Xiao Hezhuo (蕭合卓)

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Hezhuo as an administrator, diplomat, general, and official. This record brings together 16 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xiao Hezhuo	蕭合卓	Xiāo Hézhuō
Courtesy name	Helu Yin	合魯隱	Hélǔ Yǐn
Given name	Hezhuo	合卓
Given name	Hezhuo	合卓	Hézhuō
Title	Privy Councilor	樞密使
Surname	Xiao	蕭
Surname	Xiao	蕭	Xiāo
Personal name	Xiao Hezhuo	蕭合卓	Xiāo Hézhuō
Personal name	Xiao Hezhuo	蕭合卓	Xiāo Hézhuó
Personal name	Xiao Hezhuo	蕭合卓	Xiao Hezhuo
Personal	Xiao Hezhuo	蕭合卓	Xiao Hezhuo

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:061:s0127
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0078, liaoshi:081:s0062, liaoshi:081:s0082, liaoshi:082:s0047, liaoshi:087:s0032

Roles

Administrator
Diplomat
General
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 太平5年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1025
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0076, liaoshi:081:s0081

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和18年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1000
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0065
Source Date: Text: 太平5年 · Reign Id: liao-taiping · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 1025
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0076
Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Year: AD 983
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0064
Source Date: Text: 聖宗時 · Western Interval: Start: AD 983 · End: AD 1031
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:061:s0127
Source Date: Text: 自蕭合卓以吏才進 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1010 · End: AD 1043
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:087:s0032, liaoshi:087:s0008
Source Date: Text: 開泰 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1012 · End: AD 1021
Explicit · liaoshi:082:s0047
Source Date: Text: 開泰3年 · Western Year: AD 1014
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0067
Source Date: Text: 開泰6年 · Western Year: AD 1017
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0073
Source Date: Text: 開泰中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1012 · End: AD 1021
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:080:s0075, liaoshi:080:s0078
Source Date: Text: 開泰九年前後 · Western Year: AD 1020
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0146

Family

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Parent of Wugu (烏古)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: tribal clerk / 本部吏
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0063
Label: commissioner of the Northern Chancellery / 北院樞密使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0069
Label: deputy commissioner of the Northern Chancellery / 北院樞密副使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0066
Label: Left Yilibi / 左夷離畢 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 開泰3年 · Western Year: AD 1014
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0067
Label: vice minister of the Southern Chancellery / 南院侍郎 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 統和初 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Western Year: AD 983
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0064
Label: Commissioner of the Bureau of Military Affairs / 樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0127
Label: commissioner / 樞密使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0078
Label: chief censor / 中丞 · Action: recommended · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 統和18年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1000
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0065

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:080:s0078, liaoshi:081:s0064
Place: Tulübu tribe / 突呂不部
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0062
Organization: Tulübu tribe / 突呂不部 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0062

Learning and skills

Skill: court repartee and knowledge of precedent / 明習典故，善占對 · Level: renowned
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0068

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒) · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0076, liaoshi:081:s0077
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Other Person Id: Xiao Pu (蕭樸) · Quoted: true
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0079

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: began-hearing-lawsuits-personally
Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0127
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: campaigned-against-Goryeo · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開泰6年 · Western Year: AD 1017
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0073
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: sent-to-Song-with-empress-dowager-parting-gifts · Other Person Id: empress dowager (太后) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 統和18年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1000
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0065
Relation: recommended-by · Person Id: Han Derang (韓德讓)
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0065

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: lacked integrity and should not be entrusted with great responsibility · Provenance: Mode: hearsay
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0070
Assessment: mocked for shortcomings by Wang Jizhong at a banquet · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Wang Jizhong (王繼忠)
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0071
Assessment: on deathbed instructed Xiao Pu never to recommend anyone better than himself—crime against the state · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0087
Assessment: prized administrative talent; customs declined after their practice · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:061:s0127, liaoshi:061:s0128
Assessment: recognized as incorrupt; food, clothing, servants and horses no more lavish than before · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒)
Explicit · liaoshi:081:s0074, liaoshi:081:s0075

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 61Volume 61 Treatises 31: Punishment and Law 1 · 1 passage

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及蕭合卓、蕭樸相繼為樞密使，專尚吏才，始自聽訟。 When Xiao Hezhuo and Xiao Pu successively served as commissioners, prizing administrative talent, they began hearing lawsuits themselves.

History of Liao, Chapter 80Volume 80 Biographies 10: Zhang Jian, Xing Baopu, Ma Dechen, Xiao Pu, Yelu Eight Brothers · 1 passage

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時蕭合卓為樞密使，樸知部署院事，以酒廢事，出為興國軍節度使，俄召為南面林牙。 At the time Xiao Hezhuo was commissioner; Pu managed Deployment Court affairs; because drink caused him to neglect his duties, he was sent out as military commissioner of the Xingguo Army, but before long he was recalled as Southern Face linya.

History of Liao, Chapter 81Volume 81 Biographies 11: Yelu Shilu, Wang Jizhong, Xiao Xiaozhong, Chen Zhaogun, Xiao Hezhuo · 11 passages

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王繼忠蕭孝忠陳昭袞蕭合卓 Wang Jizhong, Xiao Xiaozhong, Chen Zhaogun, and Xiao Hezhuo

上嘗燕飲，議以蕭合卓為北院樞密使，繼忠曰：「合卓雖有刀筆才，暗於大體。 At a banquet the emperor once discussed appointing Xiao Hezhuo commissioner of the Northern Chancellery; Jizhong said, "Hezhuo may have a gift for paperwork, but he lacks grasp of the larger picture.

上不納，竟用合卓。 The emperor did not heed him and in the end appointed Hezhuo.

及遣合卓伐高麗，繼忠為行軍副部署，攻興化鎮，月餘不下。 When Hezhuo was dispatched against Goryeo, Jizhong served as deputy campaign commander; they attacked Xinghua garrison for more than a month without capturing it.

蕭合卓，字合魯隱，突呂不部人。 Xiao Hezhuo, whose style was Helu Yin, came from the Tulübu tribe.

十八年，北院樞密使韓德讓舉合卓為中丞，以太后遺物使宋。 In the eighteenth year the Northern Chancellery commissioner Han Derang recommended Hezhuo as chief censor and sent him to Song bearing the empress dowager's parting gifts.

合卓久居近職，明習典故，善占對。 Hezhuo had long held posts close to the throne, was well versed in precedent, and excelled at court repartee.

六年，遣合卓伐高麗，還，時求進者多附之； In the sixth year Hezhuo was sent against Goryeo; on his return, many office-seekers flocked to him;

太平五年，有疾，帝欲臨視，合卓辭曰：「臣無狀，猥蒙重任。 In the fifth year of Taiping he fell ill; the emperor wished to visit him in person. Hezhuo declined, saying, "Your subject is without merit, yet I have presumptuously received a weighty post.

會北府宰相蕭樸問疾，合卓執其手曰：「吾死，君必為樞密使，慎勿舉勝己者。」 When the Northern Prefecture chancellor Xiao Pu came to inquire after his illness, Hezhuo took his hand and said, "When I die, you are sure to become commissioner; be careful never to recommend anyone better than yourself."

合卓臨終，教蕭樸毋舉勝己者任樞密，其誤國之罪大矣！ Hezhuo on his deathbed instructed Xiao Pu never to recommend anyone better than himself for the commissionership—a crime against the state of the gravest kind!

History of Liao, Chapter 82Volume 82 Biographies 12: Yelu Longyun, Yelu Boguzhe, Xiao Yanga, Wu Bai, Xiao Changge, Yelu Hugu · 1 passage

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樞密副使蕭合卓用事，制心奏合卓寡識度，無行檢，上默然。 Deputy Privy Councilor Xiao Hezhuo dominated affairs. Zhixin memorialized that Hezhuo was shallow in judgment and lax in conduct. The emperor said nothing.

History of Liao, Chapter 87Volume 87 Biographies 17: · 1 passage

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自蕭合卓以吏才進，其後轉效，不知大體。 After Xiao Hezhuo rose through clerical skill alone, others imitated him and lost sight of the larger principles of governance.

History of Liao, Chapter 88Volume 88 Biographies 18: Xiao Dilie, Yelu Pennu, Xiao Paiya, Yelu Zizhong, Yelu Yaozhi, Yelu Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelu Delu, Da Kangyi · 1 passage

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是時，樞密使蕭合卓、少師蕭把哥有寵，資忠不背俯附，詆之。 At that time Privy Councilor Xiao Hezhuo and Junior Tutor Xiao Bage were in favor. Zizhong would not bow and follow them and spoke against them.