Qin and Han · Administrator

Zhao Kai 趙凱

Attested AD 168 - AD 189

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhao Kai was an administrator.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 168 to AD 189 靈帝時…荊州刺史趙凱
Dated from the passage context · Book of Later Han 43, passages 201, 206

Career and standing

Inspector of Jingzhou 荊州刺史
Held
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 206
Committed
False accusation · With Yang Xuan (楊琁)
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 206
Suffered
Convicted as false accuser
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 209

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 206

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 206

References in the histories

Book of Later Han, Chapter 43Volume 38: Biographies of Zhang, Fa, Teng, Feng, Du, Yang · 4 passages

荊州刺史趙凱，誣奏琁實非身破賊，而妄有其功。 Inspector Zhao Kai of Jingzhou memorialized that Yang Xuan had never personally defeated the rebels and had falsely claimed the credit.

琁與相章奏，凱有黨助，遂檻車徵琁。 Yang Xuan answered with his own memorials, but Zhao Kai had allies at court and had Yang summoned back to the capital in a prison cart.

防禁嚴密，無由自訟，乃噬臂出血，書衣為章，具陳破賊形埶，及言凱所誣狀，潛令親屬詣闕通之。 Under tight guard he could not plead his case, so he tore his arm until it bled and wrote a petition in blood on his robe, detailing how he had crushed the rebels and how Zhao Kai had slandered him, then smuggled it to the palace through kinsmen.

詔書原琁，拜議郎，凱反受誣人之罪。 An edict cleared Yang Xuan and named him gentleman consultant; Zhao Kai was convicted instead as the false accuser.