Overview
Guiqing was an official and Administrator.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
Career and standing
acting then full Liangjiang governor-general 署兩江總督，尋實授
AD 1857 七年春 · Appointed
Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent 太子少保
AD 1857 是年冬 · Granted
Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent 太子太保
AD 1860 十年春 · Promoted
stripped of rank and ordered to the capital for trial 詔褫職逮京治罪
AD 1860 十年春 · Suffered
Places and affiliations
- Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Events and relationships
Abandoned changzhou
AD 1860 十年春 · Military · Commander · At Changzhou 常州
Fled to suzhou and shanghai
AD 1860 十年春 · Military · Commander · At Shanghai 上海
- Relation Patron of · Person Wang Youling (王有齡)
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment confidence soared and he bore great public expectations · Mode historian-judgment
References in the histories
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 397Volume 397 Biographies 184: Lu Jianying, Yang Wending, Qing Lin, Chong Lun, He Guiqing · 16 passages
杭州知府王有齡最為桂清倚用，擢權運、臬兩篆，為通判徐徵訐控。
Hangzhou prefect Wang Youling was Guiqing's closest aide; he was promoted to act transport and judicial commissioner but was impeached by subprefect Xu Zheng.
桂清覆奏，辭悻悻，被詰責。
Guiqing's reply was bitter in tone and he was rebuked.
會兩江總督怡良解職，文宗以籌餉事重，難其人，大學士彭蘊章薦桂清餉徽軍無缺，可勝任。
When Liangjiang governor-general Yi Liang was dismissed, Emperor Wenzong found provisioning hard to replace; Grand Secretary Peng Yunzhang recommended Guiqing, who had kept Huizhou's army supplied without shortfall and could fill the post.
桂清屢疏陳方略稱旨，諭飭和春和衷商酌。
Guiqing's repeated strategy memorials pleased the throne; an edict urged He Chun to consult with him in good faith.
桂清意氣發舒，倚畀益重，甚負時望。
Guiqing's confidence soared; the court leaned on him ever more, and he bore great public expectations.
倉猝城陷，惟將軍瑞昌守駐防內城未下，詔促桂清、和春遣軍速援。
The city fell in sudden assault; only General Ruichang still held the inner garrison quarter; an edict urged Guiqing and He Chun to send troops at once.
詔嘉桂清功，予優敘。
An edict praised Guiqing's achievement and granted him preferential promotion.
賊乃合眾十餘萬出建平、東壩，一由東壩趨江寧，一由溧陽窺常州，桂清聞之，幾失所措。
The rebels then massed over a hundred thousand from Jianping and Dongba—one column from Dongba toward Nanjing, one from Liyang toward Changzhou—and Guiqing, hearing this, nearly lost his composure.
張玉良回軍抵常州，和春飛檄調援大營，桂清留勿遣，復調馬得昭，亦莫之應。
Zhang Yuliang returned to Changzhou; He Chun urgently ordered him to the main camp, but Guiqing kept him back; he also summoned Ma Dezhao, who likewise would not come.
王有齡已擢浙江巡撫，貽書桂清戒勿離常州一步，且曰：「事棘時危，身為大臣，萬目睽睽，視以動止。
Wang Youling had been made Zhejiang governor and wrote Guiqing warning him never to leave Changzhou, saying: "Affairs are desperate and peril extreme; as a senior minister every eye is on you—your movements set the measure.
桂清疏陳：「丹陽以上軍務，和春、張國樑主之；
Guiqing wrote: "Military affairs from Danyang northward are He Chun's and Zhang Guoliang's;
部署稍定，即進規溧陽，而賊已迳犯丹陽，國樑死之，和春奔常州，桂清大驚。
Once his dispositions were set he moved on Liyang, but the rebels had already struck Danyang—Guoliang was killed, He Chun fled to Changzhou, and Guiqing was badly shaken.
桂清即疏陳軍事付和春，自駐蘇州籌餉。
Guiqing memorialized to hand military affairs to He Chun while he himself stayed at Suzhou to handle supplies.
桂清至蘇州，巡撫徐有壬拒勿納，疏劾其棄城喪師狀。
Guiqing reached Suzhou, but Governor Xu Youren refused him entry and memorialized impeaching him for abandoning the city and losing the army.
桂清託言借外兵，遂之上海。
Guiqing claimed he would borrow foreign troops and went to Shanghai.
蘇州亦陷，有壬殉之，遺疏再劾桂清，詔褫職逮京治罪。
Suzhou also fell; Youren died defending it and in a dying memorial again impeached Guiqing; an edict stripped his rank and ordered him brought to the capital for trial.