Lu Xie (盧攜) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Lu Xie as an official and statesman. This record brings together 10 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Lu Xie	盧攜	Lú Xié
Courtesy	Zisheng	子升	Zǐshēng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Value: male
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0001

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Cause: poison · Manner: suicide
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0206

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾符五年 · Western Year: AD 878
Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:184:s0187, xintangshu:184:s0190

Family

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Kin of Li Ao (李翺)
Kinship Term: nephew / 甥 · Line: maternal · Subject Role: nephew · Object Role: maternal uncle · Intermediary Person Ids: Mother of Lu Xie
Child of Mother of Lu Xie
Kinship Term: mother / 甥母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Lu Yan (盧晏)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Grand Academician of the Hongwen Hall / 弘文館大學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0191
Label: Minister of Justice / 刑部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0191
Label: Minister of War / 兵部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0199
Label: Right Reminder / 右拾遺 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0189
Label: Vice Director of the Secretariat / 中書侍郎 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0191
Label: Palace Companion at the Eastern Capital / 太子賓客分司東都 · Action: dismissed-to
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0198, xintangshu:184:s0206
Label: Chief Hanlin Academician / 翰林學士承旨 · Action: promoted
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0189
Label: Grand Councillor / 同中書門下平章事 · Action: promoted
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0190
Label: Vice Minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: promoted
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0189
Label: Grand Councillor / 同平章事 · Action: recalled
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0200
Label: Vice Director of the Chancery / 門下侍郎 · Action: recalled
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0200
Label: Zhedong Staff Member / 浙東府 · Action: recruited
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0188

Places and affiliations

Place: Fanyang / 范陽 · Relation: ancestral-origin
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0187
Place: Zheng / 鄭 · Relation: family-residence
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0187

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0188

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Summary: recommended Song Wei, Qi Kerang, and Zeng Gun as suppression commissioners · Provenance: Mode: narrative-attribution · Speaker Person Id: Lu Xie (盧攜)
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0193

Events and relationships

Kind: appointment-policy · Action: opposed Huang Chao’s request and sought conflict that would defeat Wang Duo
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0197
Kind: political-purge · Action: replaced eastern-pass generals appointed by Wang Duo and Zheng Tian
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0201
Kind: diplomatic-policy · Action: supported Gao Pian’s peace with Nanzhao
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0198
Relation: political-rival-of · Person Id: Zheng Tian (鄭畋)
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0192, xintangshu:184:s0198
Relation: political-patron-of · Person Id: Gao Pian (高駢)
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0197, xintangshu:184:s0202
Relation: delegated-affairs-to · Person Id: Yang Wen (楊溫)
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0203
Relation: relied-on · Person Id: Tian Lingzi (田令孜)
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0202
Relation: delegated-affairs-to · Person Id: Li Xiu (李脩)
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0203

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: displeased by Wang Duo’s appointment · Provenance: Mode: narrative-psychological-attribution
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0195
Assessment: his undoing of Wang Duo and favoritism toward Gao Pian enabled the rebels to sweep west; he was an evil omen as Tang neared collapse · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0209, xintangshu:184:s0210
Assessment: universally blamed for the military crisis · Provenance: Mode: collective-reputation
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0204
Kind: illness · Statement: wind paralysis, lame feet, and clouded cognition
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0203
Kind: physical-and-speech-description · Statement: ugly in appearance and spoke improperly
Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0192

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 10 passages

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馬楊路盧 Ma, Yang, Lu, and Lu

盧攜，字子升，其先本范陽，世居鄭。 Lu Xie, courtesy name Zisheng—his ancestors were originally from Fanyang and for generations lived in Zheng.

攜姿陋而語不正，與鄭畋俱李翺甥，同位宰相，然所處議多駁。 Xie was ugly and did not speak properly; he and Zheng Tian were both Li Ao's nephews and served together as chief ministers, yet their policy views often clashed.

初，王仙芝起河南，攜表宋威、齊克讓、曾袞皆善將，為招討使。 When Wang Xianzhi rose in Henan, Xie memorialized that Song Wei, Qi Kerang, and Zeng Gun were skilled generals and should be suppression commissioners.

攜不悅。 Xie was displeased.

攜素厚高駢，屬令立功，乃固不可巢請，又欲激巢使戰而敗鐸，因授率府率。 Xie was close to Gao Pian and wished him merit; he firmly opposed Chao's request, also hoping to provoke Chao to fight and defeat Duo, and appointed him Rate-Setting Colonel.

會駢將張璘破賊，帝復召攜以門下侍郎同平章事。 When Pian's general Zhang Lin defeated the rebels, the emperor again summoned Xie as Vice Director of the Chancery and Grand Councillor.

及巢破淮南，璘戰死，忠武兵亂，天下危懼，人皆咎攜，始下詔以巢為天平節度使。 When Chao broke Huainan, Lin died in battle, and the Zhongwu army mutinied; the empire was terrified and all blamed Xie; only then was an edict issued making Chao military governor of Pingyi.

贊曰：盧攜之敗王鐸，私高駢，賊遂卷鹹、鎬而西，易若舉毛，可謂朝無人焉。 The appraisal says: Lu Xie's undoing of Wang Duo and private favoring of Gao Pian let the rebels sweep through Xian and Hao westward as easily as lifting a hair—the court had no one fit for the task.

唐將亡，攜為之鴟梟，宜天之假手於賊而磔其枯胔也。 As Tang was about to perish, Xie was its owl and kite; Heaven rightly used the rebels to hack apart his dried corpse.