Jia Wei | 24 Histories

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Jia Wei was an official.

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AD 930 賈緯，鎮州獲鹿人也。
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 57, passages 81, 84

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 57Volume 57 Miscellaneous Biographies 37: Li Song, Li Lin, Jia Wei, Duan Xiyao, Zhang Yun, Wang Song, Pei Hao, Wang Renyu, Pei Yu, Wang Yan, Ma Zhongji, Zhao Yanyi · 10 passages

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賈緯，鎮州獲鹿人也。 Jia Wei was a native of Huolu in Zhenzhou.

緯長於史學。 Wei excelled in historical scholarship.

唐自武宗已後無實錄，史官之職廢，緯采次傳聞，為《唐年補錄》六十五卷。 From Emperor Wuzong of Tang onward there were no Veritable Records and the historiographers' office lapsed; Wei gathered hearsay and compiled the Supplementary Annals of the Tang Years in sixty-five juan.

當唐之末，王室微弱，諸侯強盛，征伐擅出，天下多事，故緯所論次多所闕誤。 At the end of the Tang the throne was weak, regional lords were powerful, and war was constant; much of what Wei recorded is therefore incomplete or mistaken.

初，桑維翰為相，常惡緯為人，待之甚薄。 Earlier, when Sang Weihan was chief minister, he had always disliked Wei's character and treated him very coldly.

緯為維翰傳，言「繼翰死，有銀八千鋌。」 Wei wrote Weihan's biography, stating that "when Weihan died there were eight thousand ingots of silver."

翰林學士徐臺符以為不可，數以非緯，緯不得已，更為數千鋌。 The Hanlin academician Xu Taifu objected that this was unacceptable and repeatedly criticized Wei, who had no choice but to reduce the figure to several thousand ingots.

廣順元年，實錄成，緯求遷官不得，由是怨望。 In the first year of Guangshun the Veritable Records were completed; Wei sought promotion and was denied, and from this he nursed resentment.

是時，宰相王峻監修國史，緯書日曆，多言當時大臣過失，峻見之，怒曰：「賈給事子弟仕宦亦要門閥，奈何歷詆當朝之士，使其子孫何以仕進？」 At that time chief minister Wang Jun supervised the national history; Wei wrote the court calendar and recorded many faults of the leading ministers of the day; when Jun saw it he said in anger, "Palace Attendant Jia's sons and brothers also seek office through eminent families—why vilify the men of this court so that their descendants cannot advance?"

言之太祖，貶平盧軍行軍司馬。 He reported this to Taizu, and Wei was demoted to acting military administrator of the Pinglu army.