Lai Zhen 來瑱

Other names

Family

• Child of Lai Yao (來曜)
  father 父 · paternal line
  father 父
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 78, 91; New Book of Tang 144, passage 2
• Child of Mother of Lai Zhen (來瑱母)
  mother 母 · maternal line
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 86
• Child of Mother of Lai Zhen
  mother 母
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 6

Career and standing

• fiscal administration 收
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 3
• Censor-in-Chief 御史中丞
  Appointed concurrent · From Source Date: Text: 魯炅敗於葉縣 · Western Year: AD 756
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 94
• Censor-in-Chief 御史大夫
  Appointed concurrent · From Source Date: Text: 上元三年 · Western Year: AD 762
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 115
• Censor-in-Chief 御史大夫
  Appointed concurrent · From Source Date: Text: 乾元三年四月十三日 · Western Year: AD 760
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 106
• Censor-in-Chief 御史大夫
  Appointed concurrent · From Source Date: Text: 收復兩京 · Western Year: AD 757
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 100
• Governor of Runan 汝南郡太守
  Appointed concurrent · From Source Date: Text: 安祿山反 · Western Interval: Start: AD 755 · End: AD 756
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 87

Places and affiliations

• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 18, 52, 77, 82-83, 107, 137, 161, 208; New Book of Tang 138, passage 42; New Book of Tang 144, passage 30; New Book of Tang 194, passage 116
• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 144, passages 4-5
• At Yongshou in Binzhou 邠州永壽
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 77; New Book of Tang 144, passage 1
• AD 762 上元三年
  At Xiangzhou 襄州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 108
• AD 762 上元二年明年
  At Xiang and Han 襄漢 · Relation Governed
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 144, passage 22
• AD 742 to AD 746 天寶初
  At Four Garrisons 四鎮 · Relation Posted to
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 144, passage 4

Learning and skills

• Subjects books and traditions 書傳 · Level widely read
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 81

Works and attributed material

• Edict · Subject · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 143-154
• Memorial · Author · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 117
• Zhen is resourceful and bold; if not removed now he may prove uncontrollable
  Memorial · Subject · Speaker Pei Yi (裴奰) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 27
• Speech · Speaker · With Pei Ying (裴) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 59
• Speech · Addressee · Speaker Xue Nanyang (薛南陽) · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passages 33-36
• Huai West lacks grain and I cannot march until the wheat harvest
  Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 29

Events and relationships

• Accused of collusion with rebels
  Legal · Accused · With Wang Zhongsheng (王仲昇) · Mode allegation Source Person Id Wang Zhongsheng (王仲昇)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 48
• Accused of disloyal sorcery
  Legal · Accused · With Cheng Yuanzhen (程元振) · Mode allegation Source Person Id Cheng Yuanzhen (程元振)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 47
• Again stirred troops to retain him
  AD 762 上元二年明年 · Political · Actor
  Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 144, passage 29
• Apologized at court
  Political · Subject
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 46
• Body recovery permitted
  AD 763 聞瑱死 · Ritual · Honoree
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 164
• Buried by Yin Liang
  Burial · Deceased · With Yin Liang (殷亮)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 51

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment clever and fierce, proud and hard to control · Mode quotation Speaker Pei Ying (裴)
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 114
• Assessment feared by rebels; nicknamed Lai the Iron-Biter · Mode named-source-report
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 11
• Assessment filial devotion · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 6
• Assessment loved Xiangzhou; his men admired his rule · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 108
• Assessment praised for filial devotion · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 86
• Assessment prized honor and integrity; stern dignity and high ambition · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 144, passage 3

Source notes

• Lai Chews Iron 來嚼鐵
  Nickname
  Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 92