Yuan · Official and Statesman

Wu Yuangui 吳元珪

Attested AD 1277 - AD 1302

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Wu Yuangui was an official and Statesman.

PeriodYuan
IdentityHistorical · Male

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TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Junzhang 君璋 Junzhang

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History of Yuan, Chapter 177Volume 177 Biographies 64: Zhang Siming, Wu Yuangui, Zhang Sheng, Zang Mengjie, Chen Hao · 10 passages
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初，江南既定，樞密奏裁定官屬，京師五衛、行省、萬戶府設官有差，均俸祿，給醫藥，設學校，置屯田，多元珪所論建。 After the south was pacified, the Bureau of Military Affairs submitted plans to fix the official establishment for the Five Guards, branch secretariats, and ten-thousand-household offices—standardizing salaries, supplying medicine, founding schools, and establishing garrison farms. Most of these measures originated in Yuangui's proposals.
遷工部尚書，河朔連年水旱，五穀不登，元珪言：「《春秋》之義，以養民為本，凡用民力者必書，蓋民力息則生養遂，生養遂則教化行而風俗美。」 Transferred to Minister of Works at a time when the north had suffered flood and drought for years and harvests failed, Yuangui argued: "The Spring and Autumn Annals teach that nourishing the people comes first and that every use of popular labor must be recorded. When the people's strength is spared, they can thrive; when they thrive, education spreads and customs improve."