令詪 Lìnghěn

Linghen, great-great-grandson of Dezhao

Linghen, styled Junxu, was made Right Palace Attendant through his father's privilege. In the Zhenghe period he was promoted to Gentleman for Accomplished Loyalty, and after a summoned examination was made Gentleman for Attending Service. In the second year of Xuanhe, having passed the school-selection examination as a presented scholar, he was made Gentleman for Proclaimed Teaching and posted as Assistant Magistrate of Yongfeng County, Xin Prefecture. At the beginning of the restoration he rose through promotions to Assistant Fiscal Commissioner at Fuzhou, concurrently Judicial Commissioner. While Qin Gui held power, the title of Prince of Anding Commandery lay vacant for more than ten years; after Qin Gui died, Lingjin was next in line to be enfeoffed, but he happened to be under arrest over some affair, so Linghen was ordered to succeed to the fief. Soon after, Linghen yielded the title to Lingjin, and Linghen was then promoted to Compiler of the Imperial Archives and Prefect of Tai Prefecture (acting), moved to be Prefect of Shaoxing Prefecture (acting), and summoned to be acting Vice Minister of Revenue, in charge of the mint bureaus of Yan and Rao Prefectures. Before this, the soldiers and craftsmen of the mints in the various prefectures had often fallen short of their numbers without being replaced, and the clothing and rations saved on them were accumulated and called "the three-tenths vacancy money". Linghen asked that this money be handed to the salt offices, so as to save the court its outlay of capital for copper. He also proposed that, when prefectures and counties sold government land, the prefects and magistrates be rewarded according to the amount it brought in, with promotion in rank or a shortened period before review for promotion, in varying degrees; that, since the grain in the charity granaries of the prefectures and counties had mostly turned red and rotten, a third of it be released each year in exchange for new grain; and that, when flood or drought caused disaster, places where the inspected remission of taxes fell short of seven-tenths should also be allowed relief: all of these were adopted. When Lingjin died, Linghen, then Commissioner of Proclamation of the Chongqing Army, succeeded to the fief a second time. At the beginning of Longxing he was appointed Associate Administrator of the Great Office of Imperial Clan Affairs, and memorialised asking that the birthday grants and the rewards at the suburban sacrifice be reduced to help pay for the war. An edict commended him. He was promoted to Auxiliary Academician of the Fuwen Pavilion, and specially made Left Grand Master for the Palace and Prefect of Shaoxing Prefecture (acting). Pleading illness, he asked for a temple sinecure and went home, and died soon after, aged sixty-eight. Linghen handled affairs with clarity and quickness and had a fine bearing; but while he was in Guangdong he fell out with the Vice Commissioner Zhang Ba, and secretly brought the law to bear on him, so that Ba was ruined and died; for this the world thought less of him. Edit