Li Yuan (李遠) | 24 Histories

Overview

Li Yuan was a general and Official.

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Wansui	萬歲	Wansui

AD 556 六官建
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 261
AD 543 to AD 556 太祖時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 25, passages 221, 226, 231, 233-234, 245-246, 252
AD 557 孝閔帝踐阼
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 262-263
AD 543 東魏高仲密請舉州來附；戰于邙山
Dated from the passage context · Book of Zhou 25, passages 209, 216, 218-220

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Yuwen Da (達)
adopted as son 子之 · Adoptive parentage
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 246

hoped only to be a commandery governor 不過一郡守耳
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 236
pillar of state and grand general 柱國大將軍
AD 557 孝閔帝踐阼 · Advanced
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 262
minor minister of justice 小司寇
AD 556 六官建 · Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 261
director of the mobile secretariat 行臺尚書
AD 543 東魏高仲密請舉州來附；戰于邙山 · Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 216
area commander over the twenty-one garrisons of Yi Province, Hongnong, and the rest 都督義州弘農等二十一防諸軍事
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 221
grand general 大將軍
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 233

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left vice director of the secretariat 尚書左僕射
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 234, 245
fief of one thousand households 邑千戶
AD 557 孝閔帝踐阼 · Granted
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 262
compared to Li Guang and Xiongqu 世載其德
Praised
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 228-229
rank surpassing a full marquis 爵邁通侯
Held
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 239
a common man of Qin and Long 秦隴匹夫
Commoner origin
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 235
entrusted with a frontier command 受委方面
Held frontier command with power of life and death
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 239

Polity Northern Zhou 北周 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 262
Polity Western Wei 西魏 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 209, 216
At Qin and Long 秦隴
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 235
AD 557 孝閔帝踐阼
At Hongnong 弘農 · Relation Garrisoned
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 263
At Hongnong 弘農 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 221, 263

Skill archery 射 · Level extraordinary
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 226, 228

AD 543 東魏高仲密請舉州來附；戰于邙山
Speech · Speaker · Addressed to Yuwen Tai (太祖) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 209-214
Speech · Speaker · Addressed to Yuwen Tai (太祖) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 235-242, 252-254
Speech · Speaker · Addressed to Dugu Xin (獨孤信) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 259

left vice director of the secretariat 尚書僕射
Political · Appointee · Begged to decline then accepted
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 241-242, 245
Bowed in apology to
Political · Apologizer · With Dugu Xin (獨孤信)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 259
Covered retreat when main army fared badly
AD 543 東魏高仲密請舉州來附；戰于邙山 · Military · Rearguard · At Mount Mang 邙山
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 220
Drew sword and offered to kill
Political · Threatener · With Dugu Xin (獨孤信)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 254-255
Fought at
AD 543 東魏高仲密請舉州來附；戰于邙山 · Military · Subordinate commander · With Yuwen Tai (太祖) · At Mount Mang 邙山
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 219
Secretly extracted
AD 543 東魏高仲密請舉州來附；戰于邙山 · Military · Commander · With Gao Zhongmi (高仲密)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 218

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Sent east as vanguard
AD 543 東魏高仲密請舉州來附；戰于邙山 · Military · Vanguard commander
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 216
Shot a stone mistaken for a rabbit
Personal · Archer · At Sha Stockade 莎柵
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 226-227
Surprised and routed
Military · Commander · With Duan Xiaoxian (段孝先) · At Yiyang 宜陽
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 231
Urged establishing primary wife son as heir
Political · Advocate · With Emperor Xiaomin (孝閔帝)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 252-253, 258
Urged surprise relief of
AD 543 東魏高仲密請舉州來附；戰于邙山 · Military · Advocate and vanguard · With Gao Zhongmi (高仲密)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 209, 212, 216
Used border people as spies
Intelligence · Handler
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 223-224
Relation Intimate with · Person Yuwen Tai (太祖)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 244, 247

Assessment skilled at soothing and winning people; had capacity and strategy; defenses and battle preparations all sharp · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passages 222, 225
Item captured baggage train and equipment 輜重器械 · Relation Captured
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 231
Item horse, gold belt, bed curtains, clothing and bedding, and two thousand bolts of mixed silks 所乘馬及金帶牀帳衣被等，并雜綵二千匹 · Relation Bestowed by · With Yuwen Tai (太祖)
Directly stated · Book of Zhou 25, passage 233