Overview
Gaozu was a ruler and General.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 507 天監中
AD 505 天監四年冬
AD 495 建武二年
AD 499 東昏時臨雍州
AD 501 義兵起
AD 502 高祖受禪
Places and affiliations
- Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Ruled
- At Yongzhou 雍州 · Relation Posted to
Works and attributed material
Events and relationships
Recruited fighters and stockpiled materials
Military · Commander · At Tan Creek 檀溪
Relieved
AD 495 建武二年 · Military · Commander · At Yiyang 義陽
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment commended Sengzhen highly for the Xiangyang mission · Mode historian-judgment · About Person Id Lü Sengzhen (呂僧珍)
- Assessment joked that eating the fruit was real progress · Mode named-speech Speaker Gaozu (高祖) · About Person Id Lü Sengzhen (呂僧珍)
References in the histories
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Book of Liang, Chapter 11Volume 11: Zhang Hongce; Yu Yu; Zheng Shaoshu; Lü Sengzhen · 14 passages
高祖率師援義陽，僧珍從在軍中。
Gaozu marched to relieve Yiyang, and Sengzhen went with the host.
高祖欲遣使至襄陽，求梁州問，衆皆憚，莫敢行，僧珍固請充使，卽日單舸上道。
Gaozu meant to send someone to Xiangyang for news of Liangzhou; all shrank from the road, but Sengzhen insisted and that same day sailed alone upstream.
旣至襄陽，督遣援軍，且獲宣武王書而反，高祖甚嘉之。
At Xiangyang he drove the relief forces, secured the Xuanwu King's letter, and returned; Gaozu commended him in the highest terms.
時高祖已臨雍州，僧珍固求西歸，得補邔令。
Gaozu already held Yongzhou; Sengzhen begged to go west and was made Magistrate of Qi.
旣至，高祖命爲中兵參軍，委以心膂。
On arrival Gaozu made him Middle Army Aide and trusted him as his right hand.
高祖頗招武猛，士庶響從，會者萬餘人，因命按行城西空地，將起數千間屋，以爲止舍，多伐材竹，沈於檀溪，積茅蓋若山阜，皆不之用。
Gaozu drew fierce fighters until more than ten thousand gathered; he had the open ground west of the wall surveyed for thousands of lodgings, cut timber and bamboo and sank it in Tan Creek, and piled thatch into hillocks—yet used none of it.
義兵起，高祖夜召僧珍及張弘策定議，明旦乃會衆發兵，悉取檀溪材竹，裝爲艛艦，葺之以茅，並立辦。
When the righteous army rose, Gaozu called Sengzhen and Zhang Hongce at night to decide; at dawn the host moved out, pulled up the Tanxi timber and bamboo, rigged them as warships roofed with thatch, and had all in an instant.
高祖以僧珍爲輔國將軍、步兵校尉，出入臥內，宣通意旨。
Gaozu made him Supporting-the-State General and Colonel of Footmen, entering the inner quarters to speak the ruler's mind.
郢州平，高祖進僧珍爲前鋒大將軍。
After Ying fell, Gaozu promoted him to Grand General of the Vanguard.
大軍次江寧，高祖令僧珍與王茂率精兵先登赤鼻邏。
The army stopped at Jiangning; Gaozu sent Sengzhen and Wang Mao with elite troops to take the Red Nose picket first.
建康城平，高祖命僧珍率所領先入清宮，與張弘策封檢府庫，卽日以本官帶南彭城太守，遷給事黃門侍郎，領虎賁中郎將。
When Jiankang fell, Gaozu had Sengzhen lead his men first into the inner palace; with Zhang Hongce he sealed and checked the treasury. That day he kept his rank as acting Nan Pengcheng administrator, was made Attendant-in-Ordinary of the Yellow Gate, and held the Tiger guards colonelcy.
高祖受禪，以爲冠軍將軍、前軍司馬，封平固縣侯，邑一千二百戶。
When Gaozu took the throne, he was made Champion General and front army marshal, enfeoffed as Marquis of Pinggu with twelve hundred households.
高祖欲榮之，使爲本州，乃授使持節、平北將軍、南兗州刺史。
Gaozu meant to honor him with his home province and appointed him Bearer of the Staff, General Who Pacifies the North, and Southern Yanzhou inspector.
高祖笑謂曰：「便是大有所進。」
Gaozu laughed and said, "That is real progress."