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  I.3 Qing Veritable Records, entry for DG 22.1.1

  QSL, DG 365:2-3. DG 22.1 geng-xu
  
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  Glossary

  拏獲奸細 - na huo jian xi - capture the miscreants

  賊勢 - zei shi - the rebel situation

  添調 - tian diao - additionally transferred

  堵剿 - du jiao - blockade and exterminate; suppress; put down

  膽敢 - dan gan - dared to …

  戕 - qiang - kill

  威脅 - wei xie - coerce

  保正 - bao zheng - headmen of bao mutual responsibility groups; headman of a ward

  銅鐵 - tong tie - bronze and iron

  要隘 - yao ai - strategic mountain passes

  卡 - qia - a barrier or guard-post

  撲滅 - pu mie - extinguish, wipe out

  以伸國憲 - yi shen guo xian - in order to manifest the institutions of our Dynasty (Note that guo, which would be elevated above the line in a memorial, is not so in this imperial document)

  駐 - zhu - stationed at

  提督 - ti du - provincial commander-in-chief. (See Reference Notes 3.2 for this post, part of the Green Standard garrison system)

  揀帶 - jian dai - select and bring along

  精兵 - jing bing - crack troops

  會剿 - hui jiao - exterminate in concert [with other commanders on the scene]

  遲延 - chi yan - procrastinate, dawdle

  令 - ling - cause to …

  滋蔓 - zi man - spread (lit. sprout tendrils)

  至 - zhi - as for (refers to a passage in Yu-tai's memorial of DG 21.12.4)

  接壤 - jie rang - border on

  恐 - kong - fears that … (who is the subject of this verb?)

  受創 - shou chuang - suffer an attack, be attacked

  已降旨 - yi jiang zhi - a decree has already been issued (this says what the court is doing about Yu-tai's concern about border security.)

  由五百里 - you wu bai li - by the courier rate of 500 li per day

  吳文鎔 - Wu Wen rong - (personal names) Determine their official postings in the Qian tables.

  妥員 - tuo yuan - trusted officials, appropriate officials

  各就所屬 - ge jiu suo shu - each to his own jurisdiction

  又恐 - you kong - also fears … (refers to another point in Yu-tai's memorial of 21.12.4)

  單弱 - dan ruo - weak

  復降旨 - fu jiang zhi - issued another decree (in response to this second concern of the memorialist)

  恩特亨額 - En-te-heng-e - (p.n., a Mongol. He and Fu-ni-yang-a, a Manchu, may be looked up in the Qian tables, starting your search with the index in vol. 4)

  將 - jiang - (same as colloquial ba 把 construction. It governs the noun guan-bing in the next line.)

  前經奉旨 - qian jing feng zhi - [which], by a previous decree

  調集 - diao ji - transferred and assembled (where do you suppose these troops were originally supposed to be sent?)

  楚 - Chu - the provinces of Hu-bei and Hu-nan

  交 - jiao - transfer to the command of …

  剋期 - ke qi - at an early date

  憑險 - ping xian - take advantage of natural strategic positions

  方免 - fang mian - only thus can we avoid …

  相機 - xiang ji - when the opportunity is ripe

  斷 - duan - negative intensifier; by no means

  藉詞 - jie ci - relying on excuses

  延玩 - yan wan - delay

  誤事機 - wu shi ji - botch the opportunity

  所有 - suo you - all of [what the memorialist says about the following matters]

  雇募 - gu mu - hired

  鄉勇 - xiang yong - local mercenary troops, "braves"

  口糧 - kou liang - rations

  等項 - deng xiang - such matters (i.e., various kinds of expenditures)

  准其 - zhun qi … - We authorize him to …

  竣 - jun - completed

  覈實報銷 - he shi bao xiao - examine the actual [expenditures] and render an accounting

  諭令知之 - yu ling zhi zhi - let him (i.e., the memorialist) know. (This is an order to the Grand Council to forward this decree to Yu-tai in the form of a court letter [ting-ji])