I.7 Qing Veritable Records, entry for DG 22.2.1

QSL, DG 367: 4a-b, DG 22.2 geng-chen.
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Glossary

甘三 - Gan San - personal name

黎形蜓 - Li Xingting - personal name

兇狡 - xiongjiao - tough and crafty

痞棍 - pigun - local toughs

剃頭 - titou - shave the head in front, in the prescribed manner

供稱 - gongcheng - their depositions said … (there follows an excerpt from the depositions of these prisoners).

甘心 - ganxin - willingly

趁此時 - chen cishi - take advantage of this occasion

搜捕 - soubu - arrest

淨盡 - jingjin - entirely, completely

貽患 - yihuan - a disaster bequeathed [to posterity]

密行 - mixing - meticulously undertake

查訪 - chafang - investigation

抑係 - yixi … - or, is it that …

惡習 - exi - despicable custom

平日 - pingri - ordinarily

覆奏 - fuzou - memorialize in response

隨時 - suishi - from time to time, on a continuing basis

嚴行懲辦 - yanxing chengban - carry out severe punishment

尋奏 - xunzou - a subsequent memorial (Here is Yu-tai complying with the order to "memorialize in reply." It is one of those infrequent occasions when memorials are quoted in the QSL without being enclosed in edicts. Can you imagine the pressure on the memorialists to represent the facts in this way?)

頭目 - toumu - leader (referring here to subordinate headmen)

照常 - zhaochang - ordinarily

蓄髮 - xufa - allow the hair to grow

餘孽 - yunie - remaining evils

報聞 - baowen - this was noted by His Majesty