Yuan · Official and Military Commander

Huonijichi 火你赤

Attested AD 1355 - AD 1358

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Huonijichi was an official and Military Commander.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1356 十六年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 187, passages 226-229
AD 1358 十八年
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passages 230-231, 234
AD 1355 時江南兵起且五年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 187, passage 218

Career and standing

Participant in Government of the Jiangxi Branch Secretariat 江西行省參政
Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 218
Pingzhang 平章
Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 226

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 218

Works and attributed material

These two men are unfit to govern the people. 二人者，難任牧民。
Memorial · Author · Direct quotation · With Wu Dang (吳當), Huang Zhao (黃昭)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 228

Events and relationships

Abandoned the city and fled
Military · Commander · With Chen Youliang (陳友諒)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 234
Killed staff officers
Legal · Perpetrator · With Fan Chun (范淳), Zhang Di (章迪)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 227
Official documents reached court before Dang and Zhao merit reports
Documentary · Author
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 231
Ordered to pacify Jiangxi
Military · Joint commander · With Wu Dang (吳當), Huang Zhao (黃昭)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 218
Returned from Ruizhou to Longxing
AD 1358 十八年 · Travel · Commander · At Longxing 龍興
Directly stated · History of Yuan 187, passage 230

References in the histories

History of Yuan, Chapter 187Volume 187 Biographies 74: Wugusunliangzhen, Jia Lu, Lu Luceng, Gong Shitai, Zhou Boqi, Wu Dang · 7 passages

時江南兵起且五年，大臣有薦當世居江西，習知江西民俗，且其才可任政事者，詔特授江西肅政廉訪使，偕江西行省參政火你赤、兵部尚書黃昭，招捕江西諸郡，便宜行事。 Warfare in the Jiangnan had then been raging for nearly five years. A senior minister recommended Dang, who had long lived in Jiangxi and knew its customs, as a man whose talent suited government affairs. An edict specially appointed him surveillance commissioner of Jiangxi, together with Participant in Government Huonijichi of the Jiangxi Branch Secretariat and Minister of War Huang Zhao, to pacify the prefectures of Jiangxi with discretionary authority.

有旨解二人兵柄，除當撫州路緫管，昭臨江路緫管，並供億平章火你赤軍。 An edict stripped them of military command. Dang was appointed general administrator of Fuzhou circuit and Zhao of Linjiang circuit, and both were ordered to supply Pingzhang Huonijichi's army.

火你赤殺當從事官范淳及章迪，將士皆憤怒不平，當諭之曰：「上命不可違也。」 Huonijichi killed Dang's staff officers Fan Chun and Zhang Di. The officers and soldiers were furious, but Dang told them: "The sovereign's command cannot be disobeyed."

而火你赤又上章言：「二人者，難任牧民。」 Huonijichi then memorialized again: "These two men are unfit to govern the people."

十八年，火你赤自瑞州還龍興，當、昭皆隨軍不敢去。 In 1358 Huonijichi returned from Ruizhou to Longxing. Dang and Zhao both followed the army and dared not leave.

先是，當與昭平賊功狀，自廣東由海道未達京師，而朶歹、火你赤等公牘乃先至，故朝廷責當、昭，皆左遷。 Earlier, Dang and Zhao's reports on pacifying the rebels, sent from Guangdong by sea, had not reached the capital, while the memorials of Duodai, Huonijichi, and others arrived first. The court therefore blamed Dang and Zhao and demoted them both.

火你赤棄城遁，當乃戴黃冠，著道士服，杜門不出，日以著書為事。 Huonijichi abandoned the city and fled. Dang then put on a yellow cap and Daoist robes, shut his door, and devoted himself daily to writing.