Sun Weizui (孫惟最) | 24 Histories

Overview

Sun Weizui was a general and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 886 朱玫亂京師，僖宗幸興元
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passages 131-133
AD 880 黃巢陷長安
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passages 129-130

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Sun Dezhao (孫德昭)
father 父
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passages 128, 135

Career and standing

general of the Right Golden Crow Guard 右金吾衛大將軍
AD 880 黃巢陷長安 · Appointed
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 130
military commissioner of Fu 鄜州節度使
Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 132
military commissioner of Jingnan (nominal) 荊南節度使
Transferred
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 133

Places and affiliations

At Wuyuan in Yan 鹽州五原
Strongly inferred · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passages 127-128
AD 880 黃巢陷長安
At Chang'an 長安 · Relation Defended
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passages 129, 132
Organization Escort-the-Emperor Command 扈駕都 · Relation Commanded
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 133

Events and relationships

Capital crowds blocked him from leaving for Fu
Political · Commander
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 133
Fought Zhu Mei rebels
AD 886 朱玫亂京師，僖宗幸興元 · Military · Commander · With Zhu Mei (朱玫)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 131
Raised loyalists against Huang Chao at Xianyang
AD 880 黃巢陷長安 · Military · Commander · With Huang Chao (黃巢)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 129

Assessments and attributes

Assessment a man of talent and nerve · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 128
Assessment the people looked to him as their shield · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 134

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 128

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 43Volume 43 Miscellaneous Biographies 23: Shi Shucong, Li Yanwei, Li Zhen, Pei Di, Wei Zhen, Kong Xun, Sun Dezhao, Wang Jingrao, Jiang Yin · 4 passages

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其父惟最，有材略。 His father Sun Weizui was a man of talent and nerve.

黃巢陷長安，惟最率其鄉里子弟，得義兵千人，南攻巢於咸陽，興平州將壯其所為，益以州兵二千。 When Huang Chao seized Chang’an, Weizui rallied the youths of his district into a thousand-man loyalist band and struck south at Chao near Xianyang. The Xingping prefect was impressed and gave him two thousand more men.

朱玫亂京師，僖宗幸興元，惟最率兵擊賊。 When Zhu Mei ravaged the capital, Xizong fled to Xingyuan. Weizui marched against the rebels.

鄜州將吏詣闕請惟最之鎮，京師民數萬與神策軍復遮留不得行，改荊南節度使，在京制置，分判神策軍，號「扈駕都」。 Yan’s officers petitioned the court for Weizui to go back to his circuit. Tens of thousands of capital citizens and Shence troops mobbed him at the gate and would not let him leave. He was reassigned to Jingnan on paper while remaining in the capital to run affairs, took a share of Shence command, and was styled “Escort-the-Emperor Command.”