I.6 QSL DG 366__24-25b
I.6 Qing Veritable Records, entry for DG 22.1.28
QSL, DG 366:24-25b (same day as Doc.I.5)
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Glossary
遴派 - linpai - depute
妥員 - tuo yuan - trusted officials, appropriate officials
押解 - yajie - escort under arrest
家屬 - jiashu - dependents
在逃 - zai tao - fleeing (still not apprehended)
搜捕 - soubu - arrest; seek out and seize
詭稱 - guicheng - it is falsely claimed that … (note the official debunking of popular magical beliefs)
孼 - nie - evil, disaster (a variant of 孽)
再 - zai - furthermore
術能封槍 - shuneng fengqiang - [his] magical charms can stop up the muzzles of guns
僧人 - sengren - Buddhist monk
伏誅 - fuzhu - be beheaded
確據 - queju - positive proof
以免 - yi mian - to avoid, obviate
煽惑 - shanhuo - incite and deceive
幺䯢小醜 - yaomo xiaochou - insignificant riffraff
激變 - jibian - incite a revolt
蓄謀 - xumou - hatch plots
自盡 - zijin - commit suicide
縣 - xian - county, county magistrate
典史 - dianshi - jail warden
自縊 - ziyi - to hang oneself
外委 - waiwei - could refer to either Detached Company Commander (外委千總, rank 8a), or Detached Squad Leader (外委把總, rank 9a), both of which are regular posts in the Green Standards
遵前旨 - zun qianzhi - in obedience to previous decree[s]
得手 - deshou - gain success
督率 - dushuai - lead
一鼓作氣 - yigu zuoqi - rouse their fighting spirit at the first drumbeat
乘勝 - chengsheng - taking advantage of [previous] victories
移會 - yihui - communication
鄰封 - linfeng - neighboring jurisdictions (here, the officials thereof)
一體 - yi ti - as one body (i.e., jointly)
他竄 - tacuan - escape elsewhere
被脅良民 - beixie liangmin - good commoners who have been coerced [into joining the rebellion]
迓 - ya - to go to meet, to welcome
撫卹 - fuxu - console, comfort
株連 - zhulian - incriminate by forcing one suspect to name others, building a chain of incrimination
所奏 - suozou - (as for) what (XX) has memorialized....
飛速 - feisu - speedily
截回 - jiehui - intercept and send back
照議妥辦 - zhaoyi tuoban - manage appropriately as recommended (i.e., blanket approval in advance)
諭令知之 - yu ling zhi zhi - let him (i.e., the memorialist) know. (an instruction to the Grand Councilors to send this out as a court letter)