Xu Ding (胥鼎) | 24 Histories

Overview

Xu Ding was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1216 四年
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 50, passages 226, 233
AD 1214 宣宗貞祐二年
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passage 226
AD 1213 至寧元年
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 13, passage 159
AD 1218 興定元年
Dated from the passage context · History of Jin 134, passage 131

Key source chapters

History of Jin, Chapter 50 Volume 50 Treatises 31: Finance and Economics 5: Monopoly Markets, State Purchase of Grain, Rice Fields, Agricultural Land Administration, Buying of Titles or Pardons With Grain and Selling of Ordination Certificates 2 passages
History of Jin, Chapter 13 Volume 13 Annals 13: Wei Shaowang 1 passage
History of Jin, Chapter 134 Volume 134 Biographies 72: Foreign Countries 1: Xixia 1 passage

Career and standing

Hedong Branch Secretariat 河東行省
AD 1216 四年 · Held
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passages 226, 233
Administrator of Daxing Prefecture 知大興府事
AD 1214 宣宗貞祐二年 · Held
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passage 226

Places and affiliations

AD 1216 四年
At Hedong 河東 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passages 226, 233
AD 1214 宣宗貞祐二年
At Daxing Prefecture 大興府 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passage 226

Works and attributed material

AD 1216 四年
Memorial · Author · With Xuanzong (宣宗) · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Xu Ding (胥鼎)
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passages 226, 233-243
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · History of Jin 134, passage 131

Events and relationships

Proposed expanded favor sale and grain submission rules
AD 1216 四年 · Political · Proposer · At Hedong 河東
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passages 233-243
Requested provisional favor sale rates
AD 1214 宣宗貞祐二年 · Political · Petitioner · With Xuanzong (宣宗)
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passage 226
Relation Petitioned · Person Xuanzong (宣宗)
Directly stated · History of Jin 50, passage 226

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Jin 13, passage 159

References in the histories

History of Jin, Chapter 13Volume 13 Annals 13: Wei Shaowang · 1 passage

Open chapter

以戶部尚書胥鼎、刑部尚書王維翰為參知政事。 Xu Ding, minister of revenue, and Wang Weihan, minister of justice, were appointed participation councillors.

History of Jin, Chapter 50Volume 50 Treatises 31: Finance and Economics 5: Monopoly Markets, State Purchase of Grain, Rice Fields, Agricultural Land Administration, Buying of Titles or Pardons With Grain and Selling of Ordination Certificates · 2 passages

Open chapter

宣宗貞祐二年，從知大興府事胥鼎所請，定權宜鬻恩例格，進宮升職、丁憂人許應舉求仕、監戶從良之類，入粟草各有數。 In Xuanzong's Zhenyou 2, on Daxing Prefecture Administrator Xu Ding's request, provisional favor-sale rates were fixed for advancement in palace rank and promotion, permission for those in mourning to take examinations and seek office, manumission of registered households, and similar benefits, each with set grain or fodder payments.

四年，河東行省胥鼎言：「河東兵多民少，倉空歲饑。 In year four Hedong Branch Secretariat Xu Ding said, "In Hedong troops are many and people few; the granaries are empty and the year is famine-struck.

History of Jin, Chapter 134Volume 134 Biographies 72: Foreign Countries 1: Xixia · 1 passage

Open chapter

詔河東行省胥鼎選兵三萬五千，付陀滿胡土門伐夏，鼎馳奏不可，遂止，語在鼎傳。 An edict ordered Hedong Branch Secretariat Xu Ding to select thirty-five thousand troops for Tuoman Hutumen's Xia campaign; Xu Ding urgently memorialized against it and the plan was halted, as recorded in his biography.