Sui and Tang · Warlord and Official

Zhu Quanzhong 朱全忠

Attested AD 888 - AD 905

Passages: 8
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhu Quanzhong was a warlord and Official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 904 哀帝嗣位
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 140, passage 158
AD 888 to AD 904 昭宗
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 140, passage 149
AD 905 至滑州，全忠遣人殺之白馬驛
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 140, passages 162-164

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 149

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 159

Events and relationships

Agreed to drown pure stream officials
AD 905 至滑州，全忠遣人殺之白馬驛 · Political · Assenter · With Li Zhen (李振)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 164
Had killed
AD 905 至滑州，全忠遣人殺之白馬驛 · Legal · Orderer · With Shu (樞) · At Baima Post Station 白馬驛
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 162
Obeyed orders and kept tribute flowing
Political · Ally · With Shu (樞)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 149
Said Shu should not be abandoned outside
Political · Advocate · With Shu (樞)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 156
Sought appointment as director of imperial sacrifices
AD 904 哀帝嗣位 · Political · Nominator · With Zhang Tingfan (張廷範)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 158
Relation Patron of · Person Cui Yin (崔胤)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 151

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Relation Commander of · Person Zhang Tingfan (張廷範)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 158
Relation Superior of · Person Li Zhen (李振)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 163
Relation Allied with · Person Shu (樞)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 149

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 140, passage 149

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 140Volume 140 Biographies 65: Cui Miao, Two Pei's, Lu · 8 passages

樞素與朱全忠相結納，故全忠聽命，修貢獻不絕。 Shu had long been allied with Zhu Quanzhong; Quanzhong therefore obeyed his orders and kept tribute flowing without interruption.

時崔胤亦倚全忠專朝柄，因與樞善。 At the time Cui Yin also relied on Quanzhong to monopolize court power and therefore befriended Shu.

全忠言樞有經世才，不宜棄外，復拜門下侍郎平章事，監修國史。 Quanzhong said Shu had talent to govern the age and should not be cast out; Shu was again appointed vice director of the gate, councillor, and supervisor of compiling the national history.

哀帝嗣位，柳璨方用事，全忠以牙將張廷範為太常卿，樞以為廷範勛臣，自宜任方鎮，何用為卿，恐非王意，持不下。 When Emperor Aidi succeeded, Liu Can was in power; Quanzhong wished to make his military officer Zhang Tingfan director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices; Shu held that as a meritorious minister Tingfan ought to hold a frontier command—what use was there in making him court director? He feared this was not the king's intent and withheld the appointment.

全忠怒謂賓佐曰：「吾常器樞不浮薄，今乃爾。」 Quanzhong angrily told his staff: "I always thought Shu was not shallow and frivolous—now look at him."

至滑州，全忠遣人殺之白馬驛，投屍於河，年六十五。 When he reached Huazhou, Quanzhong sent men to kill him at Baima Post Station and cast his body into the river; he was sixty-five.

初，全忠佐吏李振曰：「此等自謂清流，宜投諸訶，永為濁流。」 At first Quanzhong's aide Li Zhen said, "These men call themselves the pure stream—they ought to be thrown into the Yellow River and become the muddy stream forever."

全忠笑而許之。 Quanzhong laughed and agreed.