Wang Qinhuo (王欽祚)

Overview

Wang Qinhuo was an official.

PeriodFive Dynasties

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Death

Beheaded · Agent Person Id Zhao Hui (趙徽) · At Maxia road 馬峽
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 96, passage 46

Attested activity

AD 945 開運元年明年
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 23
AD 946 丙午歲
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 96, passage 34
AD 936 to AD 944 天福中
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 96, passages 26, 32
AD 945 to AD 946 鎮州軍食不繼
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 109, passage 28

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Wang Yu (王瑜)
father 父
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 96, passage 23

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Career and standing

Palace Director 殿中監
AD 945 開運元年明年 · Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 23
Deputy military governor 節度副使
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 96, passage 32
Director of the Palace Domestic Service 殿中監
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 96, passage 23
Palace Supervisor 殿中監
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 109, passage 28
Prefect of Yi 義州刺史
Held
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 96, passage 23

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Jin 晉 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 23

Events and relationships

Bought grain
Administrative · Purchasing agent · At Zhenzhou 鎮州
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 109, passage 28
Recorded and purchased private grain for army
AD 945 開運元年明年 · Administrative · Official · With Du Chongwei (杜重威) · At Zhenzhou 鎮州
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 23

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 52, passage 23

References in the histories

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History

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 96Volume 96 Book of Later Jin 22: Biographies 11: Kong Chongbi, Chen Baoji, Wang Yu, Zhang Jizuo, Zhen Ruan, Hu Rao, Liu Suiqing, Fang Gao, Meng Chenghui, Liu Jixun, Zheng Shouyi, Cheng Xun, Li Yu, Zheng Xuansu, Ma Zhongji, Chen Xuan · 8 passages

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父欽祚，仕至殿中監，出為義州刺史。 His father Qinhuo rose to director of the palace domestic service and was later posted as prefect of Yi.

杜重威之鎮東平也，瑜父欽祚為節度副使，及重威移鎮常山，瑜乃詭計於重威，使奏己為恒州節度副使，竟代其父位。 While Du Chongwei held Dongping, Yu's father Qinhuo served as his deputy. When Chongwei was transferred to Changshan, Yu persuaded him by a ruse to recommend him as deputy military governor of Hengzhou, and in the end took his father's place.

丙午歲，父欽祚刺舉義州，瑜歸寧至郡。 In the bingwu year his father Qinhuo was posted as investigating commissioner of Yi prefecture, and Yu went to visit him there.

會契丹據有中夏，何建以秦州歸蜀，瑜說欽祚曰：「若不西走，當屬契丹矣！」 The Khitans had seized the heartland, and He Jian had surrendered Qinzhou to Shu. Yu urged his father, "If we do not flee west, we shall end up under Khitan rule!"

厲色數諫，其父怒而不從。 He remonstrated again and again with a fierce expression, but his father grew angry and refused.

因其臥疾涉旬，瑜仗劍而脅之曰：「老懦無謀，欲趨炮烙。 When his father had been bedridden for more than ten days, Yu drew his sword and threatened him: "You old fool without a plan—you are rushing straight toward the stake.

父不得已而聽之。 His father had no choice but to yield.

徽之所親，循溝澮而遁，至馬峽路隅，舉燧相應，其黨起於伏莽，斷欽祚之首，貫諸長矛。 Hui's men stole along ditches and canals until, at a bend on the Maxia road, they lit signal fires. His band sprang from the brush, cut off Qinhuo's head, and spitted it on a long spear.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 109Volume 109 Book of Later Jin 11: Biographies 6: Du Zhongwei, Li Shouzhen, Zhao Siwan · 1 passage

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會鎮州軍食不繼，遣殿中監王欽祚就本州和市，重威私第有粟十餘萬斛，遂錄之以聞。 When army rations at Zhenzhou ran short, the court sent Palace Supervisor Wang Qinzuo to buy grain there. More than a hundred thousand bushels were found stored in Chongwei's private residence, and the fact was reported to court.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 52Volume 52 Miscellaneous Biographies 32: Du Zhongwei, Li Zhouzhen, Zhang Yanze · 1 passage

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而鎮州所留私粟十餘萬斛，殿中監王欽祚和市軍儲，乃錄以聞，給絹數萬匹以償之，重威大怒曰：「吾非反者，安得籍沒邪！」 More than a hundred thousand hu of private grain he had left at Zhenzhou was taken by Palace Director Wang Qinzuo to purchase army provisions. This was recorded and reported, and tens of thousands of bolts of silk were given in compensation. Zhongwei flew into a rage: "I am no rebel—how can my property be confiscated!"