Li Ye (李業) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Ye as a courtier, named individual, official, and rebel. This record brings together 9 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Ye	李業	Lǐ Yè
Surname	Li	李	Lǐ
Personal name	Li Ye	李業	Li Ye
Personal	Li Ye	李業	Li Ye
Personal name	Li Ye	李業	Lǐ Yè
Given	Ye	業	Yè
Personal	Ye	業	Ye

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0014, jiuwudaishi:121:s0092, xinwudaishi:011:s0042, xinwudaishi:031:s0004
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:018:s0002

Roles

Courtier
Named Individual
Official
Rebel

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0042, xinwudaishi:011:s0046, xinwudaishi:011:s0057
Source Date: Text: 乾祐至廣順初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 951
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0002, xinwudaishi:018:s0009
Source Date: Text: 漢末 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0092
Source Date: Text: 漢隱帝時 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:031:s0004
Source Date: Text: 隱帝與李業等謀 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:104:s0014

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Empress Li (李氏)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0009
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quote: true · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Zizhi tongjian / 通鑒
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0015

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Action: plotted-to-execute-yang-bin · Other Person Id: Yang Bin (楊邠) · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Zizhi tongjian / 通鑒
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0014
Kind: rebellion · Role: rebel · Action: rose in revolt at end of Han
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:121:s0092
Kind: political · Role: inciter · Action: urged-purge · Other Person Id: Emperor Yin (隱帝)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:031:s0004
Kind: political · Role: conspirator · Other Person Id: Emperor Yin (隱帝)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0042
Relation: conspirator-with · Person Id: Emperor Yin (隱帝)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:104:s0014

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 104Volume 104 Book of Later Jin 6: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 2 passages

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據《通鑒》云：隱帝與李業等謀誅楊邠等，議既定，入白太后，太后曰：「茲事何可輕發，更宜與宰相議之。」 The 《Zizhi tongjian》 records that Emperor Yin and Li Ye resolved to kill Yang Bin; when they told the dowager she said, "Do not rush this; take it to the chief ministers first."

業時在旁曰：「先帝嘗言，朝廷大事不可謀及書生，懦怯誤人。」 Li Ye at her elbow said, "The late emperor warned never to plot great matters with pedants—they only breed cowardice."

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 121Volume 121 Book of Later Zhou 23: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage

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漢末李業等作亂，後與貴妃張氏及諸皇族同日遇禍。 At the end of Han, when Li Ye and others rose in revolt, she, Honored Consort Zhang, and the imperial kin were killed on the same day.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Later Zhou Annals 2: Taizu · 3 passages

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隱帝與李業等謀，已殺史弘肇等，詔鎮寧軍節度使李弘義殺侍衛步軍指揮使王殷於澶州，又詔侍衛馬軍指揮使郭崇殺威及宣徽使王峻於魏。 The Hidden Emperor and Li Ye had already struck down Shi Hongzhao and his allies. He now ordered Li Hongyi of Zhenning to murder Wang Yin, foot commander of the Palace Guard, at Chanzhou, and Guo Chong, horse commander, to kill Wei and Wang Jun, commissioner of the Palace Secretariat, at Wei prefecture.

瑽脫為威所得，威乃附脫奏請縛李業等送軍中。 Zongtuo fell into Wei’s hands, and Wei used him to forward a memorial demanding Li Ye and his party be bound and delivered to camp.

隱帝得威奏，以示業等，業等皆言威反狀已白，乃悉誅威家屬於京師。 The Hidden Emperor read the memorial to Li Ye’s circle; they declared Wei’s guilt proven and put every member of his household in the capital to death.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 18Volume 18: The Later Han Imperial Family · 2 passages

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帝年少，數與小人郭允明、後贊、李業等遊戲宮中，後數切責之。 As a youth the emperor often caroused in the palace with Guo Yunming, Hou Zan, Li Ye, and other low companions; the empress scolded him again and again.

李業從旁對曰：「先皇帝平生言，朝廷大事，勿問書生。」 Li Ye cut in: “The late emperor always said never to ask scholars about great affairs of state.”

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 31Volume 31 Later Zhou Biographies 11: Wang Pu, Zheng Renhui, Hu Zai · 1 passage

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後李業等教隱帝誅權臣，邠與章、弘肇皆見殺，三家之客多及，而朴以故獨免。 Later Li Ye and others persuaded the Hidden Emperor to purge the powerful ministers. Bin, Zhang, and Hongzhao were killed; clients of all three houses fell with them—Pu alone was spared, having left in time.