Emperor of Han (天子)

Overview

The translated histories identify Emperor of Han as a ruler. This record brings together 10 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Emperor of Han	天子	Tianzi
Title	Emperor	上
Title	Son of Heaven	天子	Tianzi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Title only
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · shiji:116:s0024

Roles

Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 元封二年 · Western Year: BC 109
Explicit · shiji:116:s0067
Source Date: Text: 元狩元年 · Western Year: BC 122
Explicit · shiji:116:s0043, shiji:116:s0046
Source Date: Text: 建元六年 · Western Year: BC 135
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:116:s0018, shiji:116:s0024

Places and affiliations

Polity: Han / 漢 · Relation: ruled
Explicit · shiji:116:s0024

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: authority · Action: sent Ba-Shu troops to destroy Laojin and Mimo and confront Dian · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元封二年 · Western Year: BC 109
Explicit · shiji:116:s0067

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 116Treatise on the Southwestern Yi People · 10 passages

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蒙乃上書說上曰：「南越王黃屋左纛，地東西萬餘里，名為外臣，實一州主也。 Tang Meng then submitted a memorial to the Emperor, arguing, 'The King of Southern Yue rides beneath a yellow canopy with a great banner at his left, and his domains stretch more than ten thousand li from east to west. In name, he is an outer vassal, but in truth he is the lord of an entire province.

上許之。 The Emperor approved the plan.

上患之，使公孫弘往視問焉。 The Emperor grew alarmed and sent Gongsun Hong to investigate the situation firsthand.

上罷西夷，獨置南夷夜郎兩縣一都尉，稍令犍為自葆就。 The Emperor abandoned the western Yi campaign, retaining only two counties and a single commandant for the southern Yi and Yelang, and gradually allowed the Commandery of Jianwei to defend and sustain itself.

於是天子乃令王然于、柏始昌、呂越人等，使閒出西夷西，指求身毒國。 The Emperor thereupon ordered Wang Ranyu, Bo Shichang, Lü Yueren, and others to slip through the western Yi territories and press westward in search of the kingdom of Shendu.

天子注意焉。 The Emperor took careful note of their report.

及至南越反，上使馳義侯因犍為發南夷兵。 When the Southern Yue rose in rebellion, the Emperor sent the Marquis of Chiyi to muster southern Yi troops through Jianwei.

上以為夜郎王。 The Emperor bestowed upon him the title of King of Yelang.

上使王然于以越破及誅南夷兵威風喻滇王入朝。 The Emperor dispatched Wang Ranyu to use the military prestige won by the defeat of the Yue and the punishment of the southern Yi as leverage to persuade the King of Dian to present himself at court.

元封二年，天子發巴蜀兵擊滅勞寖、靡莫，以兵臨滇。 In the second year of the Yuanfeng era, the Emperor dispatched troops from Ba and Shu to annihilate Laojin and Mimo, then turned his army upon Dian.