Miao Peilin (苗沛霖)

Overview

Miao Peilin was a rebel.

PeriodQing

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

Found in

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Epithet	Miao leader	苗酋

Life and dates

Death

AD 1864 同治三年
died 死
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 461, passages 11, 13
AD 1863 同治二年
died in flight 走死
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 415, passage 61
AD 1863 沛霖勢日蹙，遂走死
Fled and died
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 165
Eliminated after military campaign · Negated false
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 133, passage 168

Attested activity

AD 1863 二年，僧格林沁大軍至，始平之
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 125
AD 1864 同治三年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 461, passages 11, 13
AD 1863 同治二年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 133, passage 168
AD 1863 同治二年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 415, passage 59; Draft History of Qing 429, passage 85
AD 1862 同治元年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 390, passage 166
AD 1851 to AD 1863 咸豐同治間
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 460, passages 6, 111

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AD 1863 沛霖勢日蹙，遂走死
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 165
AD 1861 to AD 1862 當是時
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passage 150
AD 1862 苗沛霖反側久，遂叛
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 432, passages 123-124
AD 1861 苗沛霖叛，陷壽州
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 432, passages 156, 158
AD 1863 苗沛霖复圍壽州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 162

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Career and standing

Nian chieftain 捻酋
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 460, passage 111

Places and affiliations

Qing 清
Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 133, passage 168
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Active under
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 124
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Opposed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 405, passage 150
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Rebelled against
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 415, passage 59
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Rebelled against
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 429, passage 85; Draft History of Qing 432, passage 158
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 388, passage 180

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At Anhui 安徽 · Relation Active in
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 133, passage 168

Events and relationships

Besieged Mengcheng
AD 1864 同治三年 · Military · Besieger · At Mengcheng 蒙城
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 461, passage 11
Besieged Shouzhou again
AD 1863 苗沛霖复圍壽州 · Military · Rebel leader · At Shouzhou 壽州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 162
Captured
Military · Rebel leader · With Zuo Baogui (左寶貴)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 460, passage 6
Planned to divide forces
AD 1862 同治元年 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 390, passage 166
Rebelled again
AD 1863 同治二年 · Military · Rebel leader
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 429, passage 85
Rebelled took Shouzhou
AD 1861 苗沛霖叛，陷壽州 · Military · Rebel leader · At Shouzhou 壽州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 158

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Rebelled
AD 1862 苗沛霖反側久，遂叛 · Military · Rebel leader · At Anhui 安徽
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 432, passage 124
Rebelled
Rebellion · Leader
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 133, passage 168

Assessments and attributes

Assessment especially fierce and treacherous · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Sengge Rinchen (僧格林沁)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 133, passage 168

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 133Volume 133 Treatises 108: Military 4, Local Militia · 1 passage

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乃各團每以有寨可據，輒藐視官長，擅理詞訟，或聚眾抗糧，或挾仇械鬥，甚至謀為不軌，踞城戕官，如山東之劉德培，河南之李瞻，先後倡亂，而安徽之苗沛霖，尤為梟桀反覆，勞師糜餉，始得次第翦除。 Yet once militia had stockades to fall back on, they often defied officials, judged cases on their own, resisted grain taxes in armed crowds, fought private feuds, and even plotted rebellion—seizing cities and killing officials, as with Liu Depei in Shandong and Li Zhan in Henan. Miao Peilin in Anhui was especially fierce and treacherous; only after great expense in troops and funds was he finally cut down.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 388Volume 388 Biographies 175: Gui Liang, Rui Lin Son: Huai Tabu, Guan Wen, Wen Yu · 2 passages

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降捻苗沛霖踞安徽壽州，詔疆臣議剿撫之策。 The surrendered Nian leader Miao Peilin held Shouzhou in Anhui, and the throne ordered frontier officials to debate whether to suppress or appease him.

官文疏陳沛霖包藏禍心，罪大惡極，請伸天討。 Guan Wen memorialized that Peilin harbored treasonous intent, his crimes were extreme, and heaven's punishment should fall on him.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 390Volume 390 Biographies 177: Jia Zhen, Zhou Zupei, Zhu Fengbiao, Dan Maoqian · 2 passages

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同治元年安徽降賊苗沛霖謀分兵：一由清江，一渡潁而西，聲稱赴陝西勝保軍營助剿，實有異圖。 In the first year of Tongzhi, Miao Peilin, a surrendered rebel in Anhui, planned to divide his forces—one column through Qingjiang, the other crossing the Ying westward—claiming to join Sheng Bao's army in Shaanxi while in fact harboring other designs.

楨上疏言：「苗沛霖窮而就撫，仍復擁兵觀望，反覆無常。 Zhen memorialized: "Miao Peilin, driven to submit, again keeps his troops and waits to see which way the wind blows, shifting back and forth without constancy.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 405Volume 405 Biographies 192: Ceng Guofan · 1 passage

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當是時，偽天王洪秀全僭號踞金陵，偽忠王李秀成等犯蘇、滬，偽侍王李世賢等陷浙杭，偽輔王楊輔清等屯寧國，偽康王汪海洋窺江西，偽英王陳玉成屯廬州，捻首苗霈霖出入潁、壽，與玉成合，圖竄山東、河南，眾皆號數十萬。 At that time the false Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan held Jinling in regal pretension; the false Loyal King Li Xiucheng and others attacked Suzhou and Shanghai; the false Attendant King Li Shixian and others seized Zhejiang and Hangzhou; the false Assistant King Yang Fuqing and others held Ningguo; the false King of Kang Wang Haiyang watched Jiangxi; the false Brave King Chen Yucheng held Luzhou; Nian chief Miao Peilin moved in and out of Ying and Shou, cooperating with Yucheng and plotting to break into Shandong and Henan—all claiming forces in the hundreds of thousands.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 415Volume 415 Biographies 202: Huang Yisheng, Ding Yifang, Wang Ji, Wu Jiabang, Li Chengmou, Li Chaobin, Jiang Fushan, Liu Peiyuan · 2 passages

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九月，由無錫進攻蘇州，詔翼升赴臨淮會剿苗沛霖，鴻章疏留勿遣。 In the ninth month he pushed from Wuxi on Suzhou; the court ordered him to Linhuai against Miao Peilin, but Hongzhang pleaded to keep him.

是年冬，再克無錫，率五營赴臨淮，苗沛霖尋走死，餘黨瓦解，翼升仍回江蘇。 That winter Wuxi fell again; he took five battalions to Linhuai; Miao Peilin soon died in flight and his bands broke up, and Yisheng returned to Jiangsu.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 429Volume 429 Biographies 216: Jiang Zhongyi, Zhou Kuanshi, Shi Qingji, Yu Jichang, Lin Wencha, Zhao Deguang, Zhang Wende · 1 passage

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二年，苗沛霖复叛，廬、壽、開土蜂匪起，清吉悉剿平之。 In 1863, when Miao Peilin rebelled again and bandits swarmed through Lu, Shou, and Kai, Qingji stamped them out.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 432Volume 432 Biographies 219: Xiao Qijiang, Zhang Yunlan, Tang Xunfang, Jiang Ningxue, Chen Shi, Li Yuandu · 6 passages

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苗沛霖反側久，遂叛，安徽諸軍皆不能制。 Miao Peilin, long unreliable, finally rebelled, and none of the Anhui forces could bring him to heel.

苗沛霖叛，陷壽州，凝學進屯六安，克霍丘，增募水陸軍。 When Miao Peilin rebelled and took Shouzhou, Ningxue advanced to Lu'an, took Huoqiu, and raised additional land and river troops.

苗黨姚有志、潘塏等乞降，各圩多反正，授甘肅安肅道。 Miao followers Yao Youzhi, Pan Kai, and others offered to surrender; many stockades came back over; he was appointed intendant of the Ansu circuit in Gansu.

苗沛霖复圍壽州，凝學回援，破賊於牛尾岡。 When Miao Peilin besieged Shouzhou again, Ningxue marched back and routed the enemy at Niuyigang.

會僧格林沁督師剿沛霖，凝學克霍丘各圩，水師分駐三河尖、臨淮關，進破黃梁集，克潁上，收附近城各圩，斬賊黨苗呆和、苗呆花，复懷遠。 When Sengge Rinchen took command against Peilin, Ningxue cleared the stockades around Huoqiu; the fleet held Sanhejian and Linhuaiguan; he stormed Huangliangji, took Yingshang, brought in the surrounding stockades, killed Miao partisans Miao Daihe and Miao Daihua, and recovered Huaiyuan.

沛霖勢日蹙，遂走死。 Peilin's position collapsed; he fled and died.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 460Volume 460 Biographies 247: Zuo Baogui Younger Brother: Bao Xian, Yong Shan, Deng Shichang, Liu Buchan, Lin Taiceng, Dai Zongqian · 2 passages

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獲苗沛霖，克金陵，頻有功。 He helped capture Miao Peilin, took Nanjing, and won distinction again and again.

少以廩生治鄉團，捻酋苗沛霖數陷州，宗騫潛結各圩寨以攜貳其黨。 As a young licentiate he organized local militia; when the Nian chieftain Miao Peilin repeatedly seized the prefecture, Zongqian secretly won over the surrounding stockaded villages and turned Miao's own followers against him.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 461Volume 461 Biographies 248: Song Qing, Lv Benyuan, Xu Bangdao, Ma Yukun, Yi Ke Tang A, Rong He, Zhang Shun · 2 passages

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三年，苗沛霖圍蒙城，慶絕其餉道。 In the third year of Tongzhi, Miao Peilin besieged Mengcheng, and Qing severed his supply lines.

苗酋死，慶為安撫餘眾，自壽州正陽關所蒞皆下。 When the Miao leader died, Qing pacified the survivors, and every post from Shouzhou to Zhengyang Pass came over to the government.