Wang Yezi (王葉滋) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Yezi as an administrator, historian, official, and scholar. 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	Wang Yezi	王葉滋	Wang Yezi
Courtesy name	Huaiqing	槐青	Huaiqing
Surname	Wang	王	Wang
Personal name	Wang Yezi	王葉滋	Wang Yezi
Given name	Yezi	葉滋	Yezi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:300:s0180

Roles

Administrator
Historian
Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Place: in the mountains near Suining / 山中 · Cause: illness-from-exhaustion · Manner: illness
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0204

Age

Value: 55 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0206

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 雍正五年 · Western Year: AD 1727
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0186
Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0183

Career and standing

Label: prefect of Changde / 常德知府 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0187
Label: vice commissioner of the Chen-Yuan-Jing Circuit / 辰沅靖道副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0193

Places and affiliations

Place: Huating, Jiangnan / 江南華亭
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0180

Learning and skills

Credential: second-rank jinshi (granted without palace exam) / 二甲進士 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1727
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0186, qingshigao:300:s0187
Credential: licentiate / 諸生 · Action: earned
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0181
Credential: Shuntian provincial graduate / 舉順天鄉試 · Action: earned
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0184

Works and attributed material

Work: Ming History / 明史 · Relation: compiler · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0183

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: reformer · Action: abolished-license-fee-custom
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0188
Kind: infrastructure · Role: sponsor · Action: enlarged-dikes-and-exempted-flooded-land
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0189
Kind: military-logistics · Role: supply-officer · Action: supported-Guizhou-Miao-campaign · Place: Chenzhou / 辰州
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0201
Kind: frontier · Role: pacifier · Action: toured-Miao-stockades-and-displayed-military-might
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0196, qingshigao:300:s0197, qingshigao:300:s0198, qingshigao:300:s0199
Relation: staff-of · Person Id: Zhu Shi (硃軾)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0182
Relation: staff-of · Person Id: Fu Min (福敏)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0185
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Chen Ti (陳悌)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0191
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Gui Jinma (貴金馬)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0191
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Liu Qiao (劉樵)
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0191

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: pacified Miao frontier but died before full potential realized · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:300:s0234

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

王葉滋，字槐青，江南華亭人。 Wang Yezi, styled Huaiqing, came from Huating in Jiangnan.

福敏督湖廣，世宗命葉滋往贊其幕。 When Fu Min governed Huguang, the Shizong Emperor ordered Yezi to assist his staff.

常德例，知府至，行戶更新照，規費四千金，葉滋革其例。 By Changde custom, when a new prefect arrived, brokerage houses paid four thousand taels to renew licenses. Yezi abolished this custom.

辰州關木稅為利藪，時議移關常德，葉滋恐累民，拒之，請仍舊制。 The Chenzhou Pass timber tax was a lucrative source of revenue. Some proposed moving the pass to Changde, but Yezi feared burdening the people, refused, and requested that the old system remain.

值貴州苗亂，師進剿，葉滋駐辰州治軍需，剋期辦。 When the Guizhou Miao rebelled and troops marched to suppress them, Yezi remained at Chenzhou managing military supplies and met every deadline.

葉滋條上剿撫事，悉中窾要。 Yezi submitted a detailed plan for suppression and pacification, every point striking at the heart of the matter.

葉滋初以文學受知，及官於外，所至有聲績。 Yezi first won recognition for his literary learning, and once he held office in the provinces, he earned renown wherever he served.

葉滋撫循苗疆，未竟其用。 Yezi pacified the Miao frontier but died before his full potential could be realized.