Feng Hui (馮暉) | 24 Histories

Overview

Feng Hui was a general and Official.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Death

AD 953 廣順三年夏
Age 60
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 144

Age

60
AD 953 年六十 · Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 144

Attested activity

AD 944 to AD 953 開運初…廣順三年
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passages 132, 144

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Feng Jiye (馮繼業)
son 子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 146

Career and standing

Prince of Chenliu 陳留王
AD 951 國初 · Enfeoffed
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 143
Prince of Wei 衛王
Posthumously awarded
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 145

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Han 後漢 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 141
Polity Later Jin 後晉 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 132
Polity Later Zhou 後周 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 143

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 133
Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passage 129

Events and relationships

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Military · Commander · With Yao Yuanfu (藥元福) · Mode named-source-report Source Work Longping Collection Biography of Yao Yuanfu 隆平集·藥元福傳
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 125, passages 125, 131

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 125Volume 125 Book of Later Zhou 27: Biographies 5: Lie Chuanwu, Zhao Hui, Wang Shou'en, Kong Zhijun, Wang Jihong, Feng Hui, Gao Yunquan, Zhe Congruan, Wang Rao, Sun Fangjian · 15 passages

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暉期年得馬五千匹，而蕃部歸心，朝議患之。 Within a year Hui obtained five thousand horses and won the loyalty of the frontier tribes, which alarmed the court.

〈（《隆平集·藥元福傳》：西戎三族攻靈州，命元福佐朔方節度使馮暉討之。 (From the 《Longping Collection · Biography of Yao Yuanfu》: Three western tribes attacked Lingzhou. Yao Yuanfu was ordered to assist the Shuofang military governor Feng Hui in suppressing them.

攜糧至，暉食盡，詰朝行四十里，而敵騎數萬扼要路。 They carried provisions with them, but Hui's supplies ran out. At dawn they marched forty li, only to find tens of thousands of enemy horsemen blocking the vital pass.

暉大懼，遣人致賂求成，雖許，及日中猶未決。 Hui was terrified and sent envoys with bribes seeking peace. Though the enemy agreed in principle, by midday nothing had been settled.

暉曰：「奈何？」 Hui said, "What are we to do?"

暉善其謀，斬馘殆盡。）〉 Hui approved the plan, and nearly all the enemy were slaughtered.)〉

惟暉不預其數，乃上章自陳，且言未老可用，而制書見遺。 Hui alone was not among them. He submitted a memorial arguing that he was not yet old and was still fit for service, yet the imperial appointment had passed him over.

暉得詔甚喜，又達情乞移鎮邠州，即以節鉞授之。 Hui was delighted by the edict and also asked to be transferred to Binzhou. The military commission was granted at once.

行未及邠，又除陜州，暉獻馬千匹、駝五百頭。 Before he reached Bin he was reassigned to Shaanzhou. Hui presented a thousand horses and five hundred camels.

暉既典禁兵，兼領近鎮，為朝廷縻留，頗悔離靈武。 Hui now commanded the palace guard and held a nearby circuit as well. Detained at court, he deeply regretted leaving Lingwu.

及馮玉、李彥韜用事，暉善奉之，未幾，復以暉為朔方節度使，加檢校太師。 When Feng Yu and Li Yantao came to power, Hui cultivated them assiduously. Before long he was restored as military governor of Shuofang and made acting Grand Preceptor.