Cui Yin (崔胤) | 24 Histories

Overview

Cui Yin was an official.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 901 to AD 904 崔胤謀遷都
Strongly inferred · New History of the Five Dynasties 21, passages 212, 214

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 21Volume 21 Later Liang Biographies 1: Jing Xiang, Zhu Zhen, Pang Shigu, Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, Zhang Cunjing, Fu Daozhao, Liu Han, Kou Yangqing · 2 passages

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初，太祖與崔胤謀，欲遷都洛陽，而昭宗不許。 Early on Taizu and Cui Yin schemed to shift the capital to Luoyang, but Emperor Zhaozong refused.

彥卿因悉驅徙長安居人以東，人皆拆屋為筏，浮渭而下，道路號哭，仰天大罵曰：「國賊崔胤、朱溫使我至此！」 Yanqing then drove the people of Chang’an east. They ripped houses apart for rafts and drifted down the Wei; the roads rang with weeping and curses heavenward: “The traitors Cui Yin and Zhu Wen brought us to this!”