Fang Ji (方積) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Fang Ji as an administrator, military officer, and official. This record brings together 7 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	Fang Ji	方積	Fang Ji
Surname	Fang	方	Fang
Personal name	Fang Ji	方積	Fang Ji
Given	Ji	積	Ji
Courtesy name	Youtang	有堂	Youtang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:362:s0002

Roles

Administrator
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in office
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0024

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嘉慶六年 · Western Year: AD 1801
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0012

Career and standing

Label: acting magistrate of Liangshan / 署梁山 · Action: acting
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0004
Label: Jianchang intendant / 建昌道 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶六年 · Western Year: AD 1801
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0012
Label: magistrate of Langzhong / 閬中知縣 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0004
Label: financial commissioner / 布政使 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0020
Label: prefect of Ningyuan / 寧遠知府 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0011
Label: surveillance commissioner / 按察使 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0016
Label: peacock feather / 花翎 · Action: bestowed
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0010
Label: enshrined among eminent officials / 祀名宦 · Action: posthumous
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0024

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:362:s0004
Place: Dingyuan, Anhui / 安徽定遠
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0002

Learning and skills

Credential: selected tribute student / 拔貢生 · Action: earned
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0003

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defended Liangshan
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0006
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: destroyed Wu Wenxiang; killed Tingxiang · Other Person Id: Wu Wenxiang (伍文相)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0010
Relation: successor-of · Person Id: Liu Qing (劉清)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0012

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: scrupulous honesty · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0023

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 7 passages

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方積硃爾漢楊頀廖寅陳昌齊硃爾賡額查崇華方積，字有堂，安徽定遠人。 Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, and Cha Chonghua. Fang Ji, whose style name was Youtang, came from Dingyuan in Anhui.

積以一百人據小山為疑兵，賊不敢進。 With only a hundred men, Ji seized a low hill and posed as a larger force, and the rebels held back.

積單騎往，密授舊頭目希拉工布方略，以其眾破之。 Ji rode in alone, privately briefed the former headman Xilagongbu on a plan of attack, and with that man's followers broke the siege.

馬邊、峨眉嶺諸夷結梁山生番盜邊，積偕提督丰紳由馬邊三河口鑿山深入，克六拔夷巢，遂出赤夷間道，進攻嶺夷十二地。 Tribes around Mabian and Emei Ridge allied with Liangshan aborigines to raid the border. Ji marched with Regional Commander Feng Shen from Sanhekou at Mabian, cutting a path deep into the mountains, seized six Ba Yi strongholds, then slipped through a Red Yi trail to strike twelve Ling Yi settlements.

曲曲烏助逆死拒，潛師出其後，殄之。 Ququwu had backed the rebels and fought to the death; Ji sent a concealed column around his rear and wiped him out.

積官四川二十餘年，馳驅殆遍，山川風土，了然於胸，用兵輒獨當一面。 Ji spent more than twenty years in Sichuan service, riding to nearly every corner of the province until its terrain and customs were fixed in his mind. Whenever troops were sent out, he was entrusted with an independent command.

最顯者為四川劉清，而方積亦倡行堅壁清野，保障一方，後復屢定番亂，蜀人與清並稱。 The most celebrated was Liu Qing of Sichuan, but Fang Ji also pioneered the strategy of sealing towns and stripping the countryside, securing his district, and later quelled tribal revolts again and again—the people of Sichuan ranked him alongside Liu Qing.