Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · General and Warlord

Erzhu Zhao 尒朱兆

Attested AD 531 - AD 533

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Erzhu Zhao was a general and Warlord.

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 16Volume 16 Biographies 8: Duan Rong; Duan Shao · 5 passages
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尒朱狂狡，行路所見，裂冠毀冕，拔本塞源，邙山之會，搢紳何罪，兼殺主立君，不脫旬朔，天下思亂，十室而九。 Erzhu is reckless and cunning — what everyone on the road sees: they tear off caps and destroy crowns, uproot foundations and block the source. At the assembly at Mount Mang, what crime did the gentry commit? Yet they also killed their lord and set up another — within no more than ten days and a month the realm yearns for disorder; nine of ten households.
答曰：「韶聞小能敵大，小道大淫，皇天無親，唯德是輔，尒朱外賊天下，內失善人，知者不為謀，勇者不為鬭，不肖失職，賢者取之，復何疑也。」 He answered, "Shao has heard that the small can overcome the large, and the way that is small may yet overcome one that is great and excessive; August Heaven is not partial — only virtue receives its aid. Erzhu outwardly harms the realm and inwardly loses good men; the wise will not plan for him, the brave will not fight for him. The unworthy lose their offices; the worthy take them — what doubt remains?"