Guo Jingxiang (郭景祥)

Overview

Guo Jingxiang was an official and Administrator.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1356 同時所設省中官
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 135, passage 170
AD 1356 to AD 1367 太祖為江南行中書省平章
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 127, passages 29-30
AD 1355 從渡江
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 135, passage 192
AD 1355 郭景祥，濠人
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 135, passages 191-192

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Career and standing

civil clerk managing documents and planning 典文書，佐謀議
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 192, 195
Staff Officer of the Great Military Commission 大都督府參軍
AD 1356 入為大都督府參軍 · Appointed
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 135, passage 193
Left or Right Bureau Director of the Branch Secretariat 行中書省左右司郎中
AD 1356 分任行中書省左右司郎中 · Appointed
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 135, passage 192
Overall Controller of Hezhou 和州總制
Appointed · At Hezhou 和州
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 199
Vice Commissioner of the Zhejiang Branch Secretariat 浙江行省參政
Held until end of service · At Zhejiang 浙江
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 203
official of the Jiangnan Branch Secretariat 省中官
AD 1356 同時所設省中官 · Organization Jiangnan Branch Secretariat 江南行中書省 · Served
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 135, passage 170

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official of the eastern Zhe Branch Secretariat 浙東分省
Transferred
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 193
imperial letter of commendation 璽書褒勞
Received
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 202

Places and affiliations

Polity Zhu Yuanzhang's Jiangnan regime 太祖江南政權 · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 170
At Hao 濠
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 191
At eastern Zhe 浙東 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 193
At Hao 濠 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 191
At Hezhou 和州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 199-201
At Zhejiang 浙江 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 203

Learning and skills

Skill books and histories 書史 · Level widely-read
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 194

Events and relationships

Crossed the Yangzi
Military · Follower · With The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 192
Rebuilt walls in ninety days
Engineering · Supervisor · At Hezhou 和州
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 198
Repaired defenses
Engineering · Supervisor · At Chuzhou, Taiping, and Liyang 滁州、太平、溧陽
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 196-197
Strengthened defenses expanded tuntian drilled troops
Military administration · Controller · At Hezhou 和州
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 200-201
Relation Colleague of · Person Li Menggeng (李夢庚)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 192-193

Assessments and attributes

Assessment civil official with talent to confront enemies and defend the realm; fit for great responsibility · Mode quotation Speaker The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 195
Assessment personally trusted by the Founder · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 194
Assessment sincere, upright, widely read, and bold in speech · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 194

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 170

References in the histories

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History

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History of Ming, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 15: Li Shanzhang, Wang Guangyang · 1 passage

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時宋思顏、李夢庚、郭景祥等俱為省僚，而軍機進退，賞罰章程，多決於善長。 Song Siyan, Li Menggeng, Guo Jingxiang, and others served beside him in the province, but questions of campaign, promotion, reward, and punishment fell largely to Shanzhang.

History of Ming, Chapter 135Volume 135 Biographies 23: Chen Yu, Ye Dui, Fan Chang, Song Siyan, Guo Jingxiang, Yang Yuangao, Ruan Hongdao, Kong Keren · 8 passages

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同時所設省中官李夢庚、郭景祥、侯元善、楊元杲、陶安、阮弘道、孔克仁、王愷、欒鳳、夏煜等數十人。 At the same time the secretariat included Li Menggeng, Guo Jingxiang, Hou Yuanshan, Yang Yuangao, Tao An, Ruan Hongdao, Kong Keren, Wang Kai, Luan Feng, Xia Yu, and dozens of others.

郭景祥 Guo Jingxiang

郭景祥，濠人。 Guo Jingxiang was a native of Hao.

景祥性諒直，博涉書史，遇事敢言，太祖親信之。 Guo was sincere and upright, widely read in history, and bold in speaking his mind; the Founder trusted him personally.

嘗曰：「景祥文吏，而有折衝禦侮才，能盡忠於我，可大任也。」 The Founder once said, "Guo is a civil official, yet he has the talent to confront enemies and defend the realm; he can be utterly loyal to me and is fit for great responsibility."

以城郭不完，輒命景祥董治之。 Because the city defenses were incomplete, the Founder repeatedly put Guo in charge of repairing them.

既而和州守臣言，州城久廢，命景祥相度，即故址城之，九旬而工畢。 When the Hezhou garrison reported that the city walls had long lain in ruins, the Founder ordered Guo to survey the site and rebuild on the old foundations; the work was finished in ninety days.

景祥益治城隍樓櫓，廣屯田，練士卒，威望肅然。 Guo further strengthened the walls and towers, expanded garrison farming, drilled the troops, and his authority became formidable.