Qing · Inner Minister

Leng Sengji 冷僧機

Lěng Sēngjī

Died AD 1652

Passages: 14
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Leng Sengji as an aristocrat, courtier, and official. This record brings together 14 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	Leng Sengji	冷僧機	Lěng Sēngjī
Title	first-class baron	一等伯
Title	inner minister	內大臣
Personal	Leng Sengji	冷僧機
Personal	Leng Sengji	冷僧機	Leng Sengji
Clan	Nara	納喇氏

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:246:s0172, qingshigao:246:s0196

Roles

Aristocrat
Courtier
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 順治九年 · Western Year: AD 1652
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0191

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天聰元年 · Western Year: AD 1627
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:246:s0174
Source Date: Text: 若冷僧機者，專事告訐，其及也亦宜矣 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1651 · End: AD 1652
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:246:s0196

Family

Kin of Gintaisi (金台石)
Kinship Term: kinsman / 族 · Subject Role: clansman · Object Role: clansman

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Manchu / 滿洲
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0172
Lineage: Nara clan / 納喇氏
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0172

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0196
Organization: Plain Yellow Banner / 正黃旗 · Relation: transferred-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天聰九年 · Western Year: AD 1635
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0176
Organization: Plain Blue Banner / 正藍旗 · Relation: member-of · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 葉赫亡後來歸 · Western Year: AD 1627
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0173
Organization: Plain Yellow Banner / 正黃旗 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0172

Works and attributed material

Kind: judgment · Role: subject · Label: historian's judgment that his fall was fitting / 其及也亦宜矣 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0196
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Speaker Person Id: Leng Sengji (冷僧機)
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0186, qingshigao:246:s0187

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: subject · Action: met-ruin · Label: his fall / 其及
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0196
Kind: political · Role: denouncer · Action: practiced-accusation · Label: devoted himself to denunciation / 專事告訐
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0196

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: lived by accusation; his ruin was only just · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:246:s0196

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 246Volume 246 Biographies 33: Tan Tai, He Luohui, Xi Tu Ku, Bo Er Hui, Leng Sengji · 14 passages

冷僧機，納喇氏，滿洲正黃旗人，葉赫部長金台石之族也。 Leng Sengji, of the Nara clan, belonged to the Plain Yellow Banner and was kin to the Yehe chieftain Gintaisi.

天聰元年，敖漢部長索諾木來歸，尚公主為額駙，以冷僧機隸焉。 In Tiancong 1 the Aohan chieftain Sonomu submitted, married a princess, and Leng Sengji was assigned to him.

莽古爾泰既卒，九年，冷僧機詣法司言莽古爾泰及貝勒德格類與公主及索諾木結黨，設誓謀不軌。 After Manggu'ertai's death, in the ninth year Leng Sengji reported to the courts that Manggu'ertai and Beile Degesi, with the princess and Sonomu, had sworn a treasonous pact.

冷僧機與甲喇額真屯布祿、巴克什愛巴禮並下法司，鞫實，冷僧機以自首免罪，屯布祿、愛巴禮皆坐誅，籍其家以★K2冷僧機，改隸正黃旗，授世職三等梅勒章京。 Leng Sengji, Jalan Commander Tunbulu, and Secretary Aibali were tried; the plot was proved; Leng Sengji was spared for confessing; Tunbulu and Aibali were executed and their estates given to him; he was moved to the Plain Yellow Banner as third-class hereditary meiren colonel.

或以告冷僧機，聞於上，穆爾泰及同官皆坐降罰，授冷僧機一等侍衛。 Someone told Leng Sengji; the emperor heard; Murutai and his colleagues were demoted; Leng Sengji was made a first-rank guardsman.

七年，祖大壽來歸，上幸牧馬所，命內大臣侍衛與大壽等校射，中的者有所賜，冷僧機得駝一。 In the seventh year Zu Dashou submitted; at an archery contest with him Leng Sengji hit the mark and won a camel.

譚泰訐索尼，引冷僧機為證，謝未聞，坐徇庇，當削世職籍沒，上貰之。 When Tan Tai denounced Sonin and called Leng Sengji as witness, he pleaded ignorance; though liable to lose rank and estate for favoritism, the emperor spared him.

七年，睿親王有疾，怨上未臨視，冷僧機及貝子錫翰等奏請上臨視，睿親王坐以擅請降世職，恩詔復故，進一等伯。 In the seventh year, when Prince Rui fell ill and resented the emperor's absence, Leng Sengji and Beizi Xi Han asked the throne to visit; Leng Sengji was reduced in hereditary rank for the unauthorized request, then an amnesty restored him and advanced him to first-class baron.

冷僧機言於上曰：「昔太宗登遐，兩黃旗大臣誓立肅親王。 Leng Sengji told the emperor: "When Taizong died, the Yellow Banner ministers swore to make Prince Su emperor.

又舉侍衛羅什，羅什上為冷僧機乞恩。 He also named the guardsman Roshi, who memorialized asking favor for him.

八年，鄭親王濟爾哈朗等劾羅什蠱惑諸王，坐誅，辭連冷僧機。 In the eighth year Prince Zheng Jirhalang impeached Roshi for misleading the princes; Roshi was executed and implicated Leng Sengji.

上因命諸大臣詰誓立肅親王事，冷僧機窮，諸大臣兼發阿諛睿親王諸罪，論斬籍沒，命寬之。 The emperor then had ministers examine the oath to enthrone Prince Su; cornered, Leng Sengji was also charged with flattering Prince Rui; though death and confiscation were proposed, he was spared.

九年，追論冷僧機與貝子鞏阿岱、錫翰，內大臣西訥布庫等迎合睿親王，亂國政，下王大臣鞫實，與鞏阿岱、錫翰、西訥布庫等並誅，籍其家。 In the ninth year he was prosecuted again with Gongadai, Xi Han, and Xinebuku for pandering to Prince Rui and corrupting government; tried by the princes and ministers, he was executed with them and their estates seized.

若冷僧機者，專事告訐，其及也亦宜矣。 As for Leng Sengji, who lived by accusation, his fall was only just.