Overview
Yue Zhongqi was an official and General.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
Places and affiliations
- Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment unpredictable · Mode named-speaker Speaker Cai Ting (蔡珽)
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 293Volume 293 Biographies 80: Li Fu, Cai Ting, Xie Jishi, Chen Xuehai · 3 passages
初，上以岳鍾琪代年羹堯為川陝總督，珽入對，言鍾琪叵測。
Earlier, when the emperor appointed Yue Zhongqi to replace Nian Gengyao as governor-general of Sichuan-Shaanxi, Ting at audience said Zhongqi was unpredictable.
鍾琪入覲，過保定，珽方署直隸總督，造蜚語，冀以撼鍾琪。
When Zhongqi came to court for audience and passed through Baoding, Ting was then acting governor-general of Zhili. He spread slanderous rumors, hoping to undermine Zhongqi.
尋議珽挾詐懷私，受夔關稅銀、富順縣鹽規，冒銷庫帑，並得如絲銀六萬六千、金九百，讒毀鍾琪，交結查嗣庭，凡十八事，應斬決，妻子入辛者庫，財產沒入官，命改斬監候。
Soon after it was deliberated that Ting had practiced deceit with private intent, received Kuiguan customs silver and Fushun County salt levies, falsely wrote off treasury funds, and altogether received from Rusi 66,000 taels of silver and 900 taels of gold, slandered Zhongqi, and associated with Zha Siting—eighteen counts in all warranting execution, with wife and children sent to the Sinchi Treasury and property confiscated. The emperor ordered commutation to execution after imprisonment.