Five Dynasties · Official and Administrator

Zhou Gui 周瑰

First attested AD 926; died AD 937

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Zhou Gui was an official and Administrator.

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 95Volume 95 Book of Later Jin 21: Biographies 10: Huang Fuyu, Wang Qing, Liang Hanzhang, Bai Fengjin, Lu Shunmi, Zhou Huan, Shen Yun, Wu Luan, Di Zhang, Cheng Fuyun, Guo Lin · 5 passages
少端厚,善書計,自高祖時歷鎮藩翰,用為腹心,累職至牙門都校,凡帑廩出納,咸以委瑰,經十餘年,未嘗以微累見誤,高祖甚重之。 From youth he was upright and steady and skilled at writing and reckoning. From Emperor Gaozu's time he successively served in regional governorships as a trusted confidant, rising to commander of the Gate Guard. All treasury receipts and disbursements were entrusted to him — for more than ten years he was never once faulted for minor errors, and the emperor greatly valued him.
俄聞範延光叛於魏博,張延賓寇於汜水,暉以瑰高祖之元臣也,幸國朝方危,遂害瑰於理所,自總州事,以為延光勝則附之,敗則渡江而遁,斯其計也。 Soon word came that Fan Yanguang had rebelled in Weibo and Zhang Yanbin was raiding at Sishui. Hui, because Gui was a founding minister of Emperor Gaozu and the dynasty was then in peril, killed Gui at the administrative office and himself assumed control of the prefecture, thinking that if Yanguang won he would attach himself to him, and if he lost he would cross the river and flee — such was his plan.