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
