Tang Jizu (唐繼祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Tang Jizu as an administrator, judge, 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	Tang Jizu	唐繼祖	Tang Jizu
Given name	Jizu	繼祖	Jizu
Surname	Tang	唐	Tang
Personal name	Tang Jizu	唐繼祖	Tang Jizu
Courtesy name	Xuhuang	序皇	Xuhuang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:300:s0095

Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: sudden
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0122

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙六十年 · Western Year: AD 1721
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0096
Source Date: Text: 雍正七年 · Western Year: AD 1729
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0099
Source Date: Text: 雍正九年 · Western Year: AD 1731
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0112
Source Date: Text: 雍正五年 · Western Year: AD 1727
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0098
Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0097
Source Date: Text: 雍正八年 · Western Year: AD 1730
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0111

Career and standing

Label: supervising secretary in the Ministry of Works / 工科給事中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1729
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0099
Label: censor of the Zhejiang circuit / 浙江道御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1727
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0098
Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙六十年 · Western Year: AD 1721
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0096
Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0097
Label: acting Henan judicial commissioner / 署河南按察使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0113
Label: Hubei judicial commissioner / 湖北按察使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0113
Label: director of the Court of State Ceremonial / 鴻臚寺卿 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1731
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0112
Label: counselor in the Office of Transmission / 通政司參議 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1730
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0111
Label: vice department director in the Ministry of Rites / 禮部員外郎 · Action: transferred
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0097
Status: retired · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0121

Places and affiliations

Place: Jiangdu, Jiangnan / 江南江都
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0095

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙六十年 · Western Year: AD 1721
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0096

Works and attributed material

Kind: edict-speech · Role: addressee · Speaker Person Id: Yongzheng Emperor (世宗)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0120

Events and relationships

Kind: audit · Role: investigator · Action: cleared-Eight-Banners-deficit-cases
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0100, qingshigao:300:s0101
Kind: judicial · Role: judge · Action: cleared-Jianli-wrongful-case-and-investigated-Zhongxiang
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0117
Kind: logistics · Role: inspector · Action: expedited-southern-tribute-grain · Place: Huai'an / 淮安
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0104, qingshigao:300:s0105, qingshigao:300:s0106
Kind: judicial · Role: co-investigator · Action: investigated-Yongshun-Miao-case · Other Person Id: Zhao Shenqiao (趙申喬)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0109
Kind: administrative · Role: memorialist · Action: moved-granary-site-and-restored-tombs
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0103
Kind: judicial · Role: commissioner · Action: reviewed-cases-and-inspected-Hunan-Hubei · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1729
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0108
Kind: policing · Role: inspector · Action: suppressed-disorder-in-western-city-Hui-community
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0102

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: acted with confidence; memorials approved; emperor intended further promotion · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0119, qingshigao:300:s0120
Assessment: valued for clarity and severity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0232

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 300Volume 300 Biographies 87: Chen Qi Yuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, Liu Erwei · 9 passages

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沈起元何師儉唐繼祖馬維翰餘甸王葉滋劉而位 Shen Qiyuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, and Liu Erwei

唐繼祖，字序皇，江南江都人。 Tang Jizu, whose courtesy name was Xuhuang, came from Jiangdu in Jiangnan.

繼祖為核減開除，奏請豁免，積牘一清。 Jizu took charge of the audit-and-dismissal cases, memorialized for exemptions, and cleared the entire backlog.

建倉東便門外，多發塚墓，毀祠宇，繼祖陳其不便，改地營建，塚墓祠宇並修復。 Plans to build a granary outside Dongbian Gate had opened many graves and demolished shrines. Jizu memorialized against it; the site was moved, and the tombs and shrines were restored.

繼祖馳至，不更張成法，惟選幹吏催督，懲其疲惰。 Jizu hurried there, changed none of the established procedures, but put capable officers in charge of supervision and punished slackness.

繼祖在兩湖久，熟知吏民情偽。 Having served long in the two Hu provinces, Jizu knew officials and commoners alike—their truths and their lies.

繼祖閉諸胥於一室，不令與外通，訟風衰減。 Jizu confined the yamen clerks to a single room, cut off from outsiders, and the litigious mania subsided.

繼祖一意展舒，所陳奏無不允。 Jizu alone acted with confidence and ease; every proposal he submitted won approval.

師儉以勤敏，繼祖以明肅，並見重於時。 Shijian was valued for diligence and quickness, Jizu for clarity and severity—both were highly regarded in their time.