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Overview The translated histories identify Kang Lu as an eunuch and official. This record brings together 16 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Kang Lu
康履
Kang Lu
Given
Lu
履
Posthumous
Rongjie
榮節
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Death Attested activity Career and standing Label: Escort Leader of the Inner Attendant Directorate / 內侍省押班Action: appointed
Label: Military Commissioner of Jinzhou / 金州觀察使Action: appointed
Label: posthumous title Rongjie / 諡榮節Action: granted
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History of Song, Chapter 469 Volume 469 Biographies 228: Eunuchs 4: Shao Chengzhang, Lan Gui Kanglu, Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, Dong Songchen · 16 passages
〈（康履附）〉
(with Kang Lu appended)
藍珪、康履，初皆為康王府都監、入內東頭供奉官，嚐從康王使金人行營。
Lan Gui and Kang Lu had both begun as chief stewards of Prince Kang’s household and as Inner Entering Eastern Head attendants-in-waiting; they had accompanied the prince on embassy to the Jurchen camp.
朝廷遣人趣師入援，履等請王留相州，王叱之而行。
The court urged the prince’s army to hurry north in relief; Lu and his fellows begged him to stay at Xiangzhou; the prince scolded them and moved on.
既 即位，二人俱恃恩用事，履尤妄作威福，大將如劉光世等多曲意事之。
After his accession both men traded on old favor to run affairs; Lu in particular lorded it over everyone, and commanders such as Liu Guangshi routinely humored them.
履終無所忌憚，與內侍曾擇淩忽諸將，或 踞坐洗足，立諸將於左右，聲喏甚至馬前，故疾之者眾。
Lu remained utterly fearless; with the eunuch Zeng Ze he insulted field commanders—sometimes sprawling barefoot while washing, making generals stand at his side and bark their salutes even at his horse’s head—so hatred of him spread wide.
帝在揚州，金兵卒至，帝馳馬出門，百官不戒備，從行者惟履 等五六人。
At Yangzhou Jurchen troops appeared without warning; the emperor bolted through the gate while the bureaucracy was caught flat-footed—only Lu and five or six others rode with him.
自是履等益自衒，愈有輕外朝心。
From that day Lu and his circle preened all the more and looked on the civil bureaucracy with open contempt.
伏兵斬 淵，遣兵圍履家，分捕中官，凡無須者皆殺之。
Hidden soldiers cut down Wang Yuan; troops encircled Lu’s house and hunted eunuchs throughout the city—every beardless man they found was killed.
履馳入白帝，傅等至，厲聲曰：“陛下信任中官，凡中官所主者皆得美官。
Lu raced in to warn the emperor; Fu and his men arrived shouting, “Your Majesty trusts eunuchs—every office a eunuch touches turns into a lucrative post.
王淵遇賊不戰，交康履得樞 密。
Wang Yuan fled from the enemy without fighting, yet traded on Kang Lu and won the Bureau Commissioner’s seal.
中官在外者已誅，更乞康履、藍珪、曾擇等誅之，以謝三軍。”
The eunuchs outside the palace are already dead—we now demand Kang Lu, Lan Gui, Zeng Ze, and the rest be killed to satisfy the armies.”
軍器監葉宗諤言：“陛下何惜一康履，不以慰三軍？”
Armory Director Ye Zongwu said, “Why spare a single Kang Lu when the armies are howling for blood?”
帝不得 已，遣人執履至，履望帝呼曰：“大家何獨殺臣？”
With no choice left, the emperor had Lu seized; Lu stared at the throne and wailed, “Great One, why kill only me?”
傅等誅，贈履官，諡榮節，召珪等還。
After Fu’s faction was destroyed, Lu was posthumously enfeoffed with the title Rongjie; Gui and the others were summoned back.
珪初與履同 進，而驕橫不及履，故幸以壽終。
Gui had risen with Lu, but never matched his swagger; thus he was lucky to die in bed.
又有與履同姓者名諝，為內侍省押班，亦親幸用事，與知閣門事藍公佐善，每邀公佐至其直舍，必縱飲大醉，薄莫乃歸，嚐漏泄禁中語。
Another Lu clansman named Xu, also Escort Leader, shared the emperor’s favor and power; he befriended Gate Affairs Commissioner Lan Gongzuo, entertained him nightly until both were drunk, and once leaked palace secrets.