Sui and Tang · Official

Han Huang 韓滉

Attested AD 786

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Han Huang was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 786 貞元二年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 150, passages 151, 155-157

Career and standing

sole director of expenditure, salt-iron, and transport for all circuits 專領度支諸道鹽鐵、轉運等使
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 157
transport commissioner 轉運
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passages 151, 155
Jianghuai transport commissioner 江淮轉運使
Restored
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 156

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 151

Events and relationships

Blocked abolition of transport office
Political · Opponent · With Cui Zao (崔造)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 156
Canal transport to Dongwei Bridge
Logistical · Transporter · With Du Ya (杜亞)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 151

Assessments and attributes

Assessment favored by the emperor; court depended on his supplies · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 150, passage 155

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 150Volume 150 Biographies 75: Li, Chang, Zhao, Cui, Qi, Lu · 4 passages

而浙江東、西歲入米七十五萬石，方歲饑，更以兩稅準米百萬，豪、壽、洪、潭二十萬，責韓滉杜亞漕送東渭橋。 Zhejiang East and West had previously delivered 750,000 shi of grain each year. In a year of famine the quota was raised to the two-tax equivalent of one million shi, with Hao, Shou, Hong, and Tan together supplying 200,000. Han Huang and Du Ya were ordered to transport the grain by canal to Dongwei Bridge.

時滉方領轉運，有寵於帝，朝廷仰其須。 At the time Han Huang was still in charge of transport and enjoyed the emperor's favor; the court depended on him for supplies.

滉持不可改，帝重違之，復以滉滉為江淮轉運使，余如造請。 Huang insisted the arrangement could not be changed. Unwilling to override him, the emperor restored Han Huang as Jianghuai transport commissioner, while the rest of the plan went forward as Zao had proposed.

是秋，江淮米大集，帝美滉功，以滉專領度支諸道鹽鐵、轉運等使。 That autumn grain from the Jianghuai region poured in. The emperor praised Huang's achievement and put him in sole charge of expenditure, salt and iron, transport, and related offices for all circuits.