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Mao Yilu
Late Ming Grand Coordinator of Yingtian who sided with Wei Zhongxian and provoked the 1626 Suzhou uprising.
A walled hilltop city with a tall brick gate tower stands above a pine-covered cliff, its wall running along the ridge, while a long wooden bridge crosses a wide river below and plains, islets and layered mountains stretch into the distance, with no person in view.
Also known as Zi Xuqing · Hao Yuncheng
- Roles
- Provincial Governors
Mao Yilu, courtesy name Xuqing, was from Sui'an in Zhejiang and became a jinshi in 1604. After posts as judge of Songjiang, censor and vice minister of the Court of Judicial Review, he served in the Tianqi era as Grand Coordinator of Yingtian. A follower of the eunuch Wei Zhongxian, he built a living shrine to him at Tiger Hill. When guards came to arrest Zhou Shunchang in 1626 and the people of Suzhou rose, Mao fled into hiding, then reported a revolt and had Yan Peiwei and four others condemned. He is the 'governor of Wu' in Zhang Pu's 'Inscription for the Tomb of the Five Men'.
Life and times
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Ming(by one account 1571–1628); active from the Wanli to Tianqi eras - 1624Purge of the Donglin Faction
Under the Tianqi Emperor the eunuch Wei Zhongxian and Madam Ke dominated the court; after Yang Lian's memorial of twenty-four crimes, Donglin officials were dismissed and died in prison until the Chongzhen Emperor's accession brought Wei's fall and suicide.- Suzhou Edict-Reading Riot and Five Executions1626When Zhou Shunchang was arrested in Suzhou in 1626, crowds attacked the guardsmen reading the warrant, and five townsmen led by Yan Peiwei were later beheaded.
- Suzhou Edict-Reading Riot and Five Executions
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