Sui and Tang · Defender of An Prefecture

Li Ting 李聽

Attested AD 816

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Ting was a Defender of An Prefecture.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 816 元和十一年
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 135, passage 192

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 135Volume 131 Biographies 81: Li Mian; Li Gao and His Sons Xianggu and Daogu · 3 passages

性勤儉，知人疾苦，設監司，能參聽下，持將吏短長，賞罰必信。 Diligent and frugal by nature, he understood people's hardships. He established supervisory offices, listened to reports from below, tracked his officers' strengths and failings, and always kept his word in reward and punishment.

初，李聽守安州，未嘗退衄。 When Li Ting had held An Prefecture, he had never suffered a reverse.

及道古至，誣奏聽，移去之，乃自帥兵出穆陵。 When Li Daogu arrived, he brought false charges against Li Ting and had him removed, then took command of the force himself and marched out of Muleng Pass.