Zhang Zhongwu (張仲武)

Overview

Zhang Zhongwu was a Military Governor and Scholar.

Life and dates

Age

50
Reckoning Over · As of 會昌初
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 99

Attested activity

AD 841 會昌初
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 93, 95

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Zhang Guangchao (張光朝)
father 父
son 子
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 99
Sibling of Zhang Zhongzhi (張仲至)
younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 106

Career and standing

acting army commander 兵馬留後
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 102
acting Minister of War and eastern Uyghur pacification commissioner 檢校兵部尚書、東面招撫回鶻使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 109
vice military governor with full control 節度副大使、知節度事
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 103
acting Minister of Works 檢校工部尚書
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 103
Censor-in-Chief 御史大夫
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 103
commissioner of the Xiongwu Army north of Ji 薊北雄武軍使
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 94

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Prince of Lanling Commandery 蘭陵郡王
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 103

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 103
At Fanyang 范陽
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 93

Learning and skills

Subject Zuo Commentary to the Spring and Autumn Annals 左氏春秋
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 94

Works and attributed material

Record of Sacred Merit 紀聖功銘
Relation Commissioned
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 118

Events and relationships

Defeated Uyghur force
Military · Commander · With Lenan Juechuo (勒那頡啜)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 106-107
Detained Uyghur envoys
Diplomatic · Detainer · With Xuanmen General (宣門將軍)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 115
Had Uyghur supervisors killed among Xi and Khitan
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 111

Assessments and attributes

Assessment prestige supreme over the northern peoples · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 118

References in the histories

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History

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 180Volume 176 Biographies 126: Li Zongmin, Yang Sifu, Yang Yuqing, Ma Zhi, Li Rangyi, Weipi, Zhou Chi, Cui Guicong, Zhengsu, Lu Shang · 9 passages

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張仲武，范陽人也。 Zhang Zhongwu was a native of Fanyang.

仲武少業《左氏春秋》，擲筆為薊北雄武軍使。 Zhongwu studied the Zuo Commentary in his youth, then put aside his brush and became commander of the Xiongwu Army north of Ji.

時仲武遣軍吏吳仲舒表請以本軍伐叛。 Zhongwu then sent his army clerk Wu Zhongshu with a memorial asking that his own troops be sent to suppress the rebels.

仲武是軍中舊將張光朝之子，年五十餘，兼曉儒書，老於戎事，性抱忠義，願歸心闕廷。」 Zhongwu is the son of the veteran general Zhang Guangchao. He is over fifty, versed in the classics as well as in war, experienced in military affairs, and by nature loyal — he wishes to devote himself to the court."

今仲武上表布誠，先陳密款，因而拔用，即似有名。」 Zhongwu has now memorialized the throne with a pledge of loyalty, offering his allegiance in advance. To appoint him on that basis would seem legitimate."

尋改仲武節度副大使、知節度事，檢校工部尚書、幽州大都督府長史、兼御史大夫、蘭陵郡王。 Zhongwu was soon made vice military governor with full control of circuit affairs, acting Minister of Works, chief administrator of Youzhou Metropolitan Prefecture, concurrent Censor-in-Chief, and Prince of Lanling Commandery.

仲武遣其弟仲至與裨將遊奉寰、王如清等，率銳兵三萬人大破之。 Zhongwu sent his brother Zhongzhi with the deputy generals You Fenghuan and Wang Ruqing to lead thirty thousand crack troops and rout them.

仲武使密賂其下，盡得陰謀。 Zhongwu secretly bribed their followers and learned their whole conspiracy.

仲武由是威加北狄，表請於薊北立《紀聖功銘》，敕李德裕為之文，其銘曰：太和之初，赤氣宵興； Zhongwu's prestige over the northern peoples was now supreme. He memorialized asking that a Record of Sacred Merit stele be erected north of Ji, and the court ordered Li Deyu to compose the inscription, which reads: In early Taihe crimson vapors rose at night;