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Overview Emperor Yizong was a Tang Emperor.
Identity Historical · Male
Life and dates Attested activity AD 860 to AD 874 咸通中
AD 859 to AD 873 懿宗
AD 859 to AD 873 懿宗時
AD 859 to AD 873 懿宗時
AD 859 to AD 873 懿朝
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Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Key source chapters
New Book of Tang, Chapter 184
Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7
Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24
Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen
1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68
Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan
1 passage
New Book of Tang, Chapter 52
Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2
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Events and relationships Pardoned Yang Yan after reading Yang Shou’s letter
Troops shifted to garrison Lingnan after Yunnan barbarian raids
Military · Reigning sovereign · At Lingnan 嶺南
References in the histories
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7 Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7 · 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24 Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 1 passage
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68 Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 1 passage
New Book of Tang, Chapter 52 Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage
New Book of Tang, Chapter 184 Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 11 passages
懿宗時，擢累中書舍人、翰林學士承旨，以中書侍郎同中書門下平章事。
Under Emperor Yizong he rose in succession to Secretariat Drafter, Chief Academician of the Hanlin Academy, and Grand Councillor as Vice Director of the Secretariat.
天子嘉其功，進尚書右仆射，封晉陽縣男。
The emperor praised his achievement, promoted him to Right Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs, and enfeoffed him as Baron of Jinyang.
中尉楊玄價得君，而收與之厚，收之相，玄價實左右之；
Commandant Yang Xuanjia had won the emperor's favor, and Shou was close to him; when Shou became chief minister, Xuanjia in fact guided him from behind;
收自作書謝天子，丐弟嚴死，奉先臣後。
Shou himself wrote thanking the emperor, begging that his younger brother Yan be spared so that he could continue the ancestral sacrifices of their late father.
帝見書惻然，乃宥嚴，坐收流死者十一人。
The emperor, moved by the letter, pardoned Yan; eleven men were punished with exile on Shou's account.
懿宗咸通初，自屯田員外郎入翰林為學士，以兵部侍郎同中書門下平章事，年三十六。
At the start of Xiantong under Emperor Yizong he entered the Hanlin from outer-court member of the Ministry of Revenue, became academician, then Grand Councillor as Vice Minister of War at thirty-six.
巖顧天子荒暗，且以政委己，乃通賂遺，奢肆不法。
Seeing the emperor benighted and authority resting with himself, Yan trafficked in bribes and indulged in extravagance and lawlessness.
會至德令陳蟠叟奏書願請間言財利，帝召見，則曰：「臣願破邊鹹家，可佐軍興。」
Chen Pansou, magistrate of Zhide, asked a private audience on finances; summoned, he said, "I wish to break up Bian Xian's household to aid military expenditure."
帝問：「鹹何人？」
The emperor asked, "Who is Xian?"
帝怒，斥蟠叟，自是人無敢言。
The emperor was angry and dismissed Pansou; thereafter no one dared speak.
主，郭淑妃所生，懿宗所愛，而妃有寵，故恩禮最異，悉宮中珍玩資予之。
The princess was Consort Guo Shufei's daughter, whom Yizong loved; the consort was favored, so honors were exceptional and all palace treasures were lavished on her.