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Overview Fang Zhiwen was a general.
Identity Historical · Male
Life and dates Death Attested activity AD 936 天福元年
AD 934 to AD 936 廢帝時
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Career and standing Grand Marshal 太尉
Posthumously granted
Prince of Dongping 東平王
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Works and attributed material Assessments and attributes Assessment heavy taxer who neglected government · Mode historian-judgmentReferences in the histories
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 46 Volume 46 Miscellaneous Biographies 26: Zhao Zaili, Huo Yanwei, Fang Zhiwen, Wang Yanqiu, An Zhongba, Wang Jianli, Kang Fu, Guo Yanlu · 7 passages
初，明宗為北面招討使，而知溫為副使，廢帝時以裨將事知溫甚謹，後因杯酒失意。
Earlier Mingzong was northern expeditionary commissioner and Zhiwen his deputy. Under the Deposed Emperor he served Zhiwen as junior officer with great deference; later a cup of wine cost him favor.
及廢帝起兵鳳翔，湣帝出奔，知溫乘間有窺覦之意，謂其司馬李沖曰：「吾有錢數屋，養兵數千，因時建義，功必有成。」
When the Deposed Emperor raised troops at Fengxiang and the Lamented Emperor fled, Zhiwen saw his chance and told his chief administrator Li Chong: “I have money to fill several rooms and thousands under arms. Seize the moment, raise a righteous cause, and merit is sure.”
及沖至京師，廢帝已入立，沖即奉表稱賀，還勸知溫入朝，廢帝慰勞之甚厚。
Chong reached the capital; the Deposed Emperor had already taken the throne. Chong presented congratulations at once, returned, and urged Zhiwen to court. The Deposed Emperor received him with great favor.
知溫還鎮，封東平王。
Zhiwen returned to his post and was made Prince of Dongping.
今北平王德鈞、東平王知溫受封遣策，請下兵部、太常、太僕，給鹵簿、鼓吹、輅車、法物赴本道，禮畢還有司。」
Now Prince of Beiping Dejun and Prince of Dongping Zhiwen receive patents by dispatch—order War, Sacrifices, and the Imperial Stud to send guard of honor, music, carriage, and ritual objects to their circuits; when the rite ends, return them to the proper offices.”
知溫在鎮，常厚斂其民，積貲巨萬，治第青州南城，出入以聲妓，遊嬉不恤政事。
In his post Zhiwen taxed the people hard, amassed tens of millions, built a mansion in Qingzhou’s south city, went out with singing girls, and played while government rotted.
知溫卒後，其子彥儒獻其父錢三萬緡、絹布三萬匹、金百兩、銀千兩、茶千五百斤、絲十萬兩，拜沂州刺史。
After Zhiwen died, his son Yanru presented his father’s thirty thousand strings of cash, thirty thousand bolts of silk, a hundred taels of gold, a thousand taels of silver, fifteen hundred jin of tea, and a hundred thousand liang of silk, and was made prefect of Yi.