Overview
Xingmi was a warlord and Ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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Family
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Places and affiliations
- Polity Huainan Wu 淮南 · Relation Ruled
Works and attributed material
- Letter · Addressee · Direct quotation · With Yun (頵)
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Tai Meng (臺濛)
- Speech · Addressee · Direct quotation · With Yun (頵)
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Yun (頵)
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With An Renyi (安仁義)
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 189Volume 189 Biographies 114: Gao, Zhao, Tian, Zhu · 16 passages
先是，行密欲女镠子，镠急，乃遣元迎女，且告行密曰：「頵得誌，為患必大，請以子為質，願召還頵。」
Earlier Xingmi had sought a marriage alliance with Liu’s son. In desperation Liu sent Yuan Guan to fetch the bride and told Xingmi, “If Yun succeeds the damage will be grave. Take my son as hostage and recall Yun.”
行密使人謂頵曰：「不還，我遣人代守宣州。」
Xingmi sent word to Yun: “If you do not return, I will send someone else to hold Xuanzhou.”
然內怨行密與镠，因移書曰：「侯王守方以奉天子，譬百川不朝於海，雖狂奔澶漫，終為涸土，不若順流無窮也。
Yet he nursed resentment against Xingmi and Liu and wrote: “Princes hold their domains in service to the Son of Heaven. It is like the hundred streams not paying court to the sea—however wildly they rush and spread, they end as dry earth; better to follow the current without end.
行密答曰：「貢賦繇汴而達，適足資敵爾。」
Xingmi answered, “Tribute must pass through Bianzhou—that would only arm our enemy.”
於是頵絕行密，大募兵。
Yun then broke with Xingmi and raised a great army.
李神福白行密：「頵必叛，宜先圖之。」
Li Shenfu warned Xingmi, “Yun will certainly rebel. You should strike first.”
行密曰：「頵有大功，而反狀未明，殺之，諸將不為用。」
Xingmi said, “Yun has rendered great service, and his treason is not yet proven. If I kill him, the other generals will not follow me.”
行密以康儒在頵所，故授廬州刺史以間之。
Because Kang Ru was with Yun, Xingmi appointed him prefect of Luzhou to drive a wedge between them.
神福方與劉存攻鄂州，行密召之。
Shenfu was besieging Ezhou with Liu Cun when Xingmi recalled him.
答曰：「吾以一卒從吳王，任上將，終不以妻子易意。」
Shenfu answered, “I followed the Prince of Wu from the ranks to high command. I will not change my loyalty for wife and children.”
乃瀕水堅壁不出，請行密以兵塞頵走道。
He fortified his camp along the river and refused battle, while asking Xingmi to block Yun’s line of retreat.
行密遣將王茂章攻潤州。
Xingmi sent Wang Maozhang to attack Runzhou.
行密遣使謂曰：「吾不忘公功，能自歸，當復為行軍副使，但不可處兵。」
Xingmi sent word: “I have not forgotten your service. Surrender and I will restore you as campaigning deputy—but you may not keep an army.”
行密召其將臺濛泣語曰：「人嘗告頵必反，我不忍負人，頵果負我。
Xingmi summoned his general Tai Meng and said through tears, “Men warned me Yun would rebel, but I could not bear to wrong him—and he has wronged me.
與王壇等戰廣德，濛以行密書遺壇諸將，皆再拜氣奪。
At Guangde he fought Wang Tan and sent Xingmi’s letter to Tan’s officers. They all bowed low, their spirit broken.
行琮及壇皆歸行密，頵恚，自料死士數百，號「爪牙都」，身薄戰。
Xingcong and Tan both went over to Xingmi. Furious, Yun picked several hundred dare-to-die men, called them the “Fang and Claw Corps,” and led the charge himself.