Meng Hu (孟鵠) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Meng Hu as an administrator and official. This record brings together 10 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	Meng Hu	孟鵠	Meng Hu
Given	Hu	鵠	Hu
Personal	Meng Hu	孟鵠
Personal name	Meng Hu	孟鵠	Meng Hu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:069:s0145
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:042:s0065

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died in office within a year / 到任未周歲，卒 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天成中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 926 · End: AD 930
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0157

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同光 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0146, jiuwudaishi:069:s0154
Source Date: Text: 天成初 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:069:s0149, jiuwudaishi:069:s0154
Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:042:s0065

Career and standing

Label: Left Valiant Guard senior general; Commissioner of the Three Departments / 左驍衛大將軍、三司使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興二年 · Western Year: AD 931
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:042:s0065
Label: Grand Tutor (posthumous) / 太傅 · Action: posthumously-granted
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0158

Places and affiliations

Place: Weizhou / 魏州
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0145

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: reputation declined after monopolizing state revenue · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:069:s0151

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 42Volume 42 Book of Later Tang 18: Mingzong Annals 8 · 1 passage

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辛巳，以前相州刺史孟鵠為左驍衛大將軍，充三司使。 On xinsi former Xiangzhou inspector Meng Hu became left valiant guard senior general and three departments commissioner.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 69Volume 69 Book of Later Tang 45: Biographies 21: Zhang Xian, Wang Zhengyan, Hu Zhuang, Cui Yisun, Meng Hu, Sun Yue, Zhang Yanlang, Liu Yanhao, Liu Yanlang · 9 passages

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孟鵠，魏州人。 Meng Hu was a native of Weizhou.

莊宗初定魏博，選幹吏以計兵賦，以鵠為度支孔目官。 When Zhuangzong first pacified Weibo he selected capable officials to calculate military levies and made Hu a clerical officer in the expenditure section.

及即位，鵠自租庸勾官擢為客省副使、樞密承旨，遷三司副使，出為相州刺史。 When he took the throne, Hu was promoted from transport-and-corvée checking officer to deputy commissioner of the guest bureau and chief drafter of the Bureau of Military Affairs, then transferred to deputy commissioner of the three departments and sent out as prefect of Xiangzhou.

會範延光再遷樞密，乃征鵠為三司使。 When Fan Yanguang was again transferred to the Bureau of Military Affairs, Hu was summoned as commissioner of the three departments.

初，鵠有計畫之能，及專掌邦賦，操割依違，名譽頓減。 At first Hu had the ability to plan; once he monopolized state revenue he manipulated and extorted inconsistently, and his reputation suddenly declined.

謝恩退，帝目送之，顧為侍臣曰：「孟鵠掌三司幾年，得至方鎮？」 After thanking the emperor for grace and withdrawing, the emperor watched him go with his eyes and turned to the attending ministers, saying, "Meng Hu headed the three departments for how many years that he could reach a frontier command?"

範延光奏曰：「鵠於同光世已為三司勾官，天成初為三司副使，出刺相州，入判三司又二年。」 Fan Yanguang memorialized, "In the Tongguang era Hu was already a checking officer of the three departments; at the beginning of Tiancheng he was deputy commissioner, went out as prefect of Xiangzhou, and upon returning to judge the three departments served another two years."

帝曰：「鵠以幹事，遽至方鎮，爭不勉旃。」 The emperor said, "Hu, through capable service, suddenly reached a frontier command—how could he not strive harder?"

鵠與延光俱魏人，厚相結托，暨延光掌樞務，援引判三司，又致節鉞，明宗知之，故以此言譏之。 Hu and Yanguang were both men of Wei and bound themselves closely in mutual support; when Yanguang took charge of military affairs he recommended Hu to judge the three departments and also secured him a military commission. Mingzong knew this, and therefore spoke these words in sarcasm.