Five Dynasties · Prince of Ying and Usurper

Zhu Yougui 朱友珪

Attested AD 912 - AD 913

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhu Yougui was a prince of Ying and Usurper.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 912 乾化二年六月二日
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passage 1
AD 913 友珪改元之二月十五日
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passage 27

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Sibling of Zhu Youzhen (朱友貞)
elder brother 兄 · Paternal half siblings
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passages 1, 8, 244
Child of Taizu of Later Liang (太祖)
son 子 · paternal line
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passages 8, 11

Career and standing

Entered
Usurper
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passages 3, 8
slew sovereign and father 弑逆
Regicide
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passages 1, 8
AD 912 友珪即位
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passage 2

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Liang 後梁 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passages 2-3

Events and relationships

Assassinated
AD 912 乾化二年六月二日 · Political · Perpetrator · With Taizu of Later Liang (太祖)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passage 1

Assessments and attributes

Assessment ruled by treason; realm would not rally · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passage 3
Assessment wallows in every palace excess · Mode named-source-report Speaker Ma Shenjiao (馬慎交)
Directly stated · Old History of the Five Dynasties 8, passage 8

References in the histories

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History

11 passages

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 8Volume 8 Book of Later Liang 8: Later Emperors Annals 1 · 11 passages

乾化二年六月二日，庶人友珪弑逆，矯太祖詔，遣供奉官丁昭溥馳至東京，密令帝害博王友文。 On the second day of the sixth month of Qianhua 2, the deposed Yougui murdered his sovereign; forging an edict as if from Taizu, he sent palace attendant Ding Zhaopu racing to the Eastern Capital with secret orders for the Emperor to kill Prince of Bo Youwen.

友珪即位，以帝為東京留守，行開封府尹，檢校司徒。 When Yougui acceded, he made the Emperor custodian of the Eastern Capital, acting prefect of Kaifeng, and honorary Minister of Education (Situ).

友珪以篡逆居位，群情不附。 Yougui ruled by treason, and the realm would not rally to him.

慎交，燕人也，素有膽辨，乃說師厚曰：「郢王殺君害父，篡居大位，宮中荒淫，靡所不至。 Shenjiao, a Yan man known for nerve and speech, pressed Shihou: "Prince of Ying slew his sovereign and father, seized the throne, and now wallows in every palace excess.

師厚猶豫未決，謂從事曰：「吾於郢王，君臣之分已定，無故改圖，人謂我何！」 Shihou wavered and told his staff: "Prince of Ying and I are already lord and subject; to shift without cause—what would people say!"

慎交曰：「郢王以子弑父，是曰元凶。 Shenjiao replied: "Prince of Ying murdered his father as a son—the chief villain.

時有左右龍驤都在東京，帝偽作友珪詔，遣還洛下。 The Left and Right Dragon-Prancing Armies were then at the Eastern Capital; the Emperor forged Yougui's edict and ordered them back to Luoyang.

先是，劉重遇部下龍驤一指揮於懷州叛，經年搜捕其黨，帝因遣人激怒其眾曰：「郢王以龍驤軍嘗叛，追汝等洛下，將盡坑之。」 Earlier a Dragon-Prancing command under Liu Chongyu had mutinied at Huaizhou and been hunted a full year; the Emperor sent agents to stir them: "Prince of Ying means to drag you to Luoyang and slaughter every man, since Dragon-Prancing once rebelled."

實友珪征之，非友貞偽作，但激怒言坑之耳。）〉 Yougui truly summoned them; Youzhen did not forge the edict—only the threat of massacre was invented.)〉

因出梁祖御容以示諸將，帝歔欷而泣曰：「郢王賊害君父，違天逆地，復欲屠滅親軍，爾等苟能自趨洛陽，擒取逆豎，告謝先帝，即轉禍為福矣！」 He displayed Taizu's portrait; weeping, he said: "Prince of Ying murdered sovereign and father, defied Heaven and earth, and now would butcher the guard—march on Luoyang, seize the rebel, and appease the late Emperor, and disaster becomes fortune!"

皆呼萬歲，請帝為主，時友珪改元之二月十五日也。 They shouted long life and begged him to lead them—the fifteenth day of Yougui's second regnal month.