Qing · General and Rebel

Geng Jingzhong 耿精忠

Gěng Jīngzhōng

Died AD 1680

Passages: 18
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Geng Jingzhong as a general, military officer, rebel, and ruler. This record brings together 18 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Geng Jingzhong	耿精忠	Gěng Jīngzhōng
Personal name	Geng Jingzhong	耿精忠	Gěng Jīngzhōng
Personal name	Geng Jingzhong	耿精忠
Personal	Geng Jingzhong	耿精忠
Personal	Jingzhong	精忠

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0186
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0100, qingshigao:269:s0079

Roles

General
Military Officer
Rebel
Ruler

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Western Year: AD 1680
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:252:s0100

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 康熙初 · Western Year: AD 1662
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0079
Source Date: Text: 康熙十三年 · Western Year: AD 1674
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0100
Source Date: Text: 康熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1673
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:252:s0076, qingshigao:269:s0088
Source Date: Text: 方諸籓盛強 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1673 · End: AD 1681
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:252:s0184, qingshigao:252:s0186

Career and standing

Status: feudatory-prince-in-rebellion · Action: held
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0184, qingshigao:252:s0186

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: rebelled-against
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:252:s0184, qingshigao:252:s0186
Place: Fujian / 福建 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0079

Events and relationships

Kind: biographical-event · Action: forced Fan Chengmo to hang himself
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0093
Kind: political · Role: rebel-leader · Action: pressed-Chengmo-in-same-city · Other Person Id: Fan Chengmo (范承謨)
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0186
Kind: biographical-event · Action: rebelled, imprisoned, fettered, and starved Fan Chengmo
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0078, qingshigao:252:s0083

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0079

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 252Volume 252 Biographies 39: Gan Wenkun, Fan Chengmo, Ma Xiongzhen, Fu Honglie · 13 passages

吳三桂反，承謨察精忠有異志，時方議裁兵，承謨疏請緩行。 When Wu Sangui rebelled, Chengmo saw that Geng Jingzhong harbored rebellious intent. As the court debated troop reductions, Chengmo memorialized asking that the cuts be postponed.

事未行而精忠叛，陽言海寇至，約承謨計事。 Before he could act, Jingzhong rebelled, falsely claiming pirates had appeared, and summoned Chengmo to consult with him.

巡撫劉秉政附精忠，趣同行。 Governor Liu Bingzheng had joined Jingzhong and pressed Chengmo to accompany them.

精忠之徒露刃相脅，承謨挺身前，罵不絕口。 Jingzhong's men drew their blades to threaten him; Chengmo stepped forward and cursed them without stopping.

精忠拘之土室，加以桎梏，絕粒十日，不得死。 Jingzhong locked him in an earthen cell in fetters and starved him for ten days, yet he would not die.

精忠遣秉政說降，承謨奮足蹴之僕，叱左右掖之出，曰：「賊就僇當不遠，我先褫其魄！」 Jingzhong sent Bingzheng to urge him to submit. Chengmo kicked him to the ground and ordered his men to drag him out, crying, "The rebels will soon face execution—I will break their spirits first!"

蒙古人嘛尼為偽散騎郎，精忠遣守承謨，感承謨忠義，謀令出走。 A Mongol named Mani held a false commission as Gentleman Cavalier and was assigned to guard Chengmo. Moved by Chengmo's loyalty, he plotted to help him escape.

事泄，精忠將磔之，大言曰：「吾寧與忠臣同死，不原與逆賊同生！」 When the plot was discovered, Jingzhong was about to dismember him. He cried out, "I would rather die with a loyal minister than live with rebel traitors!"

十五年，師克仙霞關，精忠將降，冀飾詞免死，懼承謨暴其罪。 In the fifteenth year imperial forces took Xianxia Pass. Jingzhong was about to surrender and hoped to excuse his crimes and save his life, fearing Chengmo would expose them.

九月己酉朔，甲子夜半，精忠遣黨偪承謨就縊。 On the first day of the ninth month (day jiyou), at midnight on day jiazi, Jingzhong sent his men to force Chengmo to hang himself.

十九年，精忠伏誅。 In the nineteenth year Jingzhong was executed.

赴市曹日，承謨子時崇臠其肉祭墓。 On the day Jingzhong was led to execution, Chengmo's son Shichong cut flesh from his body as an offering at his father's tomb.

若承謨之於精忠，雄鎮之於延齡，皆同城逼處，惟以身殉，無他術也。 Men such as Chengmo facing Jingzhong and Xiongzhen facing Yanling lived in the same cities as their enemies and had no recourse but to die for their loyalty.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 259Volume 259 Biographies 46: Yi Li Bu, Ha Ke San, A Er Hu, Lu Shen, Ya Ji, Kuo Er Kun, Wang Chengye · 2 passages

耿精忠遣其將擾江西，廣信、建昌、饒州並陷。 Geng Jingzhong sent generals into Jiangxi; Guangxin, Jianchang, and Raozhou all fell.

復進徵建昌，精忠將邵連登據常興山，列營三十，雅賚攻其左，諸軍自右擊之，盡夷其巢，連登中流矢死。 He advanced on Jianchang, where Geng Jingzhong's general Shao Liandeng held Changxing Mountain with thirty camps. Ya Ji attacked from the left while other columns struck from the right, destroying the camps. Liandeng died of an arrow wound.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 3 passages

康熙初，南疆大定，留重兵鎮之：吳三桂雲南，尚可喜廣東，耿精忠福建。 Early in the Kangxi reign the south was pacified but heavily garrisoned: Wu Sangui in Yunnan, Shang Kexi in Guangdong, and Geng Jingzhong in Fujian.

精忠、三桂繼請。 Jingzhong and Sangui soon made the same request.

三桂遂反，精忠及可喜子之信皆叛應之。 Sangui rebelled, and Jingzhong and Kexi's son Zhixin joined him.