Shi Xiaozhang (史孝章)

Overview

Shi Xiaozhang was a Military Governor and Official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 838 開成三年十月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 51; Old Book of Tang 185, passage 53

Attested activity

AD 806 to AD 820 元和中
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 36
AD 806 to AD 820 元和中
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 38
AD 838 開成三年十月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 51
AD 837 to AD 840 開成二年前后
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passages 10, 13

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Shi Xiancheng (史憲誠)
father 父
son 子
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passages 2, 41; Old Book of Tang 181, passages 30, 35

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Career and standing

Acting headquarters adjutant 攝府參軍
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 37
deputy military governor 節度副使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 42
Deputy military governor 節度副使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 40
military governor of Fufang 鄜坊節度使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 49
Military governor of Yan-Fang 鄜坊節度使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 47
Minister of Public Works 工部尚書
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 42

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Minister of Rites 禮部尚書
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 44; Old Book of Tang 185, passage 46
in charge of Binning 領邠寧
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 13
Minister of Rites 禮部尚書
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 46
Right Vice Director 右僕射
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 53
Right Vice Director 右僕射
Posthumously held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 53
General of the Right Golden Guard 右金吾衛將軍
Recalled to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 48
Right Vice Director 右僕射
Posthumous
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 51

Places and affiliations

Tang 唐
Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 35
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 2
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 13
At Binning 邠寧 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 13
At Fufang 鄜坊 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 49
At Xiang-Wei-Chan command 相衛澶 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 46

Events and relationships

Admonished
Political · Remonstrator · With Shi Xiancheng (史憲誠)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 41
Pacified Cangjing
Military · Commander
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passage 42

Assessments and attributes

Assessment loyal and law-abiding · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 185, passage 52
Assessment loyal remonstrator · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 181, passages 39-40

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 13

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History

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan · 9 passages

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憲誠心不自安，乃遣子孝章入覲，又飛章願以所管奉命。 Uneasy in his own mind, Xiancheng sent his son Xiaozhang to court and dispatched urgent memorials offering to place his command under the throne's orders.

憲誠子孝章孝章，幼聰悟好學。 Xiancheng's son Xiaozhang was clever from childhood and devoted to study.

孝章倡言願效文職，醞奇之，令攝府參軍。 Xiaozhang spoke up saying he wished to serve in the civil branch; Yun was impressed and appointed him acting headquarters adjutant.

及憲誠領節鉞，改士曹參軍、兼監察御史，賜緋。 When Xiancheng took the command baton, Xiaozhang was made Staff Officer of the Personnel Section and concurrent Investigating Censor, with scarlet robes bestowed on him.

孝章以父在鎮多違朝旨，嘗雪涕極諫，備陳逆順之理。 Seeing that his father at his post often defied the court, Xiaozhang once wept as he remonstrated with all his strength, laying out in full the difference between loyalty and treason.

上知憲誠之入覲，自孝章之謀，遂加禮部尚書，分相、衞、澶三州別爲一鎮，俾孝章領之。 The emperor understood that Xiancheng's wish to attend court came from Xiaozhang's counsel; he therefore made Xiaozhang Minister of Rites, carved out Xiang, Wei, and Chan as a separate command, and put Xiaozhang in charge of it.

孝章未到鎮，憲誠遇害。 Before Xiaozhang could reach his new command, Xiancheng was killed.

上以孝章有忠節，起復爲右金吾衞將軍。 The emperor, honoring Xiaozhang's loyal conduct, recalled him from mourning to be General of the Right Jinwu Guard.

孝章歷三鎮，雖無異績，而謹身畏法，以保初終。 Xiaozhang held three commands; though he won no striking victories, he kept himself within the law and preserved his position from first to last.

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 185Volume 181 Biographies 131: Shi Xiancheng, Zi Xiaozhang, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Li Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin · 10 passages

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