Jin Rong (金溶) | 24 Histories

Overview

Jin Rong was an official and Administrator.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Guangyun	廣蘊	Guangyun

Life and dates

Death

Unspecified
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 139

Age

Years 73 · Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 139

Attested activity

AD 1744 乾隆九年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 118
AD 1748 十三年春
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 130
AD 1736 當是時
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 112
AD 1730 雍正八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 106
AD 1736 高宗即位
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 107

Career and standing

acting provincial treasurer and surveillance commissioner 署布、按兩司事
Acting
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 137
intendant of the Shaanxi salt and courier circuit 陝西鹽驛道
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 136
vice director in the Ministry of Punishments 刑部員外郎
AD 1730 雍正八年 · Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 106
supervising censor of the Shandong circuit 山東道監察御史
AD 1730 雍正八年 · Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 106
intendant of the Taiwan circuit 台灣道
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 135
prefect of Zhangzhou in Fujian 福建漳州知府
Recalled
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 124

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Zhejiang grain circuit intendant 浙江糧道
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 138
Entered
Retired at former rank
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 138
dismissal from office 奪職
AD 1744 乾隆九年 · Recommended
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 123

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 106
At Daxing, Shuntian metropolitan district 順天大興
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 105
At Daxing 大興 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 105
At Shaanxi 陝西 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 136
At Taiwan 台灣 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 135
At Zhangzhou 漳州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 124

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At Zhejiang 浙江 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 138

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1730 雍正八年 · Credential jinshi 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 106

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · With Qianlong Emperor (高宗) · Paraphrased
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 107-111
Memorial · Author · With Qianlong Emperor (高宗) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 112-116, 118-122

Events and relationships

Arrested and punished
Legal · Judge · With Wu Cheng (吳成)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 126
Restored Confucian temple ritual instruments and increased academy stipends
Ritual · Administrator · At Zhangzhou 漳州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 134
Secured posting of an official at Huafu and punishment of colluding clerks
Administrative · Petitioner · At Huafu Village 華葑村
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 128
Stabilized grain prices in drought
AD 1748 十三年春 · Disaster relief · Administrator · At Fujian 閩
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 130-133
Submitted folded essay on classics and histories
AD 1736 當是時 · Political · Author · With Qianlong Emperor (高宗)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 112-116
Submitted memorial on five measures to secure the people
AD 1736 高宗即位 · Political · Author · With Qianlong Emperor (高宗)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 107-111

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Relation Student of · Person Sun Jiagao (孫嘉淦)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 122
Relation Clashed with · Person Chen Xuepeng (陳學鵬)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 138

Assessments and attributes

Assessment slow and incompetent · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Chen Xuepeng (陳學鵬)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 138
Assessment without Lord Jin the village elders would have worn themselves to death on the roads · Mode quotation
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 129

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 105

References in the histories

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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 · 10 passages

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金溶，字廣蘊，順天大興人。 Jin Rong, whose courtesy name was Guangyun, came from Daxing in the Shuntian metropolitan district.

高宗即位，詔求直言，溶上疏言安民五事：一曰開墾之地緩其昇科； When the Qianlong Emperor took the throne, he called for candid counsel; Rong submitted a memorial on five measures to secure the people: first, delay elevating newly reclaimed land to full tax status;

當是時，上命翰詹科道各進經史摺子，溶又上疏曰：「頭會箕斂以裕囊櫝者，匹夫之富也； At that time the emperor ordered Hanlin, Imperial Academy, and censorate officials each to submit folded essays on the classics and histories; Rong memorialized again: "Heaping taxes head by head and bushel by bushel to swell one's purse is the wealth of a private man;

溶上疏論曰：「賞罰者，人主禦世之大權。 Rong submitted a memorial arguing: "Reward and punishment are the sovereign's supreme instruments for ruling the realm.

有吳成者，設局誘博，擒治之，民稱快。 One Wu Cheng ran a gambling house; Rong arrested and punished him, to the people's delight.

溶復以請，布政使文不下府而直行縣，溶大怒，嚴訊縣胥，得其交通狀，乃詳請治罪而設官。 Rong petitioned again; the provincial treasurer routed documents straight to the county, bypassing the prefecture. Enraged, Rong interrogated the county clerks, uncovered their collusion, and secured orders to punish them and post an official at Huafu.

其父老歎曰：「微金公，吾儕奔馳道路死矣！」 The village elders sighed, "Without Lord Jin, we would have worn ourselves out on the roads and died!"

十三年春，閩省旱，斗米千錢，大府檄溶平糶。 In the spring of the thirteenth year drought struck Fujian; rice reached a thousand cash per dou; the provincial authorities ordered Rong to stabilize prices through government grain sales.

溶勸富家出糶，給印紙令商人赴糴； Rong persuaded wealthy households to sell grain and issued stamped permits for merchants to buy it;

調浙江糧道，與巡撫陳學鵬牴牾，學鵬論溶迂緩不任事，原品休致。 Transferred to the Zhejiang grain circuit, he fell out with Governor Chen Xuepeng, who denounced him as slow and incompetent; Rong retired at his former rank.