Li chaoqiong

Li chaoqiong

Li chaoqiong (1846-1909), who was born in Hejiang County, Sichuan Province, was named Tiefu and Ziao. Guangxu five years (1879) Ju Ren. When he was young, he served as a military aide on the northeast border. It was distributed to Jiangsu after the mid-term examination, and successively served as prefects of Liyang, Yuanhe, Yanghu, Wuxi, Wuxian, Nanhui, Shanghai, Changzhou, etc. In the imperial examination, he was regarded as outstanding twice and praised four times.

Life of the characters

Tongzhi was born in a mountainous area in Hejiang County, Sichuan Province in the third year. He grew up grazing and herding cattle. At the age of 7, he studied with his father. At the age of 18, he went to a Gongsheng's home fifty miles away to study every day. He became a scholar at the age of 19. At the age of 24, while teaching, he studied in Jinjiang academy and failed in the rural examination for many times. At the age of 32, he went to the northeast and began to work as an aide. At the age of 34, he took part in the rural examination in shuntianfu and won the Ju Ren test. After waiting for several years, he became Liyang county magistrate of Changzhou Prefecture in 1887. According to the official list in volume 3 of Wu county annals of the Republic of China compiled by Cao Yunyuan and Li Genyuan, on July 18, 1889, Li chaoqiong was appointed as the acting magistrate of Yuanhe County under the supervision of Liyang, and was transferred to be the magistrate of Yuanhe County in February of the next year until the 19th year. After that, he was appointed magistrate of Changzhou County in 22 years, and returned to be magistrate of Yuanhe County in the same year until 24 years. He served as magistrate of Wu County for 30 years. In November of the 33rd year of Guangxu's reign, he served as magistrate of Changzhou county. The next year, he died in his residence in Changzhou county (now Wuque bridge in Suzhou). He was 64 years old. The middle Prime Minister succeeded the magistrate of Jiangyin, Wuxi, Nanhui County and the acting magistrate of Shanghai county.

Achievements and honors

Diligent administration and loving people to build "Ligong dike"

According to the records of "water conservancy 2" in Volume 43 of Wu county annals of the Republic of China, in July of the 15th year of Guangxu, Li chaoqiong built Guantang outside fengmenwai. The next year, the long dike of Jinji Lake was built, and a total of 14500 taels of relief money was allocated. When the levee is formed, the people will have it. It is called Ligong levee. According to you Xianjia's work of rebuilding the dike of Jinji Lake (interview draft), the water of Jinji Lake is vast, vast and dangerous. When you drive a boat, every step is unexpected. Li Gong was respected in the city. He was compassionate. So build a dike, build five or six miles of earth and stone, to water potential. Thousands of willows were planted to protect the dike from the wind. When the water is not flowing, there is no danger in the way, but it is easy to travel. If you weave a spar, you will be in danger. In addition, a total of 312 Zhangs of ports outside the town of zhangliantang were dredged. Zhouzhuang, chenmu and other town rivers are dredged, which is still the source of this problem. Yunyun. After seven months in Yuanhe County, he was transferred to the county magistrate. This was a reward from his superior. His two terms as Yuanhe county magistrate also affirmed and valued him. in 1889, Li chaoqiong was transferred to Yuanhe county magistrate. The autumn rain caused disaster and destroyed crops. He went to the countryside many times to explore the disaster, and successively applied to the higher authorities for exemption of extra grain. During the disaster exploration, Li chaoqiong learned that due to the open surface of Jinji Lake and the fact that there is no island in the center of the lake, once the wind blows, the waves will be rough, and ship capsizing accidents often occur. After careful consideration, in the summer of 1890, he decided to build a long dike in Jinji Lake, which could not only improve the traffic conditions, but also enable the victims to earn income with dignity and support their families. Jinji Lake is surrounded by water network area, so it is a difficult problem to build embankment and borrow soil. At that time, Fengmen, xiangmen, loumen and qimenwai were all piled with a large amount of brick and tile debris left by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom war. Li chaoqiong mobilized more than 160 ships to organize local people to transport these brick and tile debris to Jinji Lake and build a dike. After the completion of the dike, thousands of willow trees were planted on the dike to consolidate the dike. At the same time, he organized people to repair the Guantang and post roads outside Fengmen, xiangmen and loumen. in June 1892, the long dike of Jinji Lake was built, and Li chaoqiong personally inspected it. From then on, ships of all sizes in the lake sailed along the dyke and were no longer threatened by wind and waves. Xietang Town, which had been destroyed by the war, was revived by the completion of the long dike. People call the long dike of Jinji Lake "Ligong dike". Some people compare it to Su dike and Bai dike of Hangzhou West Lake. Yu Yue, a master of Confucian classics, inscribed the name of the dike and wrote the record of Li Gong dike. In addition to Li Gongdi, Li chaoqiong also organized the dredging of all the ports outside zhangliantang town (now Qingpu County, Shanghai), including Zhouzhuang and chenmu (now Kunshan City, and chenmu has been renamed Jinxi).

Li Gongdi and Yu Yue

Wu, so Zeguo. The shallow is JURU, the deep is HuiFu, and the big is Haoyang, which is boundless. Although it spared the lotus service to protect the lotus, it was also extremely dangerous. Not ten miles from Fengmen, there is Jinji Lake, which is under the jurisdiction of Yuanhe county. Six li from east to west, ten li from south to north, Xietang in the East, huangshiqiao in the west, Dushu in the South and loujiang in the north. There is Hualiu village, which is located in the middle of the village. It is divided into one lake and two, hence the name of South Lake and North Lake. The South Lake is especially open to Tianjin. Every time the sound of the North roars, the wind blows back suddenly. Those who pass through the land will wave up and down, the mast will destroy the boat, and the sail will be on the rudder side. Old age is a long way to go. On both sides of the north and the south, there are Tianchou, which gnaws at the dyke and overflows with anger, turning the green plain into a sewer. City people gather to plan, appropriate to build dikes in the lake, in order to brake its potential. If there is a proposal but no response, it will not succeed. Li gongchaoqiong, the Marquis of the city, began to visit the sufferings at the beginning of his journey, and took it as his duty to help the hooligans. Therefore, Wu Jun Dagen, Wu Jun Jiachun, Shen Jun Baoheng, Pan Jun Zuqian, Shen Jun Guochen, you Jun Xianjia, Zhang Jun lvqian and other literati of the city invited them to build dikes. It will be the rainy year and the imperial court will send money to relieve it. They also raised money to help them. After the relief, there is more than enough money. It is said that in Taisi, the remaining ten thousand taels of silver were sent to chengsiju. Zhang Junlu Qian paid 2 million yuan first, and Shen junguochen also paid 1 million yuan to prepare for his work. In addition, there was no food for the common people, so that they could eat their strength, so the work was not floating. Yuncheng City broken tile wall, to solid dike body, so money does not cost. Pan junzuqian and Zhang Jun acted as modesty, and Shen junguochen, Hu Jun, Bingli, Zhang junyuqing, and Dong Qijie, so farming did not hurt. But min Xu persuades Yue, a year dike becomes. The West dike is 361 Zhang from the east entrance of huangshiqiao to Hualiu village, and the East dike is 319 Zhang from Hualiu village to Xietang west entrance. It's amazing to share 18 million dollars. Protect with water bamboo and reed, guard with fishing in Shanghai, shade with peach and plum. When you climb the dike and look at the South Lake and the North Lake, you can see the soft lines breaking the waves, and you can see the waves, horses, boats and cars. Jiaan dozens of miles, the original Xi Long scale, has the power of Ruyu Ze haggard, no drilling cliff collapse. The salt sighed and sighed, "how beautiful it is! In the past, Chen Gongdi was slippery, and Su Gongdi was in Lin'an and Huizhou, so it was called "Li Gongdi". I lived in zitu and became optimistic. In the Han Dynasty, Li Xi played Xixia and Yingge, and carved the name of shile, which was passed on to later generations? Because of the essence and the end, use the method of avoiding mistakes! Wu has been a water network area with crisscross rivers and harbors and Lakes since ancient times. Shallow water is a low-lying wetland, deep water is a wide river, high waves, rapids whirl. Those big lakes are more like the vast ocean, vast and boundless. Although it has the advantages of producing lotus, Euryale ferox, water chestnut, lotus root and other rich aquatic plants, it also makes people often encounter the great risk caused by wide water and deep lake and torrent vortex. Less than ten miles east of Fengmen, there is a lake called Jinji Lake, which is under the jurisdiction of Yuanhe County, Suzhou. Jinji Lake is six li long from east to west and ten li wide from north to south. It reaches Xietang in the East, huangshiqiao in the west, Dushu Lake in the South and loujiang River in the north. There is an island called Hualiu village, which is located in the middle of the lake and divides Jinji Lake into two parts. The villagers call the South Lake in the south of the village and the North Lake in the north of the village. Boats, big and small, come and go like shuttles in the lake, and the South Lake is the main channel for boats, which is even busier. Every time the north wind howls and the wind blows up suddenly, there are torrential waves on Jinji Lake. The ships passing by here all shake up and down with the turbulence of the torrential waves. From time to time, the mast is broken, the oars are broken, the sails are tilted, the rudders are crooked, and the ships capsize. Over the years, people have regarded Jinji Lake as a dangerous and terrible waterway. There are a lot of farmland on both sides of the north and the south. The stubborn wind and waves gnaw at the dykes all year round. The raging tide over the dykes, the green fields and the green ridges turn into muddy and dirty canals. The people in the county gathered to discuss the need to build a long dike in the lake to prevent or reduce the damage and damage caused by the strong wind and waves. However, despite some people's initiative, it has not received a broad and strong response, and this matter has been unable to be accomplished. Li gongchaoqiong, the county magistrate, began to solicit the opinions of the people, understand the sufferings of the people, and make it his important task to develop agriculture and benefit the people. As a result, the county's literati Wu Jun Dagen, Wu Jun Jiachun, Shen Jun Baoheng, Pan Jun Zuqian, Shen Jun Guochen, you Jun Xianjia, Zhang Jun lvqian, and so on, all applied for embankment construction. This year happened to encounter continuous heavy rain disaster, Li Gong immediately reported, the imperial court from the treasury funds for disaster relief. Li Gong also set a precedent for local disaster relief donations to raise funds to help victims overcome difficulties. At the end of the disaster relief, Li Gong applied to the relevant yamen of the provincial government for approval, and allocated the remaining 10000 liang of relief money to the embankment subsidy. Driven by this decision, Zhang Junlu Qian paid 2 million yuan first, and Shen Junguo Chen also paid 1 million yuan for recruiting craftsmen and purchasing equipment. Li Gong also recruited the hungry poor to take part in labor service, so that they could support themselves, so the employment was not excessive. The broken tiles and bricks in the city are transported to reinforce the dyke, so the funds are not wasted. Pan junzuqian and Zhang junluqian were also employed as the project commander in chief, and Shen junguochen, Hu junbingli and Zhang junyuqing were employed as the project supervisor, so it did no harm to the normal agriculture. And the local people encouraged each other and fought bravely

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