Bai Ji (柏耆) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Bai Ji as a diplomat, envoy, and official. This record brings together 13 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Bai Ji	柏耆	Bai Ji

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xintangshu:175:s0200

Roles

Diplomat
Envoy
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: ordered to take his own life in exile at Aizhou / 長流愛州，賜死
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0220

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 太和初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 827 · End: AD 829
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:175:s0212
Source Date: Text: 王承宗叛時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 809 · End: AD 820
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:175:s0203

Family

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Child of Bai Liangqi (柏良器)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: Left Reminder / 左拾遺 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0204, xintangshu:175:s0207

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: envoy · Action: executed-Wan-Hong-and-Li-Tongjie · Other Person Id: Li Tongjie (李同捷)
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0214, xintangshu:175:s0215
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: persuaded-submission · Other Person Id: Wang Chengzong (王承宗)
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0203, xintangshu:175:s0205, xintangshu:175:s0206

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: stole the army's credit and rushed to his doom · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xintangshu:175:s0224

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 175Volume 175 Biographies 100: Dou, Liu, Two Zhangs, Yang, Xiong, Bai · 13 passages

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柏耆者，有縱橫學。 Bai Ji mastered alliance and stratagem.

耆誌健而望高，急於立名。 Ji was vigorous and ambitious, hungry for renown.

是時，王承宗以常山叛，朝廷厭兵，耆杖策詣淮西行營謁裴度，且言願得天子一節馳入鎮，可掉舌下之。 Wang Chengzong had rebelled at Changshan while the court wearied of war; Ji visited Pei Du's western Huainan headquarters and vowed that with a single imperial commission he could talk the garrison into submission.

真擢耆左拾遺，由是聲震一時。 The throne made him Left Reminder, and his name thundered across the realm.

賚未至，舉軍嘩議，穆宗遣耆諭天子意，眾乃信悅。 The bounty had not arrived when the army erupted; Muzong sent Ji to proclaim the emperor's intent, and the troops were reassured.

乃授耆德州行營諸軍計會使，與判官沈亞之諭旨。 Ji was appointed commissary of the Dezhou field armies and, with aide Shen Yazhi, delivered the throne's orders.

會橫海節度使李祐平德州，同捷窮，請降，祐使大將萬洪代守滄州，同捷未出也，耆以三百騎馳入滄，以事誅洪，與同捷朝京師。 Li You of Transverse Sea took Dezhou; Tongjie, desperate, offered to yield. You left Wan Hong to hold Cangzhou while Tongjie lingered; Ji raced in with three hundred riders, killed Hong, and brought Tongjie to court.

既行，諜言王廷湊欲以奇兵劫同捷，耆遂斬其首以獻。 As they marched, word came that Wang Tingcou would ambush Tongjie; Ji beheaded Tongjie and presented the head.

諸將嫉耆功，比奏攢詆，文宗不獲已，貶耆循州司戶參軍、亞之南康尉。 Generals jealous of Ji's glory piled accusations; Wenzong, constrained, demoted Ji to Xunzhou army aide and Yazhi to Nan Kang aide.

宦人馬國亮譖耆受同捷先所得王稷女及奴婢珍貲。 The eunuch Ma Guoliang accused Ji of taking Tongjie's spoils—Wang Ji's daughter and treasured slaves.

初，祐聞耆殺洪，大驚，疾遂劇。 When You first heard Ji had killed Hong, he was stunned and his illness worsened.

帝曰：「祐若死，是耆殺之。」 The emperor said, "If You dies, Ji has killed him."

耆掩眾取功，自速其死，哀哉！ Ji stole the army's credit and rushed to his doom—how lamentable!