Wang Fengsheng (王鳳生)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Fengsheng as an administrator, official, and scholar. This record brings together 18 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Fengsheng	王鳳生	Wáng Fèngshēng
Given	Fengsheng	鳳生	Fengsheng
Surname	Wang	王	Wang
Personal name	Wang Fengsheng	王鳳生	Wang Fengsheng
Courtesy name	Zhuyu	竹嶼	Zhuyu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Sex: male
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Roles

Administrator
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died before returning to office
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1829
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Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1796 · End: AD 1820
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Source Date: Text: 道光初 · Western Year: AD 1821
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Source Date: Text: 道光十年 · Western Year: AD 1830
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Family

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Child of Wang Youliang (王友亮)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: acting Liang-Huai salt transport commissioner / 署兩淮鹽運使 · Action: acting · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1829
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Label: vice-prefect of Jiaxing / 嘉興府通判 · Action: appointed
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Label: former Lianghuai salt transport commissioner / 前兩淮鹽運使 · Action: held
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Label: intendant of Zhang-Wei-Huai circuit / 彰衛懷道 · Action: promoted
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Label: prefect of Guide / 歸德知府 · Action: promoted · Place: Henan / 河南
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Label: vice-prefect of Zhejiang / 浙江通判 · Action: purchased · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1796 · End: AD 1820
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Status: retirement · Action: entered
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Status: demotion · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)
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Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Wuyuan, Anhui / 安徽婺源
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Works and attributed material

Work: Han River Journey / 漢江紀程 · Relation: author
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Work: Hebei Customs Record / 河北采風錄 · Relation: author
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Work: Investigative Notes on Western Zhejiang Waterworks / 浙西水利圖說備考 · Relation: author
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Work: Jiang-Han Flood-Control Notes / 江漢宣防備考 · Relation: author
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Work: Jiang-Huai River Transport Atlas / 江淮河運圖 · Relation: author
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Kind: memorial · Role: author · Statement: eighteen salt reforms
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Events and relationships

Kind: judicial · Role: magistrate · Action: cleared-backlog · Place: Lanxi / 蘭溪 · Count: 700
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Kind: legal · Role: official · Action: induced-Huang-Yulin-surrender · Other Person Id: Huang Yulin (黃玉林)
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Kind: religious-policy · Role: magistrate · Action: punished-heterodox-sect-leaders · Place: Pinghu / 平湖
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Relation: aide-of · Person Id: Tao Shu (陶澍)
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Relation: subordinate-of · Person Id: Lu Kun (盧坤)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: practical talent for the age in Huai salt · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 2 passages

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疏調前兩淮鹽運使王鳳生綜理水利，擇要疏濬河道，修築堤堰，皆以次舉行。 He memorialized to assign the former Lianghuai salt transport commissioner Wang Fengsheng to oversee water conservancy, selecting the most critical points for river dredging and dike repair, all of which were carried out in turn.

在江南治河、治漕、治鹽，並賴王鳳生、俞德源、姚瑩、黃冕諸人之力。 In Jiangnan his work on rivers, grain transport, and salt all depended on the efforts of Wang Fengsheng, Yu Deyuan, Yao Ying, Huang Mian, and others.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 16 passages

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王鳳生，字竹嶼，安徽婺源人。 Wang Fengsheng, whose style was Zhuyu, came from Wuyuan in Anhui.

鳳生，嘉慶中，入貲為浙江通判，屢攝知縣事。 During the Jiaqing reign Fengsheng purchased appointment as vice-prefect of Zhejiang and repeatedly served in acting posts as county magistrate.

任平湖，有民數百戶，誦經茹素，傳授邪教，鳳生憫其愚惑，開諭利害，治為首數人罪，餘釋之。 At Pinghu several hundred households were chanting scriptures, eating vegetarian fare, and spreading a heterodox sect; Fengsheng pitied their delusion, explained the consequences to them, punished only the ringleaders, and released the rest.

道光初，浙江清查倉庫，以鳳生總其事。 Early in the Daoguang reign, when Zhejiang undertook a general audit of granaries and storehouses, Fengsheng was placed in overall charge.

會浙西大水，江、浙兩省議合治，調鳳生乍浦同知，勘水道，乃由天目山歷湖州、嘉興，沿太湖以達松江。 When western Zhejiang was hit by severe flooding and Jiangsu and Zhejiang agreed on joint works, Fengsheng was transferred to Zhapu to survey the waterways, tracing a route from Mount Tianmu through Huzhou and Jiaxing along Lake Tai to Songjiang.

計畫甫就，事未行，值淮南高堰潰決，江南大吏疏調鳳生赴南河。 His plan was barely finished when the Gaoyan embankment on the Huainan front burst; the senior officials of Jiangnan memorialized to transfer him to the Southern River works.

尋擢彰衛懷道，道屬河工五廳，歲修糜費，春秋防汛，虛應故事，鳳生力矯積習，事必躬親。 He was soon promoted intendant of the Zhang-Wei-Huai circuit, where the five river offices had long squandered funds on annual repairs and seasonal flood duty in hollow observance of form; Fengsheng fought these entrenched abuses and oversaw every task himself.

鳳生以淮鹽極敝，條上十八事。 Seeing how badly the Huai salt system had decayed, Fengsheng submitted a detailed program of eighteen reforms.

攸銛採其議，改灶鹽，節浮費，濬河道，增屯船，緝場私、鄰私之出入，禁江船、漕船之夾帶，及清查庫款，督運淮北諸條，疏陳待施行，會詔捕鹽梟巨魁黃玉林，鳳生計招出首，責緝私贖罪。 Jiang Youxian adopted his proposals—reforming furnace salt, cutting waste, dredging waterways, adding transport vessels, cracking down on field and cross-border smuggling, banning contraband on river and grain boats, auditing treasury funds, and tightening north-of-Huai transport—and memorialized the package for implementation. When the throne ordered the capture of the salt-smuggling kingpin Huang Yulin, Fengsheng devised a plan to induce the chief culprit to surrender and required him to hunt smugglers in exchange for clemency.

上以前後歧異，譴攸銛，鳳生亦降調。 The emperor, seeing the contradiction between the two accounts, censured Jiang Youxian and demoted Fengsheng as well.

陶澍繼督兩江，與尚書王鼎、侍郎寶興會籌鹽法，合疏留鳳生襄議，於是大有興革，略與鳳生初議相出入； Tao Shu succeeded as governor-general of the Two Jiangs and, with Minister Wang Ding and Vice Minister Bao Xing, worked out salt reforms; they jointly memorialized to keep Fengsheng to help draft the plan, and the resulting overhaul largely followed, though not entirely, his original proposals;