Overview
Emperor Gaozu was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Death
Attested activity
AD 947 十月
AD 948 帝崩
AD 947 to AD 948 高祖親征鄴城
AD 947 高祖車駕至闕
Places and affiliations
- Polity Later Han 後漢 · Relation Served
Works and attributed material
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment regretted the Fantai massacre of Yan troops · Mode historian-judgment
References in the histories
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 109Volume 109 Book of Later Jin 11: Biographies 6: Du Zhongwei, Li Shouzhen, Zhao Siwan · 11 passages
高祖車駕至闕，以重威為宋州節度使，加守太尉。
When Emperor Gaozu's court reached the capital, Chongwei was appointed military governor of Songzhou and acting Grand Commandant.
十月，高祖親征，車駕至鄴城之下，遣給事中陳觀等賫詔入城，許其歸命，重威不納。
In the tenth month Gaozu marched in person. When the court reached Yecheng he sent Supervising Secretary Chen Guan with an edict offering mercy if Chongwei submitted. Chongwei refused.
數日，高祖親率諸軍攻其壘，不克，王師傷夷者萬餘人。
Days later Gaozu led the assault himself but failed to break the defenses. Imperial casualties exceeded ten thousand.
高祖駐軍數旬，城中糧盡，屑麹餅以給軍士，吏民逾壘而出者甚眾，皆無人色。
Gaozu besieged the city for weeks until provisions ran out and the garrison lived on bran cakes. Officials and townspeople slipped over the walls in crowds, their faces gray with hunger.
至是，重威牙將詣行宮請降，復遣節度判官王敏奉表請罪，賜優詔敦勉，許其如初。
At last a junior officer came to Gaozu's camp to offer surrender, and Chongwei sent circuit judge Wang Min with a memorial begging pardon. An edict of clemency arrived, promising him his former standing.
重威即遣其子宏遂、妻石氏出候高祖，重威繼踵出降，素服俟罪，復其衣冠，賜見，即日制授檢校太師、守太傅、兼中書令。
Chongwei sent his son Hongsui and Lady Shi out to greet Gaozu, then followed to surrender in plain dress. Restored to court dress, he was received that same day and appointed acting Grand Preceptor, acting Grand Tutor, and Director of the Secretariat.
先是，契丹遣幽州指揮使張璉，以部下軍二千餘人屯鄴，時亦有燕軍一千五百人在京師，會高祖至闕，有上變者，言燕軍謀亂，盡誅於繁臺之下，咸稱其冤。
Earlier the Khitan had posted Zhang Lian of Youzhou at Ye with more than two thousand men, while another fifteen hundred Yan troops were in the capital. When Gaozu entered the capital, an informer claimed the Yan garrison meant to rebel, and every man was executed below Fantai—a killing widely called a miscarriage of justice.
高祖亦悔其前失，累令宣諭，許以不死。
Gaozu too regretted the massacre and repeatedly proclaimed that they would not be executed.
高祖遣三司使王章、樞密副使郭威，錄重威部下將吏盡誅之，籍其財產與重威私帑，分給將士。
Gaozu sent Wang Zhang of the Three Departments and Deputy Military Affairs Commissioner Guo Wei to list every officer under Chongwei, execute them, seize their goods together with Chongwei's private hoard, and divide the spoils among the troops.
車駕還宮，高祖不豫，既而大漸。
After the court returned to the palace Gaozu fell ill and soon lay dying.
帝崩，遂收重威，重威子宏璋、宏璉、宏傑誅之。
When the emperor died, Chongwei was arrested and executed together with his sons Hongzhang, Honglian, and Hongjie.