Sui and Tang · General

Liu Wu 劉悟

Attested AD 806 - AD 819

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Wu was a general.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 806 初
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 213, passage 126
AD 819 師道敗亡時事
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 213, passages 126-127, 129

Events and relationships

Petitioned appointment of Ming'an
Political · Agent · With Ming'an (明安)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 130
Relation Mutinied against · Person Li Shidao (李師道)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passages 127, 129
Relation Feud with · Person Lady Wei (魏)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 129

Assessments and attributes

Assessment will rise high but ruin the house · Mode named-person-judgment Source Person Id Li Shigu (李師古)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 213, passage 126

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 213Volume 213 Biographies 138: Buffer Regions: the Black, Green, and Yellow Seas · 5 passages

初，師古見劉悟，曰：「後必貴，然敗吾家者此人也。」 Long before, Shigu had met Liu Wu and said, "He will rise high—but he will be the ruin of our house."

田弘正之度河也，禽其將夏侯澄等四十七人，有詔悉赦之，給繒絮，還隸魏博、義成軍，父母在欲還者優遣，賊皆感慰相告，由是悟得行其謀。 When Tian Hongzheng crossed the river he captured forty-seven officers including Xiahou Cheng; the court pardoned them all, clothed them, and sent them back to Weibo and Yicheng—with generous leave for those whose parents wanted them home. The rebels were deeply moved, which is how Wu won them to his mutiny.

悟素與師道妻魏亂，妄言鄭公征之裔，不死，沒入掖廷，它宗屬悉遠徙。 Wu had long feuded with Shidao's wife Lady Wei, who falsely claimed to be a survivor of the Zheng clan purged into the palace women's quarters; the rest of the Li kindred were exiled.

悟獨表師古子明安為朗州司戶參軍。 Wu alone petitioned to name Shigu's son Ming'an registrar at Langzhou.

親將王承慶，承宗弟也，師道以兄女妻之，潛約左右，欲因肄兵執師道，會悟入，出奔徐州，歸朝。 Wang Chengqing, a favored commander and younger brother of Chengzong, whom Shidao had married to his elder brother's daughter, had plotted with his men to arrest Shidao during maneuvers; when Wu stormed the city he fled to Xuzhou and defected to the court.