Qing · Official and Diplomat

Yi Libu 伊里布

First attested AD 1801; died AD 1843

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Yi Libu was an official and Diplomat.

PeriodQing
IdentityHistorical · Male

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TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Xinnong 莘農 Xīnnóng
Posthumous name Wenmin 文敏 Wénmǐn

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 370Volume 370 Biographies 157: Qi Shan, Yi Libu, Zong Shiqiying · 16 passages
四川綦江奸民穆繼賢仇殺貴州仁懷武生趙應彩,遂糾眾踞方家溝為亂,伊里布率提督余步雲、布政使慶祿等破其巢,斬獲千餘,誅賊首穆繼賢、謝法真等,餘匪悉平,賜雙眼花翎。 At Qijiang in Sichuan the outlaw Mu Jixian murdered Zhao Yingcai, a military licentiate of Renhuai in Guizhou, then raised a gang and seized Fangjiagou. Yi Libu led Provincial Military Commander Yu Buyun and Provincial Administration Commissioner Qinglu against their stronghold, killing or capturing more than a thousand men and executing the leaders Mu Jixian and Xie Fazhen. The rest were pacified, and he received the double-eyed peacock feather.
七月,英兵薄江寧下關,伊里布先至,英人索煙價、商欠、戰費共二千一百萬兩,廣州、福州、廈門、寧波、上海五港通商,英官與中國官員用平行禮,及劃抵關稅、釋放漢奸等款。 In the seventh month, as British forces closed on Xiaguan below Jiangning, Yi Libu arrived first. The British demanded twenty-one million taels for opium indemnity, commercial debts, and war costs; trade at Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, and Shanghai; equal ceremonial status for British and Chinese officials; customs offsets; release of Chinese collaborators; and other terms.
伊里布有忍辱負重之心,無安危定傾之略,且廟謨未定,廷議紛紜,至江寧城下之盟,乃與耆英結束和議,損威喪權,貽害莫挽。 Yi Libu was willing to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens, but lacked a strategy to save the state in crisis. Court policy was unsettled and debate divided. When the treaty was signed below the walls of Jiangning, he and Qiying concluded peace at the cost of prestige and sovereignty, with consequences that could not be undone.