Overview
Jia Lu was an Imperial Medical Administrator and History Officer.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
Career and standing
Minister of Works and Commissioner General for Yellow River Control 工部尚書為總治河防使
Appointed
Chief Administrator of the Imperial Medical Institute 太醫院都事
AD 1343 to AD 1345 領史事…彙粹為書 · Held
chief officer of Shandong pacification commission 山東道奉使宣撫首領官
Held
Commissioner of Waterworks 都水使者
Held
Director of Transport 都漕運使
Held
Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies 集賢大學士
Promoted
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Places and affiliations
- Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
- At Shandong 山東 · Relation Posted to
Works and attributed material
Events and relationships
History of Song 宋史
AD 1343 to AD 1345 領史事…彙粹為書 · Scholarly · Compiler · Compiled history of song
Restored yellow river old course
Engineering · Director · At Baimao / Huangling 白茅／黃陵
Sank stone ships to close breach
Engineering · Commander
Unearthed one eyed stone man
Omen · Discoverer · At Huangling Hillock 黃陵岡
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment blamed by critics for causing disorder through the river project · Mode hearsay
- Assessment exhausted ingenuity and courage to repay recognition by ruler and chancellor · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Ouyang Xuan (歐陽玄)
- Assessment truly understood river work · Mode historian-judgment
- Item silver seal 銀印 · Relation Bestowed
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History of Song, Chapter 497Volume 497: Appendix: History of Song Table Revision of Official Titles · 1 passage
命臣阿魯圖、左丞相臣別兒怯不花領史事，前右丞相臣脫脫為都總裁，平章政事臣帖穆爾達世、御史大夫臣惟一、翰林學士承旨臣起巖、臣玄、治書御史臣好文、禮部尚書臣沂、崇文大監臣宗瑞為總裁官，平章政事臣納麟、臣顏、前中書右丞 臣達世睦邇、左丞 臣守簡、參議 臣岳柱、臣住、臣思謙、郎中 臣斡欒、臣思立等協恭董治，史官工部侍郎 臣斡玉倫徒，秘書卿 臣泰不華、太常僉院 臣杜秉彝、翰林直學士 臣宋褧，國子司業 臣王思誠、臣澤民、集賢待制 臣干文傳、翰林待制 臣張瑾、臣師道、宣文閣鑒書博士 臣麥文貴、監察御史 臣余闕、太常博士 臣李齊、翰林修撰 臣劉聞、太醫院都事 臣賈魯、國子助教 臣馮福可、太廟署令 臣陳祖仁、西臺御史 臣趙中、翰林應奉 臣王儀、臣貞、秘書著作左郎 臣譚慥、翰林編修 臣張翥、國子助教 臣吳當、經筵檢討 臣危素編劘分局，彙粹為書。
Your Majesty appointed Aruqtai and Left Chancellor Bayan Qutlugh to direct the history project, with former Right Chancellor Toqto'a as chief director-in-chief, and Chief Directors including Chief Councillors Temür Dash, Censor-in-Chief Weiyi, Hanlin Academicians Expositor Qiyan and Xuan, Investigating Censor Haowen, Minister of Rites Yi, and Director of the Directorate of Education Zongrui; together with Chief Councillors Nalin and Yan, former Right Vice Director of the Central Secretariat Dashimur, Left Vice Director Shoujian, Counsellors Yuezhu, Zhu, and Siqian, Bureau Directors Olon and Sili, and others to assist in reverent supervision; and history officers including Vice Minister of Works Oluntur, Secretary Director Taibuhua, Vice Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Du Bingyi, Hanlin Academician Song Jiong, Rectors of the Directorate of Education Wang Sicheng and Zemin, Awaiting Editor-in-Chief of the Hall of Gathered Worthies Gan Wenchuan, Hanlin Awaiting Editors Zhang Jin and Shidao, Doctor of the Xuanwen Pavilion Mai Wengui, Investigating Censor Yu Que, Doctor of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices Li Qi, Hanlin Compiler Liu Wen, Chief Administrator of the Imperial Medical Institute Jia Lu, Instructors of the Directorate of Education Feng Fuke, Director of the Imperial Ancestral Temple Office Chen Zuren, Western Censor Zhao Zhong, Hanlin Attendants Wang Yi and Zhen, Left Secretary Compiler Tan Zao, Hanlin Compiler Zhang Zhu, Instructor of the Directorate of Education Wu Dang, and Classics Lectures Reviewer Wei Su to edit in separate bureaus and gather the whole into a book.
History of Yuan, Chapter 66Volume 66 Treatises 19: Rivers and Canals 3 · 16 passages
乃命集群臣議廷中，而言人人殊，唯都漕運使賈魯，昌言必當治。
The emperor summoned the ministers to debate the matter in court. Opinions diverged widely, but Jia Lu, Director of Transport, alone declared forthrightly that the river had to be brought under control.
先是，魯嘗為山東道奉使宣撫首領官，循行被水郡邑，具得修捍成策；
Earlier, Jia Lu had served as chief officer on the Shandong circuit pacification commission, touring flood-stricken counties and towns and mastering the proven methods of dike repair and flood defense;
議定，乃薦魯於帝，大稱旨。
Once policy was settled, Toghto recommended Jia Lu to the emperor, who was thoroughly pleased.
十一年四月初四日，下詔中外，命魯以工部尚書為總治河防使，進秩二品，授以銀印。
On the fourth day of the fourth month of Zhizheng 11 (1351), an edict went out to the empire appointing Jia Lu Minister of Works and Commissioner General for Yellow River Control, raising him to second rank and granting a silver seal.
發汴梁、大名十有三路民十五萬人，廬州等戍十有八翼軍二萬人供役，一切從事大小軍民，咸稟節度，便宜興繕。
One hundred fifty thousand civilians were drafted from the thirteen circuits centered on Bianliang and Daming, and twenty thousand troops from eighteen garrison wings at Luzhou and elsewhere were put to work. Every laborer, soldier or civilian, fell under Jia Lu's command, with full authority to undertake construction as circumstances required.
帝遣貴臣報祭河伯，召魯還京師，論功超拜榮祿大夫、集賢大學士，其宣力諸臣遷賞有差，賜丞相脫脫世襲答剌罕之號，特命翰林學士承旨歐陽玄制河平碑文，以旌勞績。
The emperor sent high officials to report the sacrifice to the River Lord and summoned Jia Lu back to the capital. For his service Jia Lu was promoted beyond the usual grades to Grand Master for Glorious Emolument and Grand Academician of the Hall of Gathered Worthies; other officials who had labored on the project received promotions and rewards in varying measure; Chancellor Toghto was granted the hereditary title of Darqan; and Hanlin Academician Ouyang Xuan was commissioned to compose the Stele on Pacifying the River, to commemorate the achievement.
玄既為河平之碑，又自以為司馬遷、班固記河渠溝洫，僅載治水之道，不言其方，使後世任斯事者無所考則，乃從魯訪問方略，及詢過客，質吏牘，作《至正河防記》，欲使來世罹河患者按而求之。
After composing the pacification stele, Ouyang Xuan reflected that Sima Qian and Ban Gu, in their treatises on rivers and canals, recorded only general principles of water control, not the practical methods—leaving later engineers nothing concrete to follow. He therefore interviewed Jia Lu about his methods, questioned travelers who had witnessed the work, checked official records, and wrote the Record of Zhizheng River Control so that future generations facing river disasters might find actionable guidance within it.
魯乃精思障水入故河之方，以九月七日癸丑，逆流排大船二十七艘，前後連以大桅或長樁，用大麻索、竹縆絞縛，綴為方舟。
Jia Lu devised a method to force the water back into the old channel. On the seventh day of the ninth month—the day guichou—he arrayed twenty-seven large boats against the current, lashed bow to stern with great masts or long stakes using hemp rope and bamboo cable to form a floating barrier.
前船勢略定，尋用前法，沈余船以竟後功。
Once the first boats had stabilized the current, Jia Lu used the same method to sink the rest and finish the closure.
魯神色不動，機解捷出，進官吏工徒十餘萬人，日加獎諭，辭旨懇至，眾皆感激赴功。
Jia Lu's composure never wavered. He devised solution after solution and daily exhorted the more than one hundred thousand officials and laborers under his command with such earnest encouragement that all threw themselves gratefully into the work.
魯嘗有言：「水工之功，視土工之功為難；
Jia Lu once observed: 'Water engineering is harder than earthworks;
蓋由魯習知河事，故其功之所就如此。
This was the measure of what Jia Lu accomplished—because he truly understood river work.
魯能竭其心思智計之巧，乘其精神膽氣之壯，不惜劬瘁，不畏譏評，以報君相知人之明。
Jia Lu poured out every resource of mind and courage, shrank from no toil and no ridicule, to repay the ruler and chancellor's discernment in recognizing talent.
及魯治河，果於黃陵岡得石人一眼，而汝、潁之妖寇乘時而起。
When Jia Lu undertook the river project, workers indeed unearthed a one-eyed stone figure at Huangling Hillock, even as rebel armies rose in the Ru and Ying regions.
議者往往以謂天下之亂，皆由賈魯治河之役，勞民動眾之所致。
Critics often blamed the fall of the dynasty on Jia Lu's river project, claiming that mobilizing the masses had brought down the state.
設使賈魯不興是役，天下之亂，詎無從而起乎？
Had Jia Lu never undertaken the project, would rebellion not have erupted anyway?