Wei Rugui (衛汝貴) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wei Rugui as a general, military officer, 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	Wei Rugui	衛汝貴	Wei Rugui
Courtesy name	Dasan	達三	Dásān
Given	Rugui	汝貴	Rugui
Given	Rugui	汝貴	Rǔguì
Surname	Wei	衛	Wèi
Personal name	Wei Rugui	衛汝貴	Wèi Rǔguì

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:460:s0014, qingshigao:462:s0002

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Cause: executed after trial / 論死
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0051

Age

Age: 60
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0048

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:460:s0013, qingshigao:460:s0014
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0039
Source Date: Text: 徵捻 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1865 · End: AD 1868
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0036
Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1895
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0051

Family

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Spouse of Wife of Wei Rugui (衛汝貴妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband
Sibling of Wei Rucheng (衛汝成)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: younger · Shared Parentage: full

Career and standing

Label: Datong garrison / 大同鎮 · Action: appointed · Negated: false
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0038
Label: Hezhou garrison commander / 河州鎮 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0037
Label: regimental commander / 總兵 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0036
Label: vice commander / 副將 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0036
Label: commander of Beiyang defense forces / 統北洋防軍 · Action: retained
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0037
Status: embezzlement · Action: committed · Label: diverted 80,000 taels of army rations home / 蝕軍糈八萬運家
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0043
Status: death-sentence · Action: sentenced · Place: Beijing / 京師
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0051
Status: dismissal-and-arrest · Action: suffered · Label: stripped of office and arrested / 褫職逮問
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0047

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:462:s0037, qingshigao:462:s0039
Place: Hefei, Anhui / 安徽合肥
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0035

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: reinforcement · Action: aided-Ma-Yukun · Other Person Id: Ma Yukun (馬玉昆)
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0044
Kind: military · Role: officer · Action: campaigned-against-Nian · Other Person Id: Liu Mingchuan (劉銘傳)
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0036
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: clashed-at-Seonghwan-then-held-Pyongyang-south-bank · Other Person Id: Feng Shen'a (豐紳阿)
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0040
Kind: military · Role: fugitive · Action: fled-after-Xuanwu-Gate-Ridge-fell
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0045, qingshigao:462:s0046
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led-troops-to-Korea · Place: Pyongyang / 平壤
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0039
Kind: personal · Role: recipient · Action: received-wife-letter-warning-not-to-face-enemy · Other Person Id: Wife of Wei Rugui (衛汝貴妻)
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0049
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: resisted-Japan · Place: Pyongyang / 平壤
Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0014, qingshigao:460:s0017
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: troops-abused-civilians
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0042

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: lost army and territory, shamelessly clung to life · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0098
Assessment: plain sincerity and loyal courage · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0037
Item: personal correspondence / 牘 · Relation: possessed
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0050

Source notes

Statement: appointed to Datong and Ningxia garrisons but never took up those posts
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0038

References in the histories

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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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朝議既決戰，衛汝貴、馬玉昆、丰紳阿各率所部往御之，寶貴自奉天來會，是為四大軍。 Once the court resolved on war, Wei Rugui, Ma Yukun, and Fengshen'e each led their commands to resist the invader; Baogui came down from Fengtian to join them — the force known as the Four Great Armies.

於是汝貴、玉昆軍南門外大同江，志超部將江自康軍北門外小山，寶貴任城守。 Rugui and Yukun took position on the Datong River south of the southern gate; Ye Zhichao's subordinate Jiang Zikang held the hill north of the northern gate; and Baogui was charged with defending the city itself.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 462Volume 462 Biographies 249: Ding Ruchang, Wei Rugui Younger Brother: Ru Cheng, Ye Zhichao · 8 passages

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丁汝昌衛汝貴弟汝成葉志超 Ding Ruchang; Wei Rugui; Ru Cheng, his younger brother; and Ye Zhichao

衛汝貴，字達三，安徽合肥人。 Wei Rugui, whose style was Dasan, came from Hefei in Anhui.

而軍士多殘暴，掠財物，役丁壯，淫婦女，汝貴軍尤甚，殺義定朝民，眾滋忿。 yet the troops were brutal—looting property, pressing men into labor, assaulting women—and Rugui's men were the worst, even killing civilians at Uijeongbu, so public anger mounted.

時馬玉昆血戰大同江，浮舟往援，敵稍卻。 Ma Yukun was then fighting a bloody action on the Taedong; Rugui took boats to reinforce him and the enemy pulled back slightly.

鴻章方據葉志超牒奏捷，俄而安東、鳳凰陷，踉蹌走岫岩，岫岩陷，走奉天。 Hongzhang was at that moment reporting victory on Ye Zhichao's word; soon Andong and Fengcheng fell, and Rugui fled in disarray to Xiuyan, then, when Xiuyan fell, on to Fengtian.

汝貴治淮軍久，援朝時年已六十矣。 Rugui had led Huai Army troops for decades; by the time he marched into Korea he was already sixty.

其妻貽以書，戒勿當前敵，汝貴遇敵輒避走。 His wife wrote urging him not to stand in the front line; whenever he met the enemy Rugui turned and ran.

汝貴、志超喪師失地，遺臭鄰邦，靦然求活，終不免於國典，何其不知恥哉？ Rugui and Zhichao lost their armies and their territory, shamed China before its neighbors, yet calmly clung to life until the law caught them anyway—what could be more shameless?