Wang Jun (王峻) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Jun as a diplomat, general, military officer, and musician. This record brings together 138 passages from 12 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Jun	王峻	Wang Jun
Given name	Jun	峻	Jun
Personal	Jun	峻	Jùn
Personal	Jun	峻	Jun
Personal	Jun	峻
Given	Jun	峻	Jùn
Title	Privy Councilor Wang Jun	樞密使王峻
Surname	Wang	王	Wang
Surname	Wang	王	Wáng
Personal name	Wang Jun	王峻	Wáng Jùn
Personal name	Wang Jun	王峻	Wang Jun
Personal	Wang Jun	王峻	Wáng Jùn
Personal	Wang Jun	王峻
Courtesy name	Xiufeng	秀峰	Xiufeng
Courtesy name	Xiufeng	秀峯	Xiùfēng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:102:s0079, jiuwudaishi:105:s0019, jiuwudaishi:138:s0023, xinwudaishi:012:s0010, xinwudaishi:018:s0033
Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0001, jiuwudaishi:141:s0119, xinwudaishi:011:s0042, xinwudaishi:050:s0113, xinwudaishi:053:s0035
Value: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0034

Roles

Diplomat
General
Military Officer
Musician
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Cause: abdominal illness / 腹疾 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順三年 · Western Year: AD 953 · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Zizhi Tongjian / 通鑒
Textual variant · jiuwudaishi:130:s0086
Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 广顺三年 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · xinwudaishi:012:s0011
Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順三年三月 · Western Year: AD 953 · Place: Shangzhou / 商州
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0084
Place: place of demotion / 貶所
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0049

Age

Statement: two years older than Taizu Guo Wei · Relative To Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威) · Difference Years: 2
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0024

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:105:s0019, jiuwudaishi:105:s0038
Source Date: Text: 乾祐三年十一月 · Western Year: AD 950
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0042, xinwudaishi:011:s0046, xinwudaishi:011:s0057
Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年；伐契丹 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0109
Source Date: Text: 乾祐二年 · Western Year: AD 949
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:102:s0079
Source Date: Text: 乾祐元年；客省使屯關西 · Western Year: AD 948
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0075
Source Date: Text: 乾祐至廣順初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 951
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0033, xinwudaishi:018:s0089
Source Date: Text: 周太祖 · Western Interval: Start: AD 951 · End: AD 954
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:050:s0001, xinwudaishi:050:s0007
Source Date: Text: 周廣順三年春 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:141:s0119
Source Date: Text: 周廣順二年 · Western Year: AD 952
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:138:s0022, jiuwudaishi:138:s0023
Source Date: Text: 周廣順元年 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:070:s0034, xinwudaishi:070:s0156
Source Date: Text: 广顺三年正月 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:012:s0010
Source Date: Text: 廣順三年三月 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0084
Source Date: Text: 廣順三年二月 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:011:s0104
Source Date: Text: 廣順元年冬 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0026
Source Date: Text: 晉高祖滅唐 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:050:s0121
Source Date: Text: 梁亡 · Western Year: AD 923
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:050:s0119
Source Date: Text: 梁貞明初 · Western Year: AD 915
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0003
Source Date: Text: 清泰末 · Western Year: AD 936
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:130:s0007
Source Date: Text: 王峻 · Western Interval: Start: AD 948 · End: AD 952
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:053:s0035, xinwudaishi:053:s0078
Source Date: Text: 開運四年；奉表契丹 · Western Year: AD 947
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0020
Source Date: Text: 高祖即位 · Western Interval: Start: AD 947 · End: AD 948
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:050:s0123

Family

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Child of Wang Feng (王豐)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Wang Feng (豐)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wife of Wang Jun (王峻妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: wife · Object Role: husband

Kinship Role: household · Count: 0 · Statement: entire household slaughtered · Negated: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0014

Career and standing

Label: singer/entertainer in youth / 善歌
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0003
Label: grand councilor / 平章事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太祖踐阼 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0018
Label: military governor of Qingzhou (concurrent) / 青州 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順三年 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0060
Label: overall commander of the field headquarters / 行營都部署 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順元年冬 · Western Year: AD 951
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0026
Label: commissioner of the guest bureau / 客省使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0008
Label: director of the bureau of military affairs / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0016
Label: field-camp supreme commander / 行營都部署 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0008
Label: Follow-the-Emperor Supreme Commander / 隨駕都部署 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0022
Label: Guest Reception Commissioner / 客省使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0123
Label: Northern Courtyard commissioner of the Palace Secretariat / 宣徽北院使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0125
Label: Privy Commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0059, xinwudaishi:050:s0003
Label: Right Vice Director, Gate Attendant-in-Chief, Associate Grand Councilor / 右僕射、門下侍郎、同中書門下平章事 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0007
Label: supervisor of the national history / 監修國史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0007
Label: Sima of Shangzhou / 商州司馬 · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順三年 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0083
Label: Shangzhou military adjutant / 商州司馬 · Action: demoted
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0104
Label: Palace Secretariat commissioner / 宣徽使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0042
Label: Privy Councilor / 樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0023, jiuwudaishi:141:s0119
Label: supervising commissioner / 監軍 · Action: held · Place: Tianxiong / 天雄軍
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0001
Label: Pinglu commissioner / 平盧 · Action: requested-concurrent
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0040
Status: demotion · Action: demoted
Explicit · xinwudaishi:011:s0104
Status: exile · Action: entered · Place: Shangzhou / 商州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順三年 · Western Year: AD 953
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0083
Status: confined · Action: entered
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0047
Label: demoted to Shang marshal / 貶商州司馬 · Action: demoted
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0049

Places and affiliations

Polity: Later Han / 漢 · Relation: served
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0121
Polity: Later Liang / 梁 · Relation: served
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0115
Polity: Later Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0007
Polity Name: Later Zhou / 周 · Relation: served
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0018
Place: Anyang in Xiang Prefecture / 相州安陽
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0001
Place: Anyang in Xiang / 相州安陽
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0113

Learning and skills

Skill: singing / 善歌 · Level: renowned
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0115

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0032, jiuwudaishi:130:s0097, jiuwudaishi:130:s0098, jiuwudaishi:130:s0099
Kind: report · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Han (漢高祖) · Quoted: false
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0022
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Empress Li (李氏)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:018:s0033
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0041
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Zhai Shousu (翟守素)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0012, xinwudaishi:050:s0013, xinwudaishi:050:s0014
Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0018, xinwudaishi:050:s0030

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against · Other Person Id: Liu Chong (劉崇) · Place: Jin prefecture / 晉州
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0008, xinwudaishi:050:s0018, xinwudaishi:050:s0019
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Murong Yanchao (慕容彥超)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0022, xinwudaishi:050:s0027
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Liu Chong (劉崇)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:070:s0034
Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: household-slaughtered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 隱帝蕭墻變起 · Western Interval: Start: AD 950 · End: AD 950
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0014
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: presented memorial to Khitan · Other Person Id: Yaogu (堯骨)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0020
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: relieved-siege · Place: Jin Prefecture / 晉州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 廣順元年冬 · Western Year: AD 951 · Other Person Id: Liu Chong (劉崇)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0026, jiuwudaishi:130:s0035
Kind: political · Role: actor · Action: reported-to-dowager-with-Guo-Wei · Other Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0038
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: sent-Guo-Chongwei-to-guard-Yun · Other Person Id: Guo Chongwei (郭崇威)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0045
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: sent-Ma-Duo-to-inspect · Other Person Id: Ma Duo (馬鐸)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:105:s0019
Kind: appointment · Role: appointee · Action: to-take-distant-command-of-Qing-Prefecture
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:141:s0119, jiuwudaishi:141:s0120
Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Guo Congyi (郭從義)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0010
Relation: presented-to · Person Id: Zhao Yan (趙岩)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0118
Relation: served · Person Id: Zhao Yan (趙岩)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0005
Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Shen Shihou (申師厚)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:138:s0023
Relation: plotted-with · Person Id: Wang Yin (王殷)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0006
Relation: served · Person Id: Zhang Yanlang (張延朗)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0006, xinwudaishi:050:s0120
Relation: patron-client · Person Id: Zhang Yun (張筠) · Statement: Zhang Yun reared Wang Jun
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0003
Relation: served · Person Id: Zhang Yun (張筠)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0115
Relation: served · Person Id: Gaozu of Han (漢高祖)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0121
Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0002, xinwudaishi:050:s0023

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: overbearing and insubordinate · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0024, xinwudaishi:050:s0025, xinwudaishi:050:s0044
Assessment: talents shallow for his rank; rash; led by the nose; claimed credit; improper toward the ruler · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:130:s0092
Kind: relative-age · Statement: two years older than Zhou Taizu · Other Person Id: Guo Wei (郭威)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:050:s0025
Item: wooden staff / 木拐 · Relation: received-for · Other Person Id: Gaozu of Han (漢高祖)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:010:s0020, xinwudaishi:010:s0021

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 102Volume 102 Book of Later Jin 4: Emperor Yin Annals 2 · 3 passages

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臣尋與王峻入城，分兵守四門，其趙思綰部下軍，各已執帶，遂至牙署，令趙思綰至則執之，與一行徒黨，並處置訖。」 Your servant then entered the city with Wang Jun and divided troops to guard the four gates. Sizhan's subordinate troops had all already belted on their arms. We then reached the headquarters office, seized Zhao Sizhan when he arrived, and dealt with him and his whole party of followers."

乙未，宣徽南院使、永興行營兵馬都監王峻，宣徽北院使、河府行營兵馬都監吳虔裕，並加檢校太傅。 On yiwei, the Southern Bureau of the Palace Secretariat commissioner and Yongxing campaign army and horse inspector Wang Jun, and the Northern Bureau commissioner and Hezhong campaign army and horse inspector Wu Qianyu, were both given the additional title of Acting Grand Tutor.

遣樞密使郭威率師巡邊，仍令宣徽使王峻參預軍事。 The Bureau of Military Affairs commissioner Guo Wei was sent to lead troops on a border patrol, and the Palace Secretariat commissioner Wang Jun was ordered to participate in military affairs.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 105Volume 105 Book of Later Jin 7: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 3 passages

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未幾，澶州軍變，王峻遣前申州刺史馬鐸領軍赴州巡檢，鐸引軍入城，信惶惑自殺。 Not long after, the Chanzhou garrison mutinied; Wang Jun sent the former Shen prefect Ma Duo to inspect the prefecture, and Duo marched into the city—whereupon Xin, distraught, took his own life.

威意色皆沮，以為大臣未有推己意，又難於自立，因與王峻入白太后，推擇漢嗣。 Wei's face fell; he took it that the ministers were not yet backing him and that seizing the throne on his own would be hard, so he and Wang Jun went in to the dowager to have a Later Han heir selected.

王峻慮赟左右生變，遣侍衛馬軍指揮使郭崇威以兵七百騎衛赟。 Wang Jun feared trouble from Yun's entourage and sent palace horse-guard commander Guo Chongwei with seven hundred cavalry to escort him.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 130Volume 130 Book of Later Zhou 32: Biographies 10: Wang Jun, Murong Yanchao, Yan Honglu, Cui Zhoudu · 61 passages

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王峻，字秀峰，相州安陽人也。 Wang Jun, courtesy name Xiufeng, was a native of Anyang in Xiang Prefecture.

峻幼慧黠善歌，梁貞明初，張筠鎮相州，憐峻敏惠，遂畜之。 As a boy Jun was clever, quick-witted, and skilled at singing. In the early Zhenming reign of Liang, Zhang Yun was posted to Xiang Prefecture; taking pity on the boy's intelligence, he took him in and raised him.

及莊宗入魏州，筠棄鎮南渡，以峻自隨。 When Emperor Zhuangzong entered Weizhou, Yun abandoned his command and fled south, taking Jun with him.

時租庸使趙巖訪筠於其第，筠召峻聲歌以侑酒，巖悅，筠因以贈之，頗得親愛。 At that time Zhao Yan, commissioner for rent and corvée labor, called on Yun at his mansion. Yun had Jun sing to enliven the wine. Yan was delighted, and Yun presented Jun to him as a gift; he soon won Zhao's warm regard.

梁亡，趙氏族滅，峻流落無依，寄食於符離陳氏之家，久之彌窘，乃事三司使張延朗，所給甚薄。 When Liang fell and the Zhao clan was destroyed, Jun was cast adrift with nowhere to turn. He lived on the Chen family's charity at Fuli; as months passed his plight grew worse, and he entered the service of Zhang Yanlang, commissioner of the three fiscal agencies—but the pay was meager indeed.

清泰末，延朗誅，漢祖盡得延朗之資產仆從，而峻在籍中，從歷數鎮，常為典客。 Near the end of the Qingtai era Yanlang was put to death. The Han founder Liu Zhiyuan seized all his property and retainers; Jun was listed among them and followed him through several provincial postings, usually as protocol officer.

漢祖踐阼，授客省使，奉使荊南，留於襄、漢為監軍，入為內客省使。 When Liu Zhiyuan took the throne he made Jun commissioner of the guest bureau, then sent him on embassy to Jingnan. He was left behind as military supervisor at Xiangyang and Hanzhong, and later recalled to serve as inner commissioner of the guest bureau.

及趙思綰作亂於永興，漢隱帝命郭從義討之，以峻為兵馬都監。 When Zhao Siwan rose in rebellion at Yongxing, Emperor Yindi of Later Han ordered Guo Congyi to crush him and appointed Jun director of armies and cavalry.

從義與峻不協，甚如水火。 Congyi and Jun could not work together—they were as incompatible as water and fire.

太祖鎮鄴，兼北面兵馬，峻為監軍，留駐鄴城。 When Guo Wei was military governor at Ye and also commanded the northern armies, Jun served as his military supervisor and remained garrisoned at Ye.

隱帝蕭墻變起，峻亦為群小所構，舉家見害。 When the palace coup struck under Emperor Yindi, Jun too was framed by petty schemers, and his entire household was slaughtered.

從太祖赴闕，綢繆帷幄，贊成大事，峻居首焉。 He followed Guo Wei to the capital, worked closely with him in the command tent, and helped bring the great enterprise to success—Jun ranked foremost among them.

太祖北征，至澶州，為諸軍擁迫，峻與王殷在京聞變，乃遣侍衛馬軍都指揮使郭崇往宋州，前申州刺史馬鐸往許州，以防他變，二州安然，亦峻之謀也。 When Guo Wei marched north and reached Chanzhou, the armies pressed him to take the throne. Jun and Wang Yin, hearing the news in the capital, dispatched Palace Guard cavalry commander Guo Chong to Songzhou and the former prefect of Shen, Ma Duo, to Xuzhou to forestall any other upheaval. Both prefectures stayed calm—another stroke planned by Jun.

太祖踐阼，加平章事，尋兼右僕射、門下侍郎平章事，監修國史。 When Guo Wei became emperor, Jun was made grand councilor; soon he also held the posts of right vice director of the imperial secretariat, vice minister of the gate department and grand councilor, and supervisor for the compilation of the national history.

時朝廷初建，四方多故，峻夙夜奉事，知無不為，每侍太祖商榷軍事，未嘗不移時而退，甚有裨益。 The dynasty was new and troubles pressed on every side. Jun attended day and night, leaving nothing undone that he could attempt. Whenever he sat with the emperor to weigh military affairs he would not withdraw until hours had passed—his counsel proved of real benefit.

峻年長於太祖二歲，太祖雖登大位，時以兄呼之，有時呼表字，不忘布衣之契也。 Jun was two years older than the emperor. Though Guo Wei now wore the throne, he would sometimes address him as elder brother, sometimes call him Xiufeng—never forgetting their bond as men in plain cloth.

峻以此益自負焉。 Jun grew all the more prideful on that account.

廣順元年冬，劉崇與契丹圍晉州，峻請行應援，太祖用為行營都部署，以徐州節度使王彥超為副。 In the winter of the first year of Guangshun, Liu Chong and the Khitan besieged Jin Prefecture. Jun asked to lead the relief army; Guo Wei appointed him overall commander of the field headquarters, with Wang Yanchao, military governor of Xuzhou, as his deputy.

詔諸軍並取峻節度，許峻以便宜從事，軍行資用仰給於官，隨行將吏得自選擇。 An edict ordered every army to obey Jun's command, allowed him to act at his own discretion, promised that campaign expenses would be met from the treasury, and let him choose his own staff of officers and clerks.

峻至陜駐留數夕，劉崇攻晉州甚急，太祖憂其不可支，議親征，取澤州路入，與峻會合，先令諭峻。 Jun reached Shan and halted several nights. Liu Chong's assault on Jin Prefecture was fierce; the emperor feared the city could not stand and considered leading the campaign himself along the Ze Prefecture road to join Jun, and first sent word to inform him.

峻遣驛騎馳奏，請車駕不行幸。 Jun sent a courier with an urgent memorial begging the emperor not to take the field in person.

時已降御劄，行有日矣，會峻奏至，乃止。 An imperial rescript had already been issued and the departure was only days away—but when Jun's memorial arrived, the journey was called off.

峻軍既過絳郡，距平陽一舍，賊軍燔營，狼狽而遁。 Once Jun's army had passed Jiang Prefecture and was a day's march from Pingyang, the enemy burned their camps and fled in disorder.

峻入晉州，或請追賊，必有大利，峻猶豫久之，翌日方遣騎軍襲賊，信宿而還。 Jun entered Jin Prefecture. Some urged him to pursue, promising a rich prize; he hesitated for a long while. Only the next day did he send cavalry after the enemy, and they returned after two nights on the road.

向使峻極力追躡，則並、汾之孽，無噍類矣。 Had Jun pressed the pursuit with all his strength, the rebel survivors of Bing and Fen would have been wiped out to the last man.

峻亦深恥無功，因計度增修平陽故城而回。 Deeply shamed at accomplishing so little, he planned and enlarged the repairs on the old walls of Pingyang, then marched home.

時永興軍節度使李洪信，漢室之密戚也，自太祖踐阼，恒有憂沮之意，而本城軍不滿千，峻出征至陜州，以救援晉州為辭，抽起數百人，及劉崇北遁，又遣禁兵千餘人，屯於京兆，洪信懼，遂請入朝。 Li Hongxin, military governor of Yongxing, was a close kinsman of the Han house. Since Guo Wei took the throne he had shown constant unease, yet his city garrison numbered fewer than a thousand. When Jun marched out and reached Shan, he used the relief of Jin Prefecture as a pretext to draft several hundred men from him; and when Liu Chong fled north, Jun sent more than a thousand palace guards to garrison Jingzhao. Hongxin was terrified and petitioned to come to court.

峻軍回，太祖厚加優賜。 When Jun's army returned, the emperor showered him with generous rewards.

峻意欲自將兵討賊，累言於太祖曰：「慕容劇賊，曹英不易與之敵耳。」 Jun wanted to take the field himself. Again and again he told the emperor, "Murong is a ferocious rebel—Cao Ying will not easily stand against him."

未幾親征，命峻為隨駕一行都部署，破賊之日，峻督軍在城南，其眾先登，頗有得色。 Before long the emperor marched in person and named Jun overall commander of the entire retinue. On the day the rebels were broken, Jun directed the southern wing; his men were first over the wall, and he could not hide his satisfaction.

峻貪權利，多機數，好施小惠，喜人附己。 Jun was greedy for power, full of schemes, fond of small favors, and happiest when men clustered about him.

太祖登極之初，務存謙抑，潛龍將佐未甚進用，其後鄭仁誨、李重進、向訓等稍遷要職，峻心忌之，至是求退，蓋偵太祖之意也。 Early in Guo Wei's reign he had kept his former companions in check and advanced them slowly. Later Zheng Renhui, Li Chongjin, Xiang Xun, and others were gradually promoted to high office. Jun resented it. His request to retire was largely a probe of the emperor's mind.

未陳請之前，多發外諸侯書以求保證，旬浹之內，諸道馳騎進納峻書，聞者驚駭其事。 Even before he filed the petition he had sent letters far and wide to regional commanders seeking pledges of support. Within a fortnight relay riders from every circuit galloped in with his letters. All who heard of it were shocked.

峻連貢三章，中使宣諭無虛日，太祖嚴駕將幸其第，峻聞之，即馳馬入見，太祖慰勞久之，復令視事。 Jun sent up three memorials in a row. Palace envoys came day after day with the emperor's word. Guo Wei in full procession was about to visit his mansion; Jun heard of it and galloped straight to court. The emperor comforted him at length and ordered him back to office.

峻又於本院之東，別建公署，廓廡廳事，高廣華侈。 Jun also built a new official compound east of his bureau, with corridors and reception halls lofty, spacious, and sumptuous.

其後內園新起小殿，峻視之，奏曰：「宮室已多，何用於此？」 Later, when a small hall was built in the imperial park, Jun saw it and memorialized: "There are already more than enough palaces—why build this?"

峻慚默而退。 Jun said nothing more, withdrew in shame, and held his tongue.

時峻以前事趙巖，頗承寵愛，至是欲希贈官立碑。 Jun had once served Zhao Yan and enjoyed his favor; now he hoped to win a posthumous office and a commemorative stele.

或謂峻曰：「趙巖以諂佞事君，破壞梁室，至今言者無不切齒，茍如所欲，必貽物議。」 Someone warned him: "Zhao Yan flattered his sovereign and ruined the Liang house; men still speak of him with clenched teeth. If you have your way, you will invite scandal."

巖侄崇勛，居於陳郡，峻為求官田宅以賜之，太祖亦從之。 Yan's nephew Chongxun lived in Chen commandery; Jun secured official land and a mansion for him as a gift, and Taizu agreed.

三年春，修利河堤，大興土功，峻受詔檢校。 In the spring of the third year the court repaired the river dikes on a vast scale; Jun was ordered to supervise the works.

既而世宗自澶州入覲，峻素憚世宗之聰明英果，聞其赴闕，即自河次歸朝。 Soon afterward Shizong came from Chanzhou to attend court. Jun had long feared his intelligence and resolve; hearing that he was on his way to the capital, Jun left the river works at once and returned.

是歲，戶部侍郎趙上交權知貢舉，上交嘗詣峻，峻言及一童子，上交不達其旨，榜出之日，童子不第，峻銜之。 That year Zhao Shangjiao, Vice Minister of Revenue, oversaw the examinations. Shangjiao had once visited Jun, who mentioned a certain candidate; Shangjiao did not take his meaning. When the results were posted the youth failed. Jun bore a grudge.

及貢院申中書門下，取日過堂，峻知印，判定過日。 When the examination office reported to the Secretariat to schedule the Hall ceremony, Jun held the seal and fixed the date himself.

及上交引新及第人至中書，峻在政事堂厲聲曰：「今歲選士不公，當須覆試。」 When Shangjiao brought the new graduates to the Secretariat, Jun shouted in the Hall of Administration: "This year's examination was unfair. There must be a re-test."

峻愈怒，詬責上交，聲聞於外。 Jun grew angrier, reviled Shangjiao, and his shouting was heard outside the hall.

及罷，上交詣本廳謝峻，峻又延之飲酌從容。 When the ceremony ended, Shangjiao went to Jun's office to apologize; Jun received him again and shared wine at ease.

翌日，峻奏上交知舉不公，請致之於法，太祖頷之而已。 The next day Jun memorialized that Shangjiao had run the examinations unfairly and asked that he be punished by law. Taizu only nodded.

峻論列其事，奏對不遜。 Jun pressed the case point by point; in memorial and reply he showed no deference.

太祖未食，日將亭午，諍之不已。 Taizu had not yet eaten; the sun was nearly at noon, yet Jun argued without stopping.

峻退至中書。 Jun withdrew to the Secretariat.

是月，吏部選人過門下，峻當其事，頗疑選部不公，其擬官選人落下者三十餘人。 That month, as Ministry of Personnel candidates passed through the Secretariat, Jun handled the review. Convinced the selection office was unfair, he struck more than thirty nominees from the list.

午時，宣召宰臣、樞密使，及入，幽峻於別所。 At noon the chief ministers and the Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs were summoned; when they arrived, Jun was held apart in another room.

太祖見馮道已下，泣曰：「峻淩朕頗甚，無禮太過，擬欲盡去左右臣僚，翦朕羽翼。 Taizu met Feng Dao and the others and wept: "Jun bullies me cruelly and shows outrageous disrespect. He means to drive away every minister at my side and cut off my wings.

朕兒在外，專意阻隔，暫令到闕，即懷怨望。 My son is abroad, and Jun blocks him at every turn. When I briefly summoned him to court, Jun at once nursed resentment.

其日，退朝宣制，貶授商州司馬，差供奉官蔣光遠援送赴商州。 That day, after court, the edict was proclaimed: Jun was demoted to Sima of Shangzhou, and the palace officer Jiang Guangyuan was sent to escort him there.

〈（《通鑒》：峻至商州，得腹疾，帝猶湣之，命其妻往視之，未幾而卒。）〉 (Zizhi Tongjian: When Jun reached Shangzhou he fell ill with a griping belly. The emperor still pitied him and sent his wife to see him; he died soon after.)〉

初，峻降制除青州，有司制造旌節，以備迎授。 Earlier, when the edict appointed Jun to Qingzhou, the offices forged the commission banners in readiness for his investiture.

峻才疏位重，輕躁寡謀，聽人穿鼻，既國權在手，而射利者曲為指畫，乃啖餌虎臣，離間親舊，加以善則稱己，無禮於君，欲求無罪，其可得乎！ Jun's talent did not match his rank: rash, shallow in counsel, led by the nose. Once power was his, profiteers bent schemes to his will; he baited fierce ministers and turned kin and old friends against one another; whatever credit there was, he claimed for himself; toward his sovereign he showed no ritual propriety. To expect innocence from such a man—how could that be?

遣王峻率師赴援，峻頓兵於陜。 The court sent Wang Jun with an army to relieve the city; Jun halted his troops at Shan.

峻見使受宣訖，謂使曰：「與某馳還，附奏陛下，言晉州城堅，未易可破，劉崇兵鋒方銳，不可與力爭，所以駐兵者，待其氣衰耳，非臣怯也。 When Jun met the envoy and received the imperial message, he told him: "Ride back with me at once and report to His Majesty that Jin Prefecture's walls are strong and not easily taken, that Liu Chong's troops are at the height of their ardor and cannot be met head-on. I hold my army here only to wait until their spirit flags—not from cowardice.

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是時樞密使王峻用事，峻故人申師厚者，少起盜賊，爲兗州牙將，與峻相友善。 At that time Privy Councilor Wang Jun dominated the court. An old friend of his, Shen Shihou, had begun life as a bandit and later became adjutant of Yan Prefecture; he and Jun were close.

後峻貴，師厚弊衣蓬首，日候峻出，馬前訴以饑寒，峻未有以發。 After Jun rose to power, Shihou would appear in ragged clothes with hair in disarray, wait each day for Jun to leave his residence, and plead before his horse of hunger and cold. Jun had no means to help him.

而嘉施等來請帥，峻即建言，涼州深入夷狄，中國未嘗命吏，請帥募府率供奉官能往者。 When Jiashi and his party came to request a commander, Jun immediately proposed that Liangzhou lay far within barbarian territory and that the central court had never stationed officials there. He asked that a commander be recruited from among palace attendants willing to go.

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周廣順三年春，樞密使王峻遙鎮青州，有司制旄節以備迎授。 In the spring of the third year of Guangshun of Later Zhou, as Privy Councilor Wang Jun was to assume distant command of Qing Prefecture, the relevant offices prepared imperial banners and credentials for his investiture.

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四年，契丹犯京師，出帝北遷，王遣牙將王峻奉表契丹，耶律德光呼之為兒，賜以木拐一，木拐，虜法貴之如中國几杖，非優大臣不可得。 In the fourth year the Khitan seized the capital and the Outgoing Emperor was taken north. The prince sent Wang Jun, a staff officer, to present tribute to the Khitan. Yelü Deguang addressed him as a son and gave him a wooden staff—in Khitan usage as honored as a Chinese seat and cane, and granted only to ministers in highest favor.

峻持拐歸，虜人望之皆避道。 Jun returned with the staff, and Khitan along the way stepped aside at the sight of it.

峻還，為王言契丹必不能有中國，乃議建國。 Back at Taiyuan, Jun reported that the Khitan could not long keep the Central Plains, and they began to plan a new dynasty.

壬午，永興軍將趙思綰叛附於李守貞，客省使王峻帥師屯於關西。 On renwu Zhao Sizhen of Yongxing mutinied to Li Shouzhen’s side, and Wang Jun, guest commissioner, encamped with an army west of the Pass.

峻不命為將，又不令討賊，但令以兵實關西，下文乃見命將。 Wang Jun was not made a commander or ordered to attack the rebels; he was only told to reinforce Guanzhong. The appointment of commanders appears later.

己丑，郭威及宣徽南院使王峻伐契丹。 On jichou Guo Wei marched against the Khitan with Wang Jun, commissioner of the Southern Bureau of the Palace Secretariat.

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隱帝與李業等謀，已殺史弘肇等，詔鎮寧軍節度使李弘義殺侍衛步軍指揮使王殷於澶州，又詔侍衛馬軍指揮使郭崇殺威及宣徽使王峻於魏。 The Hidden Emperor and Li Ye had already struck down Shi Hongzhao and his allies. He now ordered Li Hongyi of Zhenning to murder Wang Yin, foot commander of the Palace Guard, at Chanzhou, and Guo Chong, horse commander, to kill Wei and Wang Jun, commissioner of the Palace Secretariat, at Wei prefecture.

已而詔殺威、峻使者亦馳騎至，威匿詔書，召樞密使院吏魏仁浦謀於臥內。 Then came the courier charged with executing Wei and Jun. Wei concealed the edict and called Privy Council clerk Wei Renpu to his bedside for counsel.

辛卯，請太后臨朝聽政，以王峻為樞密使，翰林學士、尚書兵部侍郎範質為副使。 On xinmao he had the Empress Dowager preside at court. Wang Jun became Privy Commissioner; Fan Zhi, Hanlin academician and Minister of War, vice commissioner.

王峻遣郭崇以騎七百逆劉赟於宋州，殺之，其將鞏廷美、楊溫為赟守徐州。 Wang Jun dispatched Guo Chong with seven hundred cavalry to cut off Liu Yun at Songzhou and kill him. Yun’s officers Gong Tingmei and Yang Wen still defended Xuzhou in his name.

秋七月戊寅，幸王峻第。 On wuyin in the seventh month the emperor called at Wang Jun’s home.

十一月，王峻及建雄軍節度使王彥超拒之。 In the eleventh month Wang Jun and Wang Yanchao of Jianxiong met them in the field.

二月甲子，貶王峻為商州司馬。 In the second month, on jiazi day, Wang Jun was demoted to military adjutant of Shang Prefecture.

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荣素为枢密使王峻所忌，广顺三年正月来朝，不得留。 Privy Commissioner Wang Jun had long resented Rong; when Rong came to court in the first month of Guangshun 3, he was sent back and not allowed to remain.

既而峻有罪诛，三月，拜荣开封尹，封晋王。 Jun was soon condemned and put to death; in the third month Rong became Mayor of the Eastern Capital and Prince of Jin.

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於是周太祖與王峻入見太后，言：「開封尹承勳，高祖皇帝之子，宜立。」 Guo Wei and Wang Jun told the dowager: “Chengxun, Gaozu’s son, should reign.”

赟行至宋州，太祖自澶州為兵士擁還京師，王峻慮赟左右生變，遣侍衛馬軍指揮使郭崇以兵七百騎衛赟。 As Yun traveled to Songzhou, Taizu from Chanzhou was forced back to the capital by soldiers; Wang Jun sent Guo Chong with seven hundred horse to guard Yun.

周太祖軍變於澶州，王峻遣前申州刺史馬鐸以兵巡檢許州，信乃自殺。 When Guo Wei's army mutinied at Chanzhou, Wang Jun sent the former prefect of Shenzhou, Ma Duo, to inspect Xu with troops; Xin then killed himself.

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周太祖鎮天雄軍，峻為監軍。 While Zhou Taizu held Tianxiong, Jun served as supervising commissioner.

漢隱帝已殺大臣史弘肇等，又遣人殺周太祖及峻等，峻等遂與太祖舉兵犯京師。 The Hidden Emperor had killed Shi Hongzhao and other great ministers, then sent men to kill Taizu and Jun. Jun and the rest joined Taizu and marched on the capital.

太祖監國，以漢太后命拜峻樞密使。 Taizu governed as regent and, by the Empress Dowager’s order, made Jun Privy Commissioner.

峻與王殷謀，遣侍衛馬軍指揮使郭崇率兵之宋州、前申州刺史馬鐸之許州以伺變，崇、鐸遂幽赟而殺信。 Jun and Wang Yin sent Guo Chong’s horse to Song and Ma Duo, once prefect of Shen, to Xu to watch for shifts. Chong and Duo seized Yun and killed Xin.

王峻字秀峯，相州安陽人也。 Wang Jun, styled Xiufeng, came from Anyang in Xiang.

峻少以善歌事梁節度使張筠。 As a youth Jun, famed for song, served Liang commissioner Zhang Jun.

租庸使趙巖過筠家，筠命峻歌佐酒，巖見而悅之。 Grain commissioner Zhao Yan visited Zhang Jun’s house. Zhang Jun had Wang Jun sing for the wine, and Yan was pleased.

是時巖方用事，筠因以峻遺巖。 Yan was then in power, and Zhang Jun gave Jun to him.

梁亡，巖族誅，峻流落民間。 When Liang fell, Yan’s clan was executed and Jun was cast adrift among the people.

晉高祖滅唐，殺延朗，是時漢高祖從晉起兵，因悉以延朗貲產賜之，峻因得事漢高祖。 Jin Gaozu destroyed Tang and killed Yanlang. Han Gaozu rose with Jin and received all Yanlang’s property; Jun thereby entered Han Gaozu’s service.

高祖鎮河東，峻為客將。 When Gaozu governed Hedong, Jun was a guest general.