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張獻誠，陜州平陸人，幽州節度使、幽州大都督府長史守珪之子也。 天寶末，陷逆賊安祿山，受偽官； 連陷史思明，為思明守汴州，統逆兵數萬。 寶應元年冬，東都平，史朝義逃歸汴州，獻誠不納，舉州及所統兵歸國，詔拜汴州刺史，充汴州節度使。 逾年來朝，代宗寵賜甚厚。 三遷檢校工部尚書，兼梁州刺史，充山南西道觀察使。 廣德二年十月，擒南山賊帥高玉以獻。 永泰二年正月，獻名馬二、絲絹雜貨共十萬匹。 是月，兼充劍南東川節度觀察使，封鄧國公。 西川崔旰殺郭英乂，獻誠率眾戰於梓州，為旰所敗，獻誠僅以身免。 大歷二年四月，獻誠以疾上表乞歸私第，仍薦堂弟試太常卿兼右羽林將軍獻恭以自代。 詔許之，以獻誠檢校戶部尚書，知省事。 八月，獻誠以疾抗疏辭官，無幾，卒於私第。
Zhang Xiancheng, a native of Pinglu in Shaan Prefecture, was the son of Shoujing, military commissioner of Youzhou and chief administrator of the Youzhou Metropolitan Prefecture. At the end of the Tianbao era, he fell into the hands of the rebel An Lushan and accepted a post in the usurper regime; He then fell to Shi Siming and defended Bian Prefecture for him at the head of tens of thousands of rebel troops. In the winter of the first year of Baoying, after the Eastern Capital was recovered, Shi Chaoyi fled back to Bian Prefecture. Xiancheng refused to admit him, surrendered the prefecture and the forces under his command to the dynasty, and was appointed by edict prefect of Bian Prefecture and military commissioner of Bian Prefecture. The following year he came to court, and Emperor Daizong showered him with lavish favor and rewards. After three promotions he was made acting minister of works, concurrently prefect of Liang Prefecture, and military observation commissioner of the Shannan West Circuit. In the tenth month of the second year of Guangde, he captured the Southern Mountains bandit chieftain Gao Yu and presented him to the throne. In the first month of the second year of Yongtai, he presented two famous horses and one hundred thousand bolts of silk and other goods combined. That month he was additionally appointed military observation commissioner of Jiannan East Circuit and enfeoffed as Duke of Deng. In the western circuit, Cui Gan killed Guo Yingyi. Xiancheng led troops into battle at Zi Prefecture, was defeated by Gan, and barely escaped with his life. In the fourth month of the second year of Dali, Xiancheng, stricken with illness, submitted a memorial asking to retire to his private residence and recommended his younger paternal cousin Xiangong—acting minister of rites and Right Feathered Forest general—to succeed him. An edict approved the request, and Xiancheng was made acting minister of revenue and put in charge of court affairs. In the eighth month, Xiancheng, still ill, submitted a forceful memorial resigning his office; before long he died at his private residence.
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獻恭，守珪之弟守瑜子。 累以軍功官至試太常卿，兼右羽林將軍，代獻誠為梁州刺史、兼御史中丞，充山南西道節度觀察使。 大歷十二年七月，獻恭破吐蕃萬余眾於岷州。 建中二年正月，加檢校兵部尚書，為東都留守。 三年正月，為太府卿、容州刺史、本管經略招討使。 四年七月，與渾瑊、盧杞、司農卿段秀實與吐蕃尚結贊築壇於京城之西會盟，如清水之儀。 興元元年六月，轉檢校吏部尚書，仍與一子正員官。 盧杞移饒州刺史，給事中袁高論其不可。 獻恭因入對紫宸殿，上言：「高所奏至當，臣恐煩聖聽，不敢縷陳其事。」 德宗不悟，獻恭復奏曰：「袁高是陛下一良臣，望特優異。」 德宗顧謂宰臣李勉等曰：「朕欲授杞一小州刺史可乎？」 對曰：「陛下授大州亦可，其奈士庶失望何！」 獻恭守正不撓也如此。
Xiangong was the son of Shouyu, the younger brother of Shoujing. He rose through repeated military achievements to acting minister of rites and Right Feathered Forest general, then replaced Xiancheng as prefect of Liang Prefecture, concurrent censor-in-chief, and military observation commissioner of the Shannan West Circuit. In the seventh month of the twelfth year of Dali, Xiangong defeated more than ten thousand Tibetan troops at Min Prefecture. In the first month of the second year of Jianzhong, he was additionally made acting minister of war and appointed eastern capital intendant. In the first month of the third year, he was made grand steward of the imperial household, prefect of Rong Prefecture, and frontier pacification and punitive commissioner of his circuit. In the seventh month of the fourth year, together with Hun Zhen, Lu Qi, and Minister of Agriculture Duan Xiushi, he joined the Tibetan minister Shang Jiezan in building an altar west of the capital for an alliance, following the ceremony used at Qingshui. In the sixth month of the first year of Xingyuan, he was transferred to acting minister of personnel and was also granted one regular office for a son. Lu Qi was transferred to be prefect of Rao Prefecture, and the attendant Yuan Gao argued that this should not be allowed. Xiangong therefore entered audience in the Zichen Hall and said, "What Gao memorialized is entirely appropriate. I fear troubling Your Majesty’s ears and dare not set out the matter in detail." Emperor Dezong did not understand. Xiangong memorialized again, saying, "Yuan Gao is a good minister of Your Majesty; I hope he may receive special favor." The emperor turned and said to the chief ministers Li Mian and the others, "I wish to appoint Qi to a small prefecture—would that do?" They replied, "Your Majesty may appoint him to a large prefecture as well, but what of the disappointment of scholars and commoners!" Xiangong upheld what was right and would not yield—such was his conduct.
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獻甫，守珪弟左武衛將軍、贈戶部尚書守琦之子。 獻甫少隨諸兄從軍，初為偏裨，以軍功累授試光祿卿、殿中監、河中節度副元帥都知兵馬使，檢校兵部尚書、兼御史大夫。 建中初，從節度使賈耽征梁崇義於襄、漢，以功加太子詹事。 及幸奉天、興元，獻甫首至，從渾瑊征討有功，及復京邑，入為金吾將軍。 時李懷光未平，吐蕃侵擾西邊，獻甫領禁軍出鎮咸陽，凡累年，軍民悅之。 貞元四年，遷檢校刑部尚書，兼邠州刺史、邠寧慶節度觀察使。 乃於彭原置義倉，方渠、馬嶺等縣選險要之地以為烽堡。 又上疏請復鹽州及洪門、洛原等鎮，各置兵防以備蕃寇，朝廷從之。 貞元四年九月，吐蕃將尚誌董星、論莽羅等寇寧州，獻甫率眾禦之，斬首百余級，吐蕃遁邊城。 貞元十二年，加檢校左僕射。 五月丙申卒，年六十一，廢朝三日，贈司空，賻物有差。
Xianfu was the son of Shouqi—Left Martial Guard general and posthumously enfeoffed minister of revenue—and the younger brother of Shoujing. In youth Xianfu followed his elder brothers into military service. He began as a junior officer and, through repeated military achievements, rose to acting minister of splendid offerings, palace inspector, deputy chief commander of the Hezhong military commission and director of military affairs, acting minister of war, and concurrent chief censor. At the beginning of Jianzhong, he followed Military Commissioner Jia Dan in campaigning against Liang Chongyi in Xiang and Han and, for his merit, was additionally made grand warden of the heir apparent. When the emperor went to Fengtian and Xingyuan, Xianfu was the first to arrive. He followed Hun Zhen on punitive campaigns with merit, and after the capital was recovered he entered service as a Golden Guard general. At that time Li Huaiguang had not yet been pacified and the Tibetans harassed the western frontier. Xianfu led the imperial guard army out to garrison Xianyang. For several years soldiers and people alike were pleased with him. In the fourth year of Zhenyuan, he was transferred to acting minister of punishments, concurrently prefect of Bin Prefecture, and military observation commissioner of Bin, Ning, and Qing. He then established a charity granary at Pengyuan and selected strategically important places in counties such as Fangqu and Maoling to serve as beacon forts. He also submitted a memorial asking to restore Yan Prefecture and the garrisons at Hongmen, Luoyuan, and the like, each to have troops stationed against barbarian raids, and the court approved. In the ninth month of the fourth year of Zhenyuan, the Tibetan generals Shang Zhidongxing, Lun Mangluo, and others raided Ning Prefecture. Xianfu led troops to resist them, beheaded more than one hundred men, and the Tibetans fled to the border forts. In the twelfth year of Zhenyuan, he was additionally made acting left vice director of the Department of State Affairs. On bingshen in the fifth month he died at the age of sixty-one. Court was suspended for three days, he was posthumously enfeoffed as minister of works, and condolence goods were granted according to rank.
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獻恭子煦，嘗隨獻甫征討，積戰功累遷至夏州節度使。 元和八年十二月，振武軍逐出節度使李進賢而屠其家，殺判官嚴澈。 憲宗怒，遣煦以夏州兵二千人赴振武，仍許以便宜擊斷。 九年正月，賜絹三萬匹以助軍資。 河東節度使王鍔遣兵五千會煦於善羊柵，詔煦入振武，誅作亂蘇國珍等二百五十三人乃定。 是歲十二月卒，贈太子太保。
Xiangong’s son Xu once followed Xianfu on punitive campaigns. Accumulating military merit, he was repeatedly promoted until he became military commissioner of Xia Prefecture. In the twelfth month of the eighth year of Yuanhe, the Zhenwu Army drove out Military Commissioner Li Jinxian and slaughtered his household, killing Vice Magistrate Yan Che. Emperor Xianzong was enraged and dispatched Xu with two thousand Xia Prefecture troops to Zhenwu, also permitting him discretionary authority to strike and execute. In the first month of the ninth year, thirty thousand bolts of silk were granted to assist military funds. Hedong Military Commissioner Wang E sent five thousand troops to join Xu at Shanyang Stockade. An edict ordered Xu to enter Zhenwu, execute the mutineers Su Guozhen and two hundred fifty-three others, and only then was order restored. That year, in the twelfth month, he died and was posthumously enfeoffed as grand preceptor of the heir apparent.
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路嗣恭，京兆三原人。 始名劍客，歷仕郡縣，有能名，累至神烏令，考績上上，為天下最，以其能，賜名嗣恭。 歷工部尚書、兼御史大夫、靈州大都督府長史，充關內副元帥郭子儀副使，知朔方節度營田押諸蕃部落等使，嗣恭披荊棘以守之。 大將御史中丞孫守亮握重兵，倔強不受制，嗣恭稱疾召至，因殺之，威信大行。 永泰三年，檢校刑部尚書，知省事。 大歷六年七月，為江南西道都團練觀察使，在官恭恪，善理財賦。 賈明觀者，事北軍都虞候劉希暹，魚朝恩誅，希暹從坐，明觀積惡犯眾怒。 時宰相元載受賂，遣江南效力，魏少遊承載意茍容之。 及嗣恭代少遊，即日杖殺，識者稱之。 大歷八年，嶺南將哥舒晃殺節度使呂崇賁反，五嶺騷擾，詔加嗣恭兼嶺南節度觀察使。 嗣恭擢流人孟瑤、敬冕，使分其務：瑤主大軍，當其沖； 冕自間道輕入，招集義勇，得八千人，以撓其心腹。 二人皆有全策詭計，出其不意，遂斬晃及誅其同惡萬余人，築為京觀。 俚洞之宿惡者皆族誅之，五嶺削平。 拜檢校兵部尚書，知省事。
Lu Sigong was a native of Sanyuan in Jingzhao. His original name was Jiankè. He served through prefectures and counties with a reputation for ability, rose repeatedly to magistrate of Shenwu, received the top-top performance rating—the highest in the realm—and for his ability was granted the name Sigong. He served as minister of works, concurrent chief censor, and chief administrator of the Lingzhou Metropolitan Prefecture, as deputy to Deputy Chief Commander Guo Ziyi of the Guannei circuit with responsibility for the Shuo-fang military commission, frontier farming, and the tribes of the various barbarians; Sigong cleared brambles to hold the post. The great general and censor-in-chief Sun Shouliang held heavy troops and was obstinate, refusing to submit to control. Sigong feigned illness, summoned him, and killed him, and authority and trust were greatly established. In the third year of Yongtai, he was made acting minister of punishments and put in charge of court affairs. In the seventh month of the sixth year of Dali, he was made unified training and observation commissioner of the Jiangnan West Circuit. In office he was respectful and diligent and good at managing finances and taxes. Jia Mingguan had served the northern army’s chief commandant Liu Xixuan. When Yu Chaoen was executed, Xixuan was implicated, and Mingguan’s accumulated wickedness provoked public wrath. At that time Chief Minister Yuan Zai accepted bribes and sent him to serve in Jiangnan, and Wei Shaoyou, following Zai’s intent, indulgently tolerated him. When Sigong replaced Shaoyou, that very day he had Mingguan beaten to death, and those who knew praised this. In the eighth year of Dali, the Lingnan general Geshu Huang killed Military Commissioner Lü Chongben and rebelled, disturbing the Five Ridges. An edict additionally made Sigong military observation commissioner of Lingnan. Sigong promoted the exiled Meng Yao and Jing Mian and had them divide the tasks: Yao commanded the main army and met the enemy head-on; Mian entered lightly by a hidden route, gathered righteous volunteers, and obtained eight thousand men to strike at the enemy’s heart. The two men both had complete stratagems and cunning plans. Taking the enemy unawares, they beheaded Huang and executed more than ten thousand of his accomplices, piling them into a capital mound. The longstanding evildoers of the Li caves were all executed to the extinction of their clans, and the Five Ridges were pacified. He was appointed acting minister of war and put in charge of court affairs.
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嗣恭起於郡縣吏，以至大官，皆以恭恪為理著稱。 及平廣州，商舶之徒，多因晃事誅之，嗣恭前後沒其家財寶數百萬貫，盡入私室，不以貢獻。 代宗心甚銜之，故嗣恭雖有平方面功，止轉檢校兵部尚書，無所酬勞。 及德宗即位，楊炎受其貨，始敘前功，除兵部尚書、東都留守。 尋加懷鄭汝陜四州、河陽三城節度及東都畿觀察使。 征至京師卒，時年七十一，廢朝一日，贈左僕射。
Sigong rose from a prefecture and county clerk to reach high office; in every case he was famed for governing through respect and diligence. When Guangzhou was pacified, many among the merchant-shipping people were executed on account of Huang’s affair. Before and after, Sigong confiscated their household wealth and treasures to the amount of several million strings, all entering his private chambers and not offered as tribute. Daizong deeply resented this. Therefore, although Sigong had merit in pacifying a region, he was transferred only to acting minister of war, with no reward for his labor. When Dezong acceded, Yang Yan accepted his goods and only then recounted his earlier merit; he was appointed minister of war and eastern capital intendant. Soon he was additionally made military commissioner of Huai, Zheng, Ru, and Shaan prefectures, the Heyang Three Cities, and military observation commissioner of the eastern capital hinterland. Summoned to the capital, he died on the way at the age of seventy-one. Court was suspended for one day, and he was posthumously enfeoffed as left vice director of the Department of State Affairs.
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子恕，字體仁。 初，嶺南衙將哥舒晃反，詔嗣恭自江西致討，授檢校工部員外郎，得以軍前便宜從事。 俄而降者繼路，於是擢降將伊慎，推心用之。 賊平，恕功居多，年才三十，為懷州刺史。 久之，轉京兆少尹、監門衛大將軍、兼御史中丞、教練招討等使。 其後為鄜坊觀察使、太子詹事。 坐事貶吉州刺史，遷太子賓客。 以右散騎常侍致仕卒，年七十三，贈洪州都督。 恕私第有佳林園，自貞元初李紓、包佶輩迄於元和末，僅四十年，朝之名卿，鹹從之遊，高歌縱酒，不屑外慮，未嘗問家事，人亦以和易稱之。
His son Shu, styled Tiren. At first, when the Lingnan yamen general Geshu Huang rebelled, an edict ordered Sigong to campaign from Jiangxi. Shu was appointed acting vice minister of works and permitted discretionary action before the army. Before long surrenderers came in succession. He then promoted the surrendering general Yi Shen and employed him with full trust. When the bandits were pacified, Shu’s merit was greatest. He was only thirty years old and was made prefect of Huai Prefecture. After a long time he was transferred to junior administrator of Jingzhao, great general of the Gate Guard, concurrent censor-in-chief, and training and punitive commissioner. Thereafter he served as observation commissioner of Bin and Fang, and grand warden of the heir apparent. For an offense he was demoted to prefect of Ji Prefecture and transferred to guest of the heir apparent. He retired as right regular attendant and died at the age of seventy-three. He was posthumously enfeoffed as military governor of Hong Prefecture. Shu’s private residence had an excellent grove and garden. From the beginning of Zhenyuan, Li Shu, Bao Zhi, and their like down to the end of Yuanhe—nearly forty years in all—eminent ministers of the court all went to visit. They sang loudly and drank freely, disdaining outside cares, never inquiring into household affairs, and people also praised him for being easygoing.
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曲環，陜州安邑人也。 父彬，為南使正監，因家於隴右，以環故累贈兵部尚書。 環少讀兵書，尤以勇敢騎射聞。 天寶中，從哥舒翰攻拔石堡城，收黃河九曲、洪濟等城，累授果毅別將。 安祿山反，從襄陽節度魯炅守鄧州，拒賊將武令珣，戰數十合，環功居多，超授左清道率。 又從李抱玉守河陽南城，尋將兵守澤州，破賊驍將安曉，敕特拜羽林將軍。 又將別部兵合諸軍同討史朝義，平河北，累轉金吾大將軍，並同正員，隨李抱玉移軍京西。 大歷中領兵隴州，頻破吐蕃，加特進、太常卿。 上初嗣位，吐蕃大寇劍南，詔環以邠、隴兵五千馳往，大破戎虜，收七盤城、威武軍及維、茂二州，西戎奔遁。 環大振功名而還，加太子賓客，賜以名馬。 與諸將討涇州叛將劉文喜，平之，加開府儀同三司、兼御史中丞，充邠、隴兩軍都知兵馬使。 時李納擁兵侵逼徐州，令環與劉玄佐同救援，累破李納叛黨，環以功最，加御史大夫。 建中三年十月，加檢校左常侍，充邠、隴行營節度使。
Qu Huan was a native of Anyi in Shaan Prefecture. His father Bin was a director of the southern mission and, because of Huan, was repeatedly posthumously enfeoffed minister of war. Huan in youth read military books and was especially famed for bravery in horsemanship and archery. In the Tianbao era, he followed Geshu Han in capturing Shibao Fortress and recovering the Yellow River Nine Bends, Hongji, and other cities. He was repeatedly appointed deputy commander of the guoyi corps. When An Lushan rebelled, he followed Xiangyang Military Commissioner Lu Kui in defending Deng Prefecture and resisting the rebel general Wu Lingxun. They fought several tens of engagements, and Huan’s merit was greatest. He was specially promoted to commander of the Left Pure Way Guard. He again followed Li Baoyu in defending the southern city of Heyang, then led troops to defend Ze Prefecture, defeated the rebel fierce general An Xiao, and by edict was specially appointed a Feathered Forest general. He again led a separate detachment to join the various armies in jointly campaigning against Shi Chaoyi and pacifying Hebei. He was repeatedly transferred to great general of the Golden Guards, all as regular appointments, and followed Li Baoyu in moving the army to the western capital. In the Dali era he commanded troops at Long Prefecture, repeatedly defeated the Tibetans, and was specially promoted to special advance and minister of splendid offerings. When the emperor first succeeded to the throne, the Tibetans raided Jiannan in force. An edict ordered Huan to hurry there with five thousand Bin and Long troops. He greatly defeated the barbarian enemy, recovered Qipan Fortress, Weiwu Army, and the two prefectures of Wei and Mao, and the western barbarians fled in panic. Huan greatly raised his fame and merit and returned. He was additionally made guest of the heir apparent and granted famous horses. Together with the various generals he campaigned against the Jing Prefecture rebel general Liu Wenhui and pacified him. He was additionally made grand master of the state with golden seal and purple ribbon, concurrent censor-in-chief, and director of military affairs for the Bin and Long armies. At that time Li Na held troops and pressed upon Xu Prefecture. Huan was ordered to rescue together with Liu Xuanzuo. After repeatedly defeating Li Na’s rebel faction, Huan’s merit was greatest and he was additionally made chief censor. In the tenth month of the third year of Jianzhong, he was additionally made acting left regular attendant and made field commissioner of the Bin and Long campaign.
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李希烈侵陷汴州，環與諸軍守固寧陵、陳州，大破希烈軍於陳州城下，殺逆黨三萬五千人，擒其驍將翟暉以獻，希烈因遁歸蔡州。 環以功加檢校工部尚書，兼陳州刺史。 希烈平，加環兼許州刺史、陳許等州節度觀察，加實封三百戶。 陳、蔡二州以希烈擾亂，遭剽劫頗甚，人多逃竄他邑以避禍。 環勤身恭儉，賦稅均平，政令寬簡，不三二歲，繈負而歸者相屬，訓農理戎，兵食皆豐羨。 十二年，加檢校左僕射。 卒時年七十四，廢朝一日，贈司空，賻布帛米粟有差。
When Li Xilie invaded and seized Bian Prefecture, Huan together with the various armies firmly defended Ningling and Chen Prefecture. He greatly defeated Xilie’s army below Chen Prefecture city, killed thirty-five thousand rebel partisans, captured his fierce general Zhai Hui and presented him, and Xilie therefore fled back to Caizhou. For his merit Huan was additionally made acting minister of works, concurrently prefect of Chen Prefecture. When Xilie was pacified, Huan was additionally made concurrent prefect of Xu Prefecture and military observation commissioner of Chen, Xu, and other prefectures, with three hundred additional enfeoffed households. Chen and Cai prefectures, because of Xilie’s disturbance and plunder, had suffered greatly, and many people fled to other districts to avoid disaster. Huan personally toiled in respect and frugality, kept taxes fair and even, and made government orders broad and simple. In no more than two or three years those who returned carrying infants on their backs followed one after another. He trained agriculture and managed the army, and both troops and provisions were abundant. In the twelfth year, he was additionally made acting left vice director of the Department of State Affairs. When he died he was seventy-four. Court was suspended for one day, he was posthumously enfeoffed as minister of works, and condolence cloth, silk, rice, and millet were granted according to rank.
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崔漢衡，博陵人也。 性沈厚寬博，善與人交。 釋褐，授沂州費令。 滑州節度使令狐彰奏署掌記，累遷殿中侍御史。 大歷六年，拜檢校禮部員外郎，為和吐蕃副使； 還，遷右司郎中，改萬年令。 建中三年，為殿中少監、兼御史大夫，充和蕃使，與吐蕃使區頰贊至自蕃中。 時吐蕃大相尚結息忍而好殺，以常覆敗於劍南，思刷其恥，不肯約和。 其次相尚結贊有材略，因言於贊普，請定界明約，以息邊人，贊普然之，竟以結贊代結息為大相，約和好，期以十月十五日會盟於境上。 戊申，以漢衡為鴻臚卿。 四年，吐蕃朝貢，加檢校工部尚書，復使吐蕃。 興元初，上居奉天，吐蕃遣帥佐渾瑊敗硃泚兵於武功，以功轉檢校兵部尚書、兼秘書監、西京留守。 無幾，真拜兵部尚書，為東都、淄青、魏博賑給宣慰使。 明年，為幽州宣慰使，所至皆稱職。 貞元三年，副侍中渾瑊與吐蕃會盟於平涼，吐蕃背約，瑊僅免，時無備預，在會免者什無一二，士卒，死者以千數。 漢衡與同陷者並至河州，結贊令召之，以頻使於蕃，結贊素信重，與孟日華、中官劉延邕俱至石門，而遣五騎送至境上。 四年七月，加檢校吏部尚書、晉慈隰觀察使，尋加都防禦使。 十一年四月卒。
Cui Hanheng was a native of Boling. By nature he was deep, solid, broad, and generous, and good at forming friendships. Upon leaving the robe, he was appointed magistrate of Fei in Yi Prefecture. Huazhou Military Commissioner Linghu Zhang memorialized him as recorder, and he was repeatedly promoted to palace attendant censor. In the sixth year of Dali, he was appointed acting vice minister of rites and made deputy envoy for peace with the Tibetans; On his return he was transferred to right bureau director and changed to magistrate of Wannian. In the third year of Jianzhong, he was made vice director of the palace directorate, concurrent chief censor, and envoy for peace with the Tibetans. Together with the Tibetan envoy Qu Jiezan he arrived from Tibet. At that time the Tibetan chief minister Shang Jiexi was patient but fond of killing. Because he had often been defeated in Jiannan, he wished to wash away that shame and would not agree to peace. The next chief minister Shang Jiezan had talent and strategy. He therefore spoke to the tsenpo, asking to fix boundaries and clarify agreements to give rest to the border people. The tsenpo approved, and in the end Jiezan replaced Jiexi as chief minister, agreed to good relations, and set the date for an alliance on the fifteenth day of the tenth month on the border. On wushen, Hanheng was made grand master of splendid offerings. In the fourth year the Tibetans came to court with tribute. He was additionally made acting minister of works and again sent as envoy to the Tibetans. At the beginning of Xingyuan, when the emperor resided at Fengtian, the Tibetans dispatched a commander to assist Hun Zhen in defeating Zhu Ci’s troops at Wugong. For this merit he was transferred to acting minister of war, concurrent director of the secretariat, and western capital intendant. Before long he was formally appointed minister of war and made relief and consolation envoy for the eastern capital, Ziqing, and Weibo. The next year he was made consolation envoy to Youzhou, and everywhere he went he was said to fulfill his duties. In the third year of Zhenyuan, as deputy to Palace Attendant Hun Zhen he joined the Tibetans in alliance at Pingliang. The Tibetans broke the agreement and Zhen barely escaped. At that time there was no prior preparation, and of those at the meeting who escaped, not one or two in ten; of the soldiers, those who died numbered in the thousands. Hanheng, together with those who fell into the same trap, all reached He Prefecture. Jiezan ordered them summoned. Because he had repeatedly served as envoy to Tibet, Jiezan had always trusted and honored him. Together with Meng Rihua and the eunuch Liu Yanyong they all reached Shimen, and five riders were sent to escort them to the border. In the seventh month of the fourth year, he was additionally made acting minister of personnel and observation commissioner of Jin, Ci, and Li. Soon he was additionally made overall defense commissioner. In the fourth month of the eleventh year he died.
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楊朝晟，字叔明，夏州朔方人也。 初在朔方為步軍先鋒，嘗有功，授甘泉府果毅。 建中初，從李懷光討劉文喜於涇州，斬獲生擒居多，授驃騎大將軍，稍為右先鋒兵馬使。 後李納寇徐州，從唐朝臣征討，嘗冠軍鋒，以功授開府儀同三司、檢校太子賓客。
Yang Chaocheng, styled Shuming, was a native of Shuofang in Xia Prefecture. At first in Shuofang he served as vanguard of the infantry and once had merit. He was appointed deputy commander of the Ganquan prefecture guoyi corps. At the beginning of Jianzhong, he followed Li Huaiguang in campaigning against Liu Wenhui at Jing Prefecture. Beheadings, captures, and live seizures were mostly his. He was appointed general of swift cavalry and gradually became right vanguard military commissioner. Later, when Li Na raided Xu Prefecture, he followed Tang Chaochen on the punitive campaign, often leading the vanguard. For his merit he was appointed grand master of the state with golden seal and purple ribbon and acting guest of the heir apparent.
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上在奉天，李懷光自山東赴難，以朝晟為左廂兵馬使，將千余人下咸陽以挫硃泚，加御史中丞，實封一百五十戶。 及懷光反於河中，朝晟被脅在軍。 上幸梁、洋，韓遊瑰退於邠、寧。 懷光以嘗在邠、寧，迫制如屬城，以賊黨張昕在邠州總後務。 昕懼難作，乃大索軍資，征卒乘，約明潛發，歸於懷光。 朝晟父懷賓為遊瑰將，因夜以數十騎斬昕及同謀，遊瑰即日使懷賓奉表聞奏，上召勞問，授兼御史中丞，正除遊瑰邠寧節度使。 間諜至河中，朝晟聞其事。 泣告懷光曰：「父立功於國，子合誅戮，不可主兵矣。」 懷光遂縶之。 及諸軍進圍河中，韓遊瑰營於長春宮，懷賓身當戰伐。 及懷光平，上念其忠，俾副元帥渾瑊特原朝晟，遂為遊瑰都虞侯。 時父子同軍，皆為開府賓客、御史中丞，榮於軍中。
When the emperor was at Fengtian, Li Huaiguang came from Shandong to relieve the crisis. Chaocheng was made left wing military commissioner and led more than a thousand men down to Xianyang to check Zhu Ci. He was additionally made censor-in-chief with one hundred fifty actual enfeoffed households. When Huaiguang rebelled at Hezhong, Chaocheng was coerced and remained in the army. The emperor went to Liang and Yang; Han Yougui withdrew to Bin and Ning. Huaiguang, because he had once been in Bin and Ning, forced control as if it were a subject city. The rebel partisan Zhang Xin was at Bin Prefecture managing rear affairs. Xin feared trouble would arise and greatly sought military supplies, conscripted troops and transport, and arranged to set out secretly at dawn and return to Huaiguang. Chaocheng’s father Huaiyin was a general under Yougui. That night with several tens of riders he beheaded Xin and his co-conspirators. Yougui that very day had Huaiyin submit a memorial reporting this. The emperor summoned and questioned him with praise and appointed him concurrent censor-in-chief and formally made Yougui military commissioner of Bin and Ning. Spies reached Hezhong and Chaocheng heard of the affair. Weeping, he told Huaiguang, "My father has achieved merit for the state; his son ought to be executed—he can no longer command troops." Huaiguang then bound him. When the various armies advanced to besiege Hezhong, Han Yougui encamped at Changchun Palace and Huaiyin personally bore the brunt of battle. When Huaiguang was pacified, the emperor, mindful of his loyalty, had Deputy Chief Commander Hun Zhen specially pardon Chaocheng, and he then became Yougui’s chief commandant. At that time father and son were in the same army, both grandees of the state with guests’ appointments and censor-in-chief—honored within the army.
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後詔征遊瑰宿衛，以左金吾將軍張獻甫為檢校刑部尚書、兼御史大夫、邠寧慶節度觀察使，代韓遊瑰。 初，遊瑰以吐蕃犯塞，自將兵戍寧州，及受代，以是月壬子夜輕騎潛遁歸闕。 其將卒素驕怠，畏張獻甫之嚴，因遊瑰夜出，衙內千余人遂叛掠，且因監軍楊明義邀奏出奔將範希朝為節度。 朝晟時為都虞候，初逃於郊，翌日乃來，紿其眾曰：「所請甚愜，我來賀也。」 由是稍安。 朝晟及諸將謀誅首惡者。 乙卯，朝晟率諸將經數日以告曰：「前請者不獲，張尚書昨日已入邠州，汝等皆當死，吾不能盡殺，各言戎首以歸罪焉，余無所問。」 於是眾中唱二百余人，斬之乃定。 上擢希朝為寧州刺史，以副獻甫。 獻甫入奏朝晟功，加御史大夫。
Later an edict summoned Yougui to palace guard duty. Left Golden Guard general Zhang Xianfu was made acting minister of punishments, concurrent chief censor, and military observation commissioner of Bin, Ning, and Qing, replacing Han Yougui. At first, because the Tibetans violated the frontier, Yougui personally led troops to garrison Ning Prefecture. When he was replaced, on renzi of that month at night he fled lightly and secretly back to court. His officers and soldiers had always been arrogant and lax and feared Zhang Xianfu’s severity. Because Yougui left at night, more than a thousand men in the yamen then rebelled and plundered, and through Army Supervisor Yang Mingyi they also memorialized asking that the departing general Fan Xichao be made military commissioner. Chaocheng was then chief commandant. At first he fled to the suburbs; the next day he came and deceived the crowd, saying, "What was requested is very satisfactory—I have come to congratulate." By this the crowd was somewhat calmed. Chaocheng and the various generals plotted to execute the ringleaders. On yimao, after several days Chaocheng led the various generals and announced, "The earlier request was not granted. Vice Minister Zhang entered Bin Prefecture yesterday—you will all die. I cannot kill you all. Each name the military ringleader to assign guilt, and I will ask nothing more." Thereupon more than two hundred men were called out in the crowd and beheaded, and only then was order restored. The emperor promoted Xichao to prefect of Ning Prefecture to assist Xianfu. Xianfu entered court to report Chaocheng’s merit, and he was additionally made chief censor.
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九年，城鹽州，征兵以護外境，朝晟分統士馬鎮木波。 獻甫卒，詔以朝晟代之。 其年，丁母憂，起復左金吾大將軍同正、邠州刺史，大夫如故。 十年春，朝晟奏：「方渠、合道、木波，皆賊路也，請城其地以備之。」 詔問：「所須幾何？」 朝晟奏曰：「臣部下兵自可集事，不煩外助。」 復問：「前築鹽州，凡興師七萬，今何其易也？」 朝晟曰：「鹽州之役，諸軍蕃戎盡知之。 今臣境迫虜，若大興兵，即蕃戎來寇，寇則戰，戰則無暇城矣。 今請密發軍士，不十日至塞下，未三旬而功畢。」 蕃人始乘障，數日而退。 初，軍次方渠，無水，師徒囂然，遽有青蛇乘高而下，視其跡，水隨而流。 朝晟令築防環之，遂為停泉，軍人仰飲以足，圖其事上聞，詔置祠焉。 十五年二月，免喪，加檢校工部尚書。 是夏，以防秋移軍寧州，遘疾，來年正月卒。
In the ninth year they fortified Yan Prefecture, conscripting troops to guard the outer frontier. Chaocheng separately commanded troops and horses garrisoning Mubo. When Xianfu died, an edict had Chaocheng replace him. That year, in mourning for his mother, he was recalled to service as left Golden Guard great general with regular appointment and prefect of Bin Prefecture, chief censor as before. In the spring of the tenth year, Chaocheng memorialized, "Fangqu, Hedao, and Mubo are all bandit routes. I ask to fortify those places to guard against them." An edict asked, "How much is needed?" Chaocheng memorialized, "The troops under my command can by themselves complete the task; there is no need for outside help." Again asked, "In fortifying Yan Prefecture before, seventy thousand troops were mobilized in all—why is it so easy now?" Chaocheng said, "In the Yan Prefecture campaign, the various armies and the barbarian tribes all knew of it. Now my circuit borders the enemy. If troops are greatly raised, then the barbarian tribes will come to raid. If they raid we must fight, and if we fight there will be no leisure to fortify. Now I ask to dispatch troops secretly. In no more than ten days they will reach below the frontier pass, and in less than thirty days the work will be complete." The barbarians at first took the barrier; after several days they withdrew. At first, when the army reached Fangqu there was no water and the troops were clamorous. Suddenly a green snake came down from on high; looking at its tracks, water followed and flowed. Chaocheng ordered a dike built around it and it became a stopping spring. The soldiers relied on drinking to suffice. A diagram of the affair was reported upward and an edict established a shrine there. In the second month of the fifteenth year, mourning ended, he was additionally made acting minister of works. That summer, to guard against autumn raids he moved the army to Ning Prefecture, encountered illness, and the next year in the first month he died.
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樊澤，字安時，河中人也。 父詠，開元中舉草澤，授試大理評事，累贈兵部尚書。 澤長於河朔，相衛節度薛嵩奏為磁州司倉、堯山縣令。 建中元年，舉賢良對策，禮部侍郎於邵厚遇之。 與楊炎善，薦為補闕，歷都官員外郎。 澤好讀兵書，朝廷以其有將帥材，尋兼御史中丞，充通和蕃使，蕃中用事宰相尚結贊深禮之。 尋從鳳翔節度張鎰與吐蕃會盟於清水，遷金部郎中、御史中丞、山南節度行軍司馬。 時李希烈背叛，詔以普王為行軍元帥，征澤為諫議大夫、元帥行軍右司馬。 屬駕幸奉天，普王不行，澤改右庶子、兼中丞，復為山南東道行軍司馬。 尋代賈耽為襄州刺史、兼御史大夫、山南東道節度觀察等使。
Fan Ze, styled Anshi, was a native of Hezhong. His father Yong, in the Kaiyuan era was raised from the wilds, appointed acting assistant director of the grand court of revision, and repeatedly posthumously enfeoffed minister of war. Ze grew up in the Hebei region. Xiangwei Military Commissioner Xue Song memorialized him as grain intendant of Ci Prefecture and magistrate of Yaoshan. In the first year of Jianzhong, in the examination of the worthy and good with policy responses, Vice Minister of Rites Yu Shao treated him generously. He was on good terms with Yang Yan, who recommended him as remonstrance official. He served through director of the office of the ministers. Ze loved reading military books. The court, because he had the talent of a general, soon additionally made him censor-in-chief and envoy for peace with the Tibetans. The chief minister in power in Tibet, Shang Jiezan, treated him with deep courtesy. Soon he followed Fengxiang Military Commissioner Zhang Yi in joining the Tibetans in alliance at Qingshui. He was transferred to director of the gold bureau, censor-in-chief, and campaign staff officer of the Shannan military commission. At that time Li Xilie rebelled. An edict made Prince Pu field chief commander and summoned Ze as remonstrance grandee and right staff officer of the chief commander. When the imperial carriage went to Fengtian, Prince Pu did not go. Ze was changed to right attendant of the heir apparent and concurrent censor-in-chief, again serving as campaign staff officer of the Shannan East Circuit. Soon he replaced Jia Dan as prefect of Xiang Prefecture, concurrent chief censor, and military observation commissioner of the Shannan East Circuit.
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澤有武藝，每與諸將射獵，常出其右，人心服之，賊眾畏焉。 頻與李希烈兇黨接戰，前後擒降其驍將張嘉瑜、杜文朝、梁俊之、李克誠、薛翼等，收唐、隨二州。 希烈既平，澤丁母憂，起復右衛大將軍同正，余如故。 三年，代張伯儀為荊南節度觀察等使、江陵尹、兼御史大夫。 三歲，加檢校禮部尚書，會襄州節度曹王臯卒於鎮，軍中剽劫擾亂，以澤威惠素著於襄、漢，復代曹王臯為襄州刺史、山南東道節度使。 十二年，加檢校右僕射。 卒年五十，贈司空，賻布帛米粟有差。 其日將宴百官，廢朝，改取他日。
Ze had martial skill. Whenever he hunted and shot with the various generals he always surpassed them. People’s hearts submitted to him and the rebel masses feared him. Repeatedly he joined battle with Li Xilie’s vicious partisans. Before and after he captured and accepted the surrender of his fierce generals Zhang Jiayu, Du Wenchao, Liang Junzhi, Li Kecheng, Xue Yi, and the like, and recovered Tang and Sui prefectures. When Xilie was pacified, Ze entered mourning for his mother. He was recalled to service as right guard great general with regular appointment, the rest as before. In the third year, he replaced Zhang Boyi as military observation commissioner of Jingnan and the like, prefect of Jiangling, and concurrent chief censor. After three years he was additionally made acting minister of rites. When Xiang Prefecture Military Commissioner Prince Cao died at his post, the army plundered and disturbed order. Because Ze’s authority and kindness had long been established in Xiang and Han, he again replaced Prince Cao as prefect of Xiang Prefecture and military commissioner of the Shannan East Circuit. In the twelfth year, he was additionally made acting right vice director of the Department of State Affairs. He died at the age of fifty. He was posthumously enfeoffed as minister of works, and condolence cloth, silk, rice, and millet were granted according to rank. That day the emperor was about to feast the hundred officials. Court was suspended and another day was chosen.
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李叔明，字晉卿，閬州新政人。 本姓鮮于氏，代為豪族。 兄仲通，天寶末為京兆尹、劍南節度使。 兄弟並涉學，輕財好施。 叔明初為劍南節度使楊國忠判官。 乾元後為司勛員外郎，副漢中王瑀使回紇，回紇接禮稍倨，叔明離位責之曰：「大國通好，賢王奉使，可汗於大唐子婿，豈可恃微功而傲乎！ 唐法不然。」 可汗改容加敬。 復命，遷司門郎中。 後為京兆少尹，無幾，以疾辭，除右庶子，出為邛州刺史。 尋拜東川節度遂州刺史，後移鎮梓州，檢校戶部尚書。 時東川兵荒之後，雕殘頗甚，叔明理之近二十年，招撫甿庶，夷落獲安。 大歷末，有閬州嚴氏子上疏稱：「叔明少孤，養子於外族，遂冒姓焉，請復之」。 詔從焉。 叔明初不知其從外氏姓，意醜其事，遂抗表乞賜宗姓。 代宗以戎鎮寄重，許之，仍置嚴氏子於法。 及駕幸奉天，其子升翊從。 叔明每私疏誡勵，見危臨難，當誓以死。 升奉父嚴訓，果著勛效，識者嘉之。 叔明既朝京師，以本官兼右僕射，乞骸骨，改太子太傅致仕，卒，謚曰襄。 叔明總戎年深，積聚財貨，子孫驕淫，歿才數年，遺業蕩盡。
Li Shuming, styled Jinqing, was a native of Xinzheng in Lang Prefecture. His original surname was Xianyu; for generations his family was a powerful clan. His elder brother Zhongtong, at the end of Tianbao was metropolitan governor of Jingzhao and military commissioner of Jiannan. The brothers both studied broadly, lightly valued wealth, and liked to give. Shuming at first was aide to Jiannan Military Commissioner Yang Guozhong. After Qianyuan he was vice director of the bureau of merit and deputy to Prince of Han Yu on an embassy to the Uyghurs. The Uyghurs received them with courtesy somewhat arrogant. Shuming left his seat and rebuked them, saying, "Great states maintain good relations; a worthy prince leads the mission; the qaghan is the son-in-law of Great Tang—how can he rely on slight merit and be arrogant! Tang law is not so." The qaghan changed expression and added respect. On return to report he was transferred to director of the gate bureau. Later he was junior administrator of Jingzhao. Before long, ill, he resigned. He was removed as right attendant of the heir apparent and sent out as prefect of Qiong Prefecture. Soon he was appointed military commissioner of Dongchuan and prefect of Suizhou. Later he moved his garrison to Zi Prefecture and was made acting minister of revenue. At that time, after the military devastation in Dongchuan, the desolation was quite severe. Shuming governed it for nearly twenty years, gathering and comforting the common people, and the barbarian settlements obtained peace. At the end of Dali, a Yan clan son of Lang Prefecture submitted a memorial saying, "Shuming was orphaned in youth, was adopted into an outside clan, and therefore took that surname; I ask that it be restored." An edict approved. Shuming at first did not know he had taken his maternal clan’s surname. He thought the affair shameful and therefore submitted a forceful memorial asking to be granted an imperial clan surname. Daizong, because the frontier garrison was entrusted with weight, approved this and still punished the Yan clan son according to law. When the imperial carriage went to Fengtian, his son Sheng attended and followed. Shuming each time privately wrote letters of admonition and encouragement: when facing danger and difficulty, one should vow to die. Sheng received his father’s stern instruction, indeed showed merit, and those who knew praised this. After Shuming had come to court at the capital, with his original office he was additionally made right vice director of the Department of State Affairs. He asked to retire and was changed to grand preceptor of the heir apparent in retirement. He died and was given the posthumous title Xiang. Shuming commanded troops for many years and accumulated wealth and goods. His sons and grandsons were arrogant and dissolute, and within only a few years after his death the inherited estate was completely squandered.
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裴胄，字胤叔，其先河東聞喜人，今代葬河南。 伯父寬，戶部尚書，有名於開元、天寶間。 胄明經及第，解褐補太仆寺主簿。 屬二京陷覆，淪避他州。 賊平，授秘書省正字，累轉秘書郎。 陳少遊陳鄭節度留後，奏胄試大理司直。 少遊罷，隴右節度李抱玉奏授監察御史，不得意，歸免。 陳少遊為宣歙觀察，復辟在幕府，抱玉怒，奏貶桐廬尉。 浙西觀察使李棲筠有重望，虛心下士，幕府盛選才彥。 觀察判官許鴻謙有學識，棲筠常異席，事多咨之； 崔造輩皆所薦引，一見胄，深重之，薦於棲筠，奏授大理評事、觀察支度使。 代宗以元載隳紊朝綱，征筠入朝，內制授御史大夫，方將大用，載怙權，棲筠居顧問刺舉之職，與不平。 及棲筠卒，胄護棲筠喪歸洛陽，眾論危之，胄坦然行心，無所顧望。 淮南節度陳少遊奏檢校主客員外、兼侍御史、觀察判官。 尋為行軍司馬，遷宣州刺史。
Pei Zhou, styled Yingshu, came from a family whose ancestors were natives of Wenxi in Hedong; the present generation is buried in Henan. His uncle Kuan was minister of revenue and had fame in the Kaiyuan and Tianbao eras. Zhou passed the classics examination and, upon leaving the robe, was appointed chief clerk of the imperial stud. When the two capitals fell, he wandered in avoidance to other prefectures. When the bandits were pacified, he was appointed rectifier of the secretariat and was repeatedly transferred to secretary. Chen Shaoyou, regent of the Chen and Zheng military commission, memorialized Zhou as acting assistant director of the grand court of revision. When Shaoyou was dismissed, Longyou Military Commissioner Li Baoyu memorialized appointing him investigating censor. Discontented, he returned and was dismissed. Chen Shaoyou became observation commissioner of Xuan and She and again recruited him to the staff. Baoyu was enraged and memorialized demoting him to assistant magistrate of Tonglu. Zhexi Observation Commissioner Li Qiyun had heavy reputation. He humbly received inferior scholars, and the staff greatly selected talented men. Observation aide Xu Hongqian had learning and knowledge. Qiyun often gave him a separate seat and frequently consulted him on affairs; Cui Zao and his like were all recommended and introduced. On one meeting with Zhou he deeply valued him and recommended him to Qiyun. He memorialized appointing him assistant director of the grand court of revision and observation finance commissioner. Daizong, because Yuan Zai had disordered court discipline, summoned Qiyun to court. Internally he was appointed chief censor and was about to be greatly employed. Zai relied on power, and Qiyun held the advisory and impeachment office and was not at peace with him. When Qiyun died, Zhou escorted Qiyun’s mourning return to Luoyang. Public opinion considered this dangerous, but Zhou proceeded calmly according to his heart, without looking back in concern. Huainan Military Commissioner Chen Shaoyou memorialized him acting vice director of the bureau of guests, concurrent attendant censor, and observation aide. Soon he was made campaign staff officer and transferred to prefect of Xuan Prefecture.
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楊炎初作相，銳意為元載報仇，凡其枝黨無漏。 適會胄部人積胄官時服雜俸錢為贓者，炎命酷吏員㷀深按其事，貶汀州司馬。 尋征為少府少監，除京兆少尹，以父名不拜，換國子司業。 遷湖南觀察都團練使，移江南西道。 前江西觀察使李兼罷省南昌軍千余人，收其資糧，分為月進，胄至，奏其本末，罷之。 會荊南節度樊澤移鎮襄陽，宰相方議其人，上首命胄代澤，仍兼御史大夫。
When Yang Yan first became chief minister, he keenly sought revenge for Yuan Zai, and all his branch partisans were not missed. It happened that a clansman of Zhou accumulated, during Zhou’s office, official seasonal clothing and miscellaneous salary money as bribery. Yan ordered the harsh official Yuan Qiong to investigate the affair deeply and demoted him to vice magistrate of Ting Prefecture. Soon he was summoned as vice director of the palace workshops and appointed junior administrator of Jingzhao. Because of his father’s name he did not accept the appointment and was changed to vice director of the imperial university. He was transferred to unified training commissioner of Hunan observation and moved to Jiangnan West Circuit. The former Jiangxi observation commissioner Li Jian, upon dismissal, disbanded more than a thousand Nanchang army troops, collected their supplies and grain, and divided them as monthly tribute. When Zhou arrived, he memorialized the full account from beginning to end and abolished it. When Jingnan Military Commissioner Fan Ze moved his garrison to Xiangyang, the chief ministers were just discussing the man. The emperor first ordered Zhou to replace Ze, still concurrently chief censor.
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胄簡儉恆一，時諸道節度觀察使競剝下厚斂，制奇錦異綾，以進奉為名。 又貴人宣命，必竭公藏以買其歡。 胄待之有節，皆不盈數金，常賦之外無橫斂，宴勞禮止三爵，未嘗酣樂。 時武臣多廝養畜賓介，微失則奏流死，胄以書生始，奏貶書記梁易從，君子薄其進退賓客不以禮，物議薄之。 貞元十九年十月卒，時年七十五，贈右僕射，謚曰成。
Zhou was simple, frugal, and constant. At that time the various circuit military observation commissioners competed in stripping the lower levels and heavy taxation, devising strange brocades and unusual silks to advance under the name of tribute. Also when honored persons announced edicts, they necessarily exhausted the public treasury to buy their favor. Zhou treated them with moderation; none exceeded several pieces of gold. Beyond regular taxes there was no arbitrary levy. Feasts and rewards stopped at three cups, and he never drank to intoxication. At that time many military men kept and raised guests and aides; a slight fault and they memorialized exile or death. Zhou, beginning as a scholar, memorialized demoting secretary Liang Yicong. Gentlemen of integrity disapproved of his advancing and withdrawing guests without ritual, and public opinion slighted this. In the tenth month of the nineteenth year of Zhenyuan he died at the age of seventy-five. He was posthumously enfeoffed as right vice director of the Department of State Affairs and given the posthumous title Cheng.
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史臣曰：三獻軍謀臣節，克紹家風。 路嗣恭從微至著，執法簡廉。 環理兵勸農，獨彰善政。 漢衡誠愨奉職。 朝晟忠孝權謀。 澤威惠荊、襄。 叔明見危誓死，立政惠民。 胄抱義危行，守政奉公。 皆賢帥矣。 然嗣恭聚財，為功名之瑕玷； 叔明聚財，致子孫之驕淫。 財之汙人，誠可誡也。
The historian says: The three Zhangs’ military stratagems and ministerial integrity continued the family tradition. Lu Sigong rose from obscurity to prominence, enforcing law with simplicity and integrity. Huan managed troops and encouraged agriculture, alone displaying good government. Hanheng was sincere and honest in fulfilling duty. Chaocheng was filial, loyal, and resourceful in stratagem. Ze combined authority and kindness in Jing and Xiang. Shuming, facing danger, vowed death and established government to benefit the people. Zhou upheld righteousness in perilous conduct and kept government while serving the public. All were worthy commanders. Yet Sigong amassed wealth—a blemish on his fame and merit; Shuming amassed wealth, causing his sons and grandsons’ arrogance and dissoluteness. Wealth defiles men—truly it may serve as a warning.
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贊曰：張、路、曲、崔、樊、楊、李、裴，守忠臣之道，皆賢帥之才。
The encomium says: Zhang, Lu, Qu, Cui, Fan, Yang, Li, and Pei upheld the way of loyal ministers; all had the talent of worthy commanders.