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沿 殿 使 西使 使 西 西 殿 使 使
Shaoxing 5, spring, yisi new moon: the sun was eaten. Gaozong held court at Pingjiang. The Jin left Haozhou. On dingwei, every army was warned: in the line of battle, do not kill Central Plain men pressed into Jin ranks. The court sold official land and houses; the coin went only to the war chest. On wushen, Lu and Tai garrison staffs each rose one grade. On jiyou, nineteen former ministers led by Lü Yihao and every mobile-court officer were told to lay out plans for war, defense, and pacification. Huainan men who had fled office were forgiven and sent back. Chuzhou water-stockade chief Zhong Liang marched back into Chuzhou. On gengxu, Zhang Jun sent Yang Zhongmin and Wang Jin to pinch the Jin along the Huai; they broke them, and Cheng Shihui and Zhang Yanshou came over. On xinhai, Huaidong controller Cui Deming ambushed the Jin at Xuyi and beat them. Zhang Jun was recalled to court. On yimao, Zhang Jun was received. River-route surveillance commissioners and defenders who had fed the court each rose one grade. On wuwu, work on the Jiankang mobile palace was rushed. On jiwei, Huainan miscellaneous capital sentences were cut and everyone below exile was released. On gengshen, every prefecture and army got a drill ground; picked men trained only in the crossbow, with graded trials. On xinyou, Ma Shen of the palace censorate was posthumously made Left Remonstrator. Han Shizhong, Liu Guangshi, and Zhang Jun were received. On renxu, Han Shizhong became Junior Guardian and Huaidong pacification commissioner at Zhenjiang; Liu Guangshi Junior Guardian and Huai west pacification commissioner at Taiping; Zhang Jun Opening-Folder Parity with Triple Grandees and Jiangdong pacification commissioner at Jiankang. On jiazi, Li Qiong retook Guang; defender Xu Yue bowed. On yichou, Huainan tea-and-salt surveillance was folded into one two-circuit general-affairs officer with law, tea, salt, transport, and market trade. Every Huai west choke-point prefecture and army opened a market-trade office. On wuchen, Chuan-Shaan pacification was told to win back officials and people under the enemy. On gengwu, Wang Jin was told to join Jiangxi and Guangdong generals against Zhou Shilong. Sea bandit Zhu Cong struck Guangzhou, then Quanzhou. On renshen, Liu Guangshi, Han Shizhong, and Zhang Jun took leave and were called up the hall; wine was poured to heal the rift between Guangshi and Shizhong, and all went out grateful. On guiyou, puppet Qi Bozhou prefect Ma Qin hit Guang; acting prefect Wang Cui met him with arms. That month the Jin emperor Shen died; Min's grandson Dan took the throne. Yue Fei entered court from Chizhou. Second month, bingzi: Yue Fei became commissioner of Zhenning and Chongxin armies. Changzhou commoner Chen Deyi was told to draft a new calendar. On dingchou, Gaozong left Pingjiang. On wuyin, Acting Vice Minister Zhang Zhu went to bring the ancestral tablets from Wenzhou. On renwu, the court reached Lin'an; every escort officer rose one grade. On bingxu, Zhao Ding became Left Vice Grand Councilor and Zhang Jun Right Vice Grand Councilor, both Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilors with Privy Council and command of all routes. Yue Fei was made commissioner of Jing-Hu south and north and Xiangyang route and marched to crush lake bandit Yang Tai. On dinghai, Wu Lin and Yang Zheng stormed Qin and took puppet Qi defender Hu Xuan; Saliyehe came down and Zheng beat him again. On jichou, the court ordered the ancestral temple built. On renchen, Zhang Jun went to the river line to set the border; edict-letters to every pacification office named him sole master of defense. Right Remonstrator Zhao Pei won third-rank robes for measured memorials. On dingyou, chief ministers each rose one grade for autumn defense. On wuxu, Huainan pacification was told to settle officials, soldiers, and people crossing from north of the Huai. On jihai, Fan Chong of the historiography academy presented Examination of Differences in Shenzong's Veritable Records. On gengzi, Hanlin academicians Sun Jin and Hu Jiaoxiu were told to sort ministers' memorials on gain and loss for the throne. On jiachen, Hunan's three years of capital tribute were remitted. That month puppet Qi's Shang Yuan struck Xinyang army; defender Shu Jiming was taken and died.
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𤫉 退
Intercalary month, yisi new moon: rain fell with hail. On dingwei, Hu Songnian left office. On wushen, snow fell. On jiyou, Sichuan tribute silver and silk were kept on the circuit for the armies. On yimao, Meng Yu and Shen Yuyou both took acting Privy Council affairs. On bingchen, every circuit granary office was folded into tea and salt. Fujian minting stopped; transport and mining offices were to supply coin. On dingsi, Saliyehe moved on Qin; Wu Jie sent Niu Hao to watch; at Wawugu Hao met him and fell. On guihai, sea bandit Chen Gan struck Leizhou; government troops lost again and again. On dingmao, Wang Yan was dismissed. Revenue Minister Zhang Yi was told to settle finances under Meng Yu's General Control Office. Chuan-Shaan pacification staff were told to run the office and were given temporary army command. On wuchen, route overall commanders were set for retired military men. On xinwei, the clan directorate was restored to keep the registers. Jingnan, Gui, Xia, Jingmen, and Gong'an again won two years off their capital tribute.
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𤫉使 使西 使使 使 西
Third month, jiaxu new moon: Wang Yan, greedy and slack in war, was stripped to Haozhou militia training commissioner for defeat and harm to the state. On bingzi, Privy Council planners Lü Yongzhong and others were sent to audit the economic and general control offices across Zhe, Jiangdong, and Jiangxi west. On dingchou, attendants through censors and academy men, inner and outer attendants, commissioners, and defenders were each to name men fit for surveillance and magistracy; soon academy men alone were to name county magistrates. On jimao, Han Shizhong took Zhenjiang pacification and Liu Guangshi Taiping pacification. On renwu, Overall Command planner Shao Pu became acting Chuan-Shaan pacification vice commissioner. The Imperial Front Armory superintendent was cut; the Works Ministry took it. On renchen, Guangdong and Fujian were told to hunt Zhu Cong. On yiwei, lead and tin were first placed under state monopoly. Zhang Jun took the field himself against the lake bandits. On dingyou, the Zhe west soothing office returned to Lin'an. On gengzi, Raozhou horse pasture was abolished.
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使 祿 殿
Fourth month, bingwu: Guichi aide Huang Daben, corrupt in judgment and bribes, was flogged at the spine and tattooed to Nanxiong. On dingwei, Agriculture Commissioner Gai Liang carried an edict to soothe Chuan and Shaan. Xie Qian was recalled; Wang Yan became Jingnan prefect; every route soothing commissioner was abolished. On wushen, the ancestral tablets came from Wenzhou. On jiyou, reviewing lavish rewards, Left Silver-Gleam Grandee Wang Xu lost eight ranks and titles and had his origin corrected. On gengxu, eunuchs promoted by special favor were capped at Military Merit Gentleman. On renzi, Later Zhou heir Chai Shuxia was found and made Duke of Chongyi. On wuwu, the ancestral tablets were installed. On jiwei, the law on exemption-service village heads was revised. On jiazi, Huizong died at Wuguo City in Jin captivity. On bingyin, Gaozong offered at the Archery Hall to Jingling Palace; for the first time Empress Huigong shared the side altar. Commoners were called to farm garrison fields; the state gave oxen and seed. On gengwu, Sichuan supernumerary posts were cut. On xinwei, odd fractional tax surcharges on every route went only to capital tribute. That month retired Dragon Diagram academician Yang Shi died.
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使 使 使 殿 使使
Fifth month, yihai: Gaozong first visited the ancestral temple. On gengchen, Shao Pu and Wu Jie were told to cut Sichuan's redundant men and waste. On xinsi, the mobile palace's new academy was named Zishan Hall. He Xian and others were sent to the Jin to ask after the two captive emperors. Drafting Attendant Hu Yin said Song and Jin were blood enemies and envoys had no place. Zhang Jun wrote: "Envoys are a soldier's trick; later we widen land and take back soil, and peace comes at last—the road cannot be shut yet." The embassy went out anyway. On dinghai, magistrates of ruined prefectures and counties were graded by reclaimed fields and abandoned land urged back to the plow. On jichou, Meng Yu became Privy Council affairs. On renchen, Zhang Jun was recalled to court. On dingyou, Zhang Jun was told to oversee revision of the One-Office Statutes. On wuxu, Guizhou defender Yuan became Baoqing commissioner and Duke of Jianguo. Huixian attendant Fan Chong became Zishan companion; Attendant Diarist Zhu Zhen became reader-in-waiting. In the heat, surveillance commissioners were told to tour and review prisoners. On jihai, Yue Fei camped at Ding. On gengzi, Zhou Shilong surrendered. On xinchou, Chuan and Shaan were told to find Yuanyou faction descendants.
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沿
Sixth month, jiachen: Military Classic Grandee Ling Jiang was made Prince of Anding. Lake bandits Yang Qin, Quan Cong, and Liu Shen came over to Yue Fei one after another. On yisi, the new calendar was named Tongyuan. On dingwei, Raozhou mint was folded into Qianzhou. On jiyou, Duke of Jianguo Yuan went out to Zishan Hall, heard lecture, and bowed to Fan Chong and Zhu Zhen. Inner-palace coin was given to poor clansmen. On renzi, Huainan prefectures and counties again cut redundant posts. On guichou, long drought brought reduced meals and prayer. Circuit exactions were banned; beyond rent, harmonized purchase, and army needs, every levy stopped. Yue Fei stormed the lake bandits' water fort; Chen Tan surrendered; Yang Tai drowned; Liu Heng and the rest came in. Fei at once struck Xia Cheng and took his head. On dingsi, Huang Cheng sent Yang Tai's head and brought Zhong Ziyi and Zhou Lun to the Overall Command; lake and Xiang were pacified; twenty-seven thousand households were returned to the plow. On wuwu, Fujian tribute tea for the year was halved. On gengshen, drought abolished every route's finance inspectors. On dingmao, with the bandits down, lakeside arrears of two years' rent were forgiven. On jisi, Fujian spear-and-staff militia were abolished.
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沿使 殿 使
Seventh month, renshen new moon: Qiu Kui became coastal control commissioner. On jiaxu, Qizhou capital tribute and rent were remitted three years. On wuyin, Yue Fei was rewarded and his men soothed; Zhang Jun was urged back to court. On jimao, Meng Yu left; Shen Yuyou took acting Privy Council affairs and finance. On renwu, Jin, Jun, and Fang were placed under Xiangyang route. Puppet Qi raided Huyang, seized Tang defender Gao Qing, then let him go. On dinghai, ten qing of Fujian land were given to Yuwen Xuzhong's kin. On jiawu, magistrates of ruined places who lived among the people were to be graded by households when they came and went. Han Shizhong again held Zhenhuai army and took puppet Qi defender Wang Gong. On bingshen, Hunan's three years of tribute grain and half the autumn rent were remitted. On dingyou, Gaofeng and Wangkou stockades got patrol commissioners and more garrison men.
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使使 西
Eighth month, renyin new moon: Jingnan garrison-farm office was cut; the soothing office was to set officers and men to the plow. On jiachen, academy posts were fixed at eighteen. On renzi, Huainan mountain-and-water stockade patrols were put under magistrates. On guichou, Fujian prefectures and armies were remitted granary support money and grain. On jiwei, the court exposed Zhang Dun and Cai Bian for slandering Empress Xuanren; Dun fell to Zhaohua vice commissioner, Bian to Danzhou militia vice commissioner; their lines were barred from court. The palace academy was widened to teach inner and outer clansmen. On xinyou, Huainan, Xiangyang, and other routes were told to organize civilian militia. On bingyin, with bandits down, capital crimes in twenty-two Hu, Guang, and Jiangxi prefectures were cut and men below hard labor and beating were freed. Sea bandit Zhu Cong surrendered and was made naval commander. That month puppet Qi took Guang.
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殿 沿
Ninth month, xinwei new moon: the General Control Office's added head-tax and other levies were cut. On yihai, two hundred twenty Ministry of Rites graduates led by Wang Yang received jinshi and origin. Calling names followed the old rite; academy men and attendants stood in the hall. On renwu, Yue Fei was made acting Junior Guardian. Puppet Qi raided Gushi; commander Hua Wang beat them back; soon Guang was retaken. On jiashen, coastal prefectures and armies were told to register sea ships and hold the choke points. On yiyou, Zhao Ding presented the Revised Veritable Records of Shenzong. On renchen, twenty-seven Yuanyou men led by Fan Rouzhong each had one son given office. Three thousand of Xie Qian's men went to the Cavalry Bureau. On jiawu, Zhou Shilong rose again and raided Ting. On wuxu, commanders Wang Jin and Li Gui were sent after him.
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使使使 西使使 殿
Tenth month, gengxu: Zhang Jun was received. On yimao, Xi Yi became Sichuan control grand commissioner above the pacification vice commissioner; every prefecture and army answered his office; grave border matters still went to pacification. Li Gang became Jiangxi control grand commissioner; Lü Yihao Hunan control grand commissioner. On wuwu, Chuan-Shaan classified first place won favor like palace examination third; the rest took jinshi origin; specially presented men sat a current-affairs exam under pacification. Li prefecture bandit Lei Dejin surrendered. On yichou, puppet Qi raided Lianshui army; Han Shizhong sent Huyan Tong and others to meet them and broke them.
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使 殿 使 調 綿 使 殿
Eleventh month, gengwu new moon: gold-letter tallies below military commissioner were first forged; the Overall Command kept them for generals who won on the field. Prefectures and counties were told to sell household registers for the war chest. On guiyou, defenders who died with clear loyalty were not capped by rank; all received posthumous titles. On yihai, Hejing hermit Yin Tun was summoned from Fuzhou and made Chongzheng Hall lecturer. On wuyin, the suburban sacrifice was performed. On xinsi, Huainan salt commissioner was restored. On renwu, thirty palace women were released. On jiashen, chief ministers and mobile-court salaries were cut for the moment. On yiyou, Zhao Kai became Sichuan overall transport commissioner. On bingxu, Zhang Jun was told to inspect armies at Jing, Xiang, Chuan, and Shaan. On wuzi, Heng magistrate Pei Lin, whose wall-draft killed more than two thousand in the cold, was struck from the rolls and sent to Gaozhou registry control in Lingnan. On yiwei, inner-palace silks were given to clansmen. On dingyou, tax-collection household heads were abolished. Twelfth month, jihai new moon: Yue Fei became commissioner of Jing-Hu south and north, Xiangyang route, and Qi-Huang pacification. Yang Yizhong took acting Palace Front Bureau and also commanded Divine Martial central army. On gengzi, four Divine Martial armies and patrol guards became the Five Guards of the Mobile Camp. On xinchou, Overall Command troops went under the Three Bureaus. Left and right secretariats and Privy Council reviewers were told to gather Restoration statutes into fixed law. On yisi, kingfisher feathers were forbidden in dress. On jiyou, attendants were excused their turn at court memorial. On gengxu, a third of the Hengjiang navy was cut. On guichou, each staff of Huai two circuits, Chuan-Shaan, Jing-Xiang, and Jingnan got one officer to oversee garrison farming. On guihai, Chuan-Shaan posts were forbidden to fill only with natives. On bingyin, the Overall Command sent Liu Ziyu and Xiong Yanshi to soothe Chuan-Shaan and probe the border's strength. On wuchen, hail fell in the night.
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使 綿使
Shaoxing 6, spring, xinwei: poor men's household-register fees were halved; men without property paid nothing. On guiyou, remonstrators and drafting attendants were told to screen the Yuanyou faction register. On yihai, finding inner offices overweight and outer light, the court said provincial, temple, surveillance, magistrate, and defender posts of two years might rotate for promotion. On dingchou, grain-buyers of office were barred from magistracies and penal posts. On renwu, clansman Bo Jiu was named Ju and made Hezhou defense commissioner. Mianzhou pacification vice commissioner was cut; Wu Jie alone commanded troops. The censorate reward for reversing criminal cases was cut. On bingxu, Zhang Jun inspected Jing and Xiang armies and took leave. On jichou, Prince of Anding Ling Jiang died. On gengyin, advance distillery franchise money was restored. On xinmao, surveillance commissioners and defenders who lagged or failed were to rise or fall at Zhang Jun's word. On jiawu, famine in Jiang, Hu, Fujian, and eastern Zhe was relieved; commissioners and defenders were to send subordinates and granary men to inspect themselves. On wuxu, Tongzhi Gentleman down and Gate Proclamation Usher down were put up for sale.
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使使使使使 西 宿 調
Second month, gengzi: every route grand pacification commissioner also took garrison-farm grand commission; vice commissioners and pacification commissioners took garrison-farm commission too. On renyin, rain and snow fell. Jiang and Huai garrison farms were renamed camp farms. On jiachen, a mobile-court Jiaozi Office printed exchange notes for every route; public and private were to treat them like cash in hand. On wushen, Yue Fei was received. Xiangyang circuit was restored as Jing southwest. On xinhai, Zhang Jun was told to report at court for the moment. On jiayin, War Minister and Overall Command staff officer Zhe Yanzhi signed at the Privy Council. On yimao, Han Shizhong struck Suqian; Huyan Tong met the Jin, broke them, and took Bolian Yahe. Li bandit Wu Jun killed Lei Dejin, carried his head to Ding, and surrendered. On bingchen, Han Shizhong besieged Huaiyang army. Market offices on every route were restored. On wuwu, Yang Yizhong took ten thousand men under Overall Command orders. On jiwei, Households Vice Minister Liu Ningzhi went to Zhenjiang to run money and grain for the three pacification offices. On xinyou, Wuzhu relieved Huaiyang and Han Shizhong fell back to Chuzhou. On renxu, Zhe Yanzhi was also made acting Vice Grand Councilor. On guihai, Shen Yuqiu left office. Li Gang was received. That month, Overall Command chief Zhang Jun met the generals on the river and sent Zhang Jun to camp at Xuyi.
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使西使 沿使
Third month, wuchen new moon: official silk-paper money was first taken in. Jin, Jun, and Fang militia were called Baosheng; three thousand more were raised as the Bisheng Army. On jisi, Han Shizhong became Jingdong and Huaidong pacification commissioner; Yue Fei became Jingxi and Hubei vice commissioner. On xinwei, drought-hit counties were cleared of money, silk, and tax arrears. On jimao, Yue Fei was hurried to Ezhou for the armies. On xinsi, Privy Council deputy bearer Ma Kuo became coastal control vice commissioner. On renwu, Jin and Qi raided Lianshui army; Han Shizhong beat them back. On renchen, Sichuan disaster counties paid half the household-register levy.
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Fourth month, wuxu new moon: Hunan bandit Huang Wang hit Guiyang stockade. On jiachen, puppet Qi took Tang; training judge Hu Juchen, registrar Zhang Congzhi, and the rest died. Yue Fei left office for his mother's mourning. On bingwu, Yue Fei was recalled from mourning. On jiyou, officials who could beat a strong foe and win back land were promised merit titles. On gengxu, imperial clansmen were first taught naming. On jiayin, Huaiyang merit was rewarded; Huyan Tong and others rose by steps, and seventeen thousand more were paid. Liu Guangshi sent Wang Shicheng and Li Qiong to hit puppet Qi at Liu Longcheng, broke them, and took Hua Zhigang. On jiwei, Fujian was told to send the navy after sea bandit Zheng Qing. On xinyou, Sichuan was forbidden to log frontier forests. On jiazi, Han Shizhong took Transocean, Wuning, and Anhua and was styled Merit Lord Yangwu Yiyun. The merchant travel string-cash tax was cut. On bingyin, mobile-court salaries were restored. Tax on Eastern Capital traders crossing the Huai was remitted.
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鹿 殿 使 使 使
Fifth month, wuchen new moon: deer-womb hats were banned. On guiyou, officials not yet presented had to pass Three Departments review before audience. On wuyin, Sichuan commissioners who played loose with law were to be checked by the control grand commissioner. On renwu, Court of Judicial Review disputes went to Justice; if Justice stalled, both reported to the Grand Council. Wu Jie got one hundred thousand strings of Sichuan household money to reward troops. On guimao, Huainan counties were forbidden extra miscellaneous rent. On yiyou, jiaozi became guanzi and the Jiaozi Office was shut. On gengyin, Liu Guangshi took Baojing, Ningwu, and Ningguo. On renchen, Zhang Jun camped at Xuyi and was made Chongxin and Fengning military commissioner. On jiawu, melting coin and private copper casting were forbidden. On bingshen, surveillance commissioners who could not reach every jail might send men; the rule was fixed.
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沿 殿
Sixth month, yisi night: the earth shook. On yiyou, blunt counsel was sought. On jiayin, Zhang Jun crossed the river and inspected the Huai camps. Liu Guangshi was told from Dangtu to Luzhou; Yue Fei from Jiujiang to Xiangyang; Yang Yizhong to Sizhou. On wuwu, Huai and Yangtze defenders alike were given three-year terms. On xinyou, Hall of Gathered Elegance compiler Ling Huai was made Prince of Anding.
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便 西 使
Seventh month, renshen: Granaries Vice Minister Fan Bin took camp-farm affairs. On guimao, Zhang Jun was told to court for the moment. On guisi, Chuan-Shaan discretionary commissioner dispatch was cut. Jin went to Chuan-Shaan; Jun and Fang to Jing southwest. Guo Hao became Yongxing frontier commissioner and pacification commissioner at Jin; Shao Long became Shang magistrate under him for Shang and Guo. That month, Liu Guangshi took back Shouchun.
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使 殿使 使 西 便
Eighth month, jihai: Fan Zongyin died. On gengzi, Right Secretariat Remonstrator Chen Gongfu received third-rank robes. On guimao, Palatine Hall academician Li Dai became Sichuan overall transport commissioner. On jiachen, the armies were told the emperor would take the field. Yue Fei sent Niu Gao to break puppet Qi at Zhen Ru and take defender Xue Heng. On yisi, Xie Qian and others led picked escort troops; Bian Shun held Lin'an; Liang Rujia became follow-campaign transport commissioner. On dingwei, Qin Hui became Liquan commissioner and Lecturer with palace keeping; Meng Geng Wanshou commissioner, Lecturer, and associate keeper. On wushen, Yang Zaixing recovered Western Capital Changshui for Yue Fei. On jiyou, Qin Hui and Meng Geng were given provisional voice in Secretariat and Privy Council. On gengxu, Gan arrears were cleared, Meizhou taxes cut, and Guangdong was allowed discretion against bandits. On xinhai, the spirit tablets left Lin'an. On dingsi, Classics Colloquium lectures were suspended. On jiwei, Jiang and Zhe paid next summer's silk levy early, in rice to the state. On gengshen, duty officials gained three piculs of rice a month. That month, Zhang Jun walled Xuyi and moved camp to Sizhou. Yue Fei fought Li Cheng and Kong Yanzhou of puppet Qi to Cai, took it, and Liu Yongshou surrendered the city.
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Ninth month, bingyin new moon: the emperor left Lin'an. Yue Fei sent Wang Gui, Hao Zheng, and Dong Xian to recover Guo's Lushi county. On guiyou, the emperor halted at Pingjiang. On wuyin, one duty official a day was to rotate in audience. On renwu, Yue Fei, unsupported, fell back again to Ezhou. On guimao, the spirit tablets were lodged at Pingjiang's Nengren Monastery. On wuzi, Huo Li took overall charge of Yue Fei's funds and grain. On gengyin, Zhang Jun reported and went back to Zhenjiang. On xinmao, rewards were fixed for bandits who turned one another in. Zhen-Huai merit was rewarded; Wang De and others rose in rank. That month, Liu Yu heard of the personal campaign, begged Jin ruler Dan in vain, raised three hundred thousand himself, sent Lin on Hefei and Ni from Wokou, and invaded in columns.
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西 西 西沿使
Tenth month, bingshen: northwest refugees filled guard-army quotas. On dingyou, Huainan south rent quotas were fixed. Liu Lin hit Huai west; Zhang Jun sent Yang Yizhong and Zhang Zongyan in divided columns. On wuxu, Yizhong reached Haozhou; Guangshi had fled Luzhou south until Jun drove him back; Wang De, Li Qiong, Cui Gao, Jia Ze, and Wang Yu fought and broke every column. Rebels hit Shouchun's Shaobo stockade; Sun Hui met them and broke them again. On xinchou, more than a hundred Sichuan wine supervisors were cut. On renyin, Liang Rujai became Zhe west and Huaidong coastal commissioner; Rear Guard deputy Wang Yan served under him. On guimao, Zhao Ding asked an edict through Overall Command chief Zhang Jun to pull Guangshi, Yizhong, and Zhang Jun the general back for river defense. On jiachen, another edict pressed Jun to break the foe with full force; neither reached him. Liu Ni raided Dingyuan; Yizhong met him at Outang and broke him utterly; Ni ran; at Shunchang Lin heard it and broke camp. Liu Guangshi sent Wang De and Yizhong after Lin to South Shouchun and turned back. Kong Yanzhou also raised the siege of Guang and left. On wushen, Xie Qian was told to post a thousand men at Qinglong harbor. On guichou, Zhang Jun and Yang Yizhong struck Shouchun, failed, and withdrew. On yimao, every army's captives were given money and grain and sent home. On dingsi, Huizhou bandit Zeng Gun rose. On gengshen, Vanguard controller Han Jing's night raid broke them; Gun soon surrendered. On renxu, the sun's black spot vanished.
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西使使殿 殿 西使 使
Twelfth month, jiawu new moon: Lu, Guang, Hao, and the rest cut capital crimes and freed men below exile. Qin Hui was summoned to court. Zhang Jun was received and asked to move the seat to Jiankang; Zhao Ding asked to return to Lin'an. On wuxu, Han Shizhong struck Huaiyang army, met the Jin, and broke them. On xinchou, the south of Shouchun was walled. On renyin, Zhao Ding left office. Right Secretariat officer Fan Zhifang was sent to Chuan and Shaan to soothe Wu Jie's men. On jiachen, Overall Command staff officer Lü Zhe went to Jiankang to arrange the move of court. On bingwu, Zhe Yanzhi left office. On dingwei, Huai-west merit was paid; Zhang Jun became Junior Mentor and Zhentao, Chongxin, and Fengning commissioner; Yang Yizhong Baocheng commissioner and Palace Front adjutant. On wushen, Qin Hui took the lecture service; Meng Geng kept the mobile palace. On xinhai, Zhang Shou became Vice Grand Councilor with acting Privy Council affairs. On bingchen, Lü Yihao became Zhe pacification and Xi'an control grand commissioner and Lin'an prefect. On dingsi, Liu Guangshi took Huguo, Zhen'an, and Baojing. On wuwu, anyone punished in civil cases was barred from magistracy among the people. On jiwei, Chen, Yuan, Jing, and Li were told to raise thirty-five hundred crossbowmen from idle land. Right Secretariat Remonstrator Chen Gongfu asked to ban the Cheng school. Edict: "Scholar-officials should take Confucius and Mencius as teachers, so word and deed match and meet the age." On gengshen, Prince of Anhua Wang Bing died loyal at Taiyuan; his house got ten qing of fields. On xinyou, Shanyin, Zhuji, and forty counties became great counties with hall appointment.
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西 殿 殿 西 使使 西 使
Seventh year, spring, guihai new moon: at Pingjiang, the emperor ordered court to Jiankang. Wuwei army tax and corvée were remitted one year. A Jiankang imperial front armory was set up. On dingmao, Zhang Jun was rewarded for breaking the foe and made Special Advancement. On jisi, ten thousand piculs of rice fed returnees from Jingdong and Shaanxi. Zhang Jun was received. On jiaxu, Overall Command market officials in every prefecture were cut. On dingchou, Xie Qian left; Liu Qi took acting Cavalry Bureau chief with Palace Front and Infantry affairs. On gengchen, Caishi and Xuanhua crossing forts were built. On guimao, Chen Yuyi became Vice Grand Councilor; Shen Yuqiu Associate Privy Councilor. Guangxi defenders were told to train native levies and baoding militia. On yiyou, Privy Councilor and Vice were restored; Zhang Jun became concurrent Privy Councilor. On bingxu, armies were forbidden to shelter one another's deserters. Thirty-eight Western Tibetan chiefs led by Zhao Jizhong came over. On dinghai, Qin Hui became Privy Councilor. He Xian and Fan Ningzhi came from Jin; only then was the retired emperor's and Empress Ningde's death learned. On jichou, the emperor donned mourning; penal servitude was cut and men below the cane freed. Xinmao night: red vapor like fire rose in the northeast.
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使 西 便殿 西使
Second month, guisi new moon: the sun was eaten. Officials seven times asked the day-for-month mourning rule. Palatine Hall awaiting appointment Hu Yin of Yan asked three years' mourning, black dress in war, to transform the realm. The emperor wanted full mourning, but Zhang Jun argued one could not fight in mourning dress; the outer court was pressed to comply while the palace kept three years. On bingshen, Taizhou burned. On dingyou, Zhenjiang burned. On gengzi, Wang Lun and others went to Jin to welcome the coffin. Yue Fei was received. On xinchou, the eclipse brought a call for blunt counsel; long drought ordered every prefecture to review prisoners. On yisi, bribery by a recommended man reached the recommender too. On bingwu, Wu Jie set up silver notes at Hechi. On dingwei, Xi Yi was told to raise two thousand from Shaanxi, Hedong, and Hebei for court guard. On guichou, hail fell. On bingchen, the emperor first held court in the informal hall. Guo magistrate Yuwen Bin and others presented a Nine-Ears picture; all lost a rank and were dismissed. On dingsi, Yue Fei became Grand Marshal and Huguang Jingxi pacification commissioner. On jiwei, the emperor left Pingjiang.
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Third month, guihai new moon: at Danyang, Han Shizhong was received as escort; Yue Fei followed. On jiazi, at Zhenjiang, Yang Yizhong was received to command escort security. On yichou, years of tax arrears on the route were cleared. On dingmao, Personnel Vice Minister Lü Zhe became War Minister and Overall Command staff officer. On xinwei, the emperor reached Jiankang. On renshen, routine Secretariat work was split among Vice Grand Councilors. On guiyou, Jiankang prisoners below exile were cut; Jiankang, Taiping, and Xuan arrears and lower-household body tax were cleared. Yue Fei asked to merge Huai-west troops for the capital and Shaan right; it was granted and he was to command Wang De and all generals. Soon Qin Hui and others doubted merging armies, and the matter died. On wuyin, a hand edict soothed the armies. Shen Yuqiu was advanced to Privy Council affairs. On jimao, Xuanhe Empress was honored as Empress Dowager. On gengchen, Wang Yan's men went to the Palace Horse Guard. Lü Yihao became Junior Mentor and mobile-palace keeper. Meng Geng left office. On jiashen, Liu Guangshi became Junior Mentor and Wanshou commissioner; his troops went to the Overall Command; Zhang Jun split six armies under Lü Zhe. On yiyou, Guangshi was given a Jiankang mansion. On dinghai, Qian, Ji, and Nan'an counties each raised a hundred native soldiers; magistrates trained them against bandits. That spring Guangxi starved; plums turned into peaches.
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Fourth month, guisi: the Grand Temple rose at Jiankang; Lin'an's temple became the Sacred Ancestor Hall. On wuxu, Jiankang walls and moat were repaired and dredged. On dingwei, Yue Fei asked leave for the rest of mourning, then quit the army; the court refused. On wushen, a black spot appeared in the sun. On gengxu, Zhang Jun wrote that Yue Fei's aim was merged armies and resignation to coerce the throne; Zhang Zongyuan was made acting Huguang Jingxi judge to watch the army. On renzi, Zhang Jun inspected armies at Taizhou and Huai west. On gengshen, Xinyang army went to Jing west. Huainan intendant was cut; east and west each got transport with judicial, tea-salt, and ever-normal duties.
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Fifth month, dingmao: Li Gang was urged against Qian and Ji bandits. On renshen, ritual officials listed Literary King, Martial King, Spark, Longevity, peaks, rivers, sea, farming, silkworms, wind, thunder, and rain. On jiaxu, Hu An'guo became Wanshou commissioner and Lecturer and was summoned; he was dismissed before arrival. On guimao, Li Qiong became Left Guard deputy overall commander. On jiashen, Privy Council and Overall Command scholars were first examined. On yiyou, attendants jointly recommended twenty men fit for county magistrate. On bingxu, puppet Qi took Suizhou. On jichou, Sichuan was forbidden extra printing of money notes.
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Sixth month, xinmao new moon: the late Empress Hui-Gong was renamed Illustrious Respect Empress. Yue Fei was received at court. On renchen, chen and xu months each year were to sacrifice to the Great Fire with Yan Bo as associate. On yiwei, the Jiang-Huai garrison-farm office was cut; each route's pacification and transport commissioners were to run it together. On bingshen, the Revised Shenzong Veritable Records were found ill-chosen; the History Office was told to revise again. On dingyou, Yue Fei confessed fault and impeached himself; the throne pardoned and soothed him. On wuxu, Liu Qi was made Overall Command consultation officer and marched to garrison Luzhou. On yisi, Shen Yuqiu died. Wang De was recalled with his troops to court. Lü Zhi was sent to soothe the Huai-west armies. On bingchen, Wu Jie and Li Dai were told to set Sichuan spending together and feed the armies while easing the people. Yue Fei returned to office.
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Seventh month, wuchen: each palace attendant was to name one or two men fit for intendant or prefect. On guiyou, drought brought prayer at Heaven and Earth, the ancestral temple, and the altars of soil and grain. On jiaxu, Heir Prince of Pu Zhongchi died. On guiwei, after long drought, court and country were called to file sealed memorials. On jiashen, every route's accumulated rent arrears were forgiven. Plague raged at Jiankang; physicians were sent out, the poor were paid, and the dead were buried. Backlogged prisons were ordered cleared. On yiyou, the altars of soil and grain were provisionally set at Jiankang. On wuzi, Revenue vice ministers were to rotate through the routes, audit fiscal health, and impeach abuses. On jichou, returned cultivators paid full tax only after eight years on the land.
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Eighth month, yiwei: Zhang Jun became Huai-west pacification commissioner at Xuyi; Yang Yizhong became Huai-west disposition commissioner; palace horse steward Liu Qi was his deputy; both camped at Luzhou. Li Qiong was ordered to court with his troops. On wuxu, Qiong rebelled, killed Zhang Jing and other middle-army controllers, seized Lü Zhi, Zhao Kangzhi, and Zhao Buqun, and with forty thousand men went over to Liu Yu. On xinchou, a handwritten edict amnestied the Left Guard Army at Luzhou. On renyin, Qiong reached the Huai, killed Zhi and Kangzhi, freed Buqun, and sent him home. Liu Qi and Wu Xi reached Luzhou and gave chase but missed him; Zhang Zongyuan was sent to win him back. Zhang Jun asked to resign. On jiachen, Zhao Ding became director of Wanshou Temple and lecture companion. On jiayin, bribery by appointed men could not be tattooed and exiled by Justice alone; the court would judge. On yimao, Yue Fei was given one hundred thousand strings of military cash. Returned defectors were settled to farm idle land between Hubei and Jing west.
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Ninth month, jiazi: the retired emperor was styled Sagely Literary, Benevolent, Virtuous, and Filially Illustrious, temple name Huizong; the empress Illustrious Solemn. On dingmao, Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun were received; Jun was told to shift from Xuyi to Luzhou. On renshen, Zhang Jun was dismissed. On guiyou, participation officials were to rotate the brush daily and run the Three Departments together, not split routine work. The Overall Command was abolished. On jiaxu, after repeated censorial memorials, Zhang Jun lost Wenzheng Hall grand academician and kept only a temple sinecure. On bingzi, Zhao Ding was again Left Vice Premier, Secretariat-Chancellery grand councilor, and Privy Council affairs. On wuyin, Luzhou and Shouchun, ravaged by Li Qiong, had taxes remitted one year. On jimao, the Sacred Ancestor was offered to at the Ever-Audience Hall. On gengchen, the court offered at the Grand Ancestral Temple. On xinsi, Heaven and Earth were sacrificed at the Mingtang and a great amnesty was proclaimed. Liu Guangshi was recalled to court. On wuzi, routes were forbidden to send surplus tribute. Liu Qi became Luzhou magistrate and Huai-west disposition deputy commissioner.
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Tenth month, gengyin new moon: the classics lecture was restored. On xinmao, rear secretariat men were to sift submitted memorials for usable points and report up. On dingyou night, Zhang Jun was banished to Lingnan. On wuxu, Zhao Ding pleaded for Jun's aged mother; Jun was moved to residence at Yongzhou. Puppet Qi struck Sizhou; defender Liu Gang beat them back. On bingwu, Xue Bi and Huo Li of Revenue were told jointly to run Jiangxi and the five Hunan-Guang routes' finances. On renzi, Huyan Tong, Wang Quan, and others ambushed the Jin at Huaiyang army and broke them; on dingsi, six-participation days were set for one court officer to rotate policy memorials.
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Intercalary month, jiazi: Zhao Kangzhi was posthumously made Xuanyou Pavilion attendant. On yichou, Jiangdong's ten-thousand-string monthly pile levy was cut. Twenty thousand shi of grain went to relieve Jing west and Hubei famine. On bingyin, Yin Tun was received and made Secretariat gentleman and Chongzheng Hall lecturer. On jiaxu, tablets for Huizong and the Illustrious Solemn Empress were first made. On gengchen, Han Shizhong crossed the Huai, met the Jin at Liuleng village, and broke them. On xinsi, Li Gang was dismissed. On guiwei, Hanyang army was restored. That month Zhang Jun left Xuyi and withdrew to Jiankang.
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Eleventh month, bingchen: Wu Jie was given one million five hundred thousand strings to comfort the troops. On dingyou, Li Guang of Wenzhou became Jiangxi pacification and disposition grand commissioner. On dingwei, Tadalan and Wuzhu entered Bianjing, took Liu Yu of puppet Qi, and demoted him to Prince of Shu. On guichou, the throne said it would tour western Zhe again next spring. That month Cui Hu of puppet Qi's Linru army surrendered to Yue Fei. Twelfth month, gengchen: the grand Sichuan tea-horse-and-herd intendant was restored. On dingmao, Huizong's and the Illustrious Solemn Empress's tablets were enshrined in the Grand Temple. On gengwu, Xie Qian was acting head of horse and foot; Han Shizhong was told to hold Chuzhou and screen the river lines. On jimao, grand generals and attendants were to name soldiers of mind and mettle fit to command, defend, or counsel. On guiwei, Wang Lun's mission returned; they reported the Jin would send back the coffin and empress dowager and restore Henan prefectures. On jiashen, Sizhou's walls were built. On dinghai, Wang Lun and others were sent again to welcome the coffin. That winter Wu Jie sent Ma Xizhong against Xi; Zheng Zong and Li Jin struck Gong and failed; Zong fell below the wall; Xizhong fled; Jie beheaded him before the ranks.
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