Qiying (耆英) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Qiying as an administrator, diplomat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 10 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Qiying	耆英	Qiying
Personal name	Qiying	耆英	Qiying
Personal name	Qiying	耆英	Qíyīng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0196, qingshigao:387:s0010, qingshigao:390:s0102
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:394:s0012

Roles

Administrator
Diplomat
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Manner: ordered to take his own life / 賜自盡
Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0011

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:387:s0010, qingshigao:387:s0009
Source Date: Text: 道光三十年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0044
Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0196
Source Date: Text: 道光二十八年 · Western Year: AD 1848
Explicit · qingshigao:390:s0102, qingshigao:394:s0012

Family

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Parent of Qingxi (慶錫)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: lived-under
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:375:s0196
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0010, qingshigao:394:s0012

Events and relationships

Relation: negotiated-with · Person Id: Bonham (文翰)
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:394:s0012, qingshigao:394:s0016

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 375Volume 375 Biographies 162: Bai Rong, Sun Huan, Shi Zhiyan, Na Qingan, Sheng Yin, Li Zongfang, Yao Yuanzhi, He Rulin, Ji Zhichang, Lie Chuan · 2 passages

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二十九年，偕大學士耆英赴浙江閱兵，並清查倉庫，籌辦鹽務。 In 1849 he joined Grand Secretary Qiying in Zhejiang to review troops, inspect granaries, and manage salt affairs.

耆英病留清江浦，芝昌獨赴浙江，疏陳變通鹽務章程七事：杭、嘉、紹三所引鹽，分別加斤，止令完交正課； Qiying fell ill and remained at Qingjiangpu. Zhichang went alone to Zhejiang and memorialized seven reforms to salt regulations: for salt under transport permits from the Hang, Jia, and Shao offices, add weight separately and require only regular tax payment.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 387Volume 387 Biographies 174: Zong Shisushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Jiao Youying, Chen Fuen · 4 passages

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會英法聯軍犯天津，起前大學士耆英隨欽差大臣桂良、花沙納往議約。 As the Anglo-French allied armies threatened Tianjin, the former grand secretary Qiying was sent with the imperial commissioners Guiliang and Huashana to negotiate terms.

耆英不候旨回京，下獄議罪，擬絞監候，肅順獨具疏請立予正法，上雖斥其言過當，即賜耆英自盡。 Qiying returned to Beijing without awaiting orders, was imprisoned and tried, and sentenced to strangulation after reprieve; Sushun alone memorialized that he should be put to death immediately. Though the emperor criticized this as going too far, Qiying was at once ordered to kill himself.

耆英子慶錫呈訴其父為肅順所陷，請昭雪，詔以耆英罪當死，肅順奏過當，文宗已斥之，特錮肅順子不得入仕以示戒。 Qiying's son Qingxi petitioned that his father had been framed by Sushun and asked exoneration. The edict held that Qiying's crime merited death, that Sushun's memorial had indeed gone too far and Wenzong had already censured it, and that Sushun's son was barred from office as a special warning.

其尤負謗者，殺耆英、柏葰及戶部諸獄，以執法論，諸人罪固應得，第持之者不免有私嫌於其間耳。 He was most reviled for the deaths of Qiying and Baijun and the revenue ministry prosecutions; strictly speaking those men deserved their fates, yet those who drove the cases could hardly escape private grudges.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 390Volume 390 Biographies 177: Jia Zhen, Zhou Zupei, Zhu Fengbiao, Dan Maoqian · 1 passage

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尋偕大學士耆英查辦山東鹽務，疏劾歷任巡撫、運司收受程儀節壽，論譴有差。 Soon afterward he joined Grand Secretary Qiying in investigating Shandong salt administration and memorialized against successive governors and transport commissioners for accepting traveling allowances and birthday gifts; punishments were meted out according to the degree of guilt.