Lu Qi (盧杞) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lu Qi as an official and statesman. This record brings together 7 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Lu Qi	盧杞	Lú Qǐ
Personal name	Lu Qi	盧杞	Lú Qǐ
Personal name	Lu Qi	盧杞	Lu Qi
Given	Qi	杞

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0045
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiutangshu:131:s0087, xintangshu:052:s0024, xintangshu:161:s0043

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 建中元年 · Western Year: AD 780
Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:131:s0087, jiutangshu:131:s0048
Source Date: Text: 德宗初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 779 · End: AD 784
Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:130:s0045, jiutangshu:130:s0127
Source Date: Text: 盧杞疾驅而過 · Western Year: AD 782
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:052:s0024
Source Date: Text: 薦上疏 · Western Interval: Start: AD 783 · End: AD 784
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:161:s0043

Career and standing

Label: chief minister / 宰相 · Action: held
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0024

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: chief-minister · Action: drove past weeping townsmen protesting market levies
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0024
Kind: political · Role: suppressor · Action: withheld-memorial
Explicit · xintangshu:161:s0043
Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Chen Shaoyou (陳少遊)
Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0127
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Lu Yue (盧鸑)
Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0162

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: indifferent to popular protest · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xintangshu:052:s0024

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 130Volume 126 Biographies 76: Li Kui, Li Han, Chen Shaoyou, Lu Yue, Pei Xu · 3 passages

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元載以罪誅，除揆睦州刺史，入拜國子祭酒、禮部尚書，為盧杞所惡。 After Yuan Zai was executed for his crimes, Kui was made prefect of Muzhou, then recalled to serve as chancellor of the National University and minister of rites, but Lu Qi bore him ill will.

關播嘗為少遊賓僚，盧杞早年與之同在仆固懷恩使府，故驟加其官秩。 Guan Bo had once served on his staff, and Lu Qi had been with him in Pugu Huai'en's mission office in their youth—hence his sudden elevation in rank.

盧杞甚惡之，諷有司彈奏，坐貶撫州司馬同正，改饒州刺史，遷福州刺史、福建觀察使。 Lu Qi detested him, had him impeached, and demoted him to secretary of Fuzhou. He was later made prefect of Raozhou, then of Fuzhou and observation commissioner of Fujian.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 131Volume 127 Biographies 77: Yao Lingyan, Zhang Guangcheng, Yuan Xiu, Qiao Lin, Zhang She, Jiang Zhen, Hong Jinglun, Peng Yan · 1 passage

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休履危而還，宰相盧杞又恐復命之日以口辯結恩，將至太原，遽奏為光祿卿。 Xiu had returned from peril, yet Chancellor Lu Qi feared that on the day of his audience he would win favor by eloquence; when Xiu was nearing Taiyuan, Qi hastily memorialized to appoint him Minister of Imperial Entertainments.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage

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又取僦櫃納質錢及粟麥糶於巿者，四取其一，長安為罷市，市民相率遮邀宰相哭訴，盧杞疾驅而過。 They also levied one quarter on pawn deposits and on grain sold in the markets. Chang'an shut its markets; crowds blocked the chief minister's path, weeping in protest, while Lu Qi drove past without stopping.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 161Volume 161 Biographies 86: Zhang, Zhao, Li, Zheng, Xu, Wang, Feng, Yu · 2 passages

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疏奏，盧杞持之，不報。 When the memorial was submitted, Lu Qi held it back and no reply was issued.

詔復用杞為刺史，薦與陳京、趙需等論杞奸惡傾覆不當用，入對挺確，德宗納之。 An edict was issued to reinstate Qi as prefect; Jian, together with Chen Jing, Zhao Xu, and others, argued that Qi's wickedness and his overturning of the realm made him unfit for appointment; appearing before the throne he spoke firmly, and Dezong accepted their view.