混之詞，致罹重闢。
because they bore private grudges against Baizhan and, abusing their power, used vague charges of implication to bring him to the heaviest penalty.
和議成，赴行在，籥請回鑾，為載垣、端華、肅順等所阻。
After peace was made he went to the temporary court and urged the emperor's return, but Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and Sushun blocked him.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 390Volume 390 Biographies 177: Jia Zhen, Zhou Zupei, Zhu Fengbiao, Dan Maoqian · 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 394Volume 394 Biographies 181: Xu Guangjin, Ye Mingchen, Huang Zonghan · 3 passages