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李懷仙，柳城胡人也。 世事契丹，降將，守營州。 祿山之叛，懷仙以裨將從陷河洛。 安慶緒敗，又事史思明。 善騎射，有智數。 朝義時，偽授為燕京留守、范陽尹。 寶應元年，元帥雍王統回紇諸兵收復東都，朝義渡河北走，乃令副元帥仆固懷恩率兵追之。 時群兇瓦解，國威方振，賊黨聞懷恩至，望風納款。 朝義以余孽數千奔范陽，懷仙誘而擒之，斬首來獻。 屬懷恩私欲樹黨以固兵權，乃保薦懷仙可用。 代宗復授幽州大都督府長史、檢校侍中、幽州盧龍等軍節度使，與賊將薛嵩、田承嗣、張忠誌等分河朔而帥之。 既而懷恩叛逆，西蕃入寇，朝廷多故，懷仙等四將各招合遺孽，治兵繕邑； 部下各數萬勁兵，文武將吏，擅自署置； 貢賦不入於朝廷，雖稱籓臣，實非王臣也。 朝廷初集，姑務懷安，以是不能制。 懷仙大歷三年為其麾下兵馬使硃希彩所殺。
Li Huaixian was a Hu from Liucheng. In his time he served the Khitan; a surrendered general, he held Ying prefecture. When An Lushan rebelled, Huaixian followed as a staff officer and helped capture the He and Luo regions. After An Qingxu was defeated, he served Shi Siming. He was skilled in mounted archery and shrewd in counsel. Under Shi Chaoyi he was falsely appointed acting garrison commander of Yanjing and governor of Fanyang. In Baoying 1, the Prince of Yong as commander-in-chief led Huige and allied forces to recover the Eastern Capital; Chaoyi fled north across the Yellow River, and the deputy commander Pugu Huaien was sent in pursuit. The rebel remnant was collapsing and imperial prestige was rising; at word of Huaien's approach, rebel bands surrendered. Chaoyi fled to Fanyang with a few thousand survivors; Huaixian lured him in, seized him, beheaded him, and sent the head to court. Huaien, seeking to build a faction to secure his military power, strongly recommended Huaixian. Daizong reappointed Huaixian chief administrator of Youzhou, acting chief minister, and military governor of Youzhou and Lulong, and with rebel generals Xue Song, Tian Chengsi, and Zhang Zhongzhi divided Hebei among them as regional commanders. Soon Huaien rebelled, western tribes invaded, and the court was beset by troubles; Huaixian and the other four generals each rallied surviving rebels, drilled troops, and rebuilt their districts; each commanded tens of thousands of crack troops and appointed civil and military officers at will; tribute and taxes never reached court; though they styled themselves vassals, they were not truly imperial subjects. The newly restored court pursued appeasement for the moment and could not restrain them. In Dali 3, Huaixian was killed by his army and horse commissioner Zhu Xicai.
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希彩自稱留後。 恆州節度使張忠誌以懷仙世舊，無辜覆族，遣將率眾討之； 為希彩所敗。 朝廷不獲已，宥之。 以河南副元帥、黃門侍郎、同平章事王縉為幽州節度使，授希彩御史中丞，充幽州節度副使，權知軍州事，詔縉赴鎮。 希彩聞縉之來，搜選卒伍，大陳戎備以逆之。 縉晏然建旌節，而希彩迎謁甚恭。 縉知終不可制，勞軍旬日而還。 尋加希彩御史大夫，充幽州節度留後。 十二月，加希彩幽州大都督府長史、幽州盧龍軍節度使。 五年，封高密郡王。 既得位，暴橫自恣，無禮於朝廷。 七年，孔目官李瑗因人之怒，伺隙斬之，軍人立其兵馬使硃泚為留後。 泚自有傳。
Xicai declared himself acting governor. Hengzhou governor Zhang Zhongzhi, citing old ties with Huaixian and the unjust destruction of his clan, sent troops to attack Xicai; and was defeated by Xicai. Unable to do otherwise, the court pardoned Xicai. Wang Jin, deputy commander of Henan, vice director of the Yellow Gate, and fellow chief minister, was made Youzhou governor; Xicai was made vice censor-in-chief and deputy Youzhou governor with provisional control of army and prefecture affairs, and Jin was ordered to take up the post. Learning of Jin's approach, Xicai mustered troops and made elaborate military preparations to resist him. Jin calmly established his banners and insignia; Xicai met him with elaborate deference. Seeing he could never control Xicai, Jin reviewed the troops for ten days and withdrew. Xicai was soon promoted to chief censor and acting Youzhou governor. In the twelfth month he was further made chief administrator of Youzhou and military governor of the Youzhou Lulong army. In the fifth year he was enfeoffed Prince of Gaomi. Once established in power, he was violent and unrestrained and showed no deference to court. In the seventh year, the clerical officer Li Yuan, exploiting popular anger, killed him at an opportune moment; the troops installed his army and horse commissioner Zhu Ci as acting governor. Ci has a separate biography.
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硃滔，賊泚之弟也。 平州刺史硃希彩為幽州節度，以滔同姓，甚愛之，常令將腹心親兵。 及泚為節度使，遂使滔將勁兵三千赴京師，請率先諸軍備塞。 自祿山反後，山東范陽，外雖示順，實皆倔強不庭。 泚首效臣節，代宗喜甚，命滔勒兵東入長安通化門，西出開遠門，出師勞還； 未有兵還王城者，今而許之，蓋示優異。 召滔對於三殿，代宗臨軒勞問。 既而曰：「卿材孰與泚多？」 滔曰：「各有長短。 統御士眾，方略明辨，臣不及泚； 臣年二十八，獲謁龍顏，泚長臣五歲，未朝鳳闕，此不及臣。」 代宗愈喜。
Zhu Tao was the younger brother of the rebel Zhu Ci. Zhu Xicai of Pingzhou was Youzhou governor; as Tao shared his surname, he favored him and often had him lead trusted personal troops. When Ci became governor, he sent Tao with three thousand crack troops to the capital to ask to lead the armies in frontier defense. After Lushan's rebellion, Fanyang east of the mountains outwardly submitted but in truth remained stubbornly insubordinate. Ci was first to demonstrate loyal service; Daizong was greatly pleased and had Tao lead troops east through Chang'an's Tonghua Gate and west out the Kaiyuan Gate, reviewing the army on departure and return; never before had returning troops been allowed into the capital—now permission was granted as a mark of special favor. Tao was summoned to the Three Halls; Daizong received him from the imperial dais and questioned him with commendation. Then he said, "Between your talent and Ci's, whose is the greater?" Tao said, "Each has strengths and weaknesses. In commanding troops and discerning strategy, I do not match Ci; I am twenty-eight and have been granted audience with the throne; Ci is five years older and has never attended court at Fengque—in that I surpass him." Daizong was all the more pleased.
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泚既僭號，立滔為皇太弟，仍令以重賂招誘回紇，南攻魏、貝，即西入關。 興元元年正月，滔驅率燕、薊之眾及回紇雜虜，號五萬，次南河，攻圍貝州。 三月，田緒殺田悅，魏州亂。 滔令大將馬實分兵逼魏州，營於王莽河。 德宗在山南，慮二兇兵合，遣使授王武俊平章事，令與李抱真葉力擊滔。 四月，恆、潞兩軍次涇城北，行營相距十里； 抱真自率二百騎徑入武俊軍，面申盟約，結為兄弟。 五月四日，進軍距貝州三十里而軍。 翌日，滔令大將馬實、盧南史引回紇、契丹來挑戰，武俊遣騎將趙珍提精騎三百當之，抱真將王虔休掎角待之。 武俊與其子士清自當回紇、契丹部落。 兩軍既合，鼓噪震地，回紇恃捷，穿武俊陣而過。 武俊乘騎勒馬不動，俟回紇引退，因而薄之，回紇勢不能止。 武俊父子縱馬急擊，獲回紇三百騎。 滔陣亂，東走，兩邊追斬，俘馘數萬計。 遇夜，夾滔壘而軍。 是夜，滔以殘眾千人奔德州，委棄戈甲山積。 滔至瀛州，殺騎將蔡雄、揚布。 以其前鋒先敗，又殺陰陽人尹少伯，以其言舉兵必勝故也。
When Ci usurped the throne, he made Tao imperial younger brother and ordered him to use heavy bribes to win over the Huige, attack Wei and Bei in the south, and then advance west through the passes. In the first month of Xingyuan 1, Tao drove Yan and Ji forces and mixed Huige and other tribes, fifty thousand strong, to camp south of the river and besiege Bei prefecture. In the third month, Tian Xu killed Tian Yue and Wei prefecture was thrown into turmoil. Tao ordered his general Ma Shi to split forces and press Wei prefecture, encamping at the Manghe River. Dezong, in the southern mountains, feared the two rebel armies would unite and sent envoys to appoint Wang Wujun chief minister and order him to join Li Baozhen in attacking Tao. In the fourth month the Heng and Lu armies halted north of Jing city, their camps ten li apart; Baozhen personally led two hundred horsemen directly into Wujun's camp, affirmed their alliance face to face, and became sworn brothers. On the fifth month's fourth day they advanced and encamped thirty li from Bei prefecture. The next day Tao ordered Ma Shi and Lu Nanshi to lead Huige and Khitan forces into battle; Wujun sent Zhao Zhen with three hundred picked horsemen to meet them, while Baozhen's Wang Qianxiu waited to strike from the flank. Wujun and his son Shiqing personally faced the Huige and Khitan tribes. When the armies clashed, drum and shout shook the earth; trusting recent victories, the Huige drove through Wujun's line. Wujun held his horse motionless; as the Huige withdrew he pressed them, and they could not stop their momentum. Father and son spurred their horses in fierce attack and captured three hundred Huige horsemen. Tao's line broke and he fled east; pursuers on both flanks cut down and captured tens of thousands. At nightfall they encamped on both sides of Tao's fortifications. That night Tao fled to Dezhou with a thousand survivors, abandoning weapons and armor heaped like hills. Reaching Yingzhou, Tao killed his cavalry commanders Cai Xiong and Yang Bu. Because the vanguard had failed first, he also killed the yin-yang master Yin Shaobo, who had declared that raising troops would surely bring victory.
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六月，李晟收京城，硃泚、姚令言死。 滔還幽州，為武俊所攻，僅不能軍，上章待罪。 九月，詔曰：「硃滔累獻款疏，深效懇誠，省之惻然，良用憫嘆！ 宜委武俊、抱真開示大信，深加曉諭。 若誠心益固，善跡克彰，朕當掩釁錄勛，與之昭雪。」 貞元元年，尋卒於位，時年四十，贈司徒。
In the sixth month Li Sheng recovered the capital; Zhu Ci and Yao Lingyan died. Tao returned to Youzhou, was attacked by Wujun, and barely held his army together; he submitted a memorial awaiting punishment. In the ninth month an edict said, "Zhu Tao has repeatedly submitted letters of submission and shown deep sincerity; reading them moves one to compassion, and one cannot help sighing in pity! Wujun and Baozhen should be entrusted to declare great faith and instruct him deeply. If his sincere heart grows firmer and good conduct is fully displayed, We shall cover past offenses and record merit, clearing him of blame." In Zhenyuan 1 he soon died in office at forty and was posthumously made chief minister.
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劉怦，幽州昌平人也。 父貢，嘗為廣邊大鬥軍使。 怦即硃滔姑之子，積軍功為雄武軍使，廣屯田，節用，以辦理稱。 稍遷涿州刺史。 居數年，硃滔將兵討田承嗣，奏署怦領留府事，以寬緩得眾心。 時李寶臣為田承嗣間說，與之通謀。 承嗣又以滄州與寶臣，乃以兵劫硃滔於瓦橋關，滔脫身走，乘勝欲襲取幽州。 怦設方略鎮撫，寶臣不敢進，以功加御史中丞。
Liu Peng was from Changping in Youzhou. His father Gong had served as commissioner of the Guangbian Great Garrison Army. Peng was Zhu Tao's nephew by marriage; through accumulated military merit he became commissioner of the Xiongwu Army, managed garrison agriculture broadly, practiced economy, and was known for capable administration. He was gradually promoted to governor of Zhuo prefecture. After several years, when Zhu Tao led troops against Tian Chengsi, he appointed Peng to manage the provisional headquarters; through lenient rule he won popular support. At that time Li Baochen, persuaded by Tian Chengsi, entered into secret collusion with him. Chengshi also ceded Cangzhou to Baochen, who then sent troops to seize Zhu Tao at Waqiao Pass; Tao escaped, and Baochen pressed his advantage to strike at Youzhou. Peng devised strategy to pacify the situation; Baochen did not dare advance, and Peng was promoted to vice censor-in-chief for this service.
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寶臣死，子惟嶽拒朝命，德宗令滔與張孝忠同力討之。 及惟嶽平，滔怨朝廷違約不與深州，含怒不已。 會王武俊亦怨割地深、趙，相謀叛，欲救田悅。 怦時知幽州留後事，遣人賫書謂滔曰：「司徒位崇太尉，尊居宰相，恩寵冠籓臣之右，榮遇極矣！ 今昌平故裏，朝廷改為尉卿、司徒裏，此亦大夫不朽之名也。 但以忠順自持，則事無不濟。 竊思近日，務大樂戰，不顧成敗，而家滅身屠者，安、史是也。 暴亂易亡，今復何有？ 怦忝密親，世荷恩遇，默而無告，是負重知。 惟司徒圖之，無貽後悔也！」 滔雖不用其言，亦嘉其盡言，卒無疑貳。 凡出征伐，必以怦總留後事。 及僭稱大冀王，偽署怦為右僕射、范陽留守。 及泚據京邑，召滔南河，至貝州，挫敗而還，兵甲盡喪。 怦聞滔將至，悉蒐范陽兵甲，夾道排列二十餘里，以迎滔歸於府第，人皆嘉怦忠義。
When Baochen died, his son Weiyue defied court orders; Dezong ordered Tao and Zhang Xiaozhong to attack him jointly. When Weiyue was pacified, Tao resented the court for breaking its promise to grant Shenzhou and nursed unending anger. Wang Wujun also resented losing Shen and Zhao prefectures and joined the plot to rebel and rescue Tian Yue. Peng was then managing provisional affairs at Youzhou and sent a letter saying to Tao, "Your Excellency's rank is exalted as Grand Marshal and your honor stands as chief minister; imperial favor crowns all frontier ministers—your glory has reached its height! Your old home at Changping—the court has renamed it Weiqing and Situli Lane—this too is an immortal name for a great officer. If you hold to loyalty and submission, nothing will fail. I privately reflect that in recent days those who devoted themselves to great battles, heedless of success or failure, and saw their families destroyed and themselves slaughtered—An and Shi were such men. Violent rebellion is easily destroyed—what of it now? Peng, though unworthy, is your close kinsman and has received imperial grace through generations; to keep silent and not inform you would betray deep trust. I only ask Your Excellency to consider this and leave no cause for regret!" Although Tao did not heed his words, he commended his frank counsel and in the end harbored no suspicion. Whenever he marched on campaign he always left Peng to manage provisional affairs. When he falsely styled himself King of Great Ji, he falsely appointed Peng right vice minister and acting garrison commander of Fanyang. When Ci held the capital, he summoned Tao south of the river; Tao reached Bei prefecture, was defeated and driven back, and lost all arms and armor. When Peng heard Tao was returning, he gathered all Fanyang arms and armor and lined both sides of the road for more than twenty li to welcome Tao home; all praised his loyalty and righteousness.
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貞元元年，滔卒，三軍推怦權撫軍府事。 怦為眾所服，卒有其地。 朝廷因授怦幽州大都督府長史、兼御史大夫、幽州盧龍節度副大使、知節度事、管內營田觀察、押奚契丹、經略盧龍軍使。 居位三月，以貞元元年九月卒，年五十九，廢朝三日，贈兵部尚書，賜布帛有差。 子濟繼為幽州節度使。
In Zhenyuan 1 Tao died; the three armies pushed Peng to manage the headquarters provisionally. Accepted by the troops, Peng in the end held the territory. The court appointed Peng chief administrator of Youzhou, concurrent chief censor, deputy Youzhou and Lulong governor with control of military affairs, supervision of garrison agriculture, oversight of the Xi and Khitan, and commissioner of the Lulong army. After three months in office, in the ninth month of Zhenyuan 1 he died at fifty-nine; court was suspended three days, he was posthumously made minister of war, and silks were granted in due measure. His son Ji succeeded him as Youzhou governor.
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濟，怦之長子。 初，母難產； 既產，侍者初見濟是一大蛇，黑氣勃勃，莫不驚走。 及長，頗異常童。 所居室焚，人皆驚救，濟從容而出，眾異之。 累歷本管州縣牧宰。 及怦為節度使，以濟兼御史中丞，充行軍司馬。 怦卒，軍人習河朔舊事，請濟代父為帥，朝廷姑務便安，因而從之。 累加至檢校兵部尚書。
Ji was Peng's eldest son. At first his mother had a difficult labor; once born, attendants at first sight saw Ji as a great serpent; black vapor swelled forth and all fled in alarm. When he grew up, he was quite unlike an ordinary child. The dwelling where he lived burned; all rushed to rescue him, but Ji walked out at ease and the crowd marveled. He successively held prefectural and magisterial posts within the circuit. When Peng became governor, Ji was made vice censor-in-chief and acting army marshal. When Peng died, the soldiers, accustomed to Hebei custom, asked Ji to replace his father; the court pursued convenience and assented. He was successively promoted to acting minister of war.
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貞元五年，遷左僕射，充幽州節度使。 時烏桓、鮮卑數寇邊，濟率軍擊走之； 深入千餘里，虜獲不可勝紀，東北晏然。 貞元中，朝廷優容籓鎮方甚，兩河擅自繼襲者，尤驕蹇不奉法。 惟濟最務恭順，朝獻相繼，德宗亦以恩禮接之。 尋加同中書門下平章事。 順宗即位，再遷檢校司徒。 元和初，加兼侍中。 及詔討王承宗，諸軍未進，濟獨率先前軍擊破之，生擒三百余人，斬首千余級，獻逆將於闕，優詔褒之。 又為詩四韻上獻，以表忠憤之誌。 明年春，將大軍次瀛州，累攻樂壽、博陸、安平等縣，前後大獻俘獲。 賞功頗厚，仍與子孫六品官者凡四人。 未幾，有疾，會赦承宗，錄功拜兼中書令。 濟在鎮二十余年，雖輸忠款，竟不入覲。 又謀殺其弟澭，澭歸國為信臣。 及濟疾，次子總與濟親吏唐弘實通謀鴆殺濟，數日，乃發喪。 時年五十四，詔贈太師，廢朝三日，賻禮有加，謚曰莊武。
In Zhenyuan 5 he was transferred to left vice minister and made Youzhou governor. At that time the Wuhuan and Xianbei repeatedly raided the frontier; Ji led troops and drove them off; penetrating more than a thousand li, captives and booty were beyond counting, and the northeast was tranquil. In the Zhenyuan era the court greatly indulged frontier commands, and those in the two He provinces who succeeded by inheritance were especially arrogant and lawless. Only Ji most diligently pursued respectful submission; tribute missions followed in succession, and Dezong received him with favor and ritual. He was soon further made fellow chief minister. When Shunzong acceded, he was again promoted to acting chief minister. At the beginning of Yuanhe he was further made concurrent chief minister. When an edict ordered the campaign against Wang Chengzong and the armies had not advanced, Ji alone led the vanguard, broke the enemy, captured more than three hundred alive and beheaded more than a thousand; he presented rebel generals at court and received praise. He also composed a four-line poem and presented it upward to express loyal indignation. The next spring he led a great army to Yingzhou and repeatedly attacked Lexian, Bolu, and Ping'an counties, presenting many captives. Rewards for merit were generous; six of his sons and grandsons received sixth-rank offices. Before long he fell ill; when an amnesty restored Chengzong, his merit was recorded and he was appointed concurrent chief minister. Ji held the post more than twenty years; though he offered loyal submission, he never attended court. He also plotted to kill his younger brother Yong; Yong returned to the empire and became a trusted minister. When Ji fell ill, his second son Zong joined Ji's personal clerk Tang Hongshi in poisoning him; only after several days did they announce mourning. He was fifty-four; an edict posthumously made him grand preceptor, court was suspended three days, funeral gifts were increased, and his posthumous title was Zhuangwu.
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弟源，貞元十六年八月，為檢校工部尚書，兼左武衛將軍。 初，為涿州刺史，不受兄教令，濟奏之，貶漠州參軍，復不受詔。 濟帥師至涿州，源出兵拒之，未合而自潰。 濟擒源至幽州，上言請令入覲，故授官以征之。
His younger brother Yuan, in the eighth month of Zhenyuan 16, was made acting minister of works and concurrent left Wuwei general. At first he was governor of Zhuo prefecture and refused his elder brother's orders; Ji memorialized against him and he was demoted to Mo prefecture army adjutant, but again refused the edict. Ji led troops to Zhuo prefecture; Yuan led troops out to resist, and before battle his force dissolved. Ji captured Yuan and brought him to Youzhou; he submitted a memorial asking that Yuan attend court, and an office was granted to summon him.
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澭，濟之異母弟也。 喜讀書，工武藝，輕財愛士，得人死力。 事硃滔，常陳逆順之理。 後怦為盧龍軍節度使，病將卒，澭在父側，即以父命召兄濟自漠州至，竟得授節度使。 濟常感澭奉己，
Yong was Ji's younger brother by a different mother. He loved reading, was skilled in martial arts, generous with wealth and cherished officers, and won men's strength unto death. Serving Zhu Tao, he often set forth the principle of loyalty versus rebellion. Later, when Peng was Lulong governor and lay ill near death, Yong was at his side and on his father's order summoned Ji from Mo prefecture; Ji in the end received the governorship. Ji always felt gratitude that Yong had supported him,
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澭為瀛州刺史，亦許以澭代己任； 其後濟乃以其子為副大使。 澭既怒濟，遂請以所部西捍隴塞，拔其所部兵一千五百人、男女萬余口直趨京師，在道無一人犯令者。 德宗寵遇，特授秦州刺史，以普潤縣為理所。
Yong was governor of Ying prefecture, and Ji also promised Yong would replace him; afterward Ji made his own son deputy commissioner. Angered at Ji, Yong asked to lead his command west to defend the Long frontier, mustered fifteen hundred troops and more than ten thousand men and women, and marched straight for the capital; on the road not one person violated orders. Dezong favored him and specially appointed him governor of Qin prefecture, with Pu-run county as his seat.
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及順宗傳位，稱太上皇，有山人羅令則詣澭言異端數百言，皆廢立之事，澭立命系之。 令則又雲某之黨多矣，約以德宗山陵時伺便而動。 澭械令則送京師，杖死之。 後錄功，賜其額曰保義。 其軍蕃戎畏之，不敢為寇，常有復河湟之誌，議者壯之。 元和二年十二月，卒。
When Shunzong abdicated and styled himself retired emperor, the mountain man Luo Lingze came to Yong with several hundred words of heterodox doctrine on deposition and installation; Yong immediately ordered him bound. Lingze also said his faction was numerous and planned to act when convenient at Dezong's tomb mounting. Yong shackled Lingze and sent him to the capital, where he was beaten to death. Later his merit was recorded and his district was granted the title Baoyi. His army was feared by frontier tribes, who did not dare raid; he often aspired to recover the He and Huang regions, and commentators admired him. In the twelfth month of Yuanhe 2 he died.
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總，濟之第二子也，性陰賊險譎。 元和五年，濟奉詔討王承宗，使長子緄假為副使，領留務。 時總為瀛州刺史，濟署為行營都兵馬使，屯軍饒陽，師久無功。 總潛伺其隙，與判官張、孔目官成國寶及帳內小將為謀，使詐自京至，曰：「朝廷以相公逗留不進，除副大使為節度使矣。」 明日，又使人曰：「副大使旌節已到太原。」 又使人走而呼曰：「旌節過代州。」 舉軍驚恐。 濟驚惶憤怒，不知所為，因殺主兵大將數十人及與緄素厚者。 乃追緄，以張兄臯代知留務。 濟自朝至日晏不食，渴索飲，總因置毒而進之。 濟死，緄行至涿州，總矯以父命杖殺之，總遂領軍務。 朝廷不知其事，因授以斧鉞，累遷至檢校司空。
Zong was Ji's second son; by nature he was secretive, vicious, and treacherous. In Yuanhe 5, when Ji received an edict to campaign against Wang Chengzong, he sent his eldest son Wan falsely as deputy commissioner to manage provisional affairs. At that time Zong was governor of Ying prefecture; Ji appointed him camp commander of all forces, encamping at Raoyang; the campaign dragged on without success. Zong secretly watched for an opening and, with judicial officer Zhang, clerical officer Cheng Guobao, and inner-guard junior officers, plotted; he had someone falsely arrive from the capital, saying, "The court, because the Chancellor delayed and did not advance, has appointed the deputy commissioner military governor." The next day he again sent someone saying, "The deputy commissioner's banners and insignia have reached Taiyuan." Again he sent someone running to shout, "The banners and insignia have passed Daizhou." The entire army was alarmed and terrified. Ji was alarmed, angry, and at a loss; he killed several dozen chief generals and those close to Wan. He then recalled Wan and had Zhang's elder brother Gao replace him in managing provisional affairs. From morning until evening Ji ate nothing; parched with thirst he asked for drink, and Zong placed poison in it and presented it. When Ji died, Wan had reached Zhuo prefecture; Zong forged his father's order and had Wan beaten to death, and Zong then took command. The court did not know and granted him command authority; he was successively promoted to acting chief minister.
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及王承宗再拒命，總遣兵取賊武強縣，遂駐軍持兩端，以利朝廷供饋賞賜。 是時吳元濟尚存，王承宗方跋扈，易定孤危，憲宗暫務姑息，加總同中書門下平章事。 及元濟就擒，李師道梟首，王承宗憂死，田弘正入鎮州，總既無黨援，懷懼，每謀自安之計。 初，總弒逆後，每見父兄為祟，甚慘懼，乃於官署後置數百僧，厚給衣食，令晝夜乞恩謝罪。 每公退，則憩於道場，若入他室，則恟惕不敢寐。 晚年恐悸尤甚，故請落發為僧，冀以脫禍，乃以判官張臯為留後。 總以落發，上表歸朝，穆宗授天平軍節度使； 既聞落發，乃賜紫，號大覺師。 總行至易州界，暴卒。 輟朝五日，贈太尉，擇日備禮冊命，賻絹布一千五百段、米粟五百石。
When Wang Chengzong again defied orders, Zong sent troops to take Wuqiang and encamped holding both sides to profit from court supplies and rewards. At that time Wu Yuanji still lived and Wang Chengzong was overbearing; Yiding was isolated; Xianzong for the moment pursued indulgence and made Zong fellow chief minister. When Yuanji was captured, Li Shidao was beheaded, Wang Chengzong died in worry, and Tian Hongzheng entered Zhenzhou; Zong had no allies, was fearful, and daily plotted self-preservation. After his regicide, whenever Zong saw apparitions of his father and elder brother he was terrified; he placed several hundred monks behind the official quarters, richly supplied, and ordered them day and night to beg grace and confess guilt. Whenever he left public business he rested in the dharma hall; in any other room he was anxious and dared not sleep. In his later years fear was especially severe; he asked to shave his head and become a monk, hoping to escape calamity, and made judicial officer Zhang Gao acting governor. When Zong had shaved his head he submitted a memorial returning to court; Muzong appointed him Tianping governor; when it was learned he had shaved his head, he was granted purple robes and styled Great Awakened Master. When Zong reached the border of Yizhou he died suddenly. Court was suspended five days; he was posthumously made chief minister; full rites of appointment were performed; funeral gifts were fifteen hundred bolts of silk and five hundred shi of grain.
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先是，元和初，王承宗阻兵，總父濟備陳征伐之術，請身先之。 及出軍，累拔城邑，旋屬被病，不克成功。 總既繼父，願述先誌，且欲盡更河朔舊風。 長慶初，累疏求入覲，兼請分割所理之地，然後歸朝。 其意欲以幽、涿、營州為一道，請弘靖理之； 瀛州、漠州為一道，請盧士玫理之； 平、薊、媯、檀為一道，請薛平理之。 仍籍軍中宿將盡薦於闕下，因望朝廷升獎，使幽薊之人皆有希羨爵祿之意。 及疏上，穆宗且欲速得范陽，宰臣崔植、杜元穎又不為久大經略，但欲重弘靖所授，而未能省其使局，惟瀛、漠兩州許置觀察使，其他郡縣悉命弘靖統之。 時總所薦將校，又俱在京師旅舍中，久而不問。 如硃克融輩，僅至假衣丐食，日詣中書求官，不勝其困。 及除弘靖，又命悉還本軍。 克融輩雖得復歸，皆深懷觖望，其後果為叛亂。
Earlier, at the beginning of Yuanhe, when Wang Chengzong obstructed the army, Ji's father fully set forth campaign methods and asked to lead in person. When the army went out it successively captured cities; soon afterward he fell ill and could not complete the achievement. When Zong succeeded his father he wished to carry out his father's will and fully change old Hebei customs. At the beginning of Changqing he repeatedly submitted memorials asking to attend court and to divide his territory before returning. His intent was to make You, Zhuo, and Ying prefectures one circuit under Hongjing; Ying and Mo prefectures one circuit under Lu Shimei; Ping, Ji, Gui, and Tan one circuit under Xue Ping. He still registered all veteran generals and recommended them at court, hoping promotion and reward would make the people of You and Ji aspire to rank and stipend. When the memorial was submitted, Muzong wished quickly to gain Fanyang; chief ministers Cui Zhi and Du Yuanying did not plan long-term but only wished to enlarge Hongjing's grant and could not reduce his establishment; only Ying and Mo received observation commissioners, and all other counties were placed under Hongjing. At that time the generals Zong had recommended were all in capital lodging houses and long went unasked after. Men such as Zhu Kerong barely reached borrowing clothes and begging food, daily going to the Secretariat to seek office, unable to bear their hardship. When Hongjing was appointed, an order also commanded all to return to their original armies. Although Kerong and the others returned, all deeply resented it, and afterward they indeed rebelled.
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總既以土地歸國，授其弟約及男等一十一人，領郡符，加命服者五人，升朝班，佐宿衛者六人。
When Zong had returned his territory, his younger brother Yue and eleven sons received prefectural appointments; five received ceremonial robes and entered court ranks; six served as palace guards.
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程日華，定州安喜人，本單名華。 父元皓，事安祿山為帳下將，從陷兩京，頗稱勇力，史思明時為定州刺史。 華少事本軍，為張孝忠牙將。
Cheng Rihua was from Anxi in Ding prefecture; originally his single name was Hua. His father Yuanhao served An Lushan as a tent commander, followed in capturing the two capitals, was known for courage, and under Shi Siming was governor of Ding prefecture. Hua in youth served the home army and was a yamen officer under Zhang Xiaozhong.
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初，李寶臣授恆州節度，吞削籓鄰，有恆、冀、深、趙、易、定、滄、德等八州。 寶臣既卒，惟嶽拒朝命，以圖繼襲。 寶臣部將張孝忠以定州歸國，授成德軍節度使，令與硃滔討惟嶽。 及惟嶽誅，朝廷以恆、冀授王武俊，深、趙授康日知，易、定、滄授張孝忠，分為三帥。 時惟嶽將李固烈守滄州，孝忠令華詣固烈交郡。 固烈將歸真定，悉取滄州府藏，累乘而還。 軍人怒，殺固烈，皆奪其財，相與詣華曰：「李使君貪鄙而死，軍州請押牙權領。」 不獲已，從之。 孝忠因授華知滄州事。 未幾，硃滔合武俊謀叛，滄、定往來艱阻，二盜遂欲取滄州，多遣人遊說，又加兵攻圍，華俱不聽從，乘城自固。 久之，錄事參軍李宇為華謀曰：「使君受圍累年，張尚書不能致援，論功獻捷，須至中山，所謂勞而無功者也。 請為足下至京師，自以一州為使。」 華即遣之。 宇入闕，備陳華當二盜之間，疲於矢石。 德宗深嘉之，拜華御史中丞、滄州刺史。 復置橫海軍，以華為使。 尋加工部尚書、御史大夫，賜名日華，仍歲給義武軍糧餉數萬。 自是別為一使，孝忠唯有易、定二州而已。
At first, when Li Baochen was granted Hengzhou as governor, he swallowed neighboring commands and held eight prefectures: Heng, Ji, Shen, Zhao, Yi, Ding, Cang, and De. When Baochen died, Weiyue defied court orders, intending to succeed by inheritance. Baochen's officer Zhang Xiaozhong returned Dingzhou to the empire and was appointed Chengde governor and ordered with Zhu Tao to attack Weiyue. When Weiyue was executed, the court granted Heng and Ji to Wang Wujun, Shen and Zhao to Kang Rizhi, and Yi, Ding, and Cang to Zhang Xiaozhong, dividing them among three commanders. At that time Weiyue's officer Li Gulei held Cangzhou; Xiaozhong ordered Hua to go to Gulei to transfer the prefecture. Gulei was about to return to Zhending and took all Cangzhou's treasury stores, loading cart upon cart. The soldiers were angry, killed Gulei, and seized his property; together they went to Hua and said, "Commissioner Li was greedy and base and has died; the army and prefecture ask the yamen adjutant to take charge provisionally." Unable to refuse, he consented. Xiaozhong thereupon appointed Hua to manage Cang prefecture affairs. Before long Zhu Tao joined Wujun in plotting rebellion; travel between Cang and Ding was difficult, and the two rebels wished to take Cangzhou; they sent many persuaders and besieged with troops; Hua would not heed any of it and manned the walls. After a long time, recording secretary Li Yu advised Hua, saying, "My lord has been besieged for years; Minister Zhang cannot bring relief; to report merit and present victory one must reach Zhongshan—this is labor without result. I ask to go to the capital on your behalf and offer this one prefecture as a commission." Hua immediately dispatched him. Yu entered court and fully set forth how Hua stood between the two rebels, weary under arrows and stones. Dezong deeply commended this and appointed Hua vice censor-in-chief and governor of Cang prefecture. The Henghai army was restored and Hua was made its commissioner. He was soon further made minister of works and chief censor; he was granted the name Rihua and still received yearly Yiwu army grain supplies in the tens of thousands. From this it became a separate command; Xiaozhong had only Yi and Ding two prefectures.
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武俊遣人說華歸己，華曰：「相公欲敝邑仍舊隸恆州，且借騎二百以抗賊，俟道路通即從命。」 武俊喜，即以二百騎助之。 華乃留其馬，遣人皆還。 武俊怒其背約，又以硃滔方攻圍，慮為所有而止。 及武俊歸國，河朔無事，日華即遣所留馬還武俊，別陳珍幣謝過，武俊歡然而釋。 貞元四年卒，贈兵部尚書。 子懷直。
Wujun sent someone to persuade Hua to return to him; Hua said, "My lord wishes our humble district again to be subordinate to Heng prefecture; lend us two hundred horsemen to resist the rebels, and once the roads are open we shall obey." Wujun was pleased and sent two hundred horsemen to help. Hua then kept their horses and sent the men all back. Wujun was angry at the breach of covenant, but because Zhu Tao was then besieging he feared Hua would be taken and stopped. When Wujun returned to the empire and Hebei was tranquil, Rihua returned the horses he had kept and presented precious gifts in apology; Wujun gladly released his anger. In Zhenyuan 4 he died and was posthumously made minister of war. His son Huaizhi.
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懷直習河朔事，父卒，自知留後事。 朝廷嘉父之忠，起復授檢校工部尚書、兼御史大夫，升橫海軍為節度，以懷直為留後。 又於弓高縣置景州，管東光、景城二縣，以為屬郡。 累加至檢校尚書右僕射。 五年，起復正授節度觀察使。
Huaizhi knew Hebei affairs; when his father died he himself took charge of provisional affairs. The court commended his father's loyalty and appointed him on mourning leave as acting minister of works and concurrent chief censor; Henghai was raised to a governorship and Huaizhi was made acting governor. Jing prefecture was also established at Gonggao county to administer Dongguang and Jingcheng counties as subordinate commanderies. He was successively promoted to acting right vice minister. In the fifth year he was formally appointed on mourning leave as governor and observation commissioner.
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懷直荒於畋獵，數日方還，不恤軍政，軍士不勝寒餒。 其帳下將從父兄懷信因眾怒閉門不內，懷直因來朝覲，貞元九年也。 德宗優容之，依前檢校右僕射，兼龍武統軍，賜安業裏甲第，妓女一人。 既而懷信死，懷直子執恭知留後事，乃遣懷直歸滄州。 十六年卒，年四十九，廢朝一日，贈揚州大都督。
Huaizhi was idle in hunting; days would pass before he returned and he neglected military administration; the soldiers could not bear cold and hunger. His tent officer Huaixin, his father's cousin, exploiting popular anger, closed the gates and would not admit him; Huaizhi therefore came to court—in Zhenyuan 9. Dezong indulged him and restored him as acting right vice minister and concurrent Longwu commander; he was granted a mansion in Anye Lane and one courtesan. Soon Huaixin died; Huaizhi's son Zhigong managed provisional affairs and sent Huaizhi back to Cangzhou. In the sixteenth year he died at forty-nine; court was suspended one day and he was posthumously made chief administrator of Yangzhou.
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執恭代襲父位，朝廷因而授之。 元和六年入朝，憲宗禮遇遣之，加尚書左僕射。 嘗夢滄州衙門樓額悉帖「權」字，遂奏請改名權。 十三年，淮西賊平，籓方惕息，權以父子世襲如三鎮事例，心不自安，乃請入朝。 十三年，至京師，表辭戎帥，因命華州刺史鄭權代之，以靖安裏私第側狹，賜地二十畝，令廣其居。 尋遷檢校司空、邠州刺史、邠寧節度使。 十四年十一月卒，贈司徒。 權兄弟子侄在朝列宿衛者三十余人。
Zhigong succeeded his father and the court appointed him. In Yuanhe 6 he entered court; Xianzong received him with ritual and sent him back, further making him left vice minister. He once dreamed the Cangzhou yamen gate plaque was entirely pasted with the character 'Quan'; he memorialized asking to change his name to Quan. In the thirteenth year, when Huaixi was pacified and frontier commands were subdued, Quan, like the three-circuit precedent of hereditary succession, was ill at ease and asked to enter court. In the thirteenth year he reached the capital, declined military command, and was replaced by Hua prefecture governor Zheng Quan; because his Jing'an Lane residence was narrow, twenty mu were granted to enlarge it. He was soon transferred to acting chief minister, Binzhou governor, and Binning governor. In the eleventh month of the fourteenth year he died and was posthumously made chief minister. Quan's brothers, sons, and nephews in court ranks and palace guard numbered more than thirty.
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李全略者，本姓王，名日簡。 為鎮州小將，事王武俊。 元和中，節度使王承宗沒，軍情不安，自拔歸朝，授代州刺史。 及長慶初，鎮州軍亂，殺田弘正； 穆宗為之旰食，以日簡嘗為鎮將，召問其計。 日簡遂於御前極言利害，兼願有以自效，因授德州刺史，經略其事。 明年，擢拜橫海軍節度使，賜姓李氏，名全略，以崇樹之。 未幾，令子同捷入侍，兼進錢千萬。 逾歲，同捷歸覲，乃奏請授滄州長史、知州事，兼主中軍兵馬； 朝廷初不之許，後慮其有奇策，將副經略之旨，遂從之。 及得請，全略乃陰結軍士，潛為久計，外示忠順，內畜奸謀。 棣州刺史王稷善撫眾，且得其心，全略忌而殺之，仍孥戮其屬。 凡所為事，大率類此。 寶歷二年四月卒。
Li Quanlue originally had the surname Wang and the name Rijian. He was a junior officer of Zhenzhou and served Wang Wujun. In the Yuanhe era, when governor Wang Chengzong died army sentiment was unsettled; he returned to the empire on his own and was appointed Daizhou governor. At the beginning of Changqing, the Zhenzhou army mutinied and killed Tian Hongzheng; Muzong, troubled over it, because Rijian had once been a Zhen officer, summoned him and asked his plan. Rijian before the throne fully set forth advantage and harm and expressed willingness to serve; he was appointed Dezhou governor to manage the affair. The next year he was promoted to Henghai governor; he was granted the surname Li and the name Quanlue, to honor and establish him. Before long he sent his son Tongjie to attend court and also presented ten million in cash. After a year Tongjie returned to visit his parents; he memorialized asking that Tongjie be appointed Cangzhou chief administrator with control of prefecture affairs and command of the central army; at first the court did not assent; later, fearing he had a special stratagem, it followed his request. When he obtained his request, Quanlue secretly won over the soldiers and made long-term plans, outwardly showing loyal submission while inwardly harboring treachery. Di prefecture governor Wang Ji was good at comforting the masses and had won their hearts; Quanlue envied and killed him and exterminated his dependents. In general what he did was mostly of this kind. In the fourth month of Baoli 2 he died.
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子同捷，初為副大使，居喪，擅領留後事，仍重賂籓鄰以求纘襲，朝廷知其所為，經年不問。 屬昭湣晏駕，文宗即位，同捷冀易世之後，稍行恩貸，即令母弟同誌、同巽入朝，令掌書記崔長奉表，備達懇誠，請從朝旨。 詔授同捷檢校左散騎常侍、兗州刺史、兗海節度使； 以天平節度使烏重胤為滄州節度以代之。 詔下，同捷托以三軍乞留，拒命。 乃命烏重胤率鄆、齊兵加討。 又詔徐帥王智興、滑帥李聽、平盧康誌睦、魏博史憲誠、易定張璠、幽州李載義等四面進攻。
His son Tongjie was deputy commissioner; during mourning he on his own took provisional affairs and heavily bribed neighboring commands to seek succession; the court knew and for a full year did not inquire. When Jingzong died and Wenzong acceded, Tongjie hoped for gradual leniency after a change of reign; he sent his younger brothers Tongzhi and Tongxun to court and had secretary Cui Chang submit a memorial expressing earnest sincerity and asking to follow court orders. An edict appointed Tongjie acting left regular attendant, Yanzhou governor, and Yanhai governor; Tianping governor Wu Chongyin was made Cangzhou governor to replace him. When the edict was issued, Tongjie pleaded on behalf of the three armies to remain and defied orders. Wu Chongyin was then ordered to lead Yan and Qi troops in punitive attack. An edict also ordered Xu commander Wang Zhixing, Hua commander Li Ting, Pinglu Kang Zhimu, Weibo Shi Xiancheng, Yiding Zhang Fan, and Youzhou Li Zaiyi to attack from four sides.
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同捷世行奸詐，自以嘗在成德軍為將校，燕、趙之師，可結為城社，乃以玉帛子女賂河北三鎮，以求旄鉞。 李載義初受朝命，堅於效順，乃囚同捷侄及所賂玉帛妓女四十七人表獻。 又表朝廷加載義左僕射、王廷湊司徒，以悅其心事。 廷湊本蓄狼心，欲吞橫海，乃出兵於境以赴同捷。
Tongjie had long practiced treachery; thinking he had once been a Chengde officer, he believed Yan and Zhao armies could be bound as allies, and used silks and women to bribe the three Hebei commands for the banner and axe. Li Zaiyi at first received court orders and was firm in loyal service; he imprisoned Tongjie's nephew and forty-seven persons of bribed silks and courtesans and presented them in a memorial. He also memorialized asking the court to further make Zaiyi left vice minister and Wang Tingcou chief minister, to satisfy their wishes. Tingcou originally harbored wolfish intent and wished to swallow Henghai; he then sent troops to the border to aid Tongjie.
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王智興師次棣州，詔曰：「李同捷幸襲舊勛，不思纘緒，斬麻未幾，私行墨缞。 毒殺忠良，擾惑部校，稽之國憲，難逭常刑。 朕以頃在先朝，己稽中旨，實遵成命，未議改圖。 乃由留務之權，授以戎帥； 拔負海之陋，置之中華，推恩含垢，斯亦至矣！ 而同捷益懷迷執，閉境練兵，大詬鄰封，拒捍中使。 遐邇憤怨，中外驚嗟，叛命既彰，大義當絕，事非獲已，良用憮然。 其同捷在身官爵，並宜削奪，令諸軍進討。」 俄而烏重胤卒，授神策節度使李寰代重胤出師，無功召還，乃加王智興平章事，充行營招撫使。 史憲誠遣大將丌誌沼與子唐帥兵二萬五千攻德州。 太和二年九月，智興收棣州，因割隸淄青。 時諸軍在野，朝廷特置供軍糧料使，日費浸多。 兩河諸帥每有小捷，虛張俘級，以邀賞賚，實欲困朝廷而緩賊也； 繒帛征馬，賜之無算。
Wang Zhixing's army halted at Dizhou; an edict said, "Li Tongjie has lucklessly inherited old merit and does not think to continue the line; barely has hemp been cut when he privately wears black mourning. He poisoned and killed the loyal and good, disturbed and deluded his officers; measured against state law, he can hardly escape ordinary punishment. We, because We were recently under the former dynasty, already examined the central intent and truly followed the completed order, and did not discuss changing the plan. It was from the authority of provisional affairs that he was granted military command; lifting one from the remoteness beyond the sea and placing him in the central realm—extending favor and covering shame, this too has reached the utmost! Yet Tongjie all the more harbored stubborn delusion, closed his borders and drilled troops, greatly reviled neighboring commands, and resisted court envoys. Near and far were angry and resentful, inner and outer alarmed and sighed; rebellion was manifest and great righteousness must be severed; the matter could not be otherwise, and one truly feels distressed. Tongjie's personal offices and ranks are all to be stripped, and the various armies are ordered to advance in punitive attack." Soon afterward Wu Chongyin died; Shence governor Li Huan was appointed to replace Chongyin in the field; without achievement he was recalled, and Wang Zhixing was further made chief minister and campaign pacification commissioner. Shi Xiancheng sent his general Qi Zhihao and his son Tang at the head of twenty-five thousand troops to attack Dezhou. In the ninth month of Taihe 2, Zhixing took Dizhou and ceded it to Ziqing. At that time the armies were in the field; the court specially established a commissioner for army provisions; daily expense gradually increased. The two He commanders, whenever they had a small victory, falsely inflated captives and heads to seek rewards; in truth they wished to exhaust the court and slacken the campaign; silks and requisitioned horses were granted beyond counting.
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同捷既窘，王廷湊援之不及，乃令人誘丌誌沼，俾倒戈攻憲誠，許以代為魏博節度。 誌沼信其言而叛。 憲誠告難，詔李聽以諸道兵攻之。 誌沼敗，奔於鎮州。 李寰赴闕，又以李祐代為橫海節度。 三年三月，詔諫議大夫柏耆軍前慰撫。 四月，李祐收德州。 同捷乞降於祐，祐疑其詐； 柏耆請以騎兵三百入滄州，祐從之。 耆徑入滄州，取同捷與其家屬赴京師。 其月二十六日，至德州界，諜言廷湊兵來劫篡，耆乃斬同捷首，傳而獻捷，百僚稱賀。 同捷母孫、妻崔、兒元逵等既獻，詔悉宥之，配於湖南安置。
When Tongjie was hard pressed, Wang Tingcou could not aid him in time and sent someone to entice Qi Zhihao, causing him to turn his blades against Xiancheng, promising to make him Weibo governor in his stead. Zhihao believed his words and rebelled. Xiancheng reported distress; an edict ordered Li Ting to attack with troops of the various circuits. Zhihao was defeated and fled to Zhenzhou. Li Huan went to court and Li You was again appointed Henghai governor. In the third month of the third year an edict ordered remonstrating officer Bai Qi to go before the army to comfort and reassure. In the fourth month Li You took Dezhou. Tongjie begged to surrender to You; You suspected treachery; Bai Qi asked to enter Cangzhou with three hundred horsemen and You assented. Qi went straight into Cangzhou, took Tongjie and his family and went to the capital. On the twenty-sixth of that month, reaching the Dezhou border, spies said Tingcou's troops were coming to intercept; Qi beheaded Tongjie, transmitted the head, and presented victory; the hundred officials congratulated. Tongjie's mother Sun, wife Cui, and son Yuankui and others, once presented, were all pardoned by edict and settled in Hunan.
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贊=史臣曰：國家崇樹籓屏，保界山河，得其人則區宇以寧，失其授則干戈勃起。 若懷仙之輩，習亂河朔，誌深狡蠹，忠義之談，罔經耳目； 以暴亂為事業，以專殺為雄豪，或父子弟兄，或將帥卒伍，叠相屠滅，以成風俗。 斯乃王道浸微，教化不及。 惜哉蒸民，陷彼虎吻！ 其間劉總，粗貯臣誠，然而殺父兄以圖榮，落鬢髮而避禍； 未旋踵而暴卒他境，斯謂報應之驗與！
The historiographer remarks: The state honors and establishes frontier screens to guard the borders of mountains and rivers; with the right men the realm is tranquil, with the wrong appointment war and weapons rise. Men such as Huaixian, accustomed to chaos in Hebei, with hearts deep in cunning, talk of loyalty and righteousness never passed their ears; they took violent rebellion as enterprise and arbitrary killing as heroism; whether father and son and brothers, or commanders and soldiers, they repeatedly slaughtered one another until it became custom. This is the royal way gradually enfeebled and transformation not reaching them. Alas for the common people, fallen into those tigers' jaws! Among them Liu Zong roughly stored ministerial sincerity; yet he killed father and elder brother to seek glory and shaved his temples to avoid calamity; before he could turn his heel he died suddenly in another region—this is called the verification of retribution!
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贊曰：國法不綱，賊臣鴟張。 雖曰父子，兇如虎狼。 惡稔族滅，身屠地亡。 蠢茲伏莽，汙我彜章。
The eulogy says: State law without binding force, rebel ministers like owls spreading wings. Though called father and son, vicious as tigers and wolves. Evil ripened, clan destroyed, body slaughtered, territory lost. Foolish fellows lurking in the brush, defiling our canonical rites.