Yelu Yinji (耶律引吉)

Overview

The translated histories identify Yelu Yinji as an administrator and official. This record brings together 9 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	Yelu Yinji	耶律引吉	Yēlǜ Yǐnjí
Courtesy	Akuo	阿括	Ākuò
Surname	Yelu	耶律	Yēlǜ
Given	Yinji	引吉	Yǐnjí

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · liaoshi:097:s0044

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0055

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 大康元年 · Reign Id: liao-dakang · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1075
Explicit event contextual date · liaoshi:097:s0053

Family

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Child of Shuanggu (雙古)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: Commissioner of Herds / 群牧林牙 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0052
Label: Military Commissioner of Huaide Army / 懷德軍節度使 · Action: appointed
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0055
Label: Palace Attendant of the Northern Military Affairs Commission / 北樞密院侍御 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0047
Label: Vice Military Governor of the Eastern Capital / 東京副留守 · Action: held
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0047
Label: Grand Guardian of the Huashui Horse Herds in the far north / 漠北猾水馬群太保 · Action: transferred
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0055
Label: Reception Commissioner / 客省使 · Action: transferred
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0049

Places and affiliations

Polity Id: liao · Relation: served
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0044
Place: Pin tribe / 品部 · Relation: native-of
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0044

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Yelü Yixin (耶律乙辛) · Summary: opposed granting pasture lands
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0053

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: envoy · Action: registered-hidden-households · Place: Three Capitals / 三京 · Outcome: obtained more than several thousand households
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0050
Relation: instructor-of · Person Id: Yelü Jun (浚)
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0051

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: maintained rectitude amid Xiao Ge's corruption · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0083
Assessment: stood by the straight path amid corrupt flatterers · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · liaoshi:097:s0048

References in the histories

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History of Liao, Chapter 97Volume 97 Biographies 27: Yelu Wotela, Hai Li, Dou Jingyong, Yelu Yinji, Yang Ji, Zhao Hui, Wang Guan, Yelu Xisun · 9 passages

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耶律斡特剌孩裏竇景庸耶律引吉楊績趙徽王觀耶律喜孫 Yelu Wotela, Hai Li, Dou Jingyong, Yelu Yinji, Yang Ji, Zhao Hui, Wang Guan, and Yelu Xisun

耶律引吉，字阿括，品部人。 Yelu Yinji, whose style name was Akuo, was a man of the Pin tribe.

引吉寅畏好義。 Yinji was cautious and respectful and loved righteousness.

時蕭革、蕭圖古辭等以佞見任，鬻爵納賄，引吉以直道處其間，無所阿唯。 At the time Xiao Ge, Xiao Tuguci, and others were employed for their flattery, selling offices and accepting bribes; Yinji stood among them on the straight path and would not fawn or agree to anything.

時朝廷遣使括三京隱戶不得，以引吉代之，得數千餘戶。 At the time the court had sent envoys to register hidden households in the Three Capitals without success; Yinji replaced them and obtained more than several thousand households.

時昭懷太子知北南院事，選引吉為輔導。 At the time Crown Prince Zhaohuai oversaw the affairs of the Northern and Southern Administrations and selected Yinji as his instructor.

樞密使乙辛將傾太子，惡引吉在側，奏出之，為群牧林牙。 Commissioner of Military Affairs Yixin was about to bring down the crown prince and hated having Yinji at his side; he memorialized to have him sent out and appointed him Commissioner of Herds.

大康元年，乙辛請賜牧地，引吉奏曰：「今牧地褊狹，畜不蕃息，豈可分賜臣下。」 In the first year of Dakang, Yixin requested that pasture lands be granted; Yinji memorialized, saying, "At present the pasture lands are narrow and cramped and livestock do not multiply—how can they be divided and granted to subordinates?"

論曰：孩裏、引吉之為臣也，當乙辛擅權、蕭革貪黷之日，雖與同官，而能以正自處，不少阿唯，其過人遠矣。 The commentary says: As ministers, Hai Li and Yinji lived in the days when Yixin monopolized power and Xiao Ge was greedy and corrupt; though they served alongside such men, they were able to maintain themselves by rectitude and would not fawn or agree—how far they surpassed others.