Zheng Dequan (鄭德詮)

Overview

Zheng Dequan was a Military Officer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Dequan	德銓	Dequan

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 747 to AD 751 知留後時
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 117

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Mother of Zheng Dequan (鄭德詮母)
mother 母
son of the wet nurse 乳母子
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 117

Career and standing

langjiang 郎將
AD 747 to AD 751 知留後時 · Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 117
flogged sixty strokes 杖六十
Suffered · Authority Feng Changqing (封常清)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 123

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 117

Events and relationships

Rode through from behind
Insult · Aggressor · With Feng Changqing (封常清)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 118
Relation Foster brother of · Person Gao Xianzhi (高仙芝)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 117

Assessments and attributes

Assessment had always despised Changqing · With Feng Changqing (封常清) · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 104, passage 118

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 104Volume 100 Biographies 50: Yin Sizhen, Li Jie, Jie Wan, Bi Gou, Su Xiang, Zheng Weizhong, Wang Zhiyin, Lu Congyuan, Li Chaoyin, Pei Cui, Wang Qiu · 6 passages

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知留後時，仙芝乳母子鄭德詮已為郎將，德銓母在宅內，仙芝視之如兄弟，家事皆令知之，威望動三軍。 As rear commander, Xianzhi's foster brother Zheng Dequan was already a langjiang; Xianzhi treated Dequan and his mother like family and let them into every household matter — their sway over the army was immense.

常清出回，諸將皆引前，德詮見常清出其門，素易之，自後走馬突常清而去。 When Changqing returned, the generals made way; Dequan, who had always despised him, spurred his horse and rode straight through him from behind.

常清至使院，命左右密引至，厅連節度使宅院，凡經數重門，德詮既過，命隨後閉之。 Changqing went to headquarters and had his men bring Dequan in secretly through the linked gates of the commissioner's compound; once Dequan had passed, the gates were shut behind him.

德詮至，常清離席謂之曰：「常清起自細微，預中丞兵馬使傔，中丞再不納，郎將豈不知乎？ When Dequan arrived Changqing rose and said, "I came from nothing and twice asked to serve the Vice Commissioner as attendant — he refused me both times. You know that, do you not?

今中丞過聽，以常清為留後使，郎將何得無禮，對中使相淩！」 Now the Vice Commissioner has made me rear commander — how dare you show such disrespect before a palace envoy!"

因叱之曰：「郎將須暫死以肅軍容。」 He shouted, "You must die for a moment to restore discipline in the ranks."