Sui and Tang · Controversial Official

Lu Qi 盧杞

Attested AD 783 - AD 788

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Lu Qi was a Controversial Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 783 to AD 788 建中末至貞元
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 135, passage 57

Assessments and attributes

Assessment treacherous and corrupt · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Li Mian (李勉)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 135, passage 60

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 135Volume 131 Biographies 81: Li Mian; Li Gao and His Sons Xianggu and Daogu · 2 passages

無何，盧杞自新州員外司馬除澧州刺史，給事中袁高以杞邪佞蠹政，貶未塞責，停詔執表，遂授澧州別駕。 Before long Lu Qi was appointed from acting chief secretary of Xin Prefecture to prefect of Li. Attendant Yuan Gao argued that Qi was corrupt and destructive and that demotion to a prefecture was insufficient punishment. He blocked the edict and submitted a memorial, and Qi was reduced to vice prefect of Li instead.

他日，上謂勉曰：「眾人皆言盧杞奸邪，朕何不知！ On another occasion the emperor said to Mian, "Everyone says Lu Qi is treacherous and corrupt. Do you think I do not know it?