Zhou Zhiguang (周智光)

Overview

Zhou Zhiguang was a general.

Kinship Role sons · Quantity several
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 185

Left Vice Minister of Works 尚書左僕射
Appointed · From Source Date: Text: 永泰二年十二月 · Western Year: AD 766
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 184
Acting Minister of Works and Censor-in-Chief 檢校工部尚書、兼御史大夫
Held · From Source Date: Text: 永泰元年 · Western Year: AD 765
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 168
military governor of Tong and Hua and Tong Pass defender 同華二州節度使及潼關防禦使
Held · From Source Date: Text: 永泰元年 · Western Year: AD 765
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 168
Governor of Huazhou 華州刺史
Promoted · From Source Date: Text: 永泰元年 · Western Year: AD 765
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 168
Rebelled
AD 766 永泰二年十二月 · Rebellion
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 175

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 166

Skill mounted archery 騎射 · Level professional
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 166

Speech · Speaker · With Yu Yuanxian (余元仙) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 185-188
Speech · Speaker · With Zhang Zhibin (張志斌) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 178-180

Beheaded and minced
AD 766 永泰二年十二月 · Atrocity · Killer · With Zhang Zhibin (張志斌)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 181
Beheaded
AD 766 永泰二年十二月 · Violence · Killer · With Pang Chong (龐充)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 173-174
Built living shrine
AD 766 永泰二年十二月 · Ritual · Honoree
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 190
Defeated raiders
AD 765 永泰元年 · Military · Commander · At Chengcheng 澄城
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 169
Ignored summons
AD 765 永泰元年 · Legal · Defiant
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 171
Killed prefect and slaughtered household
AD 765 永泰元年 · Atrocity · Perpetrator · With Zhang Lin (張麟)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 170

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Massacred candidates
AD 766 永泰二年十二月 · Atrocity · Commander · At Qian'eng Inn 乾坑店
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 183
Plundered tribute and grain
AD 766 永泰二年十二月 · Military · Robber
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 175
Seized half tribute
AD 766 永泰二年十二月 · Extortion · Extorter · With Cui Yuan (崔圓)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 182
Relation Protege of · Person Yu Chao'en (魚朝恩)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 167-168
Relation Enemy of · Person Huangfu Wen (皇甫溫)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 177
Relation Enemy of · Person Du Mian (杜冕)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 170

Assessment arrogant; listed ministers' faults; claimed only he was fit to hold the emperor and command the lords · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 185-188