Cui Zao 崔造

Other names

Family

• Kin of Yuan Xiu (源休)
  maternal uncle 舅 · maternal line · Through Mother of Cui Zao (崔造之母)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 143
• Child of Mother of Cui Zao (崔造之母)
  mother 母 · maternal line
  Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 150, passage 143

Career and standing

• administrative aide 判官
  Appointed · Authority Li Qiyun (李棲筠)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 139
• Co-equal Director of the Secretariat-Chancellery 同中書門下平章事
  AD 786 貞元二年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 145
• Chief Administrator of Xin Prefecture 信州長史
  Demoted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 140
• Right Vice Director of the Heir Apparent's household 太子右庶子
  Demoted to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 158
• overseer of Revenue and Public Works 判戶、工二部
  Held
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 149
• Vice Director of the Left Office 左司員外郎
  Held
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 139

Places and affiliations

• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passages 139, 145
• At Anping in Shen Prefecture 深州安平
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 137
• At Jiangzuo 江左 · Relation Served in
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 147
• At Lantian 藍田 · Relation Traveled to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 143
• At Shangyuan 上元 · Relation Resided at
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 138
• Organization Four Kui 四夔 · Relation Member of
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 138

Works and attributed material

• Proposed fiscal reform
  Memorial · Author
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passages 147-148
• Requested punishment
  Memorial · Author
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 143

Events and relationships

• Fiscal reform partially reversed
  Political · Reformer · With Han Huang (韓滉)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passages 156-157, 159
• Raised troops against rebel
  Military · Mobilizer · With Zhu Ci (朱泚)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 142
• Relation Friend of · Person Liu Yan (劉晏)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 140
• Relation Friend of · Person Zhang Zhengze (張正則)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 138
• Relation Patron of · Person Yuan Xiu (元琇)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 154
• Relation Friend of · Person Han Hui (韓會)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 138

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment proposals ill-timed; could not flexibly manage great affairs when supplies were needed · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 160
• Assessment spoke boldly and could accomplish affairs · Mode named-person-report Speaker Emperor Dezong (德宗)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 146