Sui and Tang · Tang Fiscal Official

Yuan Xiu 元琇

Attested AD 785 - AD 786

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yuan Xiu was a Tang Fiscal Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 785 to AD 786 貞元初
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 53, passages 81, 89

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 53, passage 81

Events and relationships

Administered monopolies, feuded with Han Huang, and was executed after impeachment
Administrative · Official
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 53, passages 81, 89

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 53Volume 53 Treatises 43: Finance and Economics 3 · 5 passages

以戶部侍郎元琇判諸道鹽鐵、榷酒，侍郎吉中孚判度支諸道兩稅。 Vice Minister Yuan Xiu took salt, iron, and wine monopoly; Vice Minister Ji Zhongfu took revenue and the dual tax.

崔造厚元琇，而韓滉方領轉運，奏國漕不可改。 Zao favored Yuan Xiu, but Han Huang still ran transport and argued that national grain logistics must not be dismantled.

元琇嫉其剛，不可共事，因有隙。 Yuan Xiu resented Huang's harsh manner; they could not cooperate and a feud opened.

琇稱疾罷，而滉為度支、諸道鹽鐵、轉運使，於是崔造亦罷。 Xiu resigned on grounds of illness. Huang took revenue, salt and iron, and transport; Zao fell soon after.

滉遂劾琇常餫米淄青、河中，而李納、懷光倚以構叛，貶琇雷州司戶參軍，尋賜死。 Huang accused Xiu of feeding Ziqing and Hezhong—supplies Li Na and Li Huaiguang relied on in their rebellions. Xiu was banished to Leizhou as registrar and soon ordered to take his own life.