Qing · Official and Scholar

Zhao Jin 趙晉

Attested AD 1711 - AD 1711

Passages: 4
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhao Jin was an official and Scholar.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1711 五十年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 226
AD 1711 康熙五十年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 156

Key source chapters

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 265 Volume 265 Biographies 52: Tang Bin, Lu Longqi, Zhang Boxing 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 278 Volume 278 Biographies 65: Mu Tianyan, A Shan, Ga Li 2 passages

Career and standing

associate examiner of the Jiangnan provincial examination 江南鄉試副考官
AD 1711 五十年 · Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 226
compiler; associate examiner 編修
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 156
examination bribery 交通關節
AD 1711 五十年 · Committed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 265, passages 226, 229
Sentenced
Conviction · Reason examination fraud
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 278, passage 167

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 226

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 265, passage 226

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 265Volume 265 Biographies 52: Tang Bin, Lu Longqi, Zhang Boxing · 2 passages

五十年，江南鄉試副考官趙晉交通關節，榜發，士論譁然，輿財神入學宮。 In 1711 the associate examiner Zhao Jin was caught taking bribes in the Jiangnan provincial exams. When the results were posted, scholars were outraged and paraded the God of Wealth into the examination hall.

上命俱解任，鵬翮等尋奏晉與泌、光奎通賄俱實，擬罪如律； Both were suspended. Penghe reported that Zhao Jin, Wu Mi, and Cheng Guangkui had indeed taken bribes and proposed legal punishment;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 278Volume 278 Biographies 65: Mu Tianyan, A Shan, Ga Li · 2 passages

鵬翮至，會讞，既得副考官編修趙晉及曰俞、名諸交通狀，伯行欲窮其獄。 When Penghe arrived they held a joint hearing; once bribery by associate examiner Compiler Zhao Jin, Yueyu, Ming, and others was established, Boxing wanted to pursue the case fully.

獄具，晉、曰俞、名及所取士交通得賄，當科場舞弊律論罪； The case concluded: Jin, Yueyu, Ming, and their candidates were convicted of bribery under the examination-fraud statute;