I.8 Qing Veritable Records, entry for DG 22.4.28

QSL, DG 371:39a-b, DG 22.4 bing-wu
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Glossary

戶書 - hushu - revenue clerks

花戶 - huahu - taxpaying households

勒索 - lesuo - extort

耗銀 - haoyin - silver "meltage" fees. (For this and other social-economic terms, see Reference Notes 6.1)

樣米 - yangmi - "sample rice" (a surtax on tax payments in kind; see Reference Notes 61.)

訊 - xun - to find out by investigation

起釁 - qixin - give rise to hostilities

積弊 - jibi - accumulated malpractices

禁革 - jinge - prohibit and eliminate

嗣後 - sihou - henceforth

例禁 - lijin - substatute (of the Qing Code) and prohibitions

劣生 - liesheng - evil licentiates (sheng-yuan)

包攬 - baolan - proxy remittance of taxes (or engrossment of any unauthorized local function, such as writing legal briefs)

完納 - wan'na - pay (pay off the shortfall; pay taxes in full)

閭閻 - lüyan - villages; local society

肅法紀 - su faji - respect the laws