Xiao Yixue (蕭乙薛) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xiao Yixue as an aristocrat, general, military officer, and named individual. This record brings together 14 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xiao Yixue	蕭乙薛	Xiāo Yǐxuē
Descriptive kinship	Descendant of the junior imperial uncle's younger son	國舅少父房子後
Courtesy name	Temian	特免	Tèmiǎn
Surname	Xiao	蕭
Surname	Xiao	蕭	Xiāo
Personal name	Xiao Yixue	蕭乙薛	Xiāo Yǐxuē
Personal name	Yixue	乙薛
Given	Yixue	乙薛	Yǐxuē

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:027:s0236
Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0061, liaoshi:030:s0090, liaoshi:101:s0065

Roles

Aristocrat
General
Military Officer
Named Individual
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Cause: killed · Manner: killed · Other Person Id: Yelü Dashi (耶律大石)
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0081

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 辛丑 · Sexagenary Day: 辛丑 · Lunar Month: 11 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:027:s0236
Source Date: Text: 十二月 · Lunar Month: 12 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:027:s0238, liaoshi:027:s0237
Source Date: Text: AD 1124 · Western Year: AD 1124
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:030:s0090
Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1117
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0091, liaoshi:028:s0105
Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0076
Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1116
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0061
Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1120
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:028:s0163
Source Date: Text: 壽隆間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1095 · End: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0067
Source Date: Text: 天慶六年 · Western Year: AD 1116
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0071
Source Date: Text: 天慶初 · Western Year: AD 1111
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0068
Source Date: Text: 天慶十年 · Western Year: AD 1120
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0074

Origins and identity

Label: descendant of the junior imperial uncle's younger son / 國舅少父房子後
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0065

Career and standing

Label: field army deputy commander / 行軍副都統 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 辛丑 · Sexagenary Day: 辛丑 · Lunar Month: 11 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0236
Label: Shangjing Garrison Commissioner / 上京留守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶十年 · Western Year: AD 1120
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0074
Label: Chancellor of the Northern Prefecture / 北府宰相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0073
Label: Deputy Commanding General on Campaign / 行軍副都統 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0069
Label: Deputy Director of Palace Inspection / 殿前副點檢 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0068
Label: Director of Palace Inspection / 殿前都點檢 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0078
Label: Military Commissioner of the Wuding Army / 武定軍節度使 · Action: appointed · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 天慶六年 · Western Year: AD 1116
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0071
Label: Northern Court chancellor / 北府宰相 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0105
Label: Shangjing Garrison Commissioner / 上京留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0079
Label: Supreme Capital regent / 上京留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0163
Label: Western Capital Garrison Commissioner / 西京留守 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0071
Label: Southwest Pacification Commissioner / 西南面招討使 · Action: demoted-to
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0076
Label: weighty offices / 劇官 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壽隆間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1095 · End: AD 1101
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0067
Label: Commander of the Northeast Route Army / 東北路都統 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0073
Label: deputy inspector / 副點檢 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0236
Label: Eastern Route Army Commander / 東北路統軍使 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0074
Label: overseer of Imperial Uncle guard affairs / 知國舅詳穩事 · Action: held · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 天慶初 · Western Year: AD 1111
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0068
Label: Western Capital regent / 西京留守 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0091, liaoshi:028:s0105
Label: Left Vice Director / 左僕射 · Action: granted
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0073
Status: captivity · Action: entered · Other Person Id: Lu Yanlun (盧彥倫)
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0080
Status: dismissal · Action: entered
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0070
Status: captivity · Action: exited
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0080

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0236, liaoshi:101:s0065

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: deputy-commander · Action: appointed deputy to Yelü Woliduo · Other Person Id: Yelü Woliduo (耶律斡里朵)
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0236
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: army-collapsed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 保大二年 · Western Year: AD 1122
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0076
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Dong Mang'er (董厖兒) · Place: west of the Yishui / 易水西 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1117
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0072
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated · Other Person Id: Dong Peng'er (董龐兒)
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0091, liaoshi:028:s0092
Kind: refusal · Role: appointee · Action: did-not-take-up-post · Reason: tribal-subjects-scattered
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0077
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: induced-submission · Other Person Id: Gao Yongchang (高永昌)
Explicit · liaoshi:028:s0061
Kind: service · Role: attendant-supplier · Action: supplied-attendants-in-exile · Other Person Id: Yelü Yanxi (延禧)
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0078
Kind: military · Role: relief-commander · Action: went to relieve Bin Prefecture and was defeated by Jurchen · Place: Bin Prefecture / 賓州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二月 · Lunar Month: 12 · Western Year: AD 1114
Explicit · liaoshi:027:s0238

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: balanced lenience and severity; relieved the destitute; loved by the people · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0075
Assessment: paramount integrity already lost for enduring Lu Yanlun capture · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0101
Kind: character · Statement: cautious and steady
Explicit · liaoshi:101:s0066

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 27Volume 27 Annals 27: Emperor Tianzuo 1 · 2 passages

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一二：辛丑，以西北路招討使耶律斡里朵為行軍都統，一三：副點檢蕭乙薛、同知南院樞密使事耶律章奴副之。 — [12]: On xinchou day Northwest Route pacification commissioner Yelü Woliduo was made field army commander-in-chief; — [13]: deputy inspector Xiao Yixue and associate Southern Court privy commissioner Yelü Zhangnu were deputies.

乙薛往援賓州，南軍諸將實婁、特烈等往援咸州，並為女直所敗。 Yixue went to relieve Bin Prefecture; southern army generals Shilou, Telie, and others went to relieve Xian Prefecture; all were defeated by Jurchen.

History of Liao, Chapter 28Volume 28 Annals 28: Emperor Tianzuo 2 · 5 passages

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<六>遣蕭乙薛、高興順招之，不從。 [6] Xiao Yixue and Gao Xingshun were sent to induce submission; they did not obey.

二月，淶水縣賊董龐兒聚眾萬餘，西京留守蕭乙薛、南京統軍都監查剌與戰于易水，破之。 In the second month Lianshui County bandit Dong Peng'er gathered more than ten thousand; Western Capital regent Xiao Yixue and Nanjing field army inspector Zhala fought them on the Yi River and broke them.

三月，龐兒党復聚，乙薛復擊破之於奉聖州。 In the third month Peng'er's party gathered again; Yixue again defeated them at Fengsheng Prefecture.

丁丑，以西京留守蕭乙薛為北府宰相，東北路行軍都統奚霞末知奚六部大王事。 On dingchou day Western Capital regent Xiao Yixue was made Northern Court chancellor; Northeast Route field commander Xi Xiamo administered Xi Six Divisions great king affairs.

六月乙酉，以北府宰相蕭乙薛為上京留守、知鹽鐵內省兩司、東北統軍司事。 On yiyou day of the sixth month Northern Court chancellor Xiao Yixue was made Supreme Capital regent, administering Salt-Iron Inner Court two offices and Northeast field army commissioner affairs.

History of Liao, Chapter 30Volume 30 Annals 30: Emperor Tianzuo 4: Ye Luchun, Ye Luyali, Ye Ludashi and Son: Yilie, Yi Lie and Younger Sister: Pu Suwan, Yi Lieci and Son: Zhilugu · 1 passage

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大石不自安，遂殺蕭乙薛、坡里括，自立為王，率鐵騎二百宵遁。 Dashi was ill at ease; he thereupon killed Xiao Yixue and Poliguo, styled himself king, and led two hundred iron cavalry fleeing by night.

History of Liao, Chapter 101Volume 101 Biographies 31: Xiao Taosuwo, Yelu Axibao, Xiao Yixue, Xiao Hudu · 6 passages

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蕭陶蘇斡耶律阿息保蕭乙薛蕭胡篤 Xiao Taosuwo, Yelu Axibao, Xiao Yixue, and Xiao Hudu

蕭乙薛，字特免，國舅少父房子後。 Xiao Yixue, whose courtesy name was Temian, was a descendant of the junior imperial uncle's younger son.

保大二年，金兵大至，乙薛軍潰，左遷西南面招討使。 In the second year of Baoda, when Jin armies came in overwhelming force, Yixue's army collapsed and he was demoted to southwest pacification commissioner.

凡金兵所過，諸營敗卒復聚上京，遣乙薛為上京留守以安撫之。 Wherever Jin armies passed, defeated soldiers from the camps regathered at Shangjing; Yixue was sent as Shangjing commissioner to pacify them.

明年，盧彥倫以城叛，乙薛被執數月，以居官無過，得釋。 The following year Lu Yanlun rebelled with the city; Yixue was held for several months and released because he had committed no fault in office.

阿息保不死阿疏之難，乙薛甘忍盧彥倫之執，大節已失矣，他有所長，亦奚足取。 Axibao did not perish in Ashu's disaster, and Yixue submitted to Lu Yanlun's capture—their paramount integrity was already gone; whatever other talents they possessed, what is there to esteem?