Jie Xizhou (介錫週) | 24 Histories

Overview

Jie Xizhou was an official and Administrator.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Dingbu	鼎卜	Dingbu
Alternate name		錫周

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1736 to AD 1795 乾隆中
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 81
AD 1735 十三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 59
AD 1721 康熙六十年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 51
AD 1736 to AD 1795 閱三年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 81, 84-85
AD 1723 to AD 1725 雍正初
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 52

Career and standing

intendant of Eastern Guizhou 貴東道
Acted · At Eastern Guizhou 貴東
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 72
vice minister of the Court of the Imperial Stud 太僕寺少卿
AD 1736 to AD 1795 乾隆中 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 84
magistrate of Bijie, Guizhou 貴州畢節知縣
AD 1723 to AD 1725 雍正初 · Appointed · At Bijie, Guizhou 貴州畢節
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 52
intendant of Western Guizhou 貴西道
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 79
provincial surveillance commissioner 按察使
AD 1736 to AD 1795 乾隆中 · Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 81
prefect of Dading 大定知府
AD 1735 十三年 · Promoted · At Dading 大定
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 59

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department magistrate of Pingyuan 平遠知州
Transferred · At Pingyuan 平遠
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 56
grain-transport intendant 糧道
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 79

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 51-52
At Jiezhou, Shanxi 山西解州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 50
AD 1735 十三年
At Dading 大定 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 59
AD 1723 to AD 1725 雍正初
At Bijie, Guizhou 貴州畢節 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 52
At Guizhou 黔中 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 82
At Pingyuan 平遠 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 56

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1721 康熙六十年 · Credential jinshi 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 51

Works and attributed material

Spoken rebuke · Speaker · Direct quotation · Extent Unit Ids s0053, s0054
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 53-54
Spoken admonition · Speaker · With An Guoxian (安國賢) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 63
Spoken guarantee · Speaker · With An Guoxian (安國賢) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 64

Events and relationships

Advanced with grain
Military · Commander · Outcome Hostile Miao scattered · At Wumeng 烏蒙
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 55
Devised three part grain transport plan
Administrative · Planner · Outcome Halted extra relays and levies; saved several hundred thousand taels
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 75-78
Diverted Sichuan troops to relieve Danjiang
AD 1735 十三年 · Military · Requester · At Danjiang 丹江 · Outcome Siege lifted and Dading left in peace
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 65
Managed grain transport
Administrative · Logistics officer · At Zhenyuan 鎮遠
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 72-73
Pacified Miao
Military · Pacifier · At Dading 大定 · Outcome Pingyuan remained untroubled
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 58
Petitioned to return home
AD 1736 to AD 1795 閱三年 · Career · Petitioner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 84-85

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Refused surplus on commuted military grain
Administrative · Intendant
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 80
Requested retirement on grounds of age
AD 1736 to AD 1795 乾隆中 · Career · Petitioner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 83
Summoned and admonished
AD 1735 十三年 · Political · Prefect · With An Guoxian (安國賢) · At Dading 大定
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 63
Summoned to audience
AD 1736 to AD 1795 乾隆中 · Court · Summoned official · With The Qing Emperor (上)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 84
Supervised grain transport
AD 1723 to AD 1725 雍正初 · Military · Escort commander · At Wumeng 烏蒙
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 53
Tried cases and released implicated
AD 1735 十三年 · Legal · Joint investigator · With Wang Wenjia (王文甲) · At Nanlong 南籠
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 71
pledged a hundred lives that Guoxian would not die and would halt Sichuan troops
Relation Guarantor of · Person An Guoxian (安國賢)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 64

Assessments and attributes

Assessment governed with sincerity, careful in criminal cases, and promoted education; long familiar with Guizhou administration, customs, and Han and Miao hardships · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 82
Assessment praised by soldiers and civilians for not collecting surplus on commuted military grain · Mode named-group-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 80
Assessment upright and uncompromising, ill at ease with the times · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 83

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 50

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 336Volume 336 Biographies 123: Ye Shikuan, Chen Mengshuo, Jie Xi, Zhou Fanghao, Jin Rong, Zhang Weiyin, Gu Guangxu, Shen Shanfu, Fang Ang, Tang Shibi, Zhang Chongzhi · 9 passages

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介錫週，字鼎卜，山西解州人。 Jie Xizhou, whose courtesy name was Dingbu, came from Jiezhou in Shanxi.

烏蒙土司叛，督運軍糧，遇逆苗，徒役欲棄糧走，錫週厲聲曰：「失糧法當死，犯苗亦死。 When the Wumeng native chieftain rebelled, Xi was charged with escorting military grain. They encountered hostile Miao, and the porters wanted to abandon the supplies and flee. Xi shouted, "To lose the grain is death under the law; to face the Miao is death as well.

錫周先往撫大定苗，平遠得無患。 Xi went first to pacify the Miao of Dading, so that Pingyuan remained untroubled.

錫週甫蒞郡，立召國賢至，諭以禍福。 Xi had only just assumed the prefecture when he summoned Guoxian at once and lectured him on the consequences of loyalty and rebellion.

國賢伏地陳無交通古州狀，錫周曰：「汝率眾苗就撫，我以百口保汝不死，且止川兵。」 Guoxian prostrated himself and declared that he had had no dealings with Guzhou. Xi said, "Lead your Miao to accept pacification. I stake the lives of a hundred people on your safety, and I will halt the Sichuan troops as well."

時丹江亦被圍，乃請以川兵往援，丹江圍解而大定安堵。 Danjiang was also under siege at the time, so Xi requested that the Sichuan troops be sent to its relief. The siege of Danjiang was lifted and Dading was left in peace.

錫週奉檄往會鞫，蔽罪悉當，釋文甲及系累者，逃亡並歸，邊境以靖。 Xi was ordered to join in the joint investigation. He determined guilt and innocence justly throughout and released Wenjia and all those implicated with him. Fugitives returned from hiding, and the border was pacified.

錫週畫三策：以馬設台站，運凱里、丹江諸路； Xi devised a three-part plan: establish horse relay stations for the routes through Kaili and Danjiang.

錫週在黔中久，吏治、風土、民苗疾苦皆熟習，蒞之以誠，慎刑獄，興教化。 Having served long in Guizhou, Xi knew its administration, customs, and the hardships of both Han settlers and Miao by heart. He governed with sincerity, was careful in criminal matters, and promoted education and moral reform.