Yang Suyun (楊素蘊) | 24 Histories

Overview

Yang Suyun was an official and Censor.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Junmei	筠湄	Junmei

Life and dates

Death

AD 1689 康熙二十八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 133

Attested activity

AD 1689 康熙二十八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 130
AD 1687 康熙二十六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 124
AD 1685 康熙二十四年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 123
AD 1678 康熙十七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 118
AD 1673 康熙十二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passages 110-111
AD 1652 順治九年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 78

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AD 1660 順治十七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 83
AD 1661 順治十八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 105

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Yang Suyun (楊素蘊父)
father 父
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 116

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Career and standing

governor of Anhui 安徽巡撫
AD 1687 康熙二十六年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 124
metropolitan governor of Shuntian 順天府尹
AD 1685 康熙二十四年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 123
Vice Director of the Transmission Office 通政司參議
AD 1685 康熙二十四年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 123
lower Jingnan circuit 下荊南道
AD 1678 康熙十七年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 118
magistrate of Dongming 東明知縣
AD 1652 順治九年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 78
Sichuan circuit censor 四川道御史
AD 1660 順治十七年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 83

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northern Sichuan circuit 川北道
AD 1661 順治十八年 · Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 105
governor of Huguang 湖廣巡撫
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 127
Shanxi education circuit 山西提學道
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 122
Entered
Mourning
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 116
Dismissed
AD 1661 順治十八年 · Demotion
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 109
Stripped
AD 1689 康熙二十八年 · Dismissal
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 132

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 78
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 319
At Yijun, Shaanxi 陝西宜君
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 77
AD 1652 順治九年
At Dongming, Zhili 直隸東明 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 78

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1652 順治九年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 78

Works and attributed material

AD 1660 順治十七年
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passages 84-88
Deathbed memorial · Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passages 135-136
Memorial · Author · With Wu Sangui (吳三桂)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passages 92-103

Events and relationships

Induced surrender
Military · Pacifier · With Ren Fengting (任鳳亭)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passages 81-82
Opened granaries
Disaster relief · Governor
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passages 125-126
Opened supply route
Administration · Governor · At Gucheng 穀城
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 121
Rebuilt city
Administration · Magistrate · At Dongming 東明
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 80
Relation Rival of · Person Wu Sangui (吳三桂)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 106
Relation Recommended by · Person Ji Ruxi (冀如錫)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 111

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Relation Recommended by · Person Hao Weina (郝惟訥)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 111
Relation Recommended by · Person Yang Yongning (楊永寧)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 111

Assessments and attributes

Assessment famed in Kangxi era for blunt speech; renowned minister · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 319
Assessment loved the people in office · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 270, passage 215

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 270Volume 270 Biographies 57: Hao Yu, Yang Suyun, Guo Xiu · 16 passages

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郝浴子林楊素蘊郭琇 Hao Yu; his son Lin; Yang Suyun; Guo Xiu

楊素蘊，字筠湄，陝西宜君人。 Yang Suyun, styled Junmei, came from Yijun in Shaanxi.

素蘊至，為繕城郭，招集流亡，三年戶增至萬餘。 Suyun rebuilt the walls, brought back refugees, and within three years households topped ten thousand.

素蘊設計降其渠，散其脅從。 Suyun engineered the surrender of the ringleaders and broke up their bands.

素蘊疏言：「三桂以上湖南道胡允等十員題補雲南各道，並有奉差部員在內，深足駭異。 Suyun protested: "Sangui has nominated ten men, including Hu Yun of upper Hunan circuit, for Yunnan posts—even ministry officials on imperial commission. This is shocking.

十八年，聖祖即位，輔臣柄政，出素蘊為川北道。 In year 18 the emperor took the throne; the chief ministers were in charge and sent Suyun to the northern Sichuan circuit.

三桂見素蘊前奏，惡之，具疏辨，並摘「防微杜漸」語，謂意含隱射，語伏危機。 Sangui read Suyun's earlier memorial, took offense, and replied at length, seizing on "guard against the subtle and stop the gradual" as a veiled threat.

詔責素蘊回奏，素蘊言：「防微杜漸，古今通義。 The throne ordered Suyun to respond. He said: "To stop trouble at the first sign is a principle as old as government itself.

尚書郝惟訥、冀如錫，侍郎楊永寧交章請起用，惟訥詞尤切，略言：「素蘊首劾三桂，雲當防微杜漸。 Ministers Hao Weina and Ji Ruxi and Vice Minister Yang Yongning asked that he be recalled. Weina wrote most urgently: "Suyun was the first to attack Sangui and warned that trouble must be stopped at the first sign.

素蘊訪知穀城有小溪可通舟，乃按行山谷開餉道，由是水運通利，省丁夫什九，軍乃無乏。 Suyun found a stream at Gucheng that could take boats, surveyed the hills, and opened a water route—cutting corvée by nine-tenths and keeping the army fed.

素蘊首嚴告訐之禁，反側以安。 Suyun strictly forbade malicious informing, and unrest subsided.

舒淑至武昌，素蘊適患暑疾，令布政使於養志從總督丁思孔往勘。 When Shu Shu reached Wuchang, Suyun was ill with summer fever and sent Commissioner Yu Yangzhi with Governor Ding Sikong to inspect.

命甫下而素蘊已卒。 The order had barely gone out when Suyun died.

素蘊得其實，條為兩疏。 Suyun verified the facts and drafted two memorials.

論曰：郝浴、楊素蘊秉剛正之性，抗論強籓，曲突徙薪，防禍未形，甘竄逐而不悔。 The historian comments: Hao Yu and Yang Suyun were men of stern integrity who spoke against powerful frontier lords, warned of trouble before it appeared, and accepted exile without regret.

素蘊居官愛民，不終於位； Suyun loved the people in office but did not finish his term;

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 282Volume 282 Biographies 69: Jiang Xizhe, Yu Jin, De Ge Lei, Chen Zizhi, Ren Hongjia, Gao Cengyun, Shen Kaiceng, Gong Xianglin, Gao Xiachang · 1 passage

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論曰：康熙間以直言著者，魏象樞、郝浴、楊素蘊、彭鵬、趙申喬輩，敭歷中外，卓然為名臣。 The commentator says: Among those famed in the Kangxi era for blunt speech were Wei Xiangju, Hao Yu, Yang Suyun, Peng Peng, Zhao Shenqiao, and others, who served at court and in the provinces and stood out as renowned ministers.