Qing · Guangdong feudatory commander

Shang Zhixin 尚之信

Shàng Zhīxìn

Attested AD 1673 - AD 1676

Passages: 6
Chapters: 4
Histories: 1

Overview

Shang Zhixin was a Guangdong feudatory commander.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1673 to AD 1676 三桂勢方張…之信皆叛
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 268, passage 32
AD 1673 康熙十二年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 269, passage 88
AD 1676 康熙十五年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 285, passage 17
AD 1676 康熙十五年前後
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 165

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Shang Kexi (尚可喜)
father 父
son 子
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 269, passage 88; Draft History of Qing 268, passage 32

Key source chapters

Events and relationships

Rebelled
Military · Rebel
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 268, passage 32
Refused Fu Honglie's request for artillery and horses
Biographical event
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 165
Sent forces whose arrival enabled Fu Honglie's counterattack
Biographical event
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 252, passage 172

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 269, passage 88

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 252Volume 252 Biographies 39: Gan Wenkun, Fan Chengmo, Ma Xiongzhen, Fu Honglie · 3 passages

弘烈雖屢捷，惟新軍缺砲馬，假於尚之信，弗應。 Although Honglie won repeated victories, his new army lacked artillery and horses. He asked Shang Zhixin for help but received none.

十八年，之信軍至，弘烈分兵水陸，乘賊攻城時三面夾擊，賊潰走，遂下藤縣，克平樂，進复桂林。 In the eighteenth year Zhixin's army arrived. Honglie divided his forces by land and water and, while the rebels were besieging the city, struck them on three sides. The rebels broke and fled. He retook Tengxian, captured Pinglo, and advanced to recover Guilin.

弘烈密疏言延齡舊部宜善為解散，又言之信怙惡反覆，當早為之所。 Honglie memorialized in secret that Yanling's former troops should be properly disbanded and that Zhixin, habitually treacherous, should be checked before he turned again.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 268Volume 268 Biographies 55: Mi Sihan, Gu Badai, Ma Er Han, Tian Liushan, Du Zhen, Sa Mu Ha · 1 passage

時三桂勢方張，精忠及可喜子之信皆叛，議者追咎撤籓主議諸臣，上曰：「朕自少時，以三籓勢日熾，不可不撤。 While Wu Sangui's power was still spreading and Geng Jingzhong and Shang Kexi's son Zhixin had also rebelled, critics blamed the ministers who had urged abolishing the feudatories. The emperor said, "Even as a young man I saw the Three Feudatories growing stronger every day and knew they had to be removed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 1 passage

三桂遂反，精忠及可喜子之信皆叛應之。 Sangui rebelled, and Jingzhong and Kexi's son Zhixin joined him.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 285Volume 285 Biographies 72: Wang Zishou, Yuan Zhouzuo, Li Shihong, Duo Hong An, Wang Xu, Zhang Mengqiu · 1 passage

鎮南將軍覺羅舒恕率禁旅下廣東，為尚之信將嚴自明所敗，兵退，距贛州三十里。 General Jueluo Shushu led the Banner guards into Guangdong, was beaten by Shang Zhixin's general Yan Ziming, and fell back to within thirty li of Ganzhou.