Sui and Tang · Military Governor

Chen Jingxuan 陳敬瑄

Attested AD 880 - AD 884

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Chen Jingxuan was a Military Governor.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 880 to AD 884 黃巢陷京師，天子出居成都
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 189, passages 3-4

Career and standing

military governor of Jiannan West Circuit 劍南西川節度使
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 3

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 3

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Gao Renhou (高仁厚) · Mode quotation
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passages 26-27

Events and relationships

sent Yellow Head Army generals to Xingping 遣黃頭軍部將李鋋鞏鹹…戍興平
Military · Commander · Dispatched · With Li Shen (李鋋)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 4
memorialized Renhou as East Chuan acting governor 表仁厚為東川節度留後
Political · Memorialist · Nominated · With Gao Renhou (高仁厚)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 41
persuaded emperor to recall Yang Shili with added office 諷帝召師立
Political · Advisor · Persuaded emperor · With the emperor (天子)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 38
Relation Commander of · Person Gong Xian (鞏鹹)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 4
Relation Commander of · Person Gao Renhou (高仁厚)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passages 3, 6
Relation Commander of · Person Li Shen (李鋋)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 4

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 189, passage 3

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 189Volume 189 Biographies 114: Gao, Zhao, Tian, Zhu · 8 passages

初事劍南西川節度使陳敬瑄為營使。 He first served Chen Jingxuan, governor of Jiannan West Circuit, as a battalion commander.

黃巢陷京師，天子出居成都，敬瑄遣黃頭軍部將李鋋鞏鹹以兵萬五千戍興平，數敗巢軍。 After Huang Chao seized the capital, the emperor withdrew to Chengdu. Chen Jingxuan sent Li Shen and Gong Xian of the Yellow Head Army with fifteen thousand men to hold Xingping, and they repeatedly routed Huang Chao’s forces.

敬瑄喜其兵可用，益選卒二千，使仁厚將而東。 Delighted that these troops proved so effective, Jingxuan picked out two thousand more men and sent Renhou east to command them.

敬瑄召仁厚還，使督兵四討，屯永安。 Jingxuan recalled Renhou and put him in charge of four punitive columns, with headquarters at Yong’an.

敬瑄與仁厚謀曰：「秀升未禽，貢輸梗奪，百官乏奉，民不鹽食。 Jingxuan took Renhou aside and said, “Until Xiusheng is captured, tribute cannot get through, the court officials go unpaid, and the people cannot even get salt.

聞敬瑄仁厚代己，有望言。 When he heard that Chen Jingxuan intended to replace him with Renhou, he spoke bitterly of the injustice.

敬瑄諷帝召師立以本官兼尚書右仆射，師立益怒，移檄言敬瑄十罪，殺監軍田繪，屯涪城，遣兵攻綿州，不克。 Jingxuan persuaded the emperor to recall Shili with his existing rank plus the post of Right Vice Director. Shili grew still angrier, circulated a manifesto listing ten crimes against Chen Jingxuan, killed the supervising commissioner Tian Hui, encamped at Fucheng, and sent troops against Mianzhou without success.

敬瑄即表仁厚為東川節度留後，楊茂言為行軍副使，楊棠為諸軍都虞候，率兵三萬討之。 Jingxuan at once memorialized the court to make Renhou acting governor of Eastern Chuan, Yang Maoyan campaigning deputy, and Yang Tang commander of all forces, and marched thirty thousand men against Shili.