A portly, skilled and smooth administrator whom Jiang Yanzhi had personally promoted. He was unaware of the Youzhou Sima's collusion with Nanjing until after the attack occurred. His second daughter had been speaking kindly with the Sima, and he had entrusted the waterways entirely to him. Upon learning of the Sima's treachery, he was furious and shed tears, lamenting that his twenty-plus years of service had been tarnished. Jiang Yanzhi punished him with three years of docked salary and tasked him with handling restitution of money and goods and ensuring all bandits were captured and imprisoned. The governor gratefully accepted the chance to redeem himself.
