Qing · Official and Administrator

Yu Deyuan 俞德淵

Attested AD 1817 - AD 1830

Passages
9
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yu Deyuan as an administrator and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodQing

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yu Deyuan 俞德淵 Yu Deyuan
Given Deyuan 德淵 Deyuan
Courtesy name Taoquan 陶泉 Taoquan
Surname Yu 俞 Yu
Personal name Yu Deyuan 俞德淵 Yu Deyuan

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Family

  • Kinship Role: family · Count: 2 · Statement: 妻子常衣布素 (wife and children)
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0132

Career and standing

  • Label: magistrate of Jingxi / 荊溪知縣 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0103
  • Label: prefect of Changzhou / 常州知府 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1828
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0108
  • Label: grain supervisor vice-prefect of Suzhou / 蘇州督糧同知 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0106
  • Label: Liang-Huai salt transport commissioner / 兩淮鹽運使 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0126
  • Label: magistrate of Changzhou / 長洲 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0105
  • Label: prefect of Jiangning / 江寧 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0108
  • Status: mourning · Action: entered
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0107

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0103

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: logistics · Role: director · Action: directed-sea-transport · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光六年 · Western Year: AD 1826
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0107

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: frugal; transformed Yangzhou extravagance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0132
  • Assessment: practical talent for the age in Huai salt · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0191

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 9 passages
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德淵具議數千言，略謂：「鹽歸場灶，其法有三：一曰歸灶丁按䥕起科，然其中有難行者三：一在灶丁之逋欠，一在䥕鑊之私煎，一在災祲之藉口； Deyuan submitted a memorial several thousand characters long, arguing in essence: "Returning salt revenue to the fields and furnaces admits three approaches. The first is to levy on furnace workers by salt pan, but three difficulties stand in the way: arrears among the workers, illicit private boiling, and disasters invoked as excuses;