Qing · Official

Fang Guancheng 方觀承

Attested AD 1740 - AD 1768

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Fang Guancheng was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1740 to AD 1768 河決…觀承請遣大臣
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 213, 215, 218

Career and standing

governor-general 總督
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 213, 218

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 213

Events and relationships

Asked senior minister be sent to try case
Legal · Prosecutor · With Ying Lian (英廉)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 215
Impeached Ying Lian
Legal · Prosecutor · With Ying Lian (英廉)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 213

Assessments and attributes

Assessment would not convict a subordinate rashly; showed caution and awe · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Emperor (上)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passages 218-219

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 320, passage 213

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 320Volume 320 Biographies 107: San Bao, Yong Gui, Cai Xin, Cheng Jingyi, Liang Guozhi, Ying Lian, Peng Yuanrui, Ji Yun, Lu Xixiong, Lu Feichi · 3 passages

河決，總督方觀承劾英廉淤溝鑲埽，衝陷水上月堤，匿不以聞，遂誤要工。 When the river breached, Governor-General Fang Guancheng impeached Ying Lian for silt-choked ditches and inset revetments that had burst and collapsed a moon-shaped dike above the water; Ying Lian had kept silent about it, delaying essential repairs.

逾年讞未決，觀承請遣大臣蒞其事。 After more than a year without a verdict, Guancheng asked that a senior minister be dispatched to try the case.

然觀承以總督劾屬吏，不敢率意入罪，讞逾年未定，請遣大臣蒞其事。 Still, as governor-general prosecuting a subordinate, Guancheng would not convict lightly; the case dragged on for over a year before he asked for a senior minister to take it over.