Lu Zhenfen (陸振芬) | 24 Histories

Overview

Lu Zhenfen was an official and Administrator.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Lingyuan	令遠	Lingyuan

Life and dates

Death

died after forty years of retirement
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 37

Attested activity

AD 1650 順治七年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 20
AD 1652 順治九年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 31
AD 1651 順治八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 28
AD 1649 順治六年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 16
AD 1653 順治十年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 33

Career and standing

Vice commissioner of Huichao Circuit, Guangdong 廣東惠潮道副使
AD 1649 順治六年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 18
Entered
Retired
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 36

Places and affiliations

At Huating, Jiangnan 江南華亭
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 15

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1649 順治六年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 16

Events and relationships

Cleared prisons
AD 1651 順治八年 · Administration · Official · At Chaozhou 潮州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 30
Helped execute
AD 1653 順治十年 · Military · Inside ally · With Hao Shangjiu (郝尚久)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 35
Pacified stockades
AD 1650 順治七年 · Military · Commander · At Huizhou 惠州 · With Guo Hu (郭虎)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passages 21, 23, 26

Assessments and attributes

Assessment had talent and strategic ability; rooted in integrity and diligence · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 247, passage 224

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 247Volume 247 Biographies 34: Peng Ershu, Lu Zhenfen, Yao Yanzhu, Bi Zhenji, Fang Guodong, Yu Pengju, Wang Tianjian, Yue Tingbiao · 10 passages

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陸振芬，字令遠，江南華亭人。 Lu Zhenfen, courtesy name Lingyuan, came from Huating in Jiangnan.

振芬授廣東惠潮道副使，從師南征。 Zhenfen was made vice commissioner of Huichao Circuit in Guangdong and marched south with the expeditionary force.

韶州以南望風降，進規會城，既下，振芬與總兵郭虎率師赴惠州，剿撫歸善、海豐諸寨。 Everything south of Shaozhou surrendered at the first approach; after the provincial capital fell, Zhenfen and Commander Guo Hu took forces to Huizhou to subdue and win over the stockades of Guishan, Haifeng, and the rest.

振芬選精銳數百人繞出其旁擊之，獲一隊，諸寨皆懼。 Zhenfen picked several hundred crack troops to swing around and hit them from the flank, took one whole company prisoner, and every stockade was shaken.

振芬與虎駐五坡驛，他將自羊氾嶺會師合攻之，遂克其城。 Zhenfen and Hu camped at Wupo Post while other commanders converged from Yangfan Ridge for a joint attack, and the city was finally taken.

振芬與屬吏約，期五十日清庶獄，囹圄為空。 Zhenfen pledged to his staff that they would clear the backlog of ordinary cases within fifty days, and the prisons were emptied.

振芬牒大吏策弭變，不應。 Zhenfen sent the senior officials a memorial outlining how to head off the revolt, but they did not act on it.

振芬諭以大義，不從，使告變。 Zhenfen appealed to him on grounds of loyalty, but Shangjiu refused to listen, and Zhenfen sent word of the uprising.

秋，固山兵至，振芬約為內應，引外兵入，誅尚久。 That autumn the banner garrison troops arrived; Zhenfen had arranged an inside response, admitted the relief force, and Shangjiu was put to death.

而述、振芬、振姬、天鑑皆有才略，根本尤在廉勤。 Ershu, Zhenfen, Zhenji, and Tianjian all had talent and strategic ability; above all they were rooted in integrity and diligence.