Shen Yuqing

Shen Yuqing

Shen Yuqing (1858-1918), named Zhiyu, was born in Houguan county (now Fuzhou City). Shen Baozhen's fourth son married Liu Shiyun, the daughter of Liu Qi. In the 11th year of Guangxu reign of Qing Dynasty, Ju Ren was the last governor of Guizhou. No. 26, Xiangong lane.

Qing Guangxu five years (1879), the father died, reward for the alternate principal. He is a Taoist of Huaiyang, Jiangsu Province, a governor of nursing water transport, and a supervisor of Huai'an pass. He is an envoy of Hunan Province, shuntianfu Yin, Shanxi Province, Guangdong Province, Jiangxi Province, Guizhou Province, Henan Province and Guizhou Province.

During the revolution of 1911, he handed over the political power of Guizhou and died on the second day of September 1918

Jingyu

. The eldest daughter Shen que should be Lin Xu's wife.

personal data

Shen Yuqing

(December 4, 1858 - October 6, 1918)

Zhiyu

, No

Love Cang

, alias

Taoyuan

He was born in Houguan County, Fujian Province, the fourth son of Shen Baozhen, and was a poet of the Min School of Tongguang style.

Introduction to officialdom

Guangxu 11 years (1885), Zhongju person, will try to fail, to Enyin signed the Guangxi division of the Ministry of punishment walk. Recommended by Li Hongzhang, he was appointed as the director of Jiangnan Water teachers college. The next year, he was promoted to the general office. Guangxu eighteen years (1892), the Commission of Yichang and Sichuan salt pumping Bureau. Zhang Zhidong moved to supervise Liangjiang and asked Yuqing to be the chief copywriter of the supervision department and the business office of the general planning and Prevention Bureau. In 1894, the Beiyang navy was defeated in the Sino Japanese War of 1894, and many generals were dismissed. Yuqing explained and excused them, made proper arrangements, and preserved the strength of the Navy. In the 25th year of Guangxu (1899), he was the host of Shanghai Wusong Qingzhang Engineering Bureau. Shen Yuqing wrote to Liu Kunyi, governor of the two rivers, and talked about the southeast mutual protection, which undoubtedly played a great role in promoting the formation of the southeast mutual protection. In the autumn of the 27th year of Guangxu (1901), he served as a military officer in Huaiyang. He set up schools, promoted municipal administration, set up agricultural experimental fields, and built roads. He was the governor of water transport and also the supervisor of Huai'an customs. In the same year, he was promoted to the post of inspector general of Hunan Province and changed to shun Tian Fu Yin. After entering Beijing, he invited the construction of roads in the capital, the establishment of Surveying and mapping schools and a large number of schools, and the determination of the system of weights and measures. Guangxu 31 years (1905), transferred to Shanxi, soon transferred to Guangdong. In the following year, he served as the political envoy of Jiangxi. In December of the same year, he took care of the governor of Jiangxi Province, expanded the dialect hall, rebuilt the criminal study center, and set up the Bureau of investigation to prepare for the implementation of constitutional government. In August 1908, when he returned to the post of chief envoy, he was slandered and dismissed because he refused to use the Treasury money to buy tribute. In the first year of Xuantong (1909), he was appointed as the chief minister of Yunnan. Xuantong three years (1911), transferred to Henan buzhengshi, did not take office, promoted to governor of Guizhou. After the founding of the Republic of China, Yuqing avoided living in Shanghai and made up his mind to be an old man. In 1915, when he returned to Fuzhou, Li Houji was employed as the editor in chief of Fujian Tongzhi. Chen Yan, the deputy editor in chief, was in charge of everything. Yuqing still lived in Shanghai and later died in Hongkou. There is "Tao Yuan Ji" handed down.

Chronicle of characters

In 1874, Japan set up a protest against the fanshe in Taipei, intending to occupy Taiwan. Shen Baozhen was ordered to visit his teachers in Taiwan. He once ordered all the students to write letters every ten days to report on their studies. Shen Yuqing said many times in his letters that most of the meritorious officials of Zhongxing did not know the foreign situation and did not know how to deal with foreign affairs. However, Guo Songtao, the Minister of the Ministry of war, Ding Richang, the governor of Jiangsu Province, and others were relatively well-informed, but they were excluded by the Qing court and could not be reused. Shen Baozhen agreed with him that when he was appointed governor Liangjiang in 1875, he recommended Ding Richang to take over his post as shipping minister. In 1879, Shen Baozhen died as governor of Liangjiang. Shen Yuqing accompanied him and recorded his father's biographies. Later, Shen Yuqing went back to Fuzhou and bought Xu you's "Taoyuan" site in Ming Dynasty to build Shen Baozhen's special ancestral temple, so he called himself "Taoyuan". In 1884, Shen Yuqing was a candidate to enter Beijing as an honorary minister. In the following year, Zhongshun Tianfu held a ceremony to Weng Tonghe, the Deputy examiner. Later, because of the same political views, they had a deep friendship. In 1886, Shen Yuqing failed in the examination, and he signed the Guangxi division of the Ministry of criminal justice with the principal. After that, Shen Yuqing, recommended by Li Hongzhang, organized the Jiangnan Naval Academy. The next year, he was promoted to the general office of Jiangnan Naval Academy. In 1892, Liu Kun supervised the two rivers and appointed Shen Yuqing to run the Yichang salt pumping Bureau. Due to frequent visits to Wuhan, he was deeply appreciated by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, and Chen Baozhen, governor of Hubei. In October of the same year, Shen Yuqing married his eldest daughter Shen que to Lin Xu. In 1894, Zhang Zhidong moved to supervise Liangjiang and asked Shen Yuqing to handle the Chief Secretary of the supervision department and the business office of the general planning and Prevention Bureau. That year, Japan provoked a war between China and Japan. The two rivers are the transportation centers of the whole country. The north and the south collect troops, generals, salaries and equipment, and the correspondence between them is very busy. Shen Yuqing handles them in an orderly way. Soon after, the whole Beiyang navy was destroyed, and Shen Yuqing was greatly saddened by the news. Later, the surviving generals of the Beiyang Navy, such as SA Zhenbing, came to take refuge. Shen Yuqing, with the approval of Zhang Zhidong, appointed SA Zhenbing as the chief artillery officer of Wusong, Shen Shoukun as the chief artillery officer of Zhenjiang, Zeng Jiaxiang as the chief artillery officer of Jiangyin, and other people also made arrangements. In the 22nd year of Guangxu (1896), Zhang Zhidong appointed Shen Yuqing to run the Wan'an supervision and marketing Bureau and stationed in Datong. In the same year, Liu Kun took over the two rivers and set up the North Anhui marketing bureau with Shen Yuqing. In 1898, the reform movement of 1898 failed, and Lin Xu, Shen Yuqing's son-in-law, was killed. When the bad news came, Shen Yuqing wrote a poem "in Dagu boat, I heard friends talking about the recent affairs of capital" to mourn his son-in-law and worry about the country. There is a saying: "the great crisis is coming, and the storm is about to turn.". Zhuo young sharp, side eye Li Yi flower He also said: "in the face of misfortune, the hook party slaughters. The morale of the country is not strong, but the national strength is growing From then on, I was very depressed. In 1899, Shen Yuqing, a member of Liu Kun's first committee, set up the Qingzhang Engineering Bureau of Shanghai Wusong. The following year, the boxers rose and the eight countries invaded Beijing. Shen Yuqing and Sheng Xuanhuai considered that "if there is a change in the southeast half of China and foreign countries, the overall situation will be" unimaginable ". Therefore, they" should make an agreement with foreigners, and the concession and the mainland should bear their respective responsibilities "to ensure the stability of the southeast. The two men then called Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, and Shen Yuqing arrived in Nanjing to meet Liu Kunyi, governor of Liangjiang, to present their views and promote the signing of the southeast mutual protection treaty. As the representative of Liu Kunyi, Shen Yuqing signed contracts with consuls of various countries in Shanghai. In the autumn of the 27th year of Guangxu (1901), Shen Yuqing was appointed as the commander of Huaiyang army. He went back to Fujian on leave in the year of the year. He lived in Yijing, the north gate of Fuzhou, and buried Lin Xu and his wife beside him. He inscribed a tablet saying: "in the evening of Qianqiu, the green grass (the name of Lin Xu) is solitary and loyal. It's a wonderful scroll of Gu Lou (the name of Shen Que's collection of Ci poems) He also said, "when you look at Beijing in the north, you are tired of your ministers' tears; when you return to the head of Qiu in the south, you are encouraged to follow her." In Huaiyang, Shen Yuqing set up schools, promoted municipal administration, set up agricultural experimental fields, and built roads to reach Banpu. In 1902, Shen Yuqing was the governor of water transport. The next year, he also acted as the supervisor of Huai'an customs. From time to time, there were British and German ronin who used foreign flags to cover up unscrupulous businessmen in the mainland and break through customs with private goods. Shen Yuqing was not afraid of the power of foreigners. According to the contract, he arrested people and goods and handed them to the consul for punishment according to the law. In the same year, Shen Yuqing was promoted to the post of inspector general of Hunan Province. During his term of office, Shen Yuqing asked to build roads in the capital, set up surveying and mapping schools and surveying schools, and set up a system of weights and measures. In 1905, Shen Yuqing was transferred to Shanxi as an envoy for offending Yuan Shikai. The governor of Guangdong Province was transferred. In 1906, Shen Yuqing was promoted to the post of Jiangxi political envoy. At that time, Duan Fang, governor of Liangjiang, wanted to raise the money from the general secretary of Jiangxi Province and the grain Treasury in the name of relief, but Shen Yuqing refused. In Ganzhou, people gathered to kill priests and destroy churches. The governor wanted to send troops to suppress them. Shen Yuqing and the governor of Jiangxi Province Shangshu stopped to deal with the incident properly. Later, Ruicheng, the new Jiangxi inspector general, was a foreigner. He wanted to hand over the matter to the foreign consul in Shanghai, but Shen Yuqing stopped him. In December of the same year, Shen Yuqing was the governor of Jiangxi Province. He expanded the Jiangxi dialect school, rebuilt the criminal Arts Institute, and set up an investigation bureau for the compilation of statistics by the constitutional government. That year, Shen Yuqing sent a letter back to Rong, proposing to rebuild the West Lake wanzaitong, in order to worship the poets since Ming Dynasty and donate thousands of gold. In August of the 34th year of Guangxu (1908), the new governor Feng Ruchi took office, and Shen Yuqing returned to be the chief envoy. Feng Ruchi wanted to raise money for tribute, but Shen Yuqing refused. Therefore, duanfang, Feng Ruchi and Ruicheng joined forces to slander Shen Yuqing, who was dismissed. In the winter of the first year of Xuantong (1909), Shen Yuqing returned as Yunnan's political envoy. In the third year of Xuantong, he was transferred to Henan as a political envoy, but he was promoted to governor of Guizhou. Shen Yuqing, a remote supporter of Guizhou, planned to build the Guizhou Chongqing railway, but the Wuchang Uprising broke out. Shen Yuqing then sent a telegram to severely punish Wuchang's fallen officers, and planned to send troops to help Sichuan. Later, Shen Yuqing led Ji to an official post and went to Shanghai to live as an official. He formed a poetry club with Qu Hongji, fan Zengxiang and Shen Zengzhi, which was named "chaoshe". He enjoyed drinking and reciting poems every day. In January 1915, Shen Yuqing went back to Fujian to visit his tomb. In March, he offered sacrifices to the West Lake. After that, he was employed as the editor in chief of Fujian Tongzhi Bureau. Shen Baozhen's temple was set up in the Bureau. Chen Yan, the deputy editor in chief, was responsible for the actual affairs. Shen Yuqing stayed in Shanghai for the aged. Shen Yuqing died in Shanghai Hongkou Shenjiawan residence on October 6, the seventh year of the Republic of China, and his book Tao Yuan Ji was handed down to the world.

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