Overview
Emperor Wu was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male · Title only
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 576 建德五年
AD 575 武帝將出兵河陽以伐齊
Places and affiliations
- Polity Northern Zhou 周 · Relation Ruled
Events and relationships
Launched a great campaign against Qi and adopted Bi's plan
AD 576 建德五年 · Military · Ruler
Planned to send troops to Heyang to attack Qi; did not accept Bi's plan; campaign failed
Military · Ruler · At Heyang 河陽
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Book of Sui, Chapter 56Volume 56 Biographies 21: Lu Kai, Ling Huxi, Xue Zhou, Yu Wenbi, Zhang Heng, Yang Wang · 6 passages
武帝將出兵河陽以伐齊，謀及臣下，弼進策曰：「齊氏建國，於今累葉，雖曰無道，籓屏之寄，尚有其人。
Emperor Wu was about to send troops to Heyang to attack Qi and consulted his ministers. Bi advanced a plan: "The Qi state has stood for many generations. Though it is said to be without the Way, it still has men to hold its frontiers.
用武之地，莫過於此，願陛下詳之。」
Among places for employing troops there is none better than this. I beg Your Majesty to consider it carefully."
帝不納，師竟無功。
The emperor did not accept it, and the campaign ultimately failed.
弼於是募三輔豪俠少年數百人以為別隊，從帝攻拔晉州。
Bi thereupon recruited several hundred bold young men of the three adjuncts as a separate detachment and followed the emperor in capturing Jin prefecture.
身被三創，苦戰不息，帝奇而壯之。
His body received three wounds, yet he fought on without ceasing. The emperor marveled and considered him strong.
後從帝平齊，以功拜上儀同，封武威縣公，邑千五百戶，賜物千五百段，奴婢百五十口，馬牛羊千餘頭，拜司州總管司錄。
Later he followed the emperor in pacifying Qi. For his merit he was appointed Senior Yitong, enfeoffed as duke of Wuwei county with a fief of fifteen hundred households, granted fifteen hundred bolts of goods, a hundred fifty slaves and maidservants, and more than a thousand horses, cattle, and sheep, and was made registrar to the governor-general of Si prefecture.