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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
Dates Dates unknown (by one account 1571–1628); active from the Wanli to Tianqi eras