Sui and Tang · Official and Military Officer

Yang Sifu 楊嗣復

Attested AD 836 - AD 840

Passages: 10
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Yang Sifu was an official and Military Officer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 836 to AD 840 元和十三年之後
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 55, passages 162-163
AD 836 to AD 840 終文宗世
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 143
AD 836 to AD 840 開成
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 175, passage 169
AD 837 to AD 840 開成二年辅政
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passages 10-11

Family

Kin of Yang Rushi (楊汝士)
clan brothers 族昆弟 · paternal line
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 175, passage 169

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Chancellor 宰相
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163
Chief Minister 輔政
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 11
Endured
AD 827 to AD 840 終帝世 · Blocked from promotion
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 181, passage 143

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 11, 143

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author · Paraphrased
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passages 16-17, 19, 30-31

Events and relationships

Deliberations produced Zhongwu and Binning appointments
Appointment · Recommender
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 13
Dismissed Dou Xunzhi protest as fame seeking
Political · Critic · With Dou Xunzhi (竇洵直)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 181, passage 21
Memorialized that hall kitchen interest money harassed the people; money contractors abolished
Political · Chancellor
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 55, passage 163; New Book of Tang 181, passage 11

References in the histories

Search passages

History

10 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 55Volume 55 Treatises 51: Finance and Economics 4 · 1 passage

其後宰相李玨、楊嗣復奏堂廚食利錢擾民煩碎，於是罷堂廚捉錢官，置庫量入計費。 Chancellors Li Jue and Yang Sifu later reported that the chancellery kitchen's lending agents burdened the people with petty exactions; the agents were abolished and a treasury set up on a strict budget.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 175Volume 175 Biographies 100: Dou, Liu, Two Zhangs, Yang, Xiong, Bai · 1 passage

時嗣復鎮西川，乃族昆弟，對擁旄節，世榮其門。 Sifu then held Xichuan; as kinsmen they faced each other with banners, and the world honored their clan.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 181 Biographies 106: Chen, Three Li's, Cao, Liu · 8 passages

而楊嗣復、李玨相次輔政，夷行介特，雅不與合，每議論天子前，往往語相侵短。 Yang Sifu and Li Jue, however, were serving as chief ministers in succession; Yixing was stiff and independent by nature and clashed with them, and their exchanges before the emperor often turned personal.

會以王彥威為忠武節度使，史孝章領邠寧，議皆出嗣復。 When Wang Yanwei was named military commissioner of Zhongwu and Shi Xiaozhang was put in charge of Binning, the appointments had all been Sifu's doing.

嗣復曰：「若用人盡出上意而當，固善。 Sifu said, "If every choice that matches the emperor's wish is automatically right, that is well enough.

嗣復曰：「古者任則不疑，齊桓公器管仲於讎虜，豈有倒持慮邪？」 Sifu replied, "In antiquity to appoint was to trust; Duke Huan of Qi prized Guan Zhong though he had been his enemy's captive—where is the worry about holding the sword backward?"

仙韶樂工尉遲璋授王府率，右拾遺竇洵直當衙論奏，鄭覃、嗣復嫌以細故，謂洵直近名。 The Xianshao musician Yuchi Zhang was made commandant of the princely household; Remonstrance Official Dou Xunzhi protested at court, but Zheng Tan and Sifu dismissed it as trivial and accused Xunzhi of seeking renown.

嗣復曰：「夷行失言，太宗易暴亂為仁義，用房玄齡十有六年，任魏徵十有五年，未嘗失道。 Sifu said, "Yixing is wrong. Taizong turned chaos into humane rule; he kept Fang Xuanling for sixteen years and Wei Zheng for fifteen without ever losing his way.

夷行蓋專詆嗣復。 In truth Yixing was chiefly bent on attacking Sifu.

既而李玨、楊嗣復以覃之薦，終帝世不得遷。 Afterward, because Zheng Tan had recommended him, Li Jue and Yang Sifu kept Rangyi from further promotion for the rest of Wenzong's reign.