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Overview The translated histories identify Jia Juanzhi as an official and statesman. This record brings together 25 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Jia Juanzhi
賈捐之
Jia Juanzhi
Surname
Jia
賈
Jia
Personal
Jia Juanzhi
捐之
Jia Juanzhi
Personal
Jia Juanzhi
賈捐之
Jiǎ Juānzhī
Given
Juanzhi
捐之
Juanzhi
Personal
Juanzhi
捐之
Juanzhi
Courtesy
Junfang
君房
Junfang
Identity
Historicity Historical
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Sex Male Life and dates Death Attested activity Works and attributed material Kind: counsel ·
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Book of Han, Chapter 10 Volume 9: Annals of Emperor Yuan · 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 75 Volume 64b: Yan, Zhu, Wuqiu, Zhufu, Xu, Yan, Zhong, Wang, and Jia 2 · 21 passages
賈捐之
Jia Juanzhi
賈捐之字君房，賈誼之曾孫也。
Jia Juanzhi, whose courtesy name was Junfang, was a great-grandson of Jia Yi.
元帝初即位，上疏言得失，召待詔金馬門。
Soon after Emperor Yuan took the throne, Jia Juanzhi presented a memorial on policy, and the court added him to the scholars awaiting summons at the Golden Horse Gate.
上與有司議大發軍，捐之建議，以為不當擊。
The emperor and his ministers debated a major mobilization, but Jia Juanzhi argued that conquest was the wrong course.
上使侍中駙馬都尉樂昌侯王商詰問捐之曰：「珠崖內屬為郡久矣，今背畔逆節，而云不當擊，長蠻夷之亂，虧先帝功德，經義何以處之？」
The emperor ordered Wang Shang, the marquis of Yuechang, who served as palace attendant and commandant of household cavalry, to confront Jia Juanzhi. 'Zhuya has been an internal commandery for ages,' he said. 'Now it breaks faith. To refuse a campaign is to encourage barbarian revolt and blot the achievement of the late emperor. What do the classics say to that?'
捐之對曰：
Jia Juanzhi replied:
今關東困乏，民難搖動，捐之議是。」
Now east of the passes is exhausted and depleted; the people are hard to shake and move—Juanzhi's proposal is right."
捐之數召見，言多納用。
Jia Juanzhi was summoned often, and much of his advice was taken.
時中書令石顯用事，捐之數短顯，以故不得官，後稀復見。
Palace Secretary Shi Xian held power at the time, and Jia Juanzhi repeatedly attacked him in memorials—so he never won a substantive post and was seldom called to audience again.
而長安令楊興新以材能得幸，與捐之相善。
Yang Xing, the magistrate of Chang'an, had lately won favor through his abilities and was on close terms with Jia Juanzhi.
捐之欲得召見，謂興曰：「京兆尹缺，使我得見，言君蘭，京兆尹可立得。」
Jia Juanzhi longed for another summons. He told Yang Xing, 'The governorship of the capital is open. Give me a chance to praise you to the throne, Junlan, and you can have that office at once.'
君房下筆，言語妙天下，使君房為尚書令，勝五鹿充宗遠甚。」
Your pen and tongue are the finest in the realm. Were you made palace secretary, you would put Wulu Chongzong to shame.'
捐之曰：「令我得代充宗，君蘭為京兆，京兆郡國首，尚書百官本，天下真大治，士則不隔矣。
Jia Juanzhi said, "If I replace Chongzong and you, Junlan, take the capital governorship—the premier local post—and I hold the secretariat—the spine of the bureaucracy—the empire would be truly well ruled and no talent would languish in obscurity.
捐之前言平恩侯可為將軍，期思侯並可為諸曹，皆如言；
Earlier I said the marquis of Ping'en should be made a general and the marquis of Qisi given bureau posts—and it happened just as I predicted;
興曰：「我復見，言君房也。」
Yang Xing said, 'On my next audience I will speak up for you.'
捐之復短石顯。
Jia Juanzhi again launched a tirade against Shi Xian.
捐之即與興共為薦顯奏，曰：「竊見石顯本山東名族，有禮義之家也。
Jia Juanzhi then drafted with Yang Xing a joint memorial praising Shi Xian: 'We observe that Shi Xian springs from a great Shandong lineage, a house schooled in ritual and duty.
乃下興、捐之獄，令皇后父陽平侯禁與顯共雜治，奏「興、捐之懷詐偽，以上語相風，更相薦譽，欲得大位，漏泄省中語，岡上不道。
Xing and Jia Juanzhi were therefore sent to prison, and the empress's father, Wang Jin, Marquis of Yangping, was ordered to conduct a joint investigation with Shi Xian. They memorialized: 'Xing and Juanzhi harbored deceit, used the emperor's words to hint to one another, praised and recommended each other in turn, sought high office, leaked words spoken within the palace, and deceived their sovereign in an impious way.
捐之竟坐棄市。
Jia Juanzhi was executed in the marketplace.
究觀淮南、捐之、主父、嚴安之義，深切著明，故備論其語。
The arguments of the Huainan faction, of Jia Juanzhi, of Zhufu Yan, and of Yan An repay close reading: they are trenchant, lucid, and morally plain, which is why this chapter records their words at such length.
世稱公孫弘排主父，張湯陷嚴助，石顯譖捐之，察其行跡，主父求欲鼎亨而得族，嚴、賈出入禁門招權利，死皆其所也，亦何排陷之恨哉！
Posterity blames Gongsun Hong for sidelining Zhufu Yan, Zhang Tang for ruining Yan Zhu, and Shi Xian for destroying Jia Juanzhi—yet examine how these men lived. Zhufu Yan clawed after the honors of the high minister's tripod and instead won the execution of his entire kin; Yan Zhu and Jia Juanzhi used their passes through the forbidden gates to peddle influence and line their pockets. Each fell by his own doing; there is little cause to nurse a grudge against those who merely 'squeezed' or 'framed' them.
Book of Han, Chapter 105 Volume 93: Flatterers · 2 passages
History of Liao, Chapter 88 Volume 88 Biographies 18: Xiao Dilie, Yelu Pennu, Xiao Paiya, Yelu Zizhong, Yelu Yaozhi, Yelu Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelu Delu, Da Kangyi · 1 passage