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Sushun 肅順

Sùshùn

Died AD 1861

Passages
45
Chapters
6
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Sushun as an aristocrat, courtier, official, and statesman. This record brings together 45 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Sushun 肅順 Sùshùn
Personal name Sushun 肅順 Sùshùn
Personal name Sushun 肅順 Sushun
Personal name Sushun 肅順
Personal Sushun 肅順 Sushun
Title Sushun of the imperial clan 宗室肅順
Courtesy name Yuting 雨亭 Yǔtíng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Aristocrat
  • Courtier
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Family

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  • Sibling of Duanhua (端華)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
  • Child of Ulgungga (烏爾恭阿)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father · Subject Birth Order: 6
  • Parent of Son of Sushun (肅順子)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年八月甲子 · Western Year: AD 1857
    Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0098, qingshigao:191:s0097
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年正月戊辰 · Western Year: AD 1857
    Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0101, qingshigao:191:s0097
  • Label: assistant grand secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0031
  • Label: grand secretary / 內閣學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0003
  • Label: imperial bodyguard / 御前侍衛 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 咸豐四年 · Western Year: AD 1854
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0005
  • Label: left censor-in-chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1857
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0006
  • Label: minister of revenue / 戶部尚書 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0009, qingshigao:387:s0031
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年八月甲子 · Western Year: AD 1857
    Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0101, qingshigao:191:s0097
  • Label: Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院尚書 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年九月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1858
    Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0109, qingshigao:191:s0108
  • Title: third-class bulguo general / 三等輔國將軍 · Action: enfeoffed
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0002
  • Status: execution · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九月 · Western Year: AD 1861
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0043, qingshigao:387:s0037

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: regent · Action: received deathbed charge · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年七月 · Western Year: AD 1861
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0032
  • Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred-from-censor-in-chief-to-minister · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年八月甲子 · Western Year: AD 1857
    Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0101
  • Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年九月壬午 · Western Year: AD 1858
    Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0109

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: arrogant and overbearing · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Li Henian (李鶴年)
    Explicit · qingshigao:450:s0042
  • Assessment: framed-Baizhan · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:389:s0166
  • Assessment: military planning superior; pacification merit cannot be denied · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0118
  • Assessment: relied on favor; squeezed out opponents · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0008

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 191Volume 191 Tables 31: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 7 Lower · 3 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 387Volume 387 Biographies 174: Zong Shisushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Jiao Youying, Chen Fuen · 31 passages
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肅順察寶鈔處所列「宇」字五號欠款與官錢總局存檔不符，奏請究治，得朦混狀，褫司員台斐音等職，與商人並論罪，籍沒者數十家。 Sushun found that arrears listed for the five "yu" firms at the Treasure Note Office did not match the Official Coin General Bureau archives. He memorialized for investigation, uncovered fraud, stripped clerks including Tai Feiyin of rank, tried them with the merchants, and confiscated property from dozens of households.
十一年七月，上疾大漸，召肅順及御前大臣載垣、端華、景壽，軍機大臣穆廕、匡源、杜翰、焦祐瀛入見，受顧命，上已不能禦硃筆，諸臣承寫焉。 In the seventh month of 1861 the emperor's illness turned grave. Sushun, the imperial chamberlains Zaiyuan, Duanhua, and Jingshou, and the grand councilors Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Du Han, and Jiao Youying were called in to receive his deathbed charge. He could no longer hold the vermilion brush himself, and the ministers wrote at his dictation.
詔謂：「擅政阻皇太后垂簾，三人同罪，而肅順擅坐御位，進內廷出入自由，擅用行宮御用器物，傳收應用物件，抗違不遵，並自請分見兩宮皇太后，詞氣抑揚，意在構釁，其悖逆狂謬，較載垣、端華罪尤重。」 The edict declared: "In usurping power and blocking the empress dowager from ruling behind the curtain the three were alike guilty; yet Sushun had presumptuously sat on the imperial seat, come and gone freely in the inner court, used objects reserved for the traveling palace, collected supplies due the court yet defied orders, and even asked to see the two empress dowagers separately with a tone meant to provoke—his treason and frenzy outweighed even Zaiyuan and Duanhua's crimes."
肅順等既敗，少詹事許彭壽疏請治黨援，論形跡最著莫如孚恩，最密莫如侍郎劉昆、黃宗漢，平日所薦舉者，則有侍郎成琦、太僕寺少卿德克津太、候補京堂富績等，於是諸臣盡黜。 After Sushun's fall, Junior Mentor Xu Pengshou memorialized to punish their clique. He named Fuen the most conspicuous associate, Liu Kun and Huang Zonghan the closest confidants, and among Fuen's usual recommendations Cheng Qi, Deke Jintai, and Fuji; all were dismissed.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 389Volume 389 Biographies 176: Bai Jun, Lin Kui, Rui Chang, Quan Qing · 6 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 394Volume 394 Biographies 181: Xu Guangjin, Ye Mingchen, Huang Zonghan · 2 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 2 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 450Volume 450 Biographies 237: Li Henian, Wen Bin, Ren Daorong, Xu Zhenyi, Wu Dacheng · 1 passage
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