Sui and Tang · Bandit

Fang Qing 方清

Attested AD 762 - AD 768

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Fang Qing was a Bandit.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 762 to AD 768 蘇州豪士方清因歲兇
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 31

Places and affiliations

At Suzhou 蘇州 · Relation Native or based
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 31

Events and relationships

Recruited starving refugees into banditry by the tens of thousands between Yi and She
Rebellion · Leader
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 31

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 146Volume 146 Biographies 71: Two Li's · 1 passage

蘇州豪士方清因歲兇，誘流殍為盜，積數萬，依黟、歙間，阻山自防，東南厭苦。 Fang Qing, a powerful man of Suzhou, exploited successive bad harvests to recruit starving refugees into banditry until his forces numbered tens of thousands; they held the mountains between Yi and She and the southeast groaned under their depredations.