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Overview The translated histories identify Heshilie Zhizhong as a general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 16 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Heshilie Zhizhong
紇石烈執中
Héshíliè Zhízhōng
Personal name
Hesheli Hushahu
紇石烈胡沙虎
Personal name
Heshilie Zhizhong
紇石烈執中
Personal name
Hushahu
胡沙虎
Húshāhǔ
Alternate name
Zhizhong
執中
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Roles General Military Officer Official Life and dates Death Manner: killed ·
Agent Person Id: Zhuhu Gaoqi (朮虎高琪) ·
Place: his mansion / 其第 ·
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至寧元年十月辛亥Western Year: AD 1213Attested activity Career and standing Label: Right Vice Marshal / 右副元帥Action: appointedDate Context: Source Date: Text: 大安三年Western Year: AD 1211
Label: Right Vice Marshal / 右副元帥Action: dismissedDate Context: Source Date: Text: 崇慶元年Western Year: AD 1212
Label: Right Vice Marshal / 右副元帥Action: restoredDate Context: Source Date: Text: 至寧元年Western Year: AD 1213
Status: ranks-stripped ·
Action: punished ·
Authority Person Id: Emperor Xuanzong of Jin (金宣宗) ·
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 至寧元年Western Year: AD 1213References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
History of Jin, Chapter 13 Volume 13 Annals 13: Wei Shaowang · 16 passages
西京留守紇石烈胡沙虎行樞密院事。
Western Capital defender Hesheli Hushahu served as Bureau of Military Affairs commissioner.
紇石烈胡沙虎棄西京，走還京師，即以為右副元帥，權尚書左丞。
Hesheli Hushahu abandoned the Western Capital and fled back to the capital, where he was made Right Vice Marshal and Acting Left Vice Director of the Secretariat.
右副元帥胡沙虎請兵二萬屯宣德，詔與三千人屯媯川。
Right Vice Marshal Hushahu asked for twenty thousand men at Xuande; the court allowed only three thousand at Guichuan.
右副元帥胡沙虎請退軍屯南口，詔數其罪，免之。
Right Vice Marshal Hushahu asked to withdraw his troops to Nankou; an edict recited his crimes and removed him from office.
起胡沙虎複為右副元帥，領武衛軍三千人屯通玄門外。
Hushahu was recalled as right deputy grand marshal and stationed three thousand Martial Guard troops outside Tongxuan Gate.
辛卯，胡沙虎矯詔以誅反者，招福海執而殺之，奪其兵。
On xinmao Hushahu forged an edict against traitors, lured Fu Hai in, killed him, and seized his command.
胡沙虎叩東華門，遣人呼守直親軍百戶冬兒、五十戶蒲察六斤，不應。
Hushahu battered Donghua Gate and sent for the direct-guard centurion Dong'er and fifty-household chief Pucha Liujin; neither would answer.
都點檢徒單渭河縋而出，護衛斜烈掊鎖啟門，胡沙虎以兵入宮，盡遂衛士，代以其黨，自稱監國都元帥。
Chief Inspector Tushan Weihe was lowered by rope and escaped; guard Xielie smashed the lock and opened the gate. Hushahu entered the palace with soldiers, expelled the guards, filled their posts with his own men, and proclaimed himself regent grand marshal.
胡沙虎遣黃門入收璽，鄭曰：「璽，天子所用，胡沙虎人臣，取將何為？」
Hushahu sent a eunuch to seize the seals. Lady Zheng said, "The seal belongs to the Son of Heaven. Hushahu is only a subject — what use has he for it?"
黃門出，胡沙虎卒取「宣命之寶」，偽除其黨醜奴為德州防禦使、烏古論奪剌順天軍節度使、提控宿直將軍徒單金壽永定軍節度使，及其餘黨凡數十人，皆遷宮。
When the eunuch left, Hushahu seized the "Seal of Imperial Commands" and forged appointments: Chounu as defense commissioner of Dezhou, Wugulun Duola as Shuntian Army military commissioner, Tushan Jinshou of the Direct Guard as Yongding Army military commissioner, and several dozen more of his faction, all quartered in the palace.
誘奉御和尚作書急召其父左丞元奴議事，元奴以軍來，並其子皆殺之。
He induced Attendant-in-Ordinary Heshang to write an urgent summons to his father, Vice Director Yuannu. When Yuannu marched in with troops, Hushahu killed father and son together.
胡沙虎請廢為庶人，詔百官議於朝堂，議者三百餘人。
Hushahu asked that he be reduced to commoner status; an edict ordered the hundred officials to debate the matter in the court hall, and more than three hundred did so.
胡沙虎固執前議，宣宗不得已，乃降封東海郡侯。
Hushahu held to his earlier proposal; Emperor Xuanzong, having no choice, demoted him to Marquis of Donghai.
十月辛亥，元帥右監軍朮虎高琪殺胡沙虎於其第。
In the tenth month, on xinhai, Marshalate Right Army Supervisor Tuhu Gaoqi slew Hushahu in his own house.
胡沙虎者，紇石烈執中也。
Hushahu was none other than Heshilie Zhizhong.
惟所載李妃、完顏匡定策，獨吉千家奴兵敗，紇石烈執中作難，及日食、星變、地震、氛昆，不相背盭。
Only the accounts of Consort Li, Wanyan Kuang's conspiracy, Tugu Qianjianu's defeat, Heshilie Zhizhong's coup, and the eclipses, strange stars, earthquakes, and uncanny vapors agreed without conflict.