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Later Sovereign was a ruler.
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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 39Volume 39 Biographies 31: Cui Jishu; Zu Ting · 12 passages
又珽頗聞其言，因其女皇後無寵，以謠言聞上曰：「百升飛上天，明月照長安。」
Zu Ting had heard him plainly enough. Because Guang's daughter the empress was out of favor, he carried the verse to the emperor: "A hundred pints fly up to heaven; bright moon shines on Chang'an."
帝問珽，珽證實。
The emperor questioned Zu Ting, and Ting swore it was true.
珽幷云「盲老翁是臣」，云與國同憂戚，勸上行，語「其多事老母，似道女侍中陸氏」。
He said "the blind old man" meant himself — one who shared the state's weal and woe — and pressed the emperor to move. He said "the meddlesome old woman" seemed to point to Female Attendant-in-Ordinary of the Lu clan.
帝以問韓長鸞、穆提婆，幷令高元海、段士良密議之，衆人未從。
The emperor consulted Han Changluan and Mu Tipo and secretly ordered Gao Yuanhai and Duan Shiliang to weigh the matter; none of them would go along.
珽又附陸媼，求為領軍，後主許之。
Ting courted Lu Matron again and asked for command of the guards; the Later Sovereign agreed.
珽亦求面見，帝令引入。
Ting demanded an audience; the emperor had him admitted.
帝弱顏不能諱，曰：「然。」
The emperor flushed and could not deny it. "True," he said.
後主亦令中要數人扶侍出入，著紗帽直至永巷，出萬春門向聖壽堂，每同禦榻論決政事，委任之重，羣臣莫比。
The Later Sovereign had several inner attendants steady him coming and going. He wore a gauze cap through the Eternal Lane, out the Wanchun Gate to the Hall of Sacred Longevity, and daily shared the imperial couch to settle affairs — a commission no minister could rival.
猶恐後主溺於近習，欲因后黨為援，請以皇后兄胡君瑜為侍中、中領軍，又徵君瑜兄梁州刺史君璧，欲以為御史中丞。
Still fearing the Later Sovereign was drowning in favorites, he sought backing from the empress's kin: he asked that her elder brother Hu Junyu be made attendant-in-ordinary and central commander of the guards, and summoned Junyu's elder brother Junbi, governor of Liang Province, intending to make him vice director of the censorate.
後主問諸太姬，憫默不對，及三問，乃下床拜曰：「老婢合死，本見和士開道孝徵多才博學，言為善人，故舉之。
The Later Sovereign questioned Tai Ji. She grieved in silence until he asked a third time; then she left the couch and bowed. "This old serving-woman deserves death," she said. "He Shikai told me Xiaozheng was learned and gifted and a good man, and so I raised him up.
後主令韓長鸞檢案，得其詐出勑受賜十餘事，以前與其重誓不殺，遂解珽侍中、僕射，出為北徐州刺史。
The Later Sovereign ordered Han Changluan to investigate. They found more than ten cases of forged edicts and illicit gifts. Because of an earlier solemn oath not to kill him, Ting was stripped of attendant-in-ordinary and vice director and sent out as governor of Northern Xuzhou.
珽求見後主，韓長鸞積嫌於珽，遣人推出栢閣。
Ting begged an audience with the Later Sovereign. Han Changluan, who had long hated him, sent men to thrust him from the Cypress Pavilion.