He Shijian (何師儉) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify He Shijian as an administrator, judge, and official. This record brings together 19 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	He Shijian	何師儉	He Shijian
Surname	He	何	He
Personal name	He Shijian	何師儉	He Shijian
Given name	Shijian	師儉	Shijian
Courtesy name	Tongshu	桐叔	Tongshu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:300:s0049

Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: at home · Manner: natural
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0094

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙六十年 · Western Year: AD 1721
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0050
Source Date: Text: 雍正三年 · Western Year: AD 1725
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0057
Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0052
Source Date: Text: 雍正十三年 · Western Year: AD 1735
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0091
Source Date: Text: 雍正四年 · Western Year: AD 1726
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0058

Career and standing

Label: vice commissioner of the Jiangnan courier-and-salt circuit / 江南驛鹽道副使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1725
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0057
Label: vice department director in the Ministry of War / 兵部員外郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙六十年 · Western Year: AD 1721
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0050
Label: acting administration commissioner of the Liangzhuang Circuit / 涼莊道參政 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0070
Label: judicial commissioner / 按察使 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0089
Label: vice commissioner of the Guangdong grain-and-courier circuit / 廣東糧驛道副使 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1726
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0058
Label: surveillance commissioner of the Guangxi Right River Circuit / 廣西右江道僉事 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0052
Label: vice commissioner of the Xi'an salt-and-courier circuit / 西安鹽驛道副使 · Action: transferred
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0081
Label: ginseng and sable fur / 人葠、貂皮 · Action: bestowed · Authority Person Id: Yongzheng Emperor (世宗)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0052
Label: enshrined among eminent officials in Shaanxi / 陝西祀名宦 · Action: received
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0094
Status: retired · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十三年 · Western Year: AD 1735
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0091
Status: purchased-office · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0050
Status: exonerated · Action: received · Authority Person Id: Fu Tai (傅泰)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0066
Status: impeached · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Kong Yuxun (孔毓珣)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0065

Places and affiliations

Place: Shanyin, Zhejiang / 浙江山陰
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0049
Place: Liangzhou / 涼州 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0069
Place: Shaanxi / 陝西 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0067

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Extent: s0076, s0077, s0078, s0079
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0076, qingshigao:300:s0077, qingshigao:300:s0078, qingshigao:300:s0079
Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0060

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: judicial-commissioner · Action: applied-amnesty-while-blind · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 高宗即位 · Western Year: AD 1735
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0092, qingshigao:300:s0093
Kind: logistics · Role: supervisor · Action: oversaw-grain-transport · Place: Shangzhou / 商州
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0082, qingshigao:300:s0083
Kind: political · Role: target-of-slander · Action: refused-bribes
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0053
Kind: military-logistics · Role: supply-officer · Action: supplied-army-from-Liangzhou
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0071, qingshigao:300:s0072
Kind: disaster-relief · Role: administrator · Action: used-reserve-grain-and-deferred-taxes
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0059, qingshigao:300:s0060
Relation: relied-upon-by · Person Id: Cha Lang'a (查郎阿)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0069
Relation: caught-between · Person Id: Yang Wenqian (楊文乾)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0061
Relation: caught-between · Person Id: Kong Yuxun (孔毓珣)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0061

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: valued for diligence and quickness · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0232
Kind: physical-description · Statement: blind (lost his sight)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0092

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 300Volume 300 Biographies 87: Chen Qi Yuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, Liu Erwei · 19 passages

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沈起元何師儉唐繼祖馬維翰餘甸王葉滋劉而位 Shen Qiyuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, and Liu Erwei

何師儉，字桐叔，浙江山陰人。 He Shijian, whose courtesy name was Tongshu, came from Shanyin in Zhejiang.

師儉以執法卻重賄，忤要人，因誣以避瘴故留部。 Shijian had offended powerful figures by enforcing the law and refusing large bribes; they slandered him as having lingered at the capital to escape the southern miasma.

歲大祲，師儉以存留米五萬石給餉，飭所屬緩徵。 A severe famine struck that year; Shijian drew on fifty thousand dan of reserve grain to pay stipends and ordered his subordinates to defer tax collection.

或疑專擅獲咎，師儉曰：「請而後行，民已苦箠楚矣！」 Some worried he would be punished for overstepping his authority; Shijian replied: "If I must ask permission before acting, the people will already have been flogged into misery!"

總督孔毓珣與巡撫楊文乾不相能，以師儉署鹽法道，欲引以為助。 Governor Kong Yuxun and Governor Yang Wenqian were at loggerheads; Yuxun placed Shijian in charge of the salt administration, hoping to win him as an ally.

明年，文乾入覲，上示以毓珣彈事，亦及師儉，乃知師儉非阿毓珣者。 The following year Wenqian came to court; the emperor showed him Yuxun's impeachment memorial, which also named Shijian, and Wenqian realized Shijian had not been currying favor with Yuxun.

令署按察使，毓珣又疑師儉暱文乾。 The court ordered Shijian to serve as acting judicial commissioner; Yuxun now suspected him of being close to Wenqian.

及文乾卒，劾師儉違禁開礦，侵蝕銅價。 After Wenqian's death, Yuxun impeached Shijian for illegally opening mines and embezzling funds from the copper purchases.

逾年，署巡撫傅泰會鞫，事始白。 After more than a year, acting governor Fu Tai jointly investigated the case and Shijian was finally exonerated.

師儉在兵部，諳悉諸邊形勢扼塞、戰守機宜、芻餉緩急。 During his years at the Ministry of War, Shijian had mastered every frontier's strategic terrain, battle plans, and the timing of fodder and pay.