Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Imperial Rescript (1/3/1939)

Updated January 27, 2015


Date:January 3, 1939 清宣宗道光十八年 (戊戌) 十一月十八 日 (丙辰) [the eighteenth day of the eleventh month in the eighteenth year of the reign of Tao-kuang]
Subject[1]:Lin Tse-hsu ordered to plug-up opium supplies and unroot opiate establishments; ordered Teng Ting-chen and I-liang to collaborate with Lin.


諭軍機大臣等、朕因近年鴉片煙傳染日深。紱銀出洋。銷耗彌甚。屢經降旨飭令該督等認真查辦。但錮蔽日久。恐一時未能盡行破除。若不清查來源。則此患伊於 胡底。昨經降旨特派湖廣總督林則徐馳赴粵省。查辦海口事件。并頒給欽差大臣關防。令該省水師兼歸節制。林則徐到粵后。自必遵旨竭力查辦。以清弊源。惟該省 窯口快蟹。以及開設煙館。販賣吸食。種種弊竇。必應隨地隨時。淨絕根株。著鄧廷楨、怡良、振刷精神。仍照舊分別查拏。毋稍松懈。斷不可存觀望之見。尤不可 有推諉之心。再鄧廷楨統轄兩省地方。事務殷繁。若專責以查辦鴉片。以及紋銀出洋。恐顧此失彼。轉不能專一心力。盡絕弊端。現派林則徐前往專辦此事。該督自 當益矢勤奮。盡泯畛域。應分辦者各盡己責。應商辦者會衕奏聞。趁此可乘之機。力救前此之失。總期積習永除。根株斷絕。想卿等必能體朕之心。為中國祛此一大 患也。將此諭令知之。


Source: 清實錄道光朝實錄 (Qing Shilu, Daoguangchao Shilu) [The Truthful Record of Qing Dynasty: The Truthful Record of the Reign of Daoguang]
[1] Subject was not written in any Imperial Rescript. What appears here has been written for the easy reference of the readership.


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