Zhu Hongshi (朱洪實)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhu Hongshi as a general and military officer. This record brings together 18 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhu Hongshi	朱洪實	Zhu Hongshi
Given	Hongshi	洪實	Hóngshí
Personal name	Zhu Hongshi	朱洪實	Zhu Hongshi
Personal	Zhu Hongshi	朱洪實	Zhū Hóngshí
Personal name	Zhu Hongshi	朱弘實	Zhu Hongshi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0129, xinwudaishi:007:s0014
Value: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:066:s0104

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Authority Person Id: Li Conghou (李從厚) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 應順元年三月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0122
Manner: executed / 殺 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 辛酉 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit · xinwudaishi:007:s0014

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 應順元年三月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0112, jiuwudaishi:066:s0122
Source Date: Text: 辛酉 · Western Year: AD 934
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:007:s0014
Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:066:s0105
Source Date: Text: 長興四年 · Western Year: AD 933
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:051:s0129, jiuwudaishi:051:s0121

Career and standing

Label: Horse Army commander / 馬軍都指揮使 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 長興中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 930 · End: AD 933
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0105

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0116, jiuwudaishi:066:s0117

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: cavalry-commander · Action: attacked · Other Person Id: Li Congrong (李從榮)
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:051:s0129, jiuwudaishi:051:s0130
Relation: treated-as-clan-elder · Person Id: Zhu Hongzhao (朱弘昭) · Note: Hongshi treated Hongzhao as clan elder
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0107

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: death regarded as wrongful by later men · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:066:s0123

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 2 passages

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孟漢瓊被甲乘馬，召馬軍都指揮使朱洪實，使將五百騎討從榮，從榮方據胡床，坐橋上，遣左右召康義誠。 Meng Hanqiong donned armor, mounted his horse, and summoned Horse Army Commander Zhu Hongshi to lead five hundred cavalry against Congrong. Congrong was lounging on a camp chair on the bridge and sent attendants to summon Kang Yicheng.

端門已閉，叩左掖門，從門隙窺之，見朱洪實引騎兵北來，走白從榮，從榮大驚，命取鐵掩心擐之，坐調弓矢。 The main gate was shut; he knocked at the Left Flank Gate and peered through the crack, saw Zhu Hongshi leading cavalry northward, and ran to warn Congrong. Congrong was terrified, ordered iron breastplates brought and put on, and sat stringing his bow.

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 66Volume 66 Book of Later Tang 42: Biographies 8: an Zhonghui, Zhu Hongzhao, Zhu Hongshi, Kang Yicheng, Yao Yanchou, Song Lingxun · 15 passages

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朱洪實，不知何許人。 Zhu Hongshi's origins are unknown.

秦王為元帥，以洪實驍果，尤寵待之，歲時曲遺，頗厚於諸將。 As marshal the Prince of Qin favored his daring; seasonal gifts outdid other commanders.

及朱弘昭為樞密使，勢焰尤甚，洪實以宗兄事之，意頗相協。 Under Privy Council commissioner Hongzhao's peak power, Hongshi treated him as kin and they largely agreed.

弘昭將殺秦王，以謀告之，洪實不以為辭。 Hongzhao told him of the plot to kill the Prince of Qin; Hongshi raised no objection.

及秦王兵扣端門，洪實為孟漢瓊所使，率先領騎軍自左掖門出逐秦王，自是義誠陰銜之。 At the assault on the Duan Gate Meng Hanqiong sent Hongshi's cavalry out the Left Flank Gate against the prince; Yicheng thereafter bore a grudge.

閔帝嗣位，洪實自恃領軍之功，義誠每言，不為之下。 Emperor Min's accession made Hongshi proud of commanding the troops; he would not defer to Yicheng.

是時，義誠與洪實同於庫中麵論用兵利害， Yicheng and Hongshi argued strategy face to face in the treasury,

〈（《歐陽史》云：洪實見軍士無鬥志，而義誠盡將以西，疑其二心。）〉 (The 《Ouyang History》: Hongshi saw no fighting spirit in the men while Yicheng marched them all west and suspected treachery.)〉

洪實言：「出軍討逆，累發兵師，今聞小衄，無一人一騎來者。 Hongshi said, "We have sent army after army against the rebels; now at a small defeat not a rider returns.

義誠怒曰：「若如此言，洪實反也。」 Yicheng snapped, "Say that and you are the rebel."

洪實曰：「公自反，誰反！」 Hongshi shouted, "You are the rebel—not I!"