Jiang Zhen (蔣鎮) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Jiang Zhen as an official, rebel, and scholar. This record brings together 19 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Jiang Zhen	蔣鎮	Jiang Zhen
Surname	Jiang	蔣
Personal name	Jiang Zhen	蔣鎮	Jiǎng Zhèn
Personal name	Jiang Zhen	蔣鎮	Jiang Zhen
Given	Zhen	鎮

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:131:s0005, xintangshu:161:s0127

Roles

Official
Rebel
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: beheaded · Place: eastern market northwest street / 東市西北街
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0158

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 天寶末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 755 · End: AD 756
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0141
Source Date: Text: 建中四年 · Western Year: AD 783
Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:131:s0149, jiutangshu:131:s0006
Source Date: Text: 禮儀使 · Western Interval: Start: AD 779 · End: AD 805
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0127

Family

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Kin of Jiang Huan (蔣渙)
Kinship Term: paternal uncle / 叔 · Subject Role: paternal-uncle · Object Role: nephew · Line: paternal · Intermediary Person Ids: Jiang Lie (蔣洌)
Sibling of Jiang Lian (蔣鍊)
Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Subject Relative Age: elder · Shared Parentage: full
Child of Jiang Lie (蔣洌)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Sibling of Sister of Jiang Zhen (蔣鎮妹)
Kinship Term: younger sister / 妹 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full

Career and standing

Label: nominal chancellor / 偽宰相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0154

Places and affiliations

Place: Yixing in Chang Prefecture / 常州義興
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0139

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: petty man clinging to salary · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiutangshu:131:s0223

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 131Volume 127 Biographies 77: Yao Lingyan, Zhang Guangcheng, Yuan Xiu, Qiao Lin, Zhang She, Jiang Zhen, Hong Jinglun, Peng Yan · 18 passages

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暤尋歸朝廷，遂拜令言為四鎮北庭行營涇原節度使、涇州刺史、兼御史大夫。 When Min soon returned to court, Lingyan was appointed military governor of Jingyuan in the Four-Garrisons and Beiting campaign command, prefect of Jingzhou, and concurrent Grand Censor.

十月，詔令言率本鎮兵五萬赴援。 In the tenth month, the court ordered Lingyan to lead fifty thousand troops of his command to the relief.

涇師離鎮，多攜子弟而來，望至京師以獲厚賞，及師上路，一無所賜。 When the Jingyuan army left its garrison, many brought their sons and younger kinsmen along, expecting rich rewards when they reached the capital; but once the army was on the road, they received nothing at all.

時太尉硃泚罷鎮居晉昌裏第，是夜，叛卒謀曰：「硃太尉久囚於宅，若迎為主，大事濟矣。」 At that time Grand Preceptor Zhu Ci, having been removed from his command, lived at his mansion in Jinchang Lane. That night the mutinous soldiers said: "Grand Preceptor Zhu has long been confined in his residence—if we welcome him as our leader, the great affair will succeed."

光晟既受命，至鎮，威令甚行。 Once Guangcheng had received his commission and reached his post, his authority and commands were sternly enforced.

因小忿而離，妻族上訴，下御史臺驗理，休遲留不答款狀，除名，配流溱州。 Because of a small quarrel they separated; her clan petitioned the throne; the case was sent to the Censorate for investigation. Xiu delayed and would not answer the indictment; he was removed from office and exiled to Zhen Prefecture.

蔣鎮，常州義興人，尚書左丞洌之子也。 Jiang Zhen came from Yixing in Chang Prefecture, son of Lie, Left Assistant Minister of the Secretariat.

上以秋霖稍多，水潦為患，不宜生瑞，命鎮馳驛檢行之。 The emperor, because autumn rains had been rather heavy and flooding was a calamity, held that it was not fitting for omens to appear, and ordered Zhen to go by express relay and inspect.

鎮奏與滉同，仍上表賀，請宣付史館，並請置神祠，錫其嘉號寶應靈慶池。 Zhen reported in agreement with Huang, still submitted a congratulatory memorial, asked that it be proclaimed to the History Office, and also asked to establish a spirit shrine, bestowing the honorable title Pool of Treasure Response and Spiritual Blessing.

韓滉慮鹽戶減稅，詐奏雨不壞池，池生瑞鹽，鎮庇之飾詐，識者醜之。 Han Huang, fearing reduced salt-tax from the salt households, falsely reported that rain did not harm the ponds and that the ponds produced auspicious salt; Zhen shielded him and embellished the fraud—those who knew were ashamed of them.

涇師之叛，鎮潛竄，夜至鄠縣西，馬躓墮溝澗中，傷足不能進。 When the Jingyuan army rebelled, Zhen fled in secret; by night he reached west of Hu County, his horse stumbled and fell into a ditch, injuring his foot so he could not advance.