Sui and Tang · Ruler

Emperor Xuanzong 帝

Attested AD 749 - AD 752

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Xuanzong was a ruler.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 749 天寶八載
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 134, passage 186
AD 752 天寶十一載
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 134, passage 209
AD 750 明年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 134, passages 186-187

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 186

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History

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 134Volume 134 Biographies 59: Yuwen, Wei, Yang, Wang · 8 passages

天寶八載，方士李渾上言見太白老人告玉版秘記事，帝詔鉷按其地求得之，因是群臣奉上帝號。 In Tianbao year 8, the adept Li Hun reported that the Old Man of Taibai had revealed the secret chronicle inscribed on a jade tablet. The emperor ordered Wang Hong to search the spot and recover it, whereupon the officials presented the emperor with a superior honorific title.

天子使者賜遺相望，聲焰薰灼。 Imperial envoys bearing gifts arrived in an unbroken stream; his prestige blazed.

帝寵任鉷亞林甫，而楊國忠不如也。 The emperor favored Wang Hong second only to Li Linfu — Yang Guozhong did not compare.

先二日事覺，帝召鉷付告牒。 Two days before, the plot was discovered; the emperor summoned Hong and gave him the denunciation.

國忠奏鉷與謀，帝不信，林甫亦為鉷言，故帝原銲不問。 Guozhong reported that Hong had joined the plot, but the emperor refused to believe it. Li Linfu spoke up for Hong as well, so the emperor pardoned Hua and dropped the matter.

然欲鉷請銲罪，使國忠諷之，鉷良久曰：「弟為先人所愛，義不欲舍而謀存。」 The emperor still wanted Hong to accuse Hua and had Guozhong drop hints. After a long pause Hong said: "My younger brother was beloved by our ancestors; I cannot in conscience abandon him and plot to save myself."

帝聞頗怒，而陳希烈固爭當以大逆。 The emperor was greatly angered when he heard this, and Chen Xilie insisted the crime should be charged as great treason.

未及應，侍御史裴冕叱銲曰：「上以大夫故官君五品，君為臣不忠，為弟不誼。 Before Hua could reply, attendant censor Pei Mian shouted at him: "The emperor gave you a fifth-rank post for the chief censor's sake, yet as a subject you are disloyal and as a brother you are faithless.