Lin Peihou (林培厚) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lin Peihou as an administrator and official. This record brings together 9 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	Lin Peihou	林培厚	Lin Peihou
Surname	Lin	林	Lin
Personal name	Lin Peihou	林培厚	Lin Peihou
Courtesy name	Minzhai	敏齋	Minzhai
Given	Peihou	培厚	Peihou

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0001

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died of exhaustion · Place: Tongzhou transport depot / 通州運次
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0020

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 出為四川重慶知府 · Western Year: AD 1808
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:384:s0003, qingshigao:384:s0002
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十三年 · Western Year: AD 1808
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0002
Source Date: Text: 畿輔大水 · Western Year: AD 1808
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:384:s0010, qingshigao:384:s0002

Family

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Child of Mother of Lin Peihou
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: acting intendant of eastern Sichuan / 署川東道 · Action: acting
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0007
Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十三年 · Western Year: AD 1808
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0002
Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十三年 · Western Year: AD 1808
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0002
Label: grain intendant of Hubei / 湖北糧儲道 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0016
Label: prefect of Chongqing / 重慶知府 · Action: appointed · Place: Chongqing, Sichuan / 四川重慶
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0003
Label: prefect of Tianjin / 天津府 · Action: appointed · Place: Tianjin, Zhili / 直隸天津
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0009
Label: intendant of Da-Shun-Guang circuit / 大順廣道 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0012
Status: mourning · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0009
Status: dismissal · Action: suffered · Label: removed for improper drought relief / 施賑不如法
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0016

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0002
Place: Rui'an, Zhejiang / 浙江瑞安
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0001

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十三年 · Western Year: AD 1808
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0002

Events and relationships

Kind: logistics · Role: administrator · Action: expedited-grain-transport
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0019
Kind: religious-policy · Role: official · Action: refuted-Catholic-texts
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0006
Kind: hydraulic · Role: administrator · Action: regulated-rivers · Place: Tianjin and Daming / 天津、大名
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0014
Kind: famine-relief · Role: administrator · Action: relieved-starving · Place: Tianjin / 天津 · Count: 70000
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0010
Kind: administration · Role: official · Action: settled-Han-Yi-feud · Place: Leibo / 雷波 · Other Person Ids:
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0007
Kind: administration · Role: official · Action: suppressed-banditry-and-regulated-ferries · Place: Chongqing / 重慶
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0004, qingshigao:384:s0005
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Tu Zhisen (屠之申)
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0015

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: finest administrator in Sichuan · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Jiang Youxian (蔣攸銛)
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0008
Assessment: real results in famine relief and river works; made enemies by inspecting officials · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0189

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 9 passages

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林培厚，字敏齋，浙江瑞安人。 Lin Peihou, whose style was Minzhai, came from Rui'an in Zhejiang.

署川東道，所屬雷波廳民、夷忿爭，或覬覦邀功，請發兵，培厚不應，立縛治其魁，餘悉貸遣。 While serving as acting intendant of eastern Sichuan, he faced a bitter feud between Han settlers and Yi people in Leibo; some officials, eager for glory, urged him to send troops. He refused, swiftly seized and punished the ringleaders, and released the rest with clemency.

畿輔大水，天津地窪下，災尤劇，培厚遍行屬縣，賑活饑民七萬有奇。 When catastrophic floods struck the capital region, Tianjin—lying low—suffered worst of all. Peihou toured every county under his jurisdiction and kept more than seventy thousand starving people alive through relief work.

時蔣攸銛移督直隸，詔舉賢吏，遂薦之，不旬日，擢大順廣道。 Jiang Youxian had by then been transferred to govern Zhili; when the throne called for nominations of capable officials, he recommended Peihou, who within ten days was promoted intendant of the Da-Shun-Guang circuit.

培厚先在天津治淀河，至大名治新衛河、洺河，浚築悉中程度。 Peihou had first regulated the Dian River at Tianjin; at Daming he took charge of the new Wei and Ming rivers, and in every case his dredging and construction met the required standard.

培厚數以時事利病、屬吏賢否語攸銛，為布政使屠之申所忌。 Peihou frequently reported to Jiang Youxian on the strengths and weaknesses of current policies and on the merit of subordinate officials, which earned him the enmity of Provincial Treasurer Tu Zhishen.

及攸銛入相，那彥成代之，坐河北旱荒施賑不如法，解培厚任，宣宗夙知其能，改授湖北糧儲道。 After Jiang Youxian joined the Grand Council, Na Yancheng succeeded him as governor-general; Peihou was dismissed on the pretext that his drought relief in Hebei had not followed proper procedure, but the Xuanzong Emperor, who had long valued his talent, reassigned him as grain intendant of Hubei.

培厚所部尤速達，為嘉慶以來數十年所未有，攸銛特疏陳給敘。 Peihou's section of the transport was especially fast—unmatched in decades since the Jiaqing reign—and Jiang Youxian submitted a special memorial recommending him for commendation and promotion.

論曰：林培厚救荒治河有實績，而以察吏招忌。 The historians comment: Lin Peihou achieved real results in famine relief and river works, yet by reporting on subordinate officials he made powerful enemies.