Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Linghu Tao 令狐綯

Attested AD 846 - AD 859

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Linghu Tao was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 850 to AD 859 久當國
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 183, passages 68-69
AD 846 to AD 859 宣宗
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 183, passages 28, 30

Career and standing

chief minister 當國
AD 850 to AD 859 令狐久當國 · Held
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 183, passage 68
Departed
AD 859 懿宗立，去位 · Left office
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 183, passage 69

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passages 28, 68

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · With Bi Xian (畢諴) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 30

Events and relationships

Refused the gift of women
Personal · Refuser · With Bi Xian (畢諴)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 31
Would not restore Li Deyu's offices through amnesties
Refusal · Chief minister · With Li Deyu (李德裕)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 68
Relation Resented · Person Bi Xian (畢諴)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 28

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passages 28, 68

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 183Volume 183 Biographies 108: Bi, Cui, Liu, Lu, Zheng, Zhu, Han · 5 passages

令狐忌之，自邠寧凡三徙，不得還。 Linghu Tao came to resent him. After leaving Binning, Yan was transferred three times in succession and was never able to return to the capital.

諴思有以結，至太原，求麗姝盛飾使獻。 Yan looked for a way to win Tao over. When he reached Taiyuan, he sought out beautiful women, had them richly adorned, and sent them as a gift.

曰：「太原於我無分，今以是餌，將破吾族矣。」 Tao said, "Taiyuan has nothing to do with me. If you try to lure me with this now, you will bring ruin on my whole clan."

鄴傷德裕以朋黨抱誣死海上，令狐久當國，更數赦，不為還官爵。 Ye grieved that Deyu had died at sea, falsely condemned as a factionalist. Linghu Tao had long held power, and through one amnesty after another he refused to restore Deyu's offices and titles.

至懿宗立，去位，鄴乃申直其冤，復官爵，世高其義。 When Yizong came to the throne and Tao left office, Ye petitioned to rectify Deyu's wrong and had his offices and titles restored. His contemporaries greatly honored this act of righteousness.