Song, Liao, and Jin · Ruler

Liu Chang 劉鋹

c. AD 942 - AD 980

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Liu Chang was a ruler.

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TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Posthumous name Crown Prince Emperor 太子皇帝
Alternate name Jixing 繼興 Jixing

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History of Song, Chapter 481Volume 481 Biographies 240: Hereditary Houses 4: Southern Han and Liu Clans Liu Chang (Gong Chengshu, Li Tuo, Xue Chongyu, Pan Chongche) · 56 passages
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且足下以英明之姿，撫百越之眾，北距五嶺，南負重溟，藉累世之基，有及民之澤，眾數十萬，表裏山川，此足下所以慨然而自負也。 You govern the Hundred Yue with an air of brilliance. The Five Ridges guard you to the north and the deep sea lies to the south. You rest on foundations laid over generations and rule with grace that reaches your people. Your hosts number hundreds of thousands, with mountains and rivers all around. No wonder you feel proud and confident.
太祖禦明德門，遣攝刑部尚書盧多遜宣詔責鋹，鋹對曰：「臣年十六僭偽位，澄樞等皆先臣舊人，每事臣不得專，在國時臣是臣下，澄樞是國主。」 Taizu took his seat at the Gate of Bright Virtue and dispatched Acting Minister of Justice Lu Duoxun to proclaim the edict reproaching Chang; Chang replied, "Your subject at sixteen usurped a false throne; Chengshu and the others were all my father's old retainers — in every matter I could not decide alone. In the state I was the subject and Chengshu was the sovereign."
釋鋹罪，賜襲衣、冠帶、器幣、鞍勒馬，授金紫光祿大夫、檢校太保、右千牛衛大將軍、員外置同正員，封恩赦侯，朝會班上將軍之下。 He pardoned Chang, bestowed formal robes, cap and belt, ritual objects, and a saddled horse, appointed him Grandee of the Golden Seal and Purple Girdle, Acting Grand Guardian, General of the Right Palace Guard Cavalry, with extra-staff status equal to regular appointment, and enfeoffed him as Marquis of Gracious Pardon, ranking in court assemblies below full generals.
太祖詔示諸宮官，皆駭伏，遂以錢百五十萬給其直，謂左右臣曰：「鋹好工巧，習以成性，儻能以習巧之勤移於治國，豈至滅亡哉！」 Taizu displayed the work to the palace officials, who were all struck with wonder. He paid one million five hundred thousand cash for it and told his attendants, "Chang loves craftsmanship so deeply that it has become second nature to him. If he had applied that same diligence to governing his state, how could he have fallen?"
太宗將討晉陽，召近臣宴，鋹預之，自言：「朝廷威靈及遠，四方僭竊之主，今日盡在坐中，旦夕平太原，劉繼元又至，臣率先來朝，願得執梃為諸國降王長。」 When Taizong prepared to attack Jinyang, he summoned his close ministers to a banquet at which Chang was present. Chang declared, "The court's authority reaches to the farthest corners — every usurping ruler in the realm is seated here tonight. Taiyuan will fall any day now, and Liu Jiyuan will follow. Your subject was the first to submit; let me lead the procession of surrendered kings with staff in hand."
鋹嗣位，加特進、開府儀同三司、萬華宮使、驃騎大將軍，改上將軍、左龍虎軍觀軍容使、內太師，軍國之務皆決於澄樞。 When Chang succeeded to the throne, Chengshu received Special Advancement, Grandee Equal in Honor to the Three Dukes, Commissioner of the Myriad Splendor Palace, and Cavalry Grand General, then Grand General, Army Observer of the Left Dragon-Tiger Army, and Inner Grand Preceptor. Every matter of war and state passed through his hands.