Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Li Xian 李峴

Attested AD 748 - AD 761

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Xian was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 748 to AD 755 始，居汲共城山下，華固請舉進士
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 8
AD 761 會峴去相
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 17
AD 757 to AD 758 李峴為大夫，以三司按群臣陷賊者
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passages 12-13

Career and standing

prefect 太守
AD 748 to AD 755 始，居汲共城山下，華固請舉進士 · Held · At Guanshi 冠氏
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 8
censor-in-chief 大夫
AD 757 to AD 758 李峴為大夫，以三司按群臣陷賊者 · Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 12
chancellor 相
AD 761 會峴去相 · Left
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 17

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 12

Events and relationships

Used the Three Offices to investigate officials who yielded to the rebels
AD 757 to AD 758 李峴為大夫，以三司按群臣陷賊者 · Legal · Chief investigator
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 12
Relation Friend of · Person Li Qiyun (李棲筠)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 8

Assessments and attributes

Assessment valued Qiyun's assistance; reputation rose above Lü Yin and Cui Qi · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 13

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 146Volume 146 Biographies 71: Two Li's · 4 passages

調冠氏主簿，太守李峴視若布衣交。 He was posted as chief clerk of Guanshi, where Prefect Li Xian treated him as an equal friend.

李峴為大夫，以三司按群臣陷賊者，表棲筠為詳理判官。 When Li Xian became censor-in-chief, he used the Three Offices to investigate officials who had yielded to the rebels and nominated Qiyun as judge for detailed review of their cases.

推原其人所以脅汙者，輕重以情，悉心助峴，故峴愛恕之，譽一旦出呂諲、崔器上。 He traced the circumstances in which each man had been forced into complicity, weighing guilt and mercy by the facts of each case, and gave Xian his full support; Xian therefore valued this leniency, and Xian's reputation soon eclipsed that of Lü Yin and Cui Qi.

會峴去相，棲筠坐所善，除太子中允，眾不直，改河南令。 When Li Xian left the chancellorship, Qiyun was punished as one of his favorites with appointment as junior tutor to the heir apparent; the public deemed this unjust, and he was reassigned magistrate of Henan.