Zhao Liangdong (趙良棟)

Overview

Zhao Liangdong was a general.

PeriodQing

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1691 to AD 1694 事閱十年後
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 258, 273
AD 1680 to AD 1681 十九年…及勇略將軍趙良棟師至
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 268, passages 68, 70
AD 1676 十五年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 251, passages 39, 69
AD 1662 to AD 1722 康熙間
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 319, 322
AD 1673 to AD 1681 討吳三桂定雲南
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 270

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Career and standing

Yunnan-Guizhou Governor 雲貴總督
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 270

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 268, passage 70; Draft History of Qing 282, passages 270, 322

Events and relationships

Adopted plan and took capital
Military · Commander · With Gu Badai (顧八代) · At Yunnan 雲南
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 268, passage 70
Campaigned against and pacified Yunnan
Military · Commander · With Wu Sangui (吳三桂) · At Yunnan 雲南
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 270
Criticized by
Political · Criticized · With Gong Xianglin (龔翔麟)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 322
Repeatedly sought favors for subordinates over merit awards
Political · Petitioner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 270
Sought gifted estates and houses beyond precedent
Political · Accused · Mode allegation Speaker Gong Xianglin (龔翔麟)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 274

Assessments and attributes

Assessment battlefield service entirely directed by emperor; clamored for favors and boasted; sought estates in breach of precedent; grossly disrespectful · Mode allegation Speaker Gong Xianglin (龔翔麟)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passages 271-274
Assessment meritorious minister · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 282, passage 276

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 251Volume 251 Biographies 38: Tu Hai, Li Zhifang · 3 passages

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圖海奏調綠旗兵，期明年正月檄提督孫思克赴秦州，趙良棟赴鳳翔，與張勇、王進寶會師進取，勇等謂須俟夏秋。 Tu Hai requested Green Standard reinforcements and planned to order Provincial Commander Sun Sike to Qinzhou and Zhao Liangdong to Fengxiang in the first month of the coming year for a joint advance with Zhang Yong and Wang Jinbao. Zhang Yong and the others insisted on waiting until summer and autumn.

提督趙良棟自徽縣進。 Provincial Commander Zhao Liangdong would advance from Hui County.

良棟复徽縣、略陽。 Liangdong recovered Hui County and Lueyang.

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

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及勇略將軍趙良棟師至，用顧八代策，先取銀錠山，克會城，雲南平。 When Brave Strategy General Zhao Liangdong's army arrived, they adopted Gu Badai's plan, took Silver Ingot Hill first, captured the capital, and pacified Yunnan.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 282Volume 282 Biographies 69: Jiang Xizhe, Yu Jin, De Ge Lei, Chen Zizhi, Ren Hongjia, Gao Cengyun, Shen Kaiceng, Gong Xianglin, Gao Xiachang · 5 passages

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雲貴總督趙良棟討吳三桂，定雲南，以敘功未允，為部下乞恩，屢有求請。 Yunnan-Guizhou Governor Zhao Liangdong had suppressed Wu Sangui and pacified Yunnan, but dissatisfied with the merit awards granted, he repeatedly petitioned on behalf of his subordinates.

翔麟疏劾：「良棟效力行間，悉由皇上指授方略。 Xianglin impeached him: "Liangdong's battlefield service owed entirely to strategies assigned by the emperor.

事閱十年，而良棟猶嘵嘵不已，妄肆薦揚，市恩於眾，借矜己功。 Ten years have passed, yet Liangdong still clamors on, recklessly promoting favorites, currying popular favor, and boasting of his own achievements.

賜履雅負清望，良棟功臣，雲翮功臣子，翔麟論列無所避，以是得直聲。 Though Cilu enjoyed a long-standing reputation for integrity, Liangdong was a meritorious general, and Yunyi the son of one, Xianglin criticized them all without hesitation and thereby earned a reputation for upright candor.

若德格勒、紫芝、重光忤明珠，愷曾彈李光地，翔麟論熊賜履、趙良棟，遐昌抗託合齊，雖所糾繩賢不肖不同，謇謇匪躬，不為名懾，不為勢撓，謚為「遺直」，殆無愧歟？ Degele, Zizhi, and Chongguang offended Mingzhu; Kaiceng impeached Li Guangdi; Xianglin criticized Xiong Cilu and Zhao Liangdong; Xiachang resisted Tuoheqi—though their targets differed in worth, all were upright and devoted to duty, unafraid of reputation and unbowed by power; styled "Remaining Upright," can they scarcely be said to fall short of that title?