Sui and Tang · Ruler

Emperor 帝

Attested AD 811 - AD 814

Passages: 15
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 813 八年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passages 165, 175
AD 811 六年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passages 132, 134
AD 814 會暴疾卒
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passages 181, 185

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Princess Yongchang (永昌公主)
princess 公主 · paternal line
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 146, passage 150

Kinship Role daughters · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passages 159, 162
Kinship Role princes of the Ten Residences · Quantity unspecified
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 159

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 134

Works and attributed material

AD 811 六年
Speech · Speaker · With Jifu (吉甫) · Direct quotation
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passages 155-156, 158, 163

Events and relationships

Approved garrison proposals
AD 814 會暴疾卒 · Political · Ruler
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 179
Demoted Zhang Zhongfang and changed posthumous title
AD 814 會暴疾卒 · Legal · Ruler · With Zhang Zhongfang (張仲方)
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 188
Enfeoffed daughters as county princesses
AD 811 六年 · Political · Ruler
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 162
Mourned and bestowed funeral gifts
AD 814 會暴疾卒 · Ritual · Ruler · With Jifu (吉甫)
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 185
Ordered review and reduction of redundant posts
AD 811 六年 · Political · Ruler
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 147
Ordered tomb halls at half Yiyang scale
AD 811 六年 · Ritual · Ruler · With Princess Yongchang (永昌公主)
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 150

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Received in audience
AD 811 六年 · Court · Ruler · With Jifu (吉甫)
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 133
Refused then comforted Jifu
AD 814 會暴疾卒 · Court · Ruler · With Jifu (吉甫)
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 183

Assessments and attributes

Assessment honored and trusted Jifu, addressing him by office rather than by name · With Jifu (吉甫) · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 134
Assessment the Hebei map matched Jifu's predictions · With Jifu (吉甫) · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Emperor (帝)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 163

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History

15 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 146Volume 146 Biographies 71: Two Li's · 15 passages

帝尊任之，官而不名。 The emperor honored and trusted him, addressing him by title rather than by name.

會永昌公主薨，有司以請，帝命減義陽之半。 When Princess Yongchang died, the relevant offices made the same request; the emperor ordered half the scale used for Yiyang.

帝曰：「吾固疑其冗，減之，今果然。 The emperor said, "I had long suspected it was excessive; reduce it—and you have proved me right.

帝曰：「事不安者第言之，無謂朕不能行也。」 The emperor said, "Whatever troubles you, speak of it—do not think I am unable to act."

帝乃下詔皆封縣主，令有司取門閥者配焉。 The emperor then issued an edict enfeoffing them all as county princesses and ordering the relevant offices to select husbands from eminent families.

田季安疾甚，吉甫請任薛平為義成節度使，以重兵控邢、洺，因圖上河北險要所在，帝張於浴堂門壁，每議河北事，必指吉甫曰：「朕日按圖，信如卿料矣。」 When Tian Ji'an fell gravely ill, Jifu asked that Xue Ping be appointed military commissioner of Yicheng with strong forces to control Xing and Ming; he also submitted a map of strategic points in Hebei; the emperor posted it on the wall of the Bath Hall; whenever Hebei affairs were discussed he would point to Jifu and say, "I consult this map daily—it is exactly as you predicted."

自蜀平，帝銳意欲取淮西。 Since Shu was pacified, the emperor was keenly intent on recovering Huaixi.

方吉甫在淮南，聞吳少陽立，上下攜泮，自請徙壽州，以天子命招懷之，反間以撓其黨，會討王承宗，未及用。 While Jifu was in Huainan he heard that Wu Shaoyang had succeeded to power and that his followers were divided; he volunteered to transfer to Shouzhou to win him over by imperial command and use counterintelligence to divide his faction; but the campaign against Wang Chengzong intervened and the plan was never carried out.

帝皆從之。 The emperor approved all of these proposals.

及元濟擅立，吉甫以內地無唇齒援，因時可取，不當用河朔故事，與帝意合。 When Wu Yuanji seized power on his own, Jifu argued that the central provinces had no mutual support, that the moment could be seized, and that the Hebei precedent of indulgence should not apply—the emperor agreed.

又請自往招元濟，茍逆誌不悛，得指授群帥俘賊以獻天子。 He also asked to go in person to win over Yuanji; if the rebel would not repent, he could direct the commanders to capture him and present him to the throne.

不許，固請至流涕，帝慰勉之。 The emperor refused; Jifu pressed his request until he wept; the emperor comforted and encouraged him.

帝震悼，賻外別賜縑五百恤其家，自大斂至卒哭，皆中人臨吊。 The emperor was shocked and grieved; beyond the standard funeral gifts he bestowed five hundred bolts of silk on the family; from the encoffinment to the final mourning rites, eunuchs attended on the emperor's behalf.

吉甫圖淮西地，未及上，帝敕其子獻之。 Jifu had mapped Huaixi territory but had not yet submitted the map; the emperor ordered his son to present it.

有司謚曰敬憲，度支郎中張仲方非之，帝怒，貶仲方，更賜謚曰忠懿。 The relevant offices proposed the posthumous title Jingxian (Respectful and Law-abiding); Bureau of Revenue director Zhang Zhongfang objected; the emperor was angry and demoted Zhongfang, changing the posthumous title to Zhongyi (Loyal and Admirable).