Qing · Servant

Cai Yongqing 蔡永清

Attested AD 1796 - AD 1820

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Cai Yongqing was a Servant.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1796 to AD 1820 仁宗
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 356, passages 259-260

Career and standing

for aiding famine relief 以助賑敘
Title fifth-rank title 五品職銜 · Received
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 356, passage 259
amassed great wealth 擁厚貲
Wealth
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 356, passage 259
title stripped after impeachment trial 褫永清職銜
Title stripped · Suffered
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 356, passage 260

Places and affiliations

At capital 京師 · Relation Resided at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 356, passage 259

Events and relationships

Mingled with grandees
Social · Climber
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 356, passage 259
Relation Household slave of · Person Chen Huizu (陳輝祖)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 356, passage 259

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 356Volume 356 Biographies 143: Hong Liangji, Guan Shiming, Gu Jiqi, Li Zhongzhao, Shi Chengzao · 2 passages

蔡永清者，總督陳輝祖家奴，擁厚貲居京師，以助賑敘五品職銜，出入輿馬，揖讓公卿間。 Cai Yongqing was a household slave of Governor-General Chen Huizu who amassed great wealth in the capital, bought a fifth-rank title by aiding famine relief, rode in carriages, and mingled bowing with grandees and ministers.

際岐疏劾，自大學士慶桂、硃珪以下，多所指斥，下刑部鞫訊，褫永清職銜，際岐坐論奏未盡實，降授刑部主事。 Jiqi impeached him, naming many from Grand Secretaries Qing Gui and Zhu Gui downward; the Ministry of Punishments tried the case, stripped Yongqing's title, and demoted Jiqi to a clerk in that ministry for memorializing without full substantiation.