Bi Zhenji (畢振姬) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Bi Zhenji as an administrator, official, and scholar. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Bi Zhenji	畢振姬	Bi Zhenji
Courtesy	Liangsi	亮四	Liangsi
Given	Zhenji	振姬

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Administrator
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙十八年 · Western Year: AD 1679
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙十八年 · Western Year: AD 1679
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Source Date: Text: 順治三年 · Western Year: AD 1646
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Source Date: Text: 順治十年 · Western Year: AD 1653
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Career and standing

Label: Professor at Pingyang / 平陽教授 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治三年 · Western Year: AD 1646
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Label: Assistant administrator of Jinan Circuit, Shandong / 山東濟南道參議 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十年 · Western Year: AD 1653
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Label: Assistant instructor in the Imperial Academy / 國子監助教 · Action: appointed
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Label: Administrative commissioner of Huguang / 湖廣布政使 · Action: promoted
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Label: Provincial surveillance commissioner of Guangxi / 廣西按察使 · Action: promoted
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Label: Vice director in the Ministry of Punishments / 刑部員外郎 · Action: promoted
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Label: Administrator of Jinquyan Circuit, Zhejiang / 浙江金衢嚴道參政 · Action: transferred
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Label: Intendant of the Post Relay Circuit, Guangdong / 廣東驛傳道僉事 · Action: transferred
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Status: not-reemployed-due-to-age · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙十八年 · Western Year: AD 1679
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Status: retired · Action: entered
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Places and affiliations

Place: Gaoping, Shanxi / 山西高平
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治三年 · Western Year: AD 1646
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Events and relationships

Kind: administration · Role: pacifier · Action: pacified-refugees · Quantity: 7000 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治十年 · Western Year: AD 1653
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: had talent and strategic ability; rooted in integrity and diligence · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: in office never soiled by gain; returned with one servant and one horse · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Liu Jian (劉楗)
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Assessment: integrity unrivaled; talent and strategy surpass others · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Wei Yijie (魏裔介)
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References in the histories

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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 · 8 passages

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畢振姬，字亮四，山西高平人。 Bi Zhenji, courtesy name Liangsi, came from Gaoping in Shanxi.

歲旱，流民踞山谷為盜，振姬晝夜馳三百里往諭之，悉就撫，全活者七千餘人。 During a drought year refugees had turned bandits in the mountain valleys; Zhenji rode three hundred li day and night to reason with them, and all came in to be pacified—more than seven thousand lives spared.

泰山香稅，歲羨餘七千金，例充公使錢，振姬悉以佐餉。 The Mount Tai incense tax produced an annual surplus of seven thousand taels, normally reserved for official travel expenses; Zhenji applied all of it to army rations.

時三籓使命往來絡繹，胥吏乘以私派折價，民苦之，振姬一繩以法，閱數月，減船數百，減費七萬有奇。 With the Three Feudatories' envoys constantly passing through, clerks imposed illegal surcharges and skimmed payments, to the people's misery. Zhenji enforced the law without favor; within months he cut several hundred boats from service and saved more than seventy thousand taels.

十八年，命廷臣舉清廉吏，裔介复疏言：「振姬清操絕世，才略過人。 In the eighteenth year the court ordered officials to nominate incorrupt administrators; Yijie memorialized again: "Zhenji's integrity is unrivaled in our time, and his talent and strategic ability surpass ordinary men.

楗亦言：「振姬居官不染一塵。 Jian also wrote: "In office Zhenji never soiled his hands with the slightest gain.

下部議，以振姬老，置勿用。 The ministries deliberated and, on the ground of Zhenji's age, set the recommendation aside without appointing him.

而述、振芬、振姬、天鑑皆有才略，根本尤在廉勤。 Ershu, Zhenfen, Zhenji, and Tianjian all had talent and strategic ability; above all they were rooted in integrity and diligence.