Mujangga | |
Office: | Chief Grand Councillor |
Term Start: | 1836 |
Term End: | 1850 |
Predecessor: | Pan Shi'en |
Successor: | Qi Junzao |
Office1: | Grand Councillor |
Term Start1: | 1827 |
Term End1: | 1850 |
Office2: | Grand Secretary of the Wenhua Hall |
Term Start2: | 1838 |
Term End2: | 1850 |
Office3: | Grand Secretary of the Wuying Hall |
Term Start3: | 1836 |
Term End3: | 1838 |
Office4: | Assistant Grand Secretary |
Term Start4: | 1834 |
Term End4: | 1836 |
Office5: | Minister of Personnel |
Term Start5: | 25 December 1834 |
Term End5: | 30 August 1836 |
Alongside5: | Tang Jinzhao |
Predecessor5: | Wenfu |
Successor5: | Keying |
Office6: | Minister of Revenue |
Term Start6: | 14 July 1833 |
Term End6: | 25 December 1834 |
Alongside6: | Wang Ding |
Predecessor6: | Xi'en |
Successor6: | Keying |
Office7: | Minister of Works |
Term Start7: | 9 January 1832 |
Term End7: | 14 July 1833 |
Alongside7: | Zhu Shiyan |
Predecessor7: | Fujun |
Successor7: | Boqitu |
Term Start8: | 8 January 1827 |
Term End8: | 21 September 1831 |
Alongside8: | Pan Shi'en |
Predecessor8: | Xi'en |
Successor8: | Fujun |
Office9: | Minister of War |
Term Start9: | 21 September 1830 |
Term End9: | 9 January 1831 |
Alongside9: | Shi Yizhi |
Predecessor9: | Songyun |
Successor9: | Naqing'an |
Office10: | Minister of Lifan Yuan |
Term Start10: | 3 March 1824 |
Term End10: | 8 January 1827 |
Predecessor10: | Fujun |
Successor10: | Yinghe |
Office11: | Viceroy of the Canal Transport |
Term Start11: | 1826 |
Term End11: | 1826 |
Predecessor11: | Chen Zhongfu |
Successor11: | Nergingge |
Term Start12: | 1825 |
Term End12: | 1825 |
Predecessor12: | Wei Yuanyu |
Successor12: | Chen Zhongfu |
Office13: | Viceroy of Zhili |
Term Start13: | 14 April 1837 |
Term End13: | 25 July 1837 |
Predecessor13: | Keshen |
Successor13: | Keshen |
Birth Date: | 1782 |
Mujangga (; ; 1782–1856) was a Manchu statesman of the late Qing dynasty, belonging to the Gogiya (郭佳) clan. He belonged under the Bordered Blue Banner in the Eight Banners. In 1805, he was awarded the jinshi degree, the highest level in the imperial examination and quickly rose in the ranks of the Qing government. He became a member of the Grand Council in 1828 and gradually grew to exercise a decisive influence on the Daoguang Emperor's policies. Following the demise of Cao Zhenyong, Mujangga became the chief Grand Councillor in 1837. As tensions in Sino-British relations rose in 1839, he became one of the chief advocates of a conciliatory policy towards the British and following the outbreak of the First Opium War, he moved to dismiss Lin Zexu from his position as imperial commissioner in September 1840. Around 1845 he was President of the Hanlin Academy.[1] Mujangga's conciliatory policies created tensions with the allegedly more xenophobic heir apparent, and following his accession to the throne as the Xianfeng Emperor, Mujangga was dismissed from all his positions in 1851.
Mujangga was the teacher of Zeng Guofan — a young Chinese statesman, Confucian scholar, and future general of the Xiang Army during the Taiping Rebellion who later became a mentor to Li Hongzhang, a future diplomat of the Qing Dynasty and trade minister of the Beiyang Navy.