Ge Yanyu (葛延遇) | 24 Histories

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Ge Yanyu was a Servant.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 951 葛延遇…奏誅延遇
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 57, passages 36, 45

Events and relationships

Relation Servant of · Person Li Yu (李嶼)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 57, passage 36

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 57Volume 57 Miscellaneous Biographies 37: Li Song, Li Lin, Jia Wei, Duan Xiyao, Zhang Yun, Wang Song, Pei Hao, Wang Renyu, Pei Yu, Wang Yan, Ma Zhongji, Zhao Yanyi · 5 passages

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嶼仆葛延遇為嶼商賈，多幹沒其貲，嶼笞責之。 Yu's servant Ge Yanyu conducted business for him and repeatedly embezzled his funds; Yu had him beaten.

延遇夜宿逢吉部曲李澄家，以情告澄。 Yanyu spent the night at the home of Li Cheng, a retainer in Fengji's service, and confided the affair to Cheng.

澄乃教延遇告變，言崧與其甥王凝謀因山陵放火焚京師，又以蠟丸書通守貞。 Cheng then coached Yanyu to denounce Song, claiming that Song and his nephew Wang Ning plotted to set fire to the capital during the imperial funeral and had sent a message in a wax-sealed ball to Shouzhen.

崧素與翰林學士徐臺符相善，後周太祖入立，臺符告宰相馮道，請誅葛延遇，道以延遇數經赦宥，難之。 Song had long been friendly with the Hanlin academician Xu Taifu; when Later Zhou Taizu took the throne, Taifu told the chief minister Feng Dao and asked that Ge Yanyu be executed; Dao hesitated because Yanyu had been pardoned several times.

樞密使王峻聞之，多臺符有義，乃奏誅延遇。 Commissioner of military affairs Wang Jun heard of this, admired Taifu's sense of justice, and memorialized for Yanyu's execution.