Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Qianyao 乾曜

Qiányào

Attested AD 713 - AD 720

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Qianyao was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 713 to AD 720 玄宗以乾曜當國
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 123, passage 267

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 123, passage 267

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 123Volume 123 Biographies 48: Li, Xiao, Lu, Wei, Zhao, He · 1 passage

而帝以乾曜似之，遽使當國，是帝舉不知至忠之不可用，又不知乾曜之所可用也。 Yet the emperor, because Qianyao resembled him, swiftly put him in power—showing the emperor did not know Zhizhong was unusable, nor what in Qianyao was usable.