Tan Quanbo (譚全播) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Tan Quanbo as a bandit, official, strategist, and warlord. This record brings together 20 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	Tan Quanbo	譚全播	Tán Quánbō
Given	Quanbo	全播	Quánbō
Surname	Tan	譚	Tán
Personal name	Tan Quanbo	譚全播	Tán Quánbō

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · xinwudaishi:041:s0002

Roles

Bandit
Official
Strategist
Warlord

Life and dates

Death

Age: 85 · Place: Guangling / 廣陵
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0031

Age

Age: 85 · Reckoning: stated
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0031

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 唐末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 907
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:041:s0004
Source Date: Text: 治虔州七年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 911 · End: AD 918
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:041:s0031
Source Date: Text: 開平五年 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:041:s0022

Career and standing

Label: defense commissioner / 防禦使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0030
Status: captivity · Action: captured · Other Person Id: Liu Xin (劉信)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0031

Places and affiliations

Label: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: submitted-to
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0030
Label: Wu / 吳 · Relation: captured-by
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0031, xinwudaishi:041:s0032
Place: Nankang / 南康
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0002
Place: Ganzhou / 虔州 · Relation: governed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0031

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Liu Yan (劉巖)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0016
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Lu Guangchou (盧光稠)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0004
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0006, xinwudaishi:041:s0007, xinwudaishi:041:s0008, xinwudaishi:041:s0009

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: ambushed-and-took-Chaozhou · Place: Chaozhou / 潮州
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0012, xinwudaishi:041:s0013
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Liu Yan (劉巖) · Place: Ganzhou / 虔州
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0017, xinwudaishi:041:s0018
Kind: political · Role: kingmaker · Action: installed · Other Person Id: Lu Yanchang (盧延昌)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0023
Kind: political · Role: subject · Action: refused-seals · Other Person Id: Lu Guangchou (盧光稠) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開平五年 · Western Year: AD 911
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0022
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: took-Qian-and-Shao · Other Person Id: Wang Chao (王潮) · Place: Qian and Shao / 虔、韶
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0011
Relation: served · Person Id: Lu Yanchang (盧延昌)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0023
Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Lu Guangchou (盧光稠)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0005
Relation: served · Person Id: Lu Guangchou (盧光稠)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0019, xinwudaishi:041:s0023

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: brave and shrewd · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0003
Assessment: good administration of Ganzhou for seven years · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0031

Source notes

Statement: governed Ganzhou seven years with good administration
Explicit · xinwudaishi:041:s0031

References in the histories

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 41Volume 41 Miscellaneous Biographies 21: Lu Guangchou, Tan Quanbo, Lei Man, Zhong Chuan, Zhao Kuangning · 20 passages

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盧光稠譚全播 Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo

盧光稠、譚全播，皆南康人也。 Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo were both men of Nankang.

光稠狀貌雄偉，無佗材能，而全播勇敢有識略，然全播常奇光稠為人。 Guangchou looked the part of a warlord but had little else to recommend him. Quanbo was brave and shrewd, yet he kept finding something remarkable in Guangchou’s character.

唐末，群盜起南方，全播謂光稠曰：「天下洶洶，此真吾等之時，無徒守此貧賤為也！」 As Tang collapsed, rebels swarmed the south. Quanbo told Guangchou: “The empire is boiling over. This is our moment—don’t waste it clinging to poverty and obscurity!”

眾推全播為主，全播曰：「諸君徒為賊乎？ The men wanted Quanbo as their leader. Quanbo said: “Do you mean to stay mere bandits?

眾陽諾之，全播怒，拔劍擊木三，斬之，曰：「不從令者如此木！」 The men nodded along. Quanbo flew into a rage, drew his sword, and hacked a wooden post three times until it fell. “Disobey,” he said, “and you go the way of this timber!”

是時，王潮攻陷嶺南，全播攻潮，取其虔、韶二州，又遣光稠弟光睦攻潮州。 Wang Chao had seized Lingnan. Quanbo struck back, took Qian and Shao from him, and sent Guangchou’s brother Guangmu against Chaozhou.

光睦好勇而輕進，全播戒其持重，不聽，度其必敗，乃為奇兵伏其歸路。 Guangmu was brave and reckless. Quanbo told him to keep his weight behind the line; Guangmu ignored him. Quanbo read the defeat coming and hid men on the road home.

光睦果敗走，潮人追之，全播以伏兵邀擊，大敗之，遂取潮州。 Guangmu broke and ran. Chao’s men gave chase. Quanbo sprang the ambush and shattered them, then took Chaozhou.

光稠大懼，謂全播曰：「虔、潮皆公取之，今日非公不能守也。」 Guangchou was terrified. He told Quanbo: “You won Qian and Chao for us. Only you can hold them now.”

全播曰：「吾知劉巖易與爾！」 Quanbo said: “Liu Yan is nothing I cannot handle!”