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Overview The translated histories identify Li Boyuan as a military officer. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
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Li Boyuan
李伯淵
Lǐ Bóyuān
Personal name
Li Boyuan
李伯淵
Lǐ Bóyuān
Identity
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Sex Male Life and dates Attested activity Works and attributed material Kind: speech ·
Role: speaker ·
Provenance: Mode: quotationSpeaker Person Id: Li Boyuan (李伯淵) Events and relationships Kind: assassination ·
Role: assassin ·
Action: killed ·
Other Person Id: Cui Li (崔立) References in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
History of Jin, Chapter 115 Volume 115 Biographies 53: Wanyan Nushen, Cui Li, Li Qi, Nie Tianji, Chizhan Weixin · 8 passages
李伯淵者，寶坻人，本安平都尉司千戶，美姿容，深沉有謀，每憤立不道，欲仗義殺之。
Li Boyuan was from Baodi, originally a chiliarch in the Anping commandant's office. Handsome and deep-thinking, he constantly resented Cui Li's wickedness and wished to kill him in the name of justice.
三年六月甲午，傳近境有宋軍，伯淵等陽與立謀備禦之策。
On jiawu day in the sixth month of the third year, word spread that Song troops were near the border. Boyuan and the others pretended to consult with Cui Li on defensive plans.
翌日晚，伯淵等燒外封丘門以警動立。
The next evening Boyuan and his men burned the outer Fengqiu Gate to alarm Cui Li.
比明，伯淵等身來約立視火，立從苑秀、折希顏數騎往，諭京城民十五以上、七十以下男子皆詣太廟街點集。
At dawn Boyuan and the others came in person to invite Cui Li to inspect the fire. Cui Li went with Yuan Xiu, Zhe Xiyan, and several horsemen and ordered all men in the capital aged fifteen to seventy to assemble on Taimiao Street for roll call.
既還，行及梳行街，伯淵欲送立還二王府，立辭數四，伯淵必欲親送，立不疑，倉卒中就馬上抱立。
On the return, reaching Shuxing Street, Boyuan offered to escort Cui Li back to the Prince of Zheng's mansion. Cui Li declined several times, but Boyuan insisted on escorting him personally. Unsuspecting, Cui Li was embraced on horseback in the sudden move.
伯淵曰：「殺汝何傷。」
Boyuan said: "What harm is there in killing you?"
伯淵系立屍馬尾，至內前號於眾曰：「立殺害劫奪，烝淫暴虐，大逆不道，古今無有，當殺之不？」
Boyuan tied Cui Li's corpse to a horse's tail, came before the inner palace, and shouted to the crowd: "Cui Li murdered, plundered, committed incest, and was violent and tyrannical—treason without parallel in history. Was he not rightly killed?"
伯淵以下軍民皆慟，或剖其心生啖之。
From Boyuan down, soldiers and civilians wept; some cut out his heart and ate it raw.