Cao Que 曹確

Other names

Family

• Sibling of Cao Fen (曹汾)
  younger brother 弟 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 172

Career and standing

• Co-Director of the Chancellery 同中書門下平章事
  AD 860 to AD 873 咸通中 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 152
• Vice Director of the Secretariat 中書侍郎
  AD 860 to AD 873 咸通中 · Appointed
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 152
• military commissioner of Zhenhai 鎮海節度使
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 170
• Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs 尚書右仆射
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 170
• Vice Minister of War 兵部侍郎
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 151

Places and affiliations

• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Associated
  Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 181, passage 2
• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 151-152
• At Henan in Henan circuit 河南河南 · Relation Native of
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 150
• At Hezhong 河中 · Relation Transferred to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 170
• At Zhenhai 鎮海 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 170

Learning and skills

• Earned
  Credential Presented Scholar 進士
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 151
• Belief Confucian learning 儒術 · Relation Adherent of
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 153

Works and attributed material

• Memorial speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · About Person Id Li Keji (李可及)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 161-164

Events and relationships

• Opposed Li Keji generalship
  Remonstrance · Remonstrator · With Li Keji (李可及)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 161, 164, 167
• Relation Colleague chief minister with · Person Bi Xian (畢諴)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 171

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment deeply learned, grave in judgment, scrupulous in following the law · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 153
• Assessment paired in reputation with Bi Tan as 'Cao and Bi' · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 171

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 2
• served as chief minister for six years
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 170