Hong Jinglun (洪經綸)

Overview

Hong Jinglun was an official and Rebel.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 780 建中初
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 161
AD 783 建中四年
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 131, passages 6, 167
AD 780 德宗初
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 141, passage 154

Key source chapters

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 131 Volume 127 Biographies 77: Yao Lingyan, Zhang Guangcheng, Yuan Xiu, Qiao Lin, Zhang She, Jiang Zhen, Hong Jinglun, Peng Yan 4 passages
New Book of Tang, Chapter 141 Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao 1 passage

Career and standing

Vice Minister of Ceremonies 太常少卿
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 167
promotion-and-demotion commissioner 黜陟使
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 161

Assessments and attributes

Assessment not worth speaking of · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 131, passage 224

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 131Volume 127 Biographies 77: Yao Lingyan, Zhang Guangcheng, Yuan Xiu, Qiao Lin, Zhang She, Jiang Zhen, Hong Jinglun, Peng Yan · 4 passages

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洪經綸，建中初為黜陟使。 Hong Jinglun, early in Jianzhong, served as promotion-and-demotion commissioner.

至東都，訪聞魏州田悅食糧兵凡七萬人，經綸素昧時機，先以符停其兵四萬人，令歸農畝。 When he reached the eastern capital he learned on inquiry that Tian Yue of Weizhou had grain-paid troops totaling seventy thousand men; Jinglun, who had never understood the times, first by writ halted forty thousand of his troops and ordered them back to the fields.

悅乃盡出家財衣服厚給之，各令還其部伍，自此人堅叛心，由是罷職。 Yue then gave out all his household wealth and clothing in generous gifts, had each return to his unit, and from this time men's hearts were set on rebellion; Jinglun was therefore removed from office.

經綸之徒，不足言爾。 Men like Jinglun are not worth speaking of.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 141Volume 141 Biographies 66: Cui, Deng, Wei, Wei, Li Han, Lu, Gao · 1 passage

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德宗初，采訪使洪經綸言之，詔表闕於門。 At the beginning of Dezong's reign, investigation commissioner Hong Jinglun spoke of this, and an edict set up a commemorative arch at the gate.