Five Dynasties · Official and General

Hou Yi 侯益

Attested AD 950

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Hou Yi was an official and General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 950 乾祐三年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 103, passages 119, 132-133

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Han 後漢 · Relation Associated with
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 103, passages 119, 132-133

Events and relationships

Fled to Guo Wei camp
Military · Defector · With Guo Wei (郭威)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 103, passage 149

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 103Volume 103 Book of Later Han 5: Emperor Yin Annals, Part 2 · 5 passages

是日，詔前開封尹侯益、前鄜州節度使張彥超、權侍衛馬軍都指揮使閻晉卿、鄭州防禦使吳虔裕等，率禁軍赴澶州守捉。 That day an edict sent former Kaifeng mayor Hou Yi, former Fuzhou commissioner Zhang Yanchao, acting guard horse commander Yan Jinqing, Zhengzhou defender Wu Qianyu, and others with the palace guard to hold Chanzhou.

〈（《宋史·侯益傳》云：周太祖起兵，隱帝議出師禦之。 (From the History of Song, biography of Hou Yi: when Guo Wei rebelled, Emperor Yin debated marching against him.

益獻計曰：「王者無敵於天下，兵不宜輕出，況大名戍卒，家屬盡在京城，不如閉關以挫其銳，遣其母妻發降以招之，可不戰而定。」 Yi proposed: "The Son of Heaven has no peer—armies should not march lightly. Daming troops have kin in the capital; close the passes, send their families with surrender appeals, and win without fighting."

慕容彥超以為益衰老，作懦夫計，沮之。）〉 Murong Yanchao called Yi senile and his plan cowardly, and blocked it.)〉

是夜，帝與宰臣從官宿於野次，侯益、焦繼勛潛奔鄴軍。 That night the emperor camped in the open with his ministers; Hou Yi and Jiao Jixun defected to Guo Wei.