Zeng Sheng (曾勝) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zeng Sheng as a general and military officer. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zeng Sheng	曾勝	Zēng Shèng
Title	Hurcitu Baturu	瑚爾察圖巴圖魯
Posthumous	Qinyong	勤勇	Qínyǒng
Given	Sheng	勝	Shèng
Surname	Zeng	曾	Zēng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0125

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837 · Place: in office / 於官
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0134, qingshigao:379:s0102

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0134, qingshigao:379:s0102
Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0104, qingshigao:379:s0102

Career and standing

Label: Guangdong land forces provincial commander / 廣東陸路提督 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0132
Label: Yongzhou garrison commander / 湖南永州鎮總兵 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0129
Label: Yunnan colonel / 雲南參將 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0127
Label: commandant / 都司 · Action: reached
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0126
Label: Weixi brigade vice commander / 維西協副將 · Action: transferred
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0128
Label: provincial commander rank / 提督銜 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0131
Title: Yunqiwei hereditary office / 雲騎尉世職 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0131

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0126
Place: Maping, Guangxi / 廣西馬平
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0125

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: joined-campaign · Other Person Id: Zhao Jinlong (趙金龍)
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0104, qingshigao:379:s0129
Kind: military · Role: advisor · Action: proposed-blockade · Other Person Id: Napier (律勞卑)
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0133

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 6 passages

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趙慎畛盧坤曾勝陶澍 Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Zeng Sheng, and Tao Shu

俟兩湖兵大集，貴州提督餘步雲、雲南副將曾勝亦率軍至，乘雷雨襲擊洋泉街。 When the armies of the two Hu had massed in strength, the Guizhou provincial commander Yu Buyun and the Yunnan vice commander Zeng Sheng also brought their forces; they took advantage of a thunderstorm to strike Yangquan Street.

曾勝，廣西馬平人。 Zeng Sheng came from Maping in Guangxi.

瑤平，論功最，加提督銜，賜號瑚爾察圖巴圖魯，予雲騎尉世職。 When the Yao were pacified his merit was judged the greatest; he was given the rank of provincial commander, granted the title Hurcitu Baturu, and awarded a hereditary Yunqiwei office.

當英吉利兵船入內河，水師提督李增堦不能阻，勝獻策，以巨船載石沉塞海口老洲岡隘道，聚草船數百橫內河，備火攻，勝率兵臨之，英領事律勞卑悚懼聽令，事乃定。 When English warships entered the inner river the naval commander Li Zengjie could not stop them; Sheng proposed loading great ships with stone to block the Laozhougang pass at the estuary, assembling hundreds of straw boats across the inner river for a fire attack, and leading troops to press them; the English consul Napier, fearful, submitted to orders, and the crisis was resolved.

十七年，卒於官，諡勤勇。 In the seventeenth year he died in office and was given the posthumous title Qinyong.