唐道绅是唐廷庚吗--唐道绅与唐廷庚活动述略

Tang Daoshen VS Tang Tinggeng--Brief introduction to the life stories of Tang Daoshen and Tang Tinggeng

轮船招商局司事人唐道绅私设长裕泰装船行,至欠招商局水脚一万余金;又伙开栈房,倒账逾二万两,招至李鸿章命会办马建忠严办,乃至一班粤人亦遭遣散。此唐道绅向来被学界认为是唐廷庚,而唐廷庚为总办唐廷枢胞弟,唐廷枢因此背负假公济私之烙印。唯笔者揆诸史料,此唐道绅不是唐廷庚,而是家族内同房之堂弟。本文拟就此展开论证。

Tang Daoshen, the manager of China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, privately set up Changyutai Shipping Company, and owed the agency more than 10,000 taels of transportation expenses;he also co-founded a warehouse and refused to pay the loans of more than 20,000 taels. As a result, he was severely punished by the deputy general manager Ma Jianzhong under the order of Li Hongzhang till the group of Cantonese was disbanded. This Tang Daoshen has always been regarded as Tang Tinggeng in the academic world. Tang Tinggeng was the younger brother of the general manager Tang Tingshu, who bore the brand of attaining private ends by abusing public position because of this. Through textual research, the author concludes that this Tang Daoshen was not Tang Tinggeng, but a cousin of the same clan. This paper intends to demonstrate this.