Wei Baoheng (韋保衡)

Overview

Wei Baoheng was a statesman and Imperial Son-in-law.

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Yunyong	蘊用	Yùnyòng

AD 860 to AD 873 咸通
Cause Punished by death
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 183, passage 44
AD 860 to AD 874 咸通中
Did not come to a peaceful end
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 83
Ordered suicide after successive demotions
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 184

AD 860 to AD 873 咸通中
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 184, passages 104, 175
AD 860 to AD 874 咸通中
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 183, passages 81, 83
AD 860 to AD 873 咸通中得罪死
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 183, passage 44

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Commandant of the Imperial Son-in-law 駙馬都尉
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 175
Grand Councillor 同中書門下平章事
Appointed
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 177
Magistrate of Chengmai 澄邁令
Demoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 184
Prefect of Hezhou 賀州刺史
Demoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 184
chancellor 宰相
Held
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 183, passages 81, 83
Right Reminder 右拾遺
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 175

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Vice Minister of War 兵部侍郎
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 177
Attendant of the Bedchamber 起居郎
Promoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 175
Chief Hanlin Academician 翰林學士承旨
Promoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 177
Minister of Works 司徒
Promoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 183
Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs 尚書右仆射
Promoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 178
Vice Director of the Chancery 門下侍郎
Promoted
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 178
Impeached
Target Person Id Yang Shou (楊收) · Allegations appointed Yan Zan for a bribe of one million, concealed thefts
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 104
Condemned to death · Reason faction and bribery
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 44

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 183; New Book of Tang 183, passage 44
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 183, passage 83
At Jingzhao 京兆 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 173
Organization Ox-Head and A-Bang faction 牛頭阿旁 · Relation Leader with · With Lu Yan (路巖)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 156

Did not come to a peaceful end
AD 860 to AD 874 咸通中 · Political · Subject
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 83
Dismissed Yu Ji and Xiao Gun for having slighted him
Political retaliation
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 180
Drove out Yang Shou and overthrew Lu Yan
Political
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 181
Slandered Liu Zhan
Political · Slanderer · With Liu Zhan (劉瞻)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 183
Relation Political ally of · Person Liu Ye (劉鄴)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passage 73

Assessment did not come to a peaceful end, matching a calendrical prediction · Mode named-source-report Source Work calendrical expert of the Xiantong era 咸通中治歷者
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 183, passages 81-83
Assessment shallow and arbitrary in promoting favorites and excluding enemies · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 184, passage 179