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Jia Yuanyou was an official.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- At Huai West 淮西 · Relation Associated with
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- Memorial · Author · With Emperor Ming of Song (宋明帝) · Direct quotation
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Book of Song 86, passages 90, 93, 96, 98, 101, 104, 106, 110, 114-115, 120-121
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Book of Song, Chapter 86Volume 86 Biographies 46: Yin Xiaozu, Liu Mian · 12 passages
淮西人賈元友上書太宗，勸北攻懸瓠，可收陳郡、南頓、汝南、新蔡四郡之地。
Jia Yuanyou of the Huai West region submitted a memorial to Emperor Ming urging a northern attack on Xuanhuo, by which the lands of Chen, Nan Dun, Runan, and Xincai commanderies could be recovered.
上以所陳示勔，使具條答。
The emperor showed what Yuanyou had set forth to Mian and had him draft a detailed reply.
元友稱：「虜主幼弱，姦偽競起，內外規亂，天亡有期。」
Yuanyou said, "The barbarian ruler is young and weak; treachery and deceit contend everywhere; within and without there is plotting and disorder—the day of heaven's destruction is near."
元友又云：「有七千餘家，穀米豐積，可供二萬人數年資儲。」
Yuanyou also said, "There are more than seven thousand households with abundant grain, enough to supply twenty thousand men for several years."
元友又云：「虜於懸瓠開驛保，虜已先據，若不足恃，此不須囗。」
Yuanyou also said, "The barbarians opened relay stations and strongpoints at Xuanhuo, which they already hold—if those cannot be relied upon, that point need not be pursued."
元友又云：「虜欲水陸運糧，以救軍命，可襲之機，在於今日。」
Yuanyou also said, "The barbarians intend to move grain by water and land to sustain their armies. The moment to strike them is now."
元友又云：「四郡民人，遭虜二十七年之毒，皆欲雪仇報恥，伏待朝威。」
Yuanyou also said, "The people of the four commanderies have suffered under the barbarians for twenty-seven years. All wish to wipe away shame and take revenge, bowing to await the court's majesty."
元友又云：「請敕荊、雍兩州，遣二千精兵，從義陽依西山北下，直據郾城。」
Yuanyou also said, "I ask that Jing and Yong provinces be ordered to send two thousand elite troops from Yiyang along the western hills northward to seize Ying city directly."
元友又云：「虜圍逼汝陰，遊魂二歲，為張景遠所挫，不敢渡淮。」
Yuanyou also said, "The barbarians have besieged Runan for two years like wandering ghosts, were checked by Zhang Jingyuan, and dare not cross the Huai."
元友又云：「龍山雉水，魯奴、王景直等並受朝爵，馬步萬餘。
Yuanyou also said, "At Long Mountain and Zhishui, Lu Nu, Wang Jingzhi, and others have all received court ranks, with more than ten thousand horse and foot.
元友又云：「四郡恨忿此非類，車營連結，廢田二載，生業已盡，賊無所資，糧儲已罄。
Yuanyou also said, "The four commanderies hate and resent these alien kinds. Supply trains link in chains, fields lie waste for two years, livelihood is exhausted, the enemy have nothing to draw on, and grain stores are empty.
太宗納之，元友議遂寢。
Emperor Ming accepted this, and Yuanyou's proposal was set aside.