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Overview The translated histories identify Lu Jianying as an official and statesman. This record brings together 7 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Lu Jianying
陸建瀛
Lu Jianying
Given
Jianying
建瀛
Jianying
Surname
Lu
陸
Lu
Personal name
Lu Jianying
陸建瀛
Lu Jianying
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Attested activity Career and standing Label: Governor of Jiangsu / 江蘇巡撫Action: held
Label: Governor-General of the Two Jiangs / 兩江總督Action: held
Status: arrestedAction: orderedAuthority Label: throne / 詔
Assessments and attributes References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384 Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 1 passage
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 398 Volume 398 Biographies 185: Zong Shixianghou, Huo Longwu, Fu Zhu Hong A, En Zhang, Chen Shengyuan, Qi Suzao, Chen Kerang, Liu Tongying, Rui Chang, Jie Chun, Xi Ling A · 6 passages
咸豐三年正月，粵匪既陷武昌，兩江總督陸建瀛赴上游督師，祥厚偕江蘇巡撫楊文定留守江寧。
In the first month of 1853, after the Taiping forces had captured Wuchang, Governor-General Lu Jianying of the Two Jiangs went upriver to take command of the campaign, while Xianghou and Jiangsu governor Yang Wending stayed behind to defend Nanjing.
賊已蔽江而下，壽春鎮總兵恩長戰歿，建瀛遽退，文定亦不候旨迳赴鎮江。
The rebels were already sweeping down the Yangtze. Shouchun commander En Chang was killed in action. Jianying pulled back in haste, and Wending likewise rushed off to Zhenjiang without waiting for orders from the throne.
疏入，詔逮建瀛治罪，命祥厚兼署總督，與霍隆武、福珠洪阿、祁宿藻悉心防禦，以在籍前廣西巡撫鄒鳴鶴熟悉賊情，命同籌辦。
When the memorial reached the throne, an edict ordered Jianying arrested and punished. Xianghou was appointed acting governor-general and, with Huo Longwu, Fu Zhu Hong'a, and Qi Suzao, charged to organize the defense. Zou Minghe, the former Guangxi governor now at home and familiar with the rebels, was ordered to assist in planning.
初率兵守安慶，陸建瀛赴九江上游，調充翼長，為軍鋒。
At first he held Anqing with his troops. When Lu Jianying went upriver to Jiujiang, En was made wing commander and placed at the head of the army.
建瀛既被罪失眾心，宿藻獨任事，賊至，力疾登陴指揮，曆三晝夜，城大兵單，援師不至，知事不可為，在城上嘔血數升，卒。
After Jianying was punished and lost all authority, Suzao alone shouldered the work of defense. When the rebels arrived he dragged himself, though ill, onto the ramparts and directed the fighting for three days and nights. The city was vast and the garrison thin; no relief came. Seeing that all was lost, he vomited blood on the wall and died.
江南之失，誤於陸建瀛不預設防。
The loss of Jiangnan was due to Lu Jianying's failure to prepare defenses in advance.