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Overview Han High Ancestor was a ruler.
Identity Historical · Male
Life and dates Attested activity AD 944 to AD 947 漢高祖鎮河東
AD 947 高祖建號
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 30 Volume 30 Later Han Biographies 10: Su Fengji, Shi Hongzhao, Yang Bin, Wang Zhang, Liu Zhu, Li Ye, Nie Wenjin, Hou Zan, Guo Yunming · 12 passages
漢高祖鎮河東，父悅為高祖從事，逢吉常代悅作奏記，悅乃言之高祖。
While the Han High Ancestor held Hedong, Fengji’s father Yue served on his staff. Fengji often wrote memorials for Yue, and Yue commended him to the High Ancestor.
高祖召見逢吉，精神爽秀，憐之，乃以為節度判官。
The High Ancestor received Fengji and found him keen-eyed and fine in bearing. He took a liking to him and made him the military governor’s aide.
高祖性素剛嚴，賓佐稀得請見，逢吉獨入，終日侍立高祖書閣中。
The High Ancestor was stern by nature; his staff rarely saw him. Fengji alone went in and stood all day in the High Ancestor’s study.
兩使文簿盈積，莫敢通，逢吉輒取內之懷中，伺高祖色可犯時以進之，高祖多以為可，以故甚愛之。
Memorials from the two commissioners stacked up; no one dared forward them. Fengji tucked them in his robe and, when the High Ancestor’s face looked passable, slipped them in. The High Ancestor usually assented—and came to love him for it.
高祖嘗以生日遣逢吉疏理獄囚以祈福，謂之「靜獄。」
On his birthday the High Ancestor sent Fengji to sort the prisons and clear the inmates for a blessing—calling it “Quieting the Prisons.”
高祖建號，拜逢吉中書侍郎、同中書門下平章事。
When the High Ancestor took the throne, Fengji became Vice Minister of the Secretariat and Co-signer of the Secretariat-Chancellery.
高祖既定京師，逢吉與蘇禹珪同在中書，除吏多違舊制。
Once the capital was settled, Fengji and Su Yugui shared the Secretariat—and appointments broke old rules at every turn.
然高祖方倚信二人，故莫敢有告者。
The High Ancestor still leaned on the two men, and no one dared accuse them.
晉相李崧從契丹以北，高祖入京師，以崧第賜逢吉，而崧別有田宅在西京，逢吉遂皆取之。
Jin chancellor Li Song had gone north with the Khitan. When the High Ancestor entered the capital he gave Song’s mansion to Fengji; Song also had fields and houses in the Western Capital, and Fengji took those as well.
其後，逢吉乃誘人告崧與弟嶼、義等，下獄，崧款自誣伏：「與家僮二十人，謀因高祖山陵為亂。」
Fengji then had Song and his brothers Yu and Yi denounced and thrown into prison. Song confessed under torture: “With twenty household slaves I meant to stir trouble at the High Ancestor’s tomb.”
有庶兄自外來，未白逢吉而見其諸子，逢吉怒，托以佗事告於高祖，杖殺之。
A half-brother arrived from abroad and, without telling Fengji, visited his sons. Fengji, enraged, denounced him to the High Ancestor on some other charge and had him clubbed to death.
逢吉嘗從高祖征鄴，數使酒辱周太祖於軍中，太祖恨之。
On campaign against Ye with the High Ancestor, Fengji repeatedly humiliated Zhou Taizu while drunk—and Taizu never forgot it.