Ming · Official

Zhao Yongxian 趙用賢

Attested AD 1577 - AD 1583

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhao Yongxian was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1577 to AD 1583 Activity described in s0016
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 219, passage 16

Events and relationships

Remonstrant defended by Ma Ziqiang, Zhao Zhigao, and Zhang Wei against Zhang Juzheng.
Biographical event · Participant
Directly stated · History of Ming 219, passage 16

References in the histories

History of Ming, Chapter 219Volume 219 Biographies 107: Zhang Siwei, Ma Ziqiang, Xu Guo, Zhao Zhigao, Zhang Wei, Zhu Geng · 4 passages

六年三月，居正將歸葬父．念閣臣在鄉里者，高拱與己有深隙，殷士儋多奧援，或乘間以出，惟徐階老易與，擬薦之自代．已遣使報階，既念階前輩，己還，當位其下，乃請增置閣臣．帝即令居正推擇，遂以人望薦自強及所厚申時行．詔加自強太子太保兼文淵閣大學士，與時行並參機務．自強初以救吳中行、趙用賢忤居正，自分不敢望，及制下，人更以是多居正．時呂調陽、張四維先在閣．調陽衰，數寢疾不出，小事四維代擬旨，大事則馳報居正於江陵，聽其裁決．自強雖持正，亦不能有為，守位而已． In the third month of the sixth year Zhang Juzheng was about to go home to bury his father. He thought of Grand Secretaries still in their home districts: Gao Gong bore him a deep grudge, Yin Shidan had many powerful backers and might seize an opening, and only the aged Xu Jie seemed manageable—he planned to recommend Jie as his stand-in. He had already sent a messenger to Jie, but then reflected that Jie was his senior and that on returning he would have to serve beneath him, so he asked instead to add Grand Secretaries. The emperor ordered Juzheng to choose men; he recommended Ziqiang and his own protégé Shen Shixing on grounds of public esteem. An edict made Ziqiang Grand Guardian of the Crown Prince and Grand Secretary of the Wenyuange, to join Shixing in state deliberations. Ziqiang had offended Juzheng by pleading for Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian and had not dared hope for appointment; when the order came, people praised Juzheng all the more for magnanimity. Lü Diaoyang and Zhang Siwei were already in the secretariat. Diaoyang was failing, often ill and absent; Siwei drafted minor edicts in his place, while major matters were rushed to Juzheng at Jiangling for decision. Though upright, Ziqiang could accomplish nothing and merely held his seat.

十一年四月以禮部尚書兼東閣大學士入參機務．國與首輔申時行善．以丁此呂事與言者相攻，語侵吳中行、趙用賢，由是物議沸然．已而御史陳性學復摭前事劾國，時行右國，請薄罰性學．國再疏求去，力攻言者．帝命鴻臚宣諭，始起視事．南京給事中伍可受復劾國，帝為謫可受官．國復三疏乞休，語憤激，帝不允．性學旋出為廣東僉事．先是，帝考卜壽宮，加國太子太保，改文淵閣，以雲南功進太子太傅．國以父母未葬，乞歸襄事．帝不允，命其子代．御史馬象乾以劾中官張鯨獲罪，國懇救．帝為霽威受之． In the fourth month of the eleventh year he entered the secretariat as Minister of Rites and Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion. Guo was on good terms with Chief Grand Secretary Shen Shixing. In the Ding Cilü affair he clashed with the censorate, and his language touched Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian; public opinion boiled over. Censor Chen Xingxue then dredged up old charges against Guo; Shixing sided with Guo and asked that Xingxue be lightly punished. Guo again asked to leave and fiercely attacked the censorate. The emperor sent the Director of Ceremonies to reassure him, and only then did Guo resume office. Nanjing Supervising Secretary Wu Keshou attacked Guo again; the emperor demoted Keshou. Guo submitted three more memorials asking to retire in agitated language; the emperor refused. Xingxue was soon sent to Guangdong as Assistant Surveillance Commissioner. Earlier, when the emperor divined his tomb site, Guo was made Grand Guardian of the Crown Prince and moved to the Wenyuange; for Yunnan service he rose to Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince. Guo asked to go home to bury his parents; the emperor refused and sent his son in his place. Censor Ma Xiangqian was punished for impeaching the eunuch Zhang Jing; Guo pleaded earnestly for him, and the emperor relented.

趙志臯，字汝邁，蘭谿人．隆慶二年進士及第，授編修．萬曆初，進侍讀．張居正奪情，將廷杖吳中行、趙用賢．志臯偕張位、習孔教等疏救，格不上，則請以中行等疏宣付史館，居正恚．會星變考察京朝官，遂出志臯為廣東副使．居三年，再以京察謫其官．居正歿，言者交薦，起解州同知．旋改南京太僕丞，歷國子監司業、祭酒，再遷吏部右侍郎，並在南京．尋召為吏部左侍郎． Zhao Zhigao, styled Rumai, came from Lanxi. He topped the jinshi in the second year of Longqing and was appointed compiler. At the start of Wanli he became reader. When Zhang Juzheng resumed mourning while still in office and was about to have Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian beaten at court, Zhigao joined Zhang Wei, Xi Kongjiao, and others in memorializing for them. The memorials were blocked; they then asked that Wu and Zhao's memorials be proclaimed and sent to the Historiography Office. Juzheng was furious. During the stellar-portent review of capital officials Zhigao was sent to Guangdong as vice commissioner. After three years he was demoted again in the capital review. After Juzheng's death, censorate officials recommended him and he was appointed assistant prefect of Jiezhou, then Nanjing assistant director of the Ministry of Works, vice director and chancellor of the National University, and twice Right Vice Minister of Personnel—all in Nanjing. He was soon recalled as Left Vice Minister of Personnel.

後以救吳中行、趙用賢忤居正意．時已遷侍講，抑授南京司業．未行，復以京察，謫徐州同知．居正卒之明年，用給事中馮景隆、御史孫維城薦，[二]擢南京尚寶丞．俄召為左中允，管司業事，進祭酒．疏陳六事，多議行．以禮部右侍郎，教習庶吉士，引疾歸．詔起故官，協理詹事府，辭不赴．久之，以申時行薦，拜吏部左侍郎兼東閣大學士，與趙志臯並命． Later, for pleading for Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian he offended Juzheng. Though already promoted to lecturer, he was demoted to vice director of studies in Nanjing. Before he left he was demoted again in the capital review to assistant prefect of Xuzhou. The year after Juzheng died, on recommendation of Supervising Secretary Feng Jinglong and Censor Sun Weicheng, [2] he was promoted to assistant director in the Nanjing Court of Imperial Seals. Soon he was recalled as left middle submitter, managed the duties of vice director of studies, and rose to chancellor. He memorialized on six matters, many of which were adopted. As Right Vice Minister of Rites and instructor of Hanlin bachelors he pleaded illness and went home. An edict recalled him to assist in the Household of the Heir Apparent; he declined. Long afterward, on Shen Shixing's recommendation, he was appointed Left Vice Minister of Personnel and Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion, together with Zhao Zhigao.