Sui and Tang · Tang Official

Jia Su 賈餗

First attested AD 828; died AD 835

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Jia Su was a Tang Official.

Life and dates

Death

AD 835 甘露之難
Cause Clan exterminated by eunuchs after failed plot
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 294

Attested activity

AD 832 大和六年
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 132
AD 828 是時…第策官
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 178, passage 269
AD 835 甘露之難
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 178, passages 289, 294

Key source chapters

Career and standing

chief minister 宰相
AD 835 甘露之難 · Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 294
Vice Minister of Rites 太常少卿
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 269
Vice-Minister of Rites 侍郎
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 132

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 132
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 178, passage 269

Works and attributed material

Memorial · Author
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 132

Events and relationships

Dared not select
Examination · Grader · With Liu Fen (劉蕡)
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 178, passage 269

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 44, passage 132; New Book of Tang 178, passage 269

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 44Volume 44 Treatises 39: Selecting and Appointing Officials 1 · 1 passage

六年，侍郎賈餗又奏復之。 In 832, Vice-Minister Jia Su memorialized to restore it.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 178Volume 178 Biographies 103: Liu Fen · 2 passages

是時，第策官左散騎常侍馮宿、太常少卿賈餗、庫部郎中龐嚴見蕡對嗟伏，以為過古晁、董，而畏中官眥睚，不敢取。 At that time the examination graders — Left Regular Attendant of the Cavalry Feng Su, Vice Minister of Rites Jia Su, and Bureau Director of the Storehouses Pang Yan — seeing Fen's answers sighed in admiration, holding them to surpass the ancient Chao Cuo and Dong Zhongshu; yet fearing the inner eunuchs' resentment, they dared not select him.

賈餗與王涯、李訓、舒元輿位宰相，以謀敗，皆為中官夷其宗，而宦者益橫，帝以憂崩。 Jia Su with Wang Ya, Li Xun, and Shu Yuanyu held the chief ministership; when the plot failed, all were exterminated in their clans by the eunuchs — and the eunuchs grew more overbearing; the emperor died of grief.