Qing · Official

Zhang Zhongju 張仲舉

Attested AD 1690

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Zhang Zhongju was an official.

PeriodQing
IdentityHistorical · Male

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 275Volume 275 Biographies 62: Ge Er Gu De, Zhao Shilin, Guo Shilong, Fu Lata, Ma Rulong · 4 passages
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先是，罷任安溪知縣孫鏞告福建巡撫張仲舉、布政使張永茂侵蝕庫帑，遣郎中吳爾泰會總督勘訊，至即拘訊知府六人，連引州縣官數十人。 Earlier, dismissed Anxi magistrate Sun Yong had accused Fujian Governor Zhang Zhongju and Administration Commissioner Zhang Yongmao of embezzling provincial funds; Bureau Director Wu Ertai was sent with the governor-general to investigate, and on arrival immediately detained six prefects and implicated dozens of county and prefectural officials.
上聞疑之，命世隆往按，發仲舉與前布政使張汧竄改賦冊、侵隱已徵額銀捏作民欠，又汧遷湖廣巡撫虧福建庫帑三十餘萬，仲舉前任湖南布政亦虧帑，相約互抵； The emperor grew suspicious and sent Shilong to investigate. He found that Zhongju and former Administration Commissioner Zhang Qian had altered tax registers, concealed collected revenues, and fabricated popular arrears; Zhang Qian, now Huguang governor, had left Fujian's treasury short more than three hundred thousand taels, and Zhongju had done the same in Hunan—they had agreed to cover for each other;