Wu Jinsheng (武進升)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Jinsheng as a general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese
Personal	Wu Jinsheng	武進升
Given	Jinsheng	進升
Posthumous	Liangyi	良毅
Surname	Wu	武
Changed	Zhang	張

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

General
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Death

Age: over eighty
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 雍正初 · Western Year: AD 1723
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Career and standing

Label: colonel at Jiangning / 江寧游擊 · Action: appointed
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Label: provincial military commander of Fujian land forces / 福建陸路提督 · Action: appointed
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Label: third-rank guardsman / 三等侍衛 · Action: appointed
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Label: regional commander of the Langshan garrison in Jiangnan / 江南狼山鎮總兵 · Action: demoted-to
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Label: garrison commander of the Wenzhou garrison standard / 浙江溫州鎮標守備 · Action: held
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Label: provincial military commander of Zhejiang / 浙江提督 · Action: held
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Label: provincial military commander of Jiangnan / 江南提督 · Action: promoted
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Label: posthumous title Liangyi / 諡良毅 · Action: bestowed
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Status: retirement · Action: entered · Cause: age
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Status: demotion · Action: demoted
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Ningxiang, Shanxi / 山西寧鄉
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Place: Jiangning, Jiangnan / 江南江寧 · Relation: registered-to
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Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
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Events and relationships

Relation: attached-to · Person Id: Yinxiang (允祥)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: exacting and unwilling to neglect duties · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Source notes

From: Zhang / 張 · To: Wu / 武
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 317Volume 317 Biographies 104: Wang Wudang, Wu Jinyi, Tan Xingyi, Li Xun, Fan Ting, Wu Jinsheng, Ma Fushu, Fan Yuxiao · 7 passages

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武進升，山西寧鄉人，其後改籍江南江寧。 Wu Jinsheng was a native of Ningxiang in Shanxi and later transferred his household register to Jiangning in Jiangnan.

進升與總督喀爾吉善忤，疏言：「喀爾吉善外似和平，心實剛愎。 Jinsheng fell out with Governor-General Ka'erjishan and memorialized: "Ka'erjishan seems mild in manner but is in fact stubborn and overbearing.

又疏言喀爾吉善衰憊狀，上斥進升支離狂率。 He also memorialized on Ka'erjishan's declining health; the emperor rebuked Jinsheng for rambling and reckless accusations.

喀爾吉善亦劾進升徇所屬，縱兵行竊。 Ka'erjishan also impeached Jinsheng for favoring his men and allowing troops to plunder.

因左授江南狼山鎮總兵，進升疏謝，諭曰：「汝無他過，祗好勝多事，故左授示薄懲。 He was demoted to regional commander of the Langshan garrison in Jiangnan; in his memorial of thanks he was told: "You have no other fault except competitiveness and meddling; the demotion is meant as a mild warning.

卒，年八十餘，諡良毅。 He died in his eighties and was posthumously titled Liangyi.

進升龂龂不欲曠其職。 Jinsheng was exacting and unwilling to neglect his duties.