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Overview Kou Yanqing was a general.
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Junchen
俊臣
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 21 Volume 21 Later Liang Biographies 1: Jing Xiang, Zhu Zhen, Pang Shigu, Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, Zhang Cunjing, Fu Daozhao, Liu Han, Kou Yangqing · 12 passages
寇彥卿
Kou Yanqing
寇彥卿，字俊臣，開封人也。
Kou Yanqing, styled Junchen, came from Kaifeng.
太祖初就鎮，以為通引官，累遷右長直都指揮使，領洺州刺史。
When Taizu first secured the circuit command, he made Yanqing a staff liaison, raised him to Right Chief of the Long Direct Guard, and gave him Ming Prefecture.
羅紹威將誅牙軍，太祖遣彥卿之魏計事，彥卿陰為紹威計畫，乃悉誅牙軍。
When Luo Shaowei meant to wipe out the yajun retainers, Taizu sent Yanqing to Wei to plan. Yanqing secretly laid out Shaowei’s scheme, and the yajun were slaughtered to the last man.
彥卿身長八尺，隆準方面，語音如鐘，工騎射，好書史，善伺太祖意，動作皆如旨。
Eight chi tall, high-nosed and square-jawed, Yanqing spoke in a voice like a bell. He rode and shot with skill, loved history, and read Taizu’s mood so well that word and deed always landed where the Founder wanted.
太祖嘗曰：「敬翔、劉捍、寇彥卿皆天為我生之。」
Taizu once said: “Jing Xiang, Liu Han, and Kou Yanqing—Heaven gave them all to me.”
其愛之如此。
Such was his love for Yanqing.
太祖圍鳳翔，以彥卿為都排陣使，彥卿乘烏馳突陣前，太祖目之曰：「真神將也！」
Besieging Fengxiang, Taizu made Yanqing formation marshal. Yanqing spurred the black steed straight into the enemy line. Taizu watched and cried: “There rides a god of war!”
其後昭宗奔於鳳翔，太祖以兵圍之，昭宗既出，明年，太祖以兵至河中，遣彥卿奉表迫請遷都。
Then the emperor fled to Fengxiang and Taizu besieged him. Once he was extracted, Taizu marched to Hezhong the next year and sent Yanqing with a memorial to force the move east.
彥卿因悉驅徙長安居人以東，人皆拆屋為筏，浮渭而下，道路號哭，仰天大罵曰：「國賊崔胤、朱溫使我至此！」
Yanqing then drove the people of Chang’an east. They ripped houses apart for rafts and drifted down the Wei; the roads rang with weeping and curses heavenward: “The traitors Cui Yin and Zhu Wen brought us to this!”
太祖大怒，顧彥卿曰：「汝往趣官家來，不可一日留也。」
Taizu flew into a rage and turned to Yanqing: “Ride to Huazhou and drag the emperor out—not one day more.”
彥卿復馳至華，即日迫昭宗上道。
Yanqing galloped back to Huazhou and that same day drove the emperor onto the road.