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Gaozu was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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Ordered fire attack ships
AD 506 五年 · Military · Planner
Ordered Jingzong to relieve Zhongli
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- Assessment indulged Jingzong's drunken lapses as amusement · Mode historian-judgment
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Book of Liang, Chapter 9Volume 9: Wang Mao; Cao Jingzong; Liu Qingyuan · 8 passages
高祖詔景宗督衆軍援義之，豫州刺史韋叡亦預焉，而受景宗節度。
Gaozu ordered Jingzong to command the armies to relieve Yizhi; Yuzhou inspector Wei Rui joined as well, under Jingzong's command.
景宗固啓，求先據邵陽洲尾，高祖不聽。
Jingzong repeatedly petitioned to seize the end of Shaoyang Isle first; Gaozu refused.
高祖聞之，曰：「此所以破賊也。
When Gaozu heard, he said, "This is how we break the enemy.
先是，高祖詔景宗等逆裝高艦，使與魏橋等，爲火攻計。
Earlier Gaozu had ordered Jingzong and the others to fit out tall warships in advance, level with the Wei bridges, for a fire attack.
景宗乃搜軍所得生口萬餘人，馬千匹，遣獻捷，高祖詔還本軍，景宗振旅凱入，增封四百，並前爲二千戶，進爵爲公。
Jingzong gathered more than ten thousand captives and a thousand horses from the army's takings and sent word of victory; Gaozu ordered him back to his command; Jingzong marched home in triumph, his fief was increased by four hundred households to two thousand in all, and he was advanced to duke.
惟韋叡年長，且州里勝流，特相敬重，同宴御筵，亦曲躬謙遜，高祖以此嘉之。
only Wei Rui, who was older and a leading man of their district, he specially honored; at imperial banquets he bowed with humble courtesy as well—Gaozu praised him for it.
高祖頗知之，景宗乃止。
Gaozu learned of it, and Jingzong then stopped.
高祖數讌見功臣，共道故舊，景宗醉後謬忘，或誤稱下官，高祖故縱之，以爲笑樂。
Gaozu often feasted his merit-holders and talked of old times; drunk, Jingzong would forget himself and sometimes call himself "your servant"; Gaozu indulged it and laughed.