Qing · Military Officer

Liu Qiyuan 劉起元

Liú Qǐyuán

Attested AD 1726 - AD 1728

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Qiyuan was a Military Officer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1726 雍正四年夏
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 514, passages 11, 13
AD 1728 六年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 514, passage 25

Career and standing

Regional Commander 總兵
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 514, passages 13, 25

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 514, passages 13, 25
At Dongchuan 東川 · Relation Garrisoned
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 514, passage 13
At Wumeng 烏蒙 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 514, passage 26

Events and relationships

Failed to hold garrison
Military · Commander · At Wumeng 烏蒙
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 514, passage 26
Garrisoned
Military · Officer · At Dongchuan 東川 · With Ortai (鄂爾泰)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 514, passage 13

Assessments and attributes

Assessment troops slack in discipline; pilfered rations and took bribes to negotiate peace · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 514, passages 25-26

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 514, passage 25

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 514Volume 514 Biographies 301: Native Chieftain Biographies 3: Yunnan · 3 passages

鄂爾泰令總兵劉起元屯東川，招降祿鼎坤。 Ortai stationed Regional Commander Liu Qiyuan at Dongchuan and sought to win Lu Dingkun's surrender.

其子祿萬福乞回魯甸治產，見總兵劉起元軍律不肅，陰會其舊部謀變。 His son Lu Wanfu petitioned to return to Ludian to manage the family estates. Seeing that Regional Commander Liu Qiyuan's troops were slack in discipline, he secretly rallied his former followers to plot a revolt.

時烏蒙商民萬計，有險可扼，且賊止標弩，無大砲，而劉起元惟媮餒賄和，賊遂陷鎮城，盡戕兵民，遍煽東川、鎮雄及四川涼山蠻數萬叛。 Tens of thousands of merchants and townspeople were then in Wumeng, and the terrain offered defiles that could be held. The rebels carried only poisoned bolts and crossbows, no heavy artillery—yet Liu Qiyuan merely pilfered rations and took bribes to negotiate peace. The rebels overran the garrison town, massacred soldiers and civilians, and stirred up tens of thousands of tribesmen in Dongchuan, Zhenxiong, and Liangshan in Sichuan to rise in revolt.