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Overview The translated histories identify Empress Qi as a consort and royal family member. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Empress Qi
奇氏
Qi shi
Title
empress
皇后
Personal
Empress Qi
皇后奇氏
Surname
Qi
奇
Qi
Title
the Western Palace
西宮
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History of Yuan, Chapter 204 Volume 204 Biographies 91: Eunuchs · 8 passages
至於樸不花，乃東夷之人，始以西宮同里，因緣柄用，遂與權奸同惡相濟，訖底於誅戮，則固有以致之也。
Po Buhua, by contrast, came from the eastern borderlands. He had grown up in the same hometown as the empress of the Western Palace; through that connection he gained power, then joined forces with corrupt ministers until he was put to death — a fate he had largely brought on himself.
皇后奇氏微時，與不花同鄉里，相為依倚。
In her early days Empress Qi came from the same hometown as Buhua, and the two relied on each other.
於是不花以閹人入事皇后者有年，皇后愛幸之，情意甚膠固，累遷官至榮祿大夫、資正院使。
Buhua had then served the empress for years as a eunuch. She favored him deeply, and their bond was very close. Through repeated promotions he rose to Grand Master for Glorious Happiness and commissioner of the Rectification of Resources Office.
不花欲要譽一時，請於帝，市地收瘞之，帝賜鈔七千錠，中宮及興聖、隆福兩宮，皇太子、皇太子妃，賜金銀及他物有差，省院施者無算；
Seeking a moment’s fame, Buhua asked the emperor to buy land for mass burial. The emperor gave seven thousand ingots of paper money; the central palace, the palaces of Sagely Origin and Longevity and Blessings, the crown prince and his consort each contributed gold, silver, and other goods in varying amounts; and the central and provincial offices gave without limit.
皇后乃謀內禪皇太子，而使不花喻意於丞相太平，太平不答。
The empress then plotted to abdicate in favor of the crown prince and sent Buhua to sound out Chancellor Taiping, who gave no answer.
御史大夫老的沙以其事聞，皇太子執不下，而皇后庇之尤固，御史乃皆坐左遷。
Censor-in-chief Laodasha reported the matter, but the crown prince withheld the memorial. The empress shielded the accused all the more stubbornly, and every censor involved was demoted.
時老的沙執其事頗力，皇太子因惡之，而皇后又譖之於內，帝以老的沙母舅故，封為雍王，遣歸國。
Laodasha had pressed the case vigorously, and the crown prince came to dislike him. The empress slandered him within the palace, but because he was the emperor’s uncle on the mother’s side, he was enfeoffed as Prince of Yong and sent home.
已而復以不花為集賢大學士、崇正院使，皇后之力也。
Before long, however, Buhua was reappointed grand academician of the Hall of Gathered Talents and commissioner of the Office for the Veneration of Rectitude — thanks to the empress’s influence.