Bai Zairong (白再榮)

Overview

Bai Zairong was a Military Officer and Administrator.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	White Mandale	白麻答

Life and dates

Death

AD 951 周太祖入京城
Killed by soldiers who seized his property and beheaded him · At the capital
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passages 162-163

Attested activity

AD 951 周太祖入京城
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passages 162-163
AD 947 晉末……明年……其年閏七月晦
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passages 142-143
AD 947 高祖以再榮為鎮州留後
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 160

Family

Kinship Role family members · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 163

Origins and identity

Ethnicity frontier tribes 蕃部
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 140

Career and standing

regent of Zhenzhou 鎮州留後
AD 947 高祖以再榮為鎮州留後 · Appointed · Authority Gaozu (高祖)
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 160
acting regent 權知留後事
AD 947 翊日 · Appointed
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 146
commander of the left wing of the Husheng Guard 護聖左廂指揮使
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 141
military commissioner of Huazhou 滑州節度使
Transferred
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 161
Entered
Recalled to capital
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 161

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Han 漢 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 160
Polity Later Jin 晉 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 142
At Huazhou 滑州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 161
At Zhenzhou 鎮州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 160

Works and attributed material

Speech · Addressee · Direct quotation · Mode quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 162
Speech · Addressee · Speaker Li Gu (李穀) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passages 154-156

Events and relationships

Demanded payment
AD 947 其年閏七月晦 · Extortion · Instigator · With Li Song (李崧), He Ning (和凝)
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 153
Detained former Mandale servants for wealth
Extortion · Instigator · With Mandale (滿達勒)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 159
Entered army young
Military · Officer
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 141
Followed camp to
AD 947 晉末……明年 · Military · Follower · At Zhending 真定
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 142
Head ransomed with silk and buried
Burial · Deceased
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 163
Hesitated then joined
AD 947 其年閏七月晦 · Political · Summoned leader · With Li Jun (李筠), He Fujin (何福晉)
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passages 143-145

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Murdered and beheaded after property seized
AD 951 周太祖入京城 · Violence · Victim
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passages 162-163
Planned citywide exaction then desisted
Extortion · Instigator · With Li Gu (李穀)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 158
Planned to kill for wealth
Plot · Instigator · With Li Song (李崧)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 154
Relation Advised by · Person Li Gu (李穀)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passages 154-156, 158
Relation Rival of · Person Wang Rao (王饒)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passages 151-152

Assessments and attributes

Assessment crushing exactions left the people destitute · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 161
Assessment governance greedy and cruel beyond description; people called him White Mandale · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 160
Assessment greedy, indecisive, and suspicious · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 106, passage 150

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History

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 106Volume 106 Book of Later Jin 8: Biographies 3: Wang Zhou, Liu Shenjiao, Wu Hanqiu, Zhang Guan, Li Yin, Liu Zaiming, Ma Wan, Li Yancong, Guo Jin, Huang Fuli, Bai Zairong, Zhang Peng · 13 passages

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白再榮，本蕃部人也。 Bai Zairong was originally from the frontier tribes.

晉末，契丹入汴，明年，契丹主北去，再榮從部帳至真定。 Late in Jin the Khitan entered Bian. The next year, as the Khitan emperor withdrew north, Zairong followed the camp to Zhending.

其年閏七月晦，李筠、何福晉相率殺北帥滿達勒，據甲仗庫，敵勢未退，筠等使人召再榮。 On the last day of the intercalary seventh month that year, Li Jun and He Fujin led the killing of the Khitan commander Mandale and seized the armory. The enemy had not yet withdrawn, and they sent for Zairong.

再榮端坐本營，遲疑久之。 Zairong sat stiffly in his own camp, hesitating for a long while.

翊日，逐出床答勒，諸軍以再榮名次在諸校之右，乃請權知留後事。 The next day they drove out Chuangdale. Because Zairong outranked the other commanders, the troops asked him to serve as acting regent.

再榮貪昧無決，舉止多疑，出入騎從，露刃註矢，諸校不相統攝，互有猜貳。 Zairong was greedy, indecisive, and suspicious. He went about surrounded by armed horsemen with blades drawn and bows strung. The commanders would not submit to one another and eyed each other with distrust.

奉國廂主王饒懼為再榮所並，乃據東門樓，以兵自衛，偽稱足疾，不敢見再榮。 Wang Rao, commander of the Fengguo wing, feared that Zairong would swallow his command. He seized the east gate tower, garrisoned it with troops, feigned a foot ailment, and refused to see Zairong.

再榮以李崧、和凝攜家在彼，令軍士數百人環迫崧、凝，以求賞給，崧、凝各出家財與之。 Because Li Song and He Ning had their families with them in the city, Zairong sent hundreds of soldiers to surround them and demand payment. Both men paid out of their private fortunes.

再榮欲害崧以利其財，前磁州刺史李穀謂再榮曰：「公與諸將為契丹所擄，淩辱萬端，旦夕憂死。 Zairong then planned to kill Song for his wealth. Li Gu, former prefect of Cizhou, said to him, "You and the other generals were captured by the Khitan, humiliated in every way, and lived in daily fear of death.

再榮默然。 Zairong said nothing.

再榮又欲括率在城居民家財，以給軍士，李穀又譬解之，乃止。 Zairong next wanted to seize the property of everyone in the city to pay the troops, but Li Gu dissuaded him again and he desisted.

高祖以再榮為鎮州留後，為政貪虐難狀，鎮人呼為「白麻答」。 Gaozu made Zairong regent of Zhenzhou. His rule was so greedy and cruel that the people called him "White Mandale."

周太祖入京城，軍士攻再榮之第，迫脅再榮，盡取財貨既，軍士前啟曰：「某等軍健，常趨事麾下，一旦無禮至此，今後何顏謁見？」 When Taizu of Zhou entered the capital, soldiers stormed Zairong's house and forced him to hand over everything he owned. Then one of them said, "We have always served under you, sir. After treating you so shamefully, how can we ever face you again?"