Sui and Tang · Sui General

Li Yaowang 李藥王

Attested AD 600 - AD 601

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Li Yaowang was a Sui General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 601 仁壽元年
Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 110
AD 600 開皇末
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 53, passage 26

Key source chapters

Book of Sui, Chapter 52 Volume 52 Biographies 17: Han Qinhu, He Ruobi 2 passages
Book of Sui, Chapter 53 Volume 53 Biographies 18: Daxi Zhangru, Helou Zigan, Shi Wansui, Liu Fang 1 passage

Career and standing

Demoted
Stripped to commoner
Directly stated · Book of Sui 52, passage 115

Places and affiliations

Polity Sui
Strongly inferred · Book of Sui 53, passage 26

Events and relationships

Served under Shi Wansui against Tardu Khan.
Frontier campaign
Directly stated · Book of Sui 53, passage 26

References in the histories

Book of Sui, Chapter 52Volume 52 Biographies 17: Han Qinhu, He Ruobi · 2 passages

仁壽元年，突厥達頭可汗犯塞，洪率蔚州刺史劉隆、大將軍李藥王拒之。 In the first year of Renshou, the Turk khan Datou broke through the border. Hong marched out with Liu Long, Inspector of Weizhou, and the great general Li Yaowang to meet him.

洪及藥王除名為民，隆竟坐死。 Hong and Li Yaowang were stripped of rank and reduced to commoners; Liu Long was eventually sentenced to death.

Book of Sui, Chapter 53Volume 53 Biographies 18: Daxi Zhangru, Helou Zigan, Shi Wansui, Liu Fang · 1 passage

開皇末，突厥達頭可汗犯塞，上令晉王廣及楊素出靈武道，漢王諒與萬歲出馬邑道．[一]萬歲率柱國張定和、大將軍李藥王、楊義臣等出塞，至大斤山，與虜相遇．達頭遣使問曰：「隋將為誰？」 At the end of Kaihuang the Turk khan Tatou raided the frontier. The emperor sent Prince Jin Guang and Yang Su by the Lingwu route, and Prince Han Liang and Wansui by the Mayi route. [1] Wansui led the pillars of state Zhang Dinghe and the grand generals Li Yaowang, Yang Yichen, and others beyond the border. At Mount Dajin they met the enemy. Tatou sent a messenger to ask, “Who is the Sui general?”