Yelü Yaozhi (耶律瑤質)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelü Yaozhi as an official and strategist. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yelü Yaozhi	耶律瑤質	Yelü Yaozhi
Courtesy	Balijin	拔裏堇	Balijin
Surname	Yelü	耶律	Yelü

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0154

Roles

Official
Strategist

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died-in-office
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0172

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 統和十年 · Reign Id: liao-tonghe · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 992
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:088:s0157

Family

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Child of Hougu (侯古)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological

Career and standing

Label: Commissioner of the Jiqing Palace / 積慶宮使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0157
Label: Detailed Commandant of the Four Fan Tribes / 四蕃部詳穩 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0167

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0157
Place: Jiqing Palace / 積慶宮 · Relation: affiliated-with
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0154

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒) · Provenance: Mode: quotation
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0168
Kind: speech · Role: addressee · Other Person Id: Yelü Longxu (耶律隆緒) · Provenance: Mode: quotation
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0158, liaoshi:088:s0159
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Provenance: Mode: quotation
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0163, liaoshi:088:s0164

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: contributor · Action: helped-defeat-Kang-Zhao-at-Tongzhou · Other Person Id: Kang Zhao (康肇)
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0161
Kind: military · Role: strategist · Action: reduced-Goryeo-troops-by-stratagem
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0166
Relation: refused-subordination-to · Person Id: Yelü Pode (耶律頗的)
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0168

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: upright; administrative achievements conspicuous · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:088:s0156, liaoshi:088:s0171

References in the histories

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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 · 8 passages

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耶律資忠耶律瑤質耶律弘古高正耶律的錄大康乂 Yelü Zizhong, Yelü Yaozhi, Yelü Honggu, Gao Zheng, Yelü Delu, and Da Kangyi

耶律瑤質，字拔裏堇，積慶宮人。 Yelü Yaozhi, whose style name was Balijin, was a man of the Jiqing Palace.

瑤質篤學廉介，有經世誌。 Yaozhi was devoted to learning, upright and self-restrained, and had the will to bring order to the age.

聖宗嘗諭瑤質曰：「聞卿正直，是以進用。 Emperor Shengzong once instructed Yaozhi: "I have heard you are upright, and for this I advance you.

上征高麗，破康肇軍於銅州，瑤質之力為多。 When the emperor campaigned against Goryeo and defeated Kang Zhao's army at Tongzhou, Yaozhi's effort counted for much.

瑤質曰：「王詢始一戰而敗，遽求納款，此詐耳，納之恐墮其奸計。 Yaozhi said: "King Sun was defeated in a single battle and hastily sought to submit. This is deceit; to accept him now may fall into his treacherous scheme.

其眾阻險而壘，攻之不下，瑤質以計降之。 His troops held difficult terrain and built ramparts. The attack could not succeed, and Yaozhi reduced them by stratagem.

時招討使耶律頗的為總官，瑤質恥居其下，上表曰：「臣先朝舊臣，今既垂老，乞還新命，覬得常侍左右。」 At that time Pacification Commissioner Yelü Pode was overall commander. Yaozhi was ashamed to serve beneath him and submitted a memorial: "Your servant is an old minister of the former court. Now that I am old, I beg to return the new appointment and hope to attend constantly at Your Majesty's side."