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Overview The translated histories identify Zhang Boxing as an administrator and official. This record brings together 21 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
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Zhang Boxing
張伯行
Zhang Boxing
Personal name
Zhang Boxing
張伯行
Zhang Boxing
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Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Uncertain Life and dates Attested activity Events and relationships Kind: impeachment ·
Role: accuser ·
Other Person Id: Ga Li (噶禮) ·
Action: impeachedAssessments and attributes Assessment: reputation for integrity; integrity finest in the realm ·
Provenance: Mode: ruler-judgmentSpeaker Person Id: Kangxi Emperor (聖祖) References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 278 Volume 278 Biographies 65: Mu Tianyan, A Shan, Ga Li · 20 passages
巡撫張伯行有廉聲，至則又與噶禮忤。
Governor Zhang Boxing had a reputation for integrity; when he arrived he clashed with Ga Li again.
五十年，伯行疏言本科江南鄉試取士不協輿論，正考官副都御史左必蕃亦檢舉同考官知縣王曰俞、方名所薦士有不通文字者。
In Kangxi 50 Boxing reported that the Jiangnan provincial examination selections did not match public opinion; chief examiner Vice Censor-in-Chief Zuo Bifan also reported that associate examiners Magistrates Wang Yueyu and Fang Ming had recommended candidates who could barely write.
上命尚書張鵬翮如揚州會噶禮及伯行察審。
The emperor sent Minister Zhang Penghe to Yangzhou to investigate with Ga Li and Boxing.
鵬翮至，會讞，既得副考官編修趙晉及曰俞、名諸交通狀，伯行欲窮其獄。
When Penghe arrived they held a joint hearing; once bribery by associate examiner Compiler Zhao Jin, Yueyu, Ming, and others was established, Boxing wanted to pursue the case fully.
伯行乃劾噶禮，謂輿論盛傳總督與監臨提調交通鬻舉人；
Boxing then impeached Ga Li, saying public opinion held that the governor-general and supervising examiner had sold degrees through bribery;
噶禮亦劾伯行，謂：「方會讞時，臣正鞫囚，伯行謂臣言不當，臣恐爭論失體，緘口結舌。
Ga Li also impeached Boxing, saying: "During the hearing I was interrogating a prisoner when Boxing challenged my words; fearing an undignified quarrel, I held my tongue.
伯行遂陰謀誣陷，以鬻舉人得銀五十萬汙臣，臣不能與俱生。」
Boxing then plotted to frame me, charging that I sold degrees for five hundred thousand taels; I cannot share the world with such a man."
因及伯行專事著書，猜忌糊塗，不能清理案牘。
He also charged that Boxing devoted himself to books, was suspicious and muddled, and could not manage his paperwork.
時方有戴名世之獄，又言：「南山集刻板在蘇州印行，伯行豈得不知？
At the time of the Dai Mingshi case, he added: "The woodblocks of Nanshan Ji were printed in Suzhou—could Boxing not have known?
進士方苞以作序連坐，伯行夙與友，不肯捕治。」
Jinshi Fang Bao was implicated for writing a preface; Boxing had long been his friend and refused to arrest him."
並羅列伯行不職數事。
He also listed several counts of Boxing's dereliction of duty.
噶禮劾伯行不能清理案牘事實，餘皆督撫會銜題諮舊事，苞為伯行逮送刑部，南山集刻板在江寧，皆免議；
Ga Li's charge that Boxing could not manage paperwork was upheld; the rest were old joint reports by governors; Bao was sent to the Board of Punishments; the Nanshan Ji blocks were in Jiangning—all were dropped;
伯行妄奏噶禮鬻舉人，當奪職。
Boxing was to be dismissed for falsely charging Ga Li with selling degrees.
上諭曰：「噶禮才有餘，治事敏練，而性喜生事，屢疏劾伯行。
The emperor said: "Ga Li is talented and efficient, but he loves to stir trouble and has repeatedly impeached Boxing.
朕以伯行操守為天下第一，手批不淮。
I consider Boxing's integrity the finest in the realm and have personally rejected those memorials.
若無張伯行，江南必受其朘削且半矣。
without Zhang Boxing, Jiangnan would have been drained of at least half its wealth.
九卿等議噶禮與伯行同任封疆，互劾失大臣禮，皆奪職；
The Nine Ministers ruled that Ga Li and Boxing, sharing frontier responsibility, had violated ministerial decorum in mutual impeachment and both should be dismissed;
上命留伯行任，噶禮如議奪職。
the emperor kept Boxing in office and dismissed Ga Li as recommended.
伯行與噶禮互劾，再讞不得直。
Boxing and Ga Li impeached each other; twice reheard, justice was not done.
幸賴聖祖仁明，隴其復起，鵬年致大用，伯行亦終獲全。
Fortunately the Sage Ancestor was benevolent and clear-sighted: Longqi was restored, Pengnian rose to high office, and Boxing ultimately survived unscathed.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 300 Volume 300 Biographies 87: Chen Qi Yuan, He Shijian, Tang Jizu, Ma Weihan, Yu Dian, Wang Yezi, Liu Erwei · 1 passage