Xiong Tingbi

Timeline

1. 1608Liaoyang · LiaodongIn the eighth month of the 36th year of Wanli Xiong Tingbi was promoted to Censor-in-Charge; in the eleventh month he went through the passes to inspect Liaodong, stationing at Liaoyang. Against friends' advice he took on the task of investigating the abandoned-territory case at Kuandian and elsewhere, traveling east to survey the frontier, confirming that Li Chengliang and Zhao Ji had driven out over sixty thousand people and lost hundreds of li of territory, and memorialized to impeach them of deceiving the sovereign and losing the realm.
2. 1608–1609Liaodong · LiaodongIn Liaodong Xiong Tingbi strictly audited military merits, impeached corrupt generals, verified Du Song's indiscriminate killing of surrendered natives and embezzlement of military pay, and promoted military-agricultural colonies and the building of border walls and forts. He proposed defense-based warfare and strengthening the interior to secure the exterior; within three years over seven hundred li of border wall, more than a hundred beacon towers, and seventeen granaries were built, greatly revitalizing Liaodong's discipline.
3. 1609–1610Fushun · LiaodongIn the 37th year of Wanli, Xiong Tingbi used incidents such as Nurhaci's men destroying fields at Jing'an Fort and extorting ginseng money at Fushun Pass to memorialize for three hundred thousand taels from the imperial treasury to strengthen Liaodong's defenses, pointing out that Jurchen power in Jianzhou was growing and that frontier arms and supplies could not be relied upon. The Wanli Emperor approved, and Liaodong's defenses were temporarily strengthened, but the old abandoned-territory case remained unresolved in the palace.