Yuan · Laborer

Shi Jia 史甲

Attested AD 1327 - AD 1354

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Shi Jia was a Laborer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1327 to AD 1354 除紹興路緫管府推官
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 187, passages 134, 138

Career and standing

hired laborer 傭作
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 136
Cleared
Exonerated · Authority Gong Shitai (貢師泰)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 138
Forced
False confession · Negated false
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 137

Places and affiliations

At Baiyang Harbor, Shanyin 山陰白洋港 · Relation Present at
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 134

Events and relationships

Took poles and oars from adrift ship
Legal · Accused
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passages 134-135
Relation Employed by · Person Gao Bing (高丙)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 136

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 134
one of twenty men surnamed Shi gathering brine; never killed anyone or seized goods
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passages 134, 138

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 187Volume 187 Biographies 74: Wugusunliangzhen, Jia Lu, Lu Luceng, Gong Shitai, Zhou Boqi, Wu Dang · 5 passages

山陰白洋港有大船飄近岸，史甲二十人，適取鹵海濱，見其無主，因取其篙櫓，而船中有二死人。 At Baiyang Harbor in Shanyin a large ship drifted ashore. Twenty men surnamed Shi, who happened to be gathering brine along the coast, saw that it had no owner and took its poles and oars. Inside the ship were two dead men.

有徐乙者，怪其無物而有死人，稱為史等所劫。 A man named Xu Yi found it strange that the ship held no cargo yet contained corpses, and accused Shi and the others of robbery and murder.

史傭作富民高丙家，事遂連高。 Shi was a hired laborer in the household of the wealthy man Gao Bing, and the case thus implicated Gao as well.

史既誣服，高亦就逮。 After Shi was forced into a false confession, Gao was arrested as well.

師泰密詢之，則里中沈丁載物抵杭而回，漁者張網海中，因盜網中魚，為漁者所殺，史實未嘗殺人奪物，高亦弗知情，其冤皆白。 Shitai made secret inquiries and learned that a villager named Shen Ding, returning from carrying goods to Hangzhou, stole fish from nets fishermen had cast in the sea and was killed by those fishermen. Shi had never killed anyone or seized goods, and Gao knew nothing of the affair. The innocence of both men was established.