Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Li Jue 李玨

Attested AD 836 - AD 840

Passages: 5
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Jue was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 836 to AD 840 元和十三年之後
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 55, passages 162-163
AD 836 to AD 840 終文宗世
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 143
AD 837 to AD 840 開成二年辅政
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passages 10-11

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Chancellor 宰相
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163
Chief Minister 輔政
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 11
Endured
AD 827 to AD 840 終帝世 · Blocked from promotion
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 143

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 11, 143

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Addressed to Emperor Wenzong (文宗)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 27-28
Memorial · Author · Paraphrased
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163

Events and relationships

Memorialized that hall kitchen interest money harassed the people; money contractors abolished
Political · Chancellor
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163
Relation Colleague of · Person Yang Sifu (楊嗣復)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163; New Book of Tang 181, passage 11

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 55Volume 55 Treatises 51: Finance and Economics 4 · 1 passage

其後宰相李玨、楊嗣復奏堂廚食利錢擾民煩碎，於是罷堂廚捉錢官，置庫量入計費。 Chancellors Li Jue and Yang Sifu later reported that the chancellery kitchen's lending agents burdened the people with petty exactions; the agents were abolished and a treasury set up on a strict budget.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 181 Biographies 106: Chen, Three Li's, Cao, Liu · 4 passages

而楊嗣復、李玨相次輔政，夷行介特，雅不與合，每議論天子前，往往語相侵短。 Yang Sifu and Li Jue, however, were serving as chief ministers in succession; Yixing was stiff and independent by nature and clashed with them, and their exchanges before the emperor often turned personal.

李玨曰：「姚亡而宋罷。」 Li Jue answered, "Yao was dead and Song had already been removed."

玨因推言：「玄宗自謂未嘗殺一不辜，而任李林甫，種夷數十族，不亦惑乎？」 Jue went on, "Xuanzong boasted that he had never killed an innocent man, yet he entrusted Li Linfu, who wiped out dozens of clans—was that not delusion?"

既而李玨、楊嗣復以覃之薦，終帝世不得遷。 Afterward, because Zheng Tan had recommended him, Li Jue and Yang Sifu kept Rangyi from further promotion for the rest of Wenzong's reign.