Xiangcheng historical celebrity Yuan Jiasan, the governor of Caoyun

Yuan Jiasan (1805-1862), courtesy name Duanmin (端敏), was the second son of Yuan Yaodong in the Yuan family of Xiangcheng, and the first official to serve as a member of the imperial court. The highest official position was the Governor of Caoyun and the Governor of Jiangnan River, and the Governor of the Eight Provinces. Because of his merits, his great-grandfather Yuan Zhigong, his grandfather Yuan Jiuzhi, and his father Yuan Yaodong were all posthumously awarded the title of Yipin by the imperial court. His mother Guo Shi, his original wife Chen Shi, and his second wife Chen Shi were also posthumously awarded the title of Lady Yipin.

Yuan Jiasan has been intelligent since childhood and reads hard. He entered school at the age of seven, and when he was eight years old, he secretly wrote an article entitled "Things Can Lead to His Body", yuan Yaodong was very surprised after seeing it, thinking that "children can be taught". Unfortunately, Yuan Yaodong died of illness in his forties and failed to see this son "achieve fame". Yuan Jiasan "poor family, hard work, to comfort the mother's zhi" ("DuanMin Gongji , Libu Discussion into the Ancestral Ancestral Hall"), at the age of fourteen with the eldest brother Shu San to supplement the county school, after Zhongxiucai, joined the ranks of "work-study and thrifty", in xiangcheng Wang clan Gao Laiyun family as a tutor. The Gao family has been reading for generations, "talking and laughing with Hongru, and there is no white Ding", Yuan Jiasan has benefited a lot here. At the age of twenty-two, he received the meritorious title of a student, and at the age of thirty he was raised, and at the age of thirty-one (daoguang fifteen years), he finally passed the entrance examination. Then, he smoothly entered the official field, and successively served as the chief of the ceremonial department in Beijing, the military machine Zhang Jing, Lang Zhong, and even served as the imperial history and the minister.

He has a strong personality and is outspoken. In the first year of Xianfeng, The Column played the impeachment of Dingjun Wang Zaiquan for "showing off the arrogance and being good at weifu", and impeaching the Punishment Department Shilang Shuyuan for "greed and danger, and slandering the matter" (see appendix for details). Emperor Xuanzong received Yuan Jiasan's recital and personally received him, asking him to "understand the situation of the echo" Zaiquan. After the imperial court verified that what Yuan Jiasan played was a fact, Zaiquan was dismissed from his post as a minister of bodyguard and punished for three years. The incident shook the government and the opposition at the time. Later, he also impeached Zheng Zuchen, the inspector of Guangxi, for "causing chaos with kindness" and Chen Yan, the governor of Jiangxi, for "bribing traffic." The two inspectors were also deposed by the imperial court for Yuan Jiasan's impeachment. The Household Department proposed to restore the system of donating officials, and Yuan Jiasan was eager to show his interests, and the imperial court had to take back his life.

In the thirtieth year of Qing Daoguang (1850), Emperor Xuanzong died, and Emperor Wenzong took the throne with the era name Xianfeng. Yuan Jiasan was promoted to inspector of Jiangnan Province, and was in charge of the military department to give shiyin (responsible for assisting the emperor in handling administrative affairs, and supervising the six ministries and correcting officials).

In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), the uprising of the Taiping Army and the Twist Army became more and more powerful, and Lü Xianji, a servant of the Ministry of Works, was sent to Anhui to run a regiment to practice defense and suppression, and he asked Yuan Jiasan to go with him to "assist in military affairs". At that time, when the Taiping Army in Guangdong captured Fengyang Province, occupied Linhuai Pass, and successively conquered Mengcheng and Huaiyuan, it was also spied on Henan from Bozhou and Chuzhou. Yuan Jiasan took the method of first stabilizing the hearts and minds of the army and the people, and successfully quelled the incident of Yingzhou burning and besieging the fuya due to the Han Hui dispute.

In the autumn of that year, Zhou Tianjue, a military attendant, died in Bozhou and ordered Yuan Jiasan to succeed him as commander of the army. Prior to this, Zhou Had reported that the twisting army of Mengcheng and Bozhou had combined fifty-eight twists into one large force, with the names of the four heavenly kings and so on, and could not be suppressed urgently. After Zhou's death, when Yuan Jiasan went to the Wang Market in Bozhou, the soldiers had dispersed and the people had no fighting spirit. Yuan Jiasan hurriedly summoned scattered troops to reorganize the regimental training, unite the hearts of the army, and occupy the key passes, and as a result, he won the first battle at the Gaogong Temple. The emperor ordered Yuan Jiasan to take over the matter of suppressing "bandits", add three pin titles, and appoint anhui envoys. Yuan Jiasan resigned to the imperial court that after assuming the post of envoy, the government affairs were complicated and it was impossible to command the army to fight. The imperial court thought that his words were very reasonable, so they asked him to handle the matter of suppressing the Anhui Twister Army. Later, he won a great victory in Biaolipu, capturing deng Dajun, the leader of the Twist army, alive, and capturing more than 2,000 people of the Twist army. In October of that year, shortly after the Anqing Taiping army occupied The city of Bacheng, it captured Shucheng again, and Lü Xianji was killed. The imperial court wanted Yuan Jiasan to move his army to The City, but Yuan Jiasan hurriedly said: "Zhang Mao, the leader of the Twister Army, is stationed between Huaiyuan and Mengcheng and is trying to attack Luzhou (Hefei), so please garrison Mengcheng and Bozhou first to show solidarity with the prefectures."

In December, the Taiping Army did indeed capture Luzhou (Hefei), and Inspector Jiang Zhongyuan was killed. Yuan Jiasan shangshu impeached Shu Xing'a, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, for "supporting the soldiers and sitting on the sidelines", and Shu Xing'a was dismissed from his post.

In the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), Yuan Jiasan entered Linhuai and belonged to the Northern Route Army of Anhui Province. In less than a year, the Northern Anhui Twister Army was broken by him. The imperial court praised him and promoted him to the position of Imperial Governor of the Imperial Household. At this time, he was most concerned about the recovery of Luzhou, believing that "Luzhou lived in the hinterland of the northern part of the River, and more than ten prefectures and counties were trapped next to it... Luzhou did not have a gram, and the various defenses in the north of the River were not contained, and the Chu division could not rush to Jiangning when it went east. However, the leader of the Zhonglu Army, Chun and Fuji, "the veterans of the division were tired and it was difficult to work in a hurry", but the edict asked him to "play with hechun and Fuji" and "handle it in detail". He Chun and Fu Ji, however, impeached Yuan Jiasan for "sticking to his own opinions and having no way of meeting his titles", falsely accusing him of "guarding Linhuai, whitewashing military information, intercepting silver without authorization, and risking to sell himself." The imperial court listened to the reports of Hechun and Fuji, and ordered Yuan Jiasan to return to the Beijing Military Department to "strictly discuss the office", Yuan Jiasan was very popular with the military and the people in Huaibei, and when he left, he kept his people blocking the road.

Soon after Yuan Jiasan arrived in Beijing, he was dismissed from his post.

In May of the fifth year of Xianfeng (1855), Yuan Jiasan complained to the Inspectorate: Hechun they said that I had intercepted silver and other crimes, and they were all framed. Because after the Battle of Bacheng (Xianfeng four years), I once blamed Hechun for "ignoring them". This year, because of their failure to attack Luzhou, they were impeached. They held a grudge in their hearts, so they fabricated gossip to frame me. When the Inspectorate received Yuan Jiasan's complaint, it reported to Emperor Wenzong of Xianfeng, who ordered the governor of Liangjiang, Yi liang, to investigate it impartially.

Soon after Yuan Jiasan left northern Anhui, Zhang Luoxing, the leader of the Twist army, united the various twister armies in Anhui and Henan, and the momentum became even greater, and the common people also suffered from war. Hu Wenzhong, a commoner in Huaiyuan County, sold his daughter for travel expenses, walked to the Beijing Division on foot, and begged the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan to let Yuan Jia return to Anhui Town to guard it, because his complaint paper was not accepted by the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, so he hanged himself with the complaint paper. Officials in yan sent letters to Sun Guan, Yushi Cao Dengyong, and Zong Jichen, and successively said: "Yuan Jiasan was able to do a good job in Linhuai, and only then did the localities gain peace." Yi Liang, the governor of Liangjiang, Jir Hang'a, the inspector of Jiangsu, and He Guiqing, the governor of Zhejiang, also submitted chapters one after another, requesting that "the division of the three visions still be raised." After investigation and verification by all parties, Hechun and Fuji accused Yuan Jiasan of various crimes, which were indeed false accusations. Yuan Jiasan was rehabilitated and reinstated.

In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), Yuan Jiasan was appointed to assist the Inspector of Henan, Yinggui, in suppressing the Henan Twist Army. He first went to Guide (present-day Shangqiu) to gather the old troops to confront the Twister army, and won three battles and three victories, breaking the Siege of Bozhou by the Twister Army in one fell swoop. Then he annihilated tens of thousands of twisters in The Small Building of the Yan family, captured Su Tianfu, the leader of the twisters, and only Zhang Luoxing escaped alone. In this regard, the imperial court specially issued a commendation and ordered the three pins of Jingtang to be an alternate.

Later, Zhang Luoxing gathered the scattered Twist army to attack Yingzhou, and after failure, he once again occupied The Pheasant River. In the seventh year of Xianfeng (1857), Yuan Jiasan's army successively eliminated several twister armies of Wang, Deng, Song, and Yao, killing more than 100 people, including Li Yin, the leader of the twisting army, and was promoted to the position of secretary of the Taibu Temple, and was rewarded with flowers.

In April of the ninth year of Xianfeng (1859), Yuan Jiasan was made the governor of Caoyun. When Shengbao returned to his hometown due to his mother's illness, Yuan Jiasan was promoted to the post of Minister of Chincha, supervising the military affairs of Anhui, and was actually appointed the governor of Caoyun. In the ten years of Xianfeng, he marched into Fengyang, repeatedly winning battles, and the imperial court rewarded him for his good dispatch and gave him a yellow coat. In the autumn of that year, the Anglo-French army captured Beijing, and the princes and nobles fled to Rehe. Yuan Jiasan requested to lead his troops north to defend Beijing, and the imperial court said that Linhuai was a fortress between the north and the south, but it was not approved.

In November of the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), Yuan Jia's three overseers captured the county seat of Dingyuan County, which the Twist army had held for three years, and sent troops to take the city of Luzhou with Duolun Abu. Yuan Jiasan knew that the army he led was not a concubine, and it had no real power to use people and raise salaries, which was not the same as the Xiang army and the Anhui army of its own faction. Therefore, although he has won many battles and victories, there are still false accusations about the fall of Shouzhou. This made him more cautious in his dealings, and the eldest son, Yuan Baoheng, fought bravely and never allowed him to compete with other soldiers for merit.

After many years of military career, Yuan Jiasan has accumulated fatigue and become ill, and his whole body is paralyzed. He first took leave to recuperate, and then his illness increased sharply, and he asked him to return home. The imperial court approved his request, but the edict said: "Because of the fall of Shouzhou, Yuan Jiasan and Weng Tongshu jointly handled a matter, and had the responsibility of supervising military affairs, and the order was handed over to the Ministry of Strict Deliberation." The minister of wei nian supervised the military affairs of Anhui for three years, the time was difficult, and he did his best to support it, everything was still stable, and yuan Jiasan, as proposed by the ministry, should be dismissed from his post and punished, and (in writing) Garnon and pardon."

While Yuan Jiasan was recuperating from his illness at his home in Chen Prefecture (present-day Huaiyang County), the Twister army attacked Chen Prefecture twice. At that time, Yuan Jiasan's illness was very serious, and he taught the general guarding Chen Prefecture how to break the enemy on his sickbed, and as a result, the Twist army attacked Chen Prefecture twice without success. On June 24, the second year of Tongzhi (1863), Yuan Jiasan fell ill and died at the age of fifty-eight. The Tongzhi Emperor gave him the nickname "Duan Min" (端敏), was buried in Xiguan, Huaiyang, and set up a special shrine to sacrifice, and later built a special shrine in Linhuai and Huai'an, where he led his troops to fight. There are "Duan Mingong's Testament" passed down.

The three tombs of Yuan Jia in Huaiyang belong to the "hanging coffin". During the Cultural Revolution, the bodies were "invited" by the Red Guards from the tomb to show the public, and the burial goods were reportedly exchanged by the villagers for thirteen hand-held tractors.

The "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty" and the "Chronicle of Xiangcheng County" have been passed down.