Overview
Li Yong was an official and Administrator.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 803 to AD 810 在淮南七年Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passages 243-245
- AD 803 to AD 810 鄘得相，不願拜Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 146, passage 268
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Parent of Li Shi (李拭)son 子Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 246
Career and standing
- official 官Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 244
- chancellor 相DeclinedDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 268
Places and affiliations
- Polity Tang 唐 · Relation ServedStrongly inferred · New Book of Tang 146, passage 244
- AD 803 to AD 810 在淮南七年At Huainan 淮南 · Relation Posted toDated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 245
Events and relationships
- Left life and death decisions and arrests mostly to army officers; staff could not intervene; people often suffered unlawful harmAD 803 to AD 810 在淮南七年 · Administrative · Administrator · At Huainan 淮南Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 146, passage 245
- Received the chancellorship but did not wish to accept itPolitical · AppointeeDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 268
- Relation Friend of · Person Wang Zhongshu (王仲舒)Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 243
- Relation Friend of · Person Mu Zhi (穆質)Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 243
- Relation Friend of · Person Xu Mengrong (許孟容)Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 243
- Relation Friend of · Person Yang Ping (楊憑)Directly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 243
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment a man of firmness · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passages 266, 269
- Assessment critics thought less of him for this · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 245
- Assessment fierce in judgment and sparing of mercy · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 245
- Assessment forceful, upright, and impartial · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 243
- Assessment wherever he served he was praised for good administration under stern law · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · New Book of Tang 146, passage 244
References in the histories
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