Yuan · Official and Statesman

Bayan 伯顏

Attested AD 1333 - AD 1340

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Bayan was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1333 to AD 1340 時伯顏為右丞相
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 105

Career and standing

right chancellor 右丞相
AD 1333 to AD 1340 時伯顏為右丞相 · Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 105

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 105
Organization Bayan's partisans 伯顏之黨 · Relation Leader of
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 117

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Lu Luceng (逯魯曾) · Extent Unit Ids s0107, s0108
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passages 107-108

Events and relationships

Approved Zhenge for joint sacrifice
AD 1333 to AD 1340 時伯顏為右丞相 · Political · Approver · With Empress Zhenge (真哥)
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 187, passages 105, 115
Framed Prince of Tan
Legal · Framer · With Prince of Tan (郯王) · Mode named-speech Speaker Lu Luceng (逯魯曾)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 120
Proposed Mingzong mother for joint sacrifice
AD 1333 to AD 1340 時伯顏為右丞相 · Ritual · Advocate · With Mother of Emperor Mingzong (亦乞列氏)
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 187, passage 105

Assessments and attributes

Assessment arbitrarily executed great ministers · Mode named-speech Speaker Lu Luceng (逯魯曾)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 118

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 187Volume 187 Biographies 74: Wugusunliangzhen, Jia Lu, Lu Luceng, Gong Shitai, Zhou Boqi, Wu Dang · 7 passages

時伯顏為右丞相，以為明宗之母亦乞列氏，可以配享。 Bayan was then right chancellor and held that the mother of Emperor Mingzong, of the Yilie clan, could serve for joint sacrifice.

伯顏問魯曾曰：「先朝既以真哥皇后無子，不為立主，今所立者，明宗母乎？ Bayan asked Luceng: "Since the previous court did not install a principal consort because Empress Zhenge had no son, whom should we install now—the mother of Mingzong?

衆服其議，而伯顏韙之，遂以真哥皇后配焉。 The assembly was convinced by his argument, Bayan approved it, and Empress Zhenge was duly installed for joint sacrifice.

八人之中，惟思誠少過，亦變祖宗選法，餘皆伯顏之黨，朝廷肅然。 Of the eight, only Lü Sicheng was guilty of minor faults, and even he had altered the ancestral selection law. The rest were all Bayan's partisans. The court was sobered.

除樞密院都事，上言：「前伯顏專殺大臣，其黨利其妻女，巧誣以罪。 Appointed director of affairs at the Bureau of Military Affairs, he memorialized: "Formerly Bayan arbitrarily executed great ministers, and his faction coveted their wives and daughters and craftily framed them with crimes.

郯王為伯顏搆陷，妻女流離，當雪其無辜，給復子孫。」 The Prince of Tan was framed by Bayan, and his wife and daughters were driven into exile. Their innocence should be proclaimed and restoration granted to his descendants."

除刑部員外郎，悉辨正橫罹伯顏所誣者。 Appointed vice director of the Ministry of Punishments, he fully rectified the cases of those wrongly accused by Bayan.