Zhao Junyong (趙均用)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Junyong as a bandit, general, rebel, and warlord. 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	Zhao Junyong	趙均用	Zhào Jūnyòng
Given name	Junyong	均用	Jūnyòng
Surname	Zhao	趙	Zhào
Personal name	Zhao Junyong	趙均用	Zhào Jūnyòng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · mingshi:122:s0023

Roles

Bandit
General
Rebel
Warlord

Life and dates

Death

Manner: killed · Other Person Id: Xu Jizu (續繼祖)
Explicit · mingshi:122:s0131

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 毛貴已為其党趙均用所殺 · Western Year: AD 1359
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:122:s0131
Source Date: Text: 至正十二年春 · Western Year: AD 1352
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:122:s0023

Career and standing

Title: king (self-styled) / 王 · Action: claimed
Explicit · mingshi:122:s0032

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 122Volume 122 Biographies 10: · 9 passages

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元師破徐州，徐帥彭大、趙均用帥餘眾奔濠。 Yuan armies took Xu Prefecture; the Xu commanders Peng Da and Zhao Junyong led their surviving forces to Haozhou.

大有智數，子興與相厚而薄均用。 Peng Da was shrewd and capable; Zixing favored him while slighting Zhao Junyong.

於是德崖等譖諸均用曰：「子興知有彭將軍耳，不知有將軍也。」 Deya and his allies then slandered Zixing to Junyong: "Zixing knows only General Peng—he acts as if you did not exist."

均用怒，乘間執子興，幽諸德崖家。 Enraged, Junyong seized Zixing at an opportune moment and imprisoned him in Deya's house.

圍解，大、均用皆自稱王，而子興及德崖等為元帥如故。 After the siege lifted, Peng Da and Zhao Junyong each proclaimed himself king, while Zixing, Deya, and the others retained the title of marshal.

均用專狠益甚，挾子興攻盱眙、泗州，將害之。 Zhao Junyong grew ever more vicious; he forced Zixing to attack Xuyi and Sizhou, plotting to destroy him in the process.

太祖已取滁，乃遣人說均用曰：「大王窮迫時，郭公開門延納，德至厚也。 By then the future emperor had taken Chuzhou; he sent an envoy to Zhao Junyong: "When you were desperate, Lord Guo welcomed you in—his kindness was profound.

均用聞太祖兵甚盛，心憚之，太祖又使人賂其左右，子興用是得免，乃將其所部萬余就太祖于滁。 Junyong, hearing how strong the future emperor's forces had become, was afraid; the future emperor also bribed his confidants, and Zixing was spared. He then brought his division of more than ten thousand men to join the future emperor at Chuzhou.

時毛貴已為其党趙均用所殺，有續繼祖者，又殺均用，所部自相攻擊。 By then Mao Gui had been killed by his follower Zhao Junyong; Xu Jizu then killed Junyong, and their factions turned on one another.