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Overview Qi Suzao was an official and provincial commissioner.
Identity Historical · Male
Other names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Courtesy name
Youzhang
幼章
Youzhang
Posthumous name
Cultured and Upright
文節
Wenjie
Life and dates Death Attested activity AD 1853 咸豐三年
AD 1851 咸豐元年
AD 1838 道光十八年
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Career and standing Hanlin compiler 編修
Appointed
Jiangning provincial administration commissioner 江寧布政使
Appointed
prefect of Huangzhou 湖北黃州知府
Appointed
peacock feather 花翎
Granted
posthumous name Cultured and Upright 文節
Granted
Right Censor-in-Chief 右都御史
Posthumously granted
Works and attributed material Assessments and attributes Assessment solitary loyal devotion; outstanding talent of the age · Mode historian-judgmentReferences in the histories
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 398 Volume 398 Biographies 185: Zong Shixianghou, Huo Longwu, Fu Zhu Hong A, En Zhang, Chen Shengyuan, Qi Suzao, Chen Kerang, Liu Tongying, Rui Chang, Jie Chun, Xi Ling A · 12 passages
宗室祥厚霍隆武福珠洪阿恩長陳勝元祁宿藻陳克讓劉同纓
Imperial clansman Xianghou; Huo Longwu; Fu Zhu Hong'a; En Chang; Chen Shengyuan; Qi Suzao; Chen Kerang; Liu Tongying
祥厚偕副都統霍隆武、提督福珠洪阿、布政使祁宿藻疏言：「督臣藉口江寧吃緊，趕回佈置，沿途險要，並不屯紮，上駛師船，一概撤回，專守水路之東西梁山。
Xianghou, Deputy Commander Huo Longwu, Regional Commander Fu Zhu Hong'a, and Provincial Commissioner Qi Suzao submitted a joint memorial: "The governor-general, pleading the crisis at Nanjing, hurried back to make dispositions; yet he left no garrisons at any of the strategic points along the way, recalled every war-junk that had been sent upriver, and concentrated his efforts only on holding the Eastern and Western Liang hills on the water route.
疏入，詔逮建瀛治罪，命祥厚兼署總督，與霍隆武、福珠洪阿、祁宿藻悉心防禦，以在籍前廣西巡撫鄒鳴鶴熟悉賊情，命同籌辦。
When the memorial reached the throne, an edict ordered Jianying arrested and punished. Xianghou was appointed acting governor-general and, with Huo Longwu, Fu Zhu Hong'a, and Qi Suzao, charged to organize the defense. Zou Minghe, the former Guangxi governor now at home and familiar with the rebels, was ordered to assist in planning.
祁宿藻，字幼章，山西壽陽人，大學士俊藻弟也。
Qi Suzao, courtesy name Youzhang, was a native of Shouyang in Shanxi and the younger brother of Grand Secretary Qi Junzao.
會韶州數縣土匪起，詔留宿藻督兵往剿，七戰皆捷，匪首就擒。
When bandits rose in several counties around Shaozhou, the throne ordered Suzao to remain in office and lead troops against them. He won seven engagements in a row and captured the ringleaders.
大學士杜受田奉命臨賑，疏請以宿藻督辦江北賑務，章程出其手定，奏頒兩省行之。
Grand Secretary Du Shoutian was sent to supervise relief on the spot and memorialized that Suzao be put in charge of relief north of the Yangtze. Suzao drafted the regulations himself, and after imperial approval they were implemented in both provinces.
及粵匪將東下，宿藻馳返江寧，括庫儲治軍械，盡移兵糈及南門外商市囤米入城，號召義勇之士備戰守。
When the rebels were about to march east down the Yangtze, Suzao raced back to Nanjing, drew on the treasury to arm the garrison, moved all military grain and the rice hoarded by foreign merchants south of the South Gate into the city, and rallied volunteers for the defense.
建瀛既被罪失眾心，宿藻獨任事，賊至，力疾登陴指揮，曆三晝夜，城大兵單，援師不至，知事不可為，在城上嘔血數升，卒。
After Jianying was punished and lost all authority, Suzao alone shouldered the work of defense. When the rebels arrived he dragged himself, though ill, onto the ramparts and directed the fighting for three days and nights. The city was vast and the garrison thin; no relief came. Seeing that all was lost, he vomited blood on the wall and died.
文宗悼惜，加等優血卩，贈右都御史，廕一子以知州用。
The Xianfeng Emperor mourned his loss and granted enhanced posthumous honors. Suzao was posthumously made Right Censor-in-Chief, and one son was given the privilege of appointment as prefect.
曾國籓以聞，請附祀祥厚專祠，追諡文節。
Zeng Guofan reported the find and asked that Suzao be worshipped in Xianghou's memorial shrine. He was posthumously honored with the name Cultured and Upright.
宿藻死而不瞑，克讓撫之曰：「庫尚有儲金，當募死士以成君志。」
When Suzao died with his eyes still open, Kerang laid a hand on the body and said, "The treasury still holds reserve funds. We shall recruit die-hards to finish what you began."
祁宿藻孤忠盡瘁，傑純智勇能軍，並一時傑出之才。
Qi Suzao gave his life in solitary devotion to the throne. Jie Chun was wise, brave, and skilled in command. Both were outstanding men of their time.