Sui and Tang · Warlord and General

Qian Liu 錢鏐

Attested AD 887 - AD 902

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Qian Liu was a warlord and General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 887 to AD 902 屯潤州至田頵攻杭州
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 189, passages 127, 146

Places and affiliations

At Hangzhou 杭州 · Relation Entered
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 140
At Runzhou 潤州 · Relation Encamped at
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 127

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Tian Yun (田頵) · Mode quotation Speaker Qian Liu (錢鏐)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 142

Events and relationships

Appointed prefect
Appointment · Appointer · With Chen Zhang (陳璋) · At Quzhou 衢州
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 145
Army collapsed overnight
Military · Commander · At Runzhou 潤州
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 127
Drove out rebel
Military · Commander · With Xu Wan (徐綰) · At Hangzhou 杭州
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 140
Generals repelled enemy
Military · Defender · With Tian Yun (田頵) · At Xiling 西陵
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 146
Offered bounty to retake ground
Military · Defender · With Tian Yun (田頵)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 144
Parleyed and shot officer
Military · Defender · With Tian Yun (田頵)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 143

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Relation Superior of · Person Chen Zhang (陳璋)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 145
Relation Superior of · Person Xu Wan (徐綰)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 140

Assessments and attributes

Item ten cartloads of gold and cash 金幣十輿 · Relation Offered as bounty
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 144

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History

8 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 189Volume 189 Biographies 114: Gao, Zhao, Tian, Zhu · 8 passages

錢鏐方屯潤州，一夕潰。 Qian Liu had been encamped at Runzhou, but his army collapsed overnight.

是時，錢镠部將徐綰叛，镠入杭州逐綰，綰屯靈隱山迎頵。 About then Qian Liu’s officer Xu Wan rebelled. Liu entered Hangzhou to drive him out, and Wan encamped on Lingyin Mountain to welcome Yun.

頵遣客何曉見镠曰：「王宜東保會稽，無為虛屠士眾也。」 Yun sent his envoy He Xiao to Qian Liu with the message, “Your Highness should withdraw east to Kuaiji—do not waste your men in a pointless slaughter.”

镠曰：「軍中小叛常然，公為人長，何助逆耶？」 Liu replied, “Petty mutinies in the ranks are nothing new. You are a man of standing—why aid a rebel?”

頵攻北門，镠登城與語，射中麾下。 Yun attacked the north gate. Liu mounted the wall to parley with him and shot one of Yun’s officers.

頵築壘絕往來道，镠患之，出金幣十輿，募能奪地者。 Yun built fortifications that cut off the roads. Troubled, Liu offered ten cartloads of gold and cash to anyone who could break through.

陳璋以死士三百，免胄馳擊，奪其地，镠授璋衢州刺史。 Chen Zhang led three hundred dare-to-die men in a bareheaded charge, retook the ground, and Liu made him prefect of Quzhou.

頵攻城未能克，將濟江絕西陵，為镠將所卻，圍益急。 Yun failed to take the city by assault and tried to cross the river to cut off Xiling, but Liu’s generals drove him back and tightened the siege.