Five Dynasties · Royal Family Member

Jiji 繼岌

Attested AD 926

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Jiji was a Royal Family Member.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 926 同光四年正月甲子
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 5, passages 172, 220

Career and standing

Prince of Wei 魏王
AD 926 同光四年正月甲子 · Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 5, passage 172

Events and relationships

Killed Guo Chongtao and sons
AD 926 同光四年正月甲子 · Legal · Executioner · With Guo Chongtao (郭崇韜)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 5, passages 172, 220

Assessments and attributes

Assessment could have refused the empress’s unofficial order to kill Chongtao, but did not · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 5, passage 220

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 5, passage 172

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 5Volume 5 Later Tang Annals 2: Zhuangzong 2 · 2 passages

甲子，魏王繼岌殺郭崇韜及其二子于蜀。 On jiazi, Prince of Wei Jiji put Guo Chongtao and his two sons to death in Shu.

實皇后劉氏作教與繼岌使殺崇韜，而書「繼岌殺」者，繼岌將兵在外，后教非天子命，可止而不止。 In reality Empress Liu ordered Jiji to kill Chongtao. The text says “Jiji killed” because Jiji was commanding troops outside the court, and the empress’s order was not an imperial command; he could have refused, but did not.