Jin Guangti (金光悌)

Overview

The translated histories identify Jin Guangti as an administrator, judge, and official. This record brings together 11 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	Jin Guangti	金光悌	Jin Guangti
Given	Guangti	光悌
Surname	Jin	金
Personal name	Jin Guangti	金光悌	Jin Guangti
Courtesy name	Lanqi	蘭畦	Lanqi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Circumstance: died in office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1761
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Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十五年 · Western Year: AD 1780
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Source Date: Text: 五十五年 · Western Year: AD 1790
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Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
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Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
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Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1805
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
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Family

Kin of Peng Liangfu (彭良馵)
Kinship Term: relative by marriage / 姻親 · Union Category: other
Kinship Term: relative by marriage / 姻親

Career and standing

Label: principal secretary, Court of the Imperial Clan / 宗人府主事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十五年 · Western Year: AD 1780
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Label: governor of Jiangxi / 江西巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
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Label: minister of punishments / 刑部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Label: vice minister of punishments / 刑部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1805
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Label: Shandong provincial judicial commissioner / 山東按察使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
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Label: Grand Secretariat drafter / 內閣中書 · Action: appointed
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Label: Hanlin Reader in the Grand Secretariat / 內閣侍讀學士 · Action: appointed
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Label: vice director then director, Ministry of Punishments / 刑部員外郎、郎中 · Action: appointed
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Label: fourth-rank capital official / 四品京堂 · Action: approved · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十五年 · Western Year: AD 1790
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Label: provincial treasurer / 布政使 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
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Label: vice director, Ministry of Punishments / 刑部員外郎 · Action: reappointed
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Label: posthumous honors as minister / 依尚書例賜卹 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1812
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Status: demoted · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十五年 · Western Year: AD 1790
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Yingshan, Anhui / 安徽英山
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十五年 · Western Year: AD 1780
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Credential: provincial graduate / 舉人 · Action: held
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Skill: statutes and precedents / 律例 · Level: expert
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Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
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Kind: memorial · Role: author
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: managed ministry affairs longest; especially sharp and known as harsh · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: more often criticized than praised; concurrent ministry duties suspended · Provenance: Mode: edict
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Assessment: strict in applying the law yet sometimes lenient · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng · 11 passages

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姜晟金光悌祖之望韓崶 Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, and Han Feng

金光悌，字蘭畦，安徽英山人。 Jin Guangti, whose courtesy name was Lanqi, came from Yingshan in Anhui.

江西舉人彭良馵為子賄買吏員執照，光悌與為姻親，御史初彭齡劾光悌瞻徇，坐降調，仍補刑部員外郎，留部覈辦秋審。 When Jiangxi graduate Peng Liangfu bought an official license for his son by bribery, Guangti, who was related to him by marriage, was impeached by Censor Chu Pengling for showing favor. He was demoted but kept on in the ministry as vice director to handle the autumn capital-case review.

御史張鵬展复劾之，詔：「光悌在部久，平日毀多譽少，停其兼部。」 Censor Zhang Pengzhan impeached him again. The throne ruled: "Guangti has been in the ministry for years and is more often criticized than praised. Suspend his concurrent duties in the ministry."

光悌自居郎曹，為長官所倚，至是益自力。 From his years in the bureau he had been trusted by his superiors, and as minister he drove himself harder still.

故遇事必持律，不得減比。 Guangti, by contrast, insisted on the letter of the law and would not allow charges to be reduced by analogy.

人咸以光悌用法嚴，然亦有從寬者。 He had a reputation for severity, yet he could be lenient as well.

舊例，監守自盜限內完贓者減等，乾隆二十六年改重不減等，光悌奏復舊例。 Under the old rule, a custodian who stole official property could have his sentence reduced if he made restitution in time. In 1761 that leniency was abolished. Guangti memorialized to restore the earlier practice.

光悌曰：「盜官錢當擬斬監追，不決，絞情實則決矣。 Guangti said: "Theft of government funds should be sentenced to beheading after imprisonment with reprieve, which is not immediately executed. Strangulation after review would be carried out at once.

光悌練習律例，議必堅執，同列無以奪之。 Fluent in statutes and precedents, he held his ground in debate, and his colleagues could not budge him.

金光悌、韓崶，皆筦部務最久，光悌治事尤厲鋒鍔，號刻深雲。 Jin Guangti and Han Feng both managed ministry affairs the longest. Guangti was especially sharp and unyielding in office and was known as harsh and severe.