Sui and Tang · Tang Emperor

Emperor Zhaozong 昭宗

Zhaozong

Attested AD 891 - AD 893

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Emperor Zhaozong was a Tang Emperor.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 891 大順二年
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 40, passages 4, 6
AD 893 景福二年
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 40, passages 10, 20

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 40, passage 12

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40Volume 40 Miscellaneous Biographies 20: Li Maozhen, Han Jian, Li Renfu, Han Xun, Yang Chongben, Gao Wanxing, Wen Tao · 7 passages

昭宗以宦者故，難之，未許。 Zhaozong, mindful of the eunuchs, hesitated and refused.

茂貞表其子繼密權知興元軍府事，昭宗乃徙茂貞山南西道節度使，以宰相徐彥若鎮鳳翔。 Maozhen asked that his son Jimi hold Xingyuan in his stead. Zhaozong moved Maozhen to Shannan West and sent Chancellor Xu Yanruo to Fengxiang.

昭宗以茂貞表辭不遜，不能忍，以問宰相杜讓能，讓能以謂：「茂貞地大兵強，而唐力未可以致討； Zhaozong read insolence in the memorial and could not swallow it. He asked Chancellor Du Rangneng. Rangneng said: “Maozhen holds a wide domain and a strong army; Tang lacks the force to call him to account;

昭宗怒曰：「吾不能孱孱坐受淩弱！」 Zhaozong flared: “I will not sit here and be pushed around!”

令下，京師市人皆知不可，相與聚承天門，遮宰相請無舉兵，爭投瓦石擊宰相，宰相下輿而走，亡其堂印，人情大恐，昭宗意益堅。 The order went out and the markets knew disaster was coming. Crowds blocked the chancellors at Chengtian Gate, begging them to halt the war, and pelted them with brick and stone until they fled on foot, leaving their seals behind. Terror swept the city, but Zhaozong only hardened his will.

昭宗禦安福門，殺兩樞密以謝茂貞，使罷兵。 Zhaozong appeared at the Anfu Gate, sacrificed the two Privy Council commissioners to appease Maozhen, and bade him stand down.

昭宗泣下沾襟，貶讓能雷州司戶參軍，賜死，茂貞乃罷兵。 Zhaozong wept until his robe was soaked, banished Rangneng to Leizhou as registrar, and ordered him to die. Only then did Maozhen withdraw.