Song, Liao, and Jin · Official

Zuo Qigong 左企弓

Died AD 1124

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Zuo Qigong was an official.

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History of Liao, Chapter 29Volume 29 Annals 29: Emperor Tianzuo 3 · 5 passages
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公若仗義勤王，奉迎天祚，以圖中興，先責左企弓等叛降之罪而誅之，盡歸燕民，使復其業，而以平州歸宋，則宋無不接納，平州遂為藩鎮矣。 If you by righteousness aid the king and welcome Tianzuo to plan restoration, first charge Zuo Qigong and others with the crime of surrendering in rebellion and execute them, fully return Yan people and let them resume their livelihoods, and then offer Ping Prefecture to Song, then Song will have none who do not receive us; Ping Prefecture will thereupon be a frontier defense.
乃遣張謙率五百餘騎，傳留守令，召宰相左企弓、曹勇義、樞密使虞仲文、參知政事康公弼至灤河西岸，遣議事官趙秘校往數其十罪，<七>曰：「天祚播遷夾山，不即奉迎，一也； Thereupon he sent Zhang Qian with more than five hundred horsemen, carrying the military governor's order, to summon Chancellor Zuo Qigong, Cao Yongyi, Privy Commissioner Yu Zhongwen, and Assistant Director of State Affairs Kang Gongbi to the west bank of the Luan River. He then sent Secretary Collator Zhao to enumerate their ten crimes: "Tianzuo was driven to Jia Mountain, yet you did not immediately go to welcome him: that is the first offense;