Bo Qi (柏耆) | 24 Histories

Overview

Bo Qi was an official and Diplomat.

Life and dates

Death

ordered to take his own life in exile at Aizhou 長流愛州，賜死
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 175, passage 220

Attested activity

AD 817 十二年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 173, passage 88
AD 827 to AD 829 太和初
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 175, passage 212
AD 829 斬同捷
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passages 201, 204-205
AD 822 to AD 824 柏耆为拾遗
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passages 81-82
AD 809 to AD 820 王承宗叛時
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 175, passage 203

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Bai Liangqi (柏良器)
father 父
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 175, passage 201

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Left Reminder 左拾遺
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 175, passages 204, 207
remonstrance official 拾遺
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 82
Remonstrating Censor 諫議大夫
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 201

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 173, passage 88

Events and relationships

Beheaded Tongjie
Legal · Actor · With Li Tongjie (李同捷) · At Jiangling 將陵
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 205
Coerced and persuaded Wang Chengzong
AD 817 十二年 · Diplomatic · Envoy · With Wang Chengzong (王承宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 88
Executed Wan Hong and Li Tongjie
Military · Envoy · With Li Tongjie (李同捷)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 175, passages 214-215
Persuaded submission
Diplomatic · Envoy · With Wang Chengzong (王承宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 175, passages 203, 205-206
Proclaim consolation
Diplomatic · Envoy
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 201
Seized Tongjie and family
Military · Actor · With Li Tongjie (李同捷)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 204

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Relation Agent of · Person Pei Du (裴度)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 88

Assessments and attributes

Assessment stole the army's credit and rushed to his doom · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 175, passage 224

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 173, passage 88

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History

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 173Volume 173 Biographies 98: Pei Du · 1 passage

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初，蔡平，王承宗懼，度遣辯士柏耆脅說，乃獻德、棣二州，納質子。 When Cai fell, Wang Chengzong was terrified. Du sent the negotiator Bo Qi to pressure him, and Chengzong surrendered the De and Di prefectures and sent his son as a hostage.

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!

New Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 181 Biographies 106: Chen, Three Li's, Cao, Liu · 2 passages

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紳族子虞，有文學名，隱居華陽，自言不願仕，時來省紳，雅與柏耆、程昔範善。 Shen's kinsman Yu was known for letters, lived in seclusion at Huayang, claimed he would not take office, visited Shen from time to time, and was close to Bai Qi and Cheng Xifan.

及耆為拾遺，虞以書求薦，紳惡其無立操，痛誚之。 When Qi became remonstrance official, Yu wrote asking Shen to recommend him; Shen despised his lack of principle and rebuked him harshly.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 213Volume 213 Biographies 138: Buffer Regions: the Black, Green, and Yellow Seas · 3 passages

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而祐兵已薄德州，帝遣諫議大夫柏耆宣慰。 Li You's army was already at Dezhou when the emperor sent Remonstrating Censor Bai Qi to offer terms.

耆引兵直入城，取同捷及家屬馳西。 Bai Qi marched straight into the city, seized Tongjie and his family, and raced west with them.

祐入滄州，耆至將陵，斬同捷，使其下傳首京師。 You entered Cangzhou; at Jiangling, Bai Qi beheaded Tongjie and sent his head to Chang'an.