Yuan · Vice Censor-in-Chief and Senior Companion

Liu Ji 劉基

Attested AD 1366 - AD 1379

Passages: 8
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Ji was a Vice Censor-in-Chief and Senior Companion.

Life and dates

Death

Poisoning · Alleged By Person Id Tu Jie (塗節) · Alleged Perpetrator Id Hu Weiyong (胡惟庸) · Mode allegation Source Person Id Tu Jie (塗節)
Uncertain · History of Ming 127, passage 137

Attested activity

AD 1379 十二年十二月
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 127, passage 137
AD 1368 洪武元年
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 115, passages 15, 20
AD 1367 裁定律令
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 127, passage 41
AD 1366 赴召
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 298, passage 53

Key source chapters

Career and standing

贊善大夫
Concurrent
Directly stated · History of Ming 115, passage 20
御史中丞
Held
Directly stated · History of Ming 115, passage 20

Events and relationships

Traveled to court
Political · Summoned official
Directly stated · History of Ming 298, passage 53
Relation Tutor of · Person Zhu Biao (朱標)
Directly stated · History of Ming 115, passages 20-21

References in the histories

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History

8 passages

History of Ming, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 3: Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, Emperor Ruizong Xingxian · 1 passage

於是左丞相李善長兼太子少師，右丞相徐達兼太子少傅，中書平章錄軍國重事常遇春兼太子少保，右都督馮宗異兼右詹事，中書平章政事胡廷端、廖永忠、李伯升兼同知詹事院事，中書左、右丞趙庸、王溥兼副詹事，中書參政楊憲兼詹事丞，傅瓛兼詹事，同知大都督康茂才、張興祖兼左右率府使，大都督府副使顧時、孫興祖同知左右率府事，僉大都督府事吳楨、耿炳文兼左右率府副使，御史大夫鄧愈、湯和兼諭德，御史中丞劉基、章溢兼贊善大夫，治書侍御史文原吉、范顯祖兼太子賓客。 Li Shanchang, left chancellor, became junior tutor; Xu Da, right chancellor, junior mentor; Chang Yuchun, associate director for military affairs, junior guardian; Feng Zongyi, right commissioner, right household master; Hu Tingduan, Liao Yongzhong, and Li Bosheng, associate directors, associate household masters; Zhao Yong and Wang Pu, vice directors, deputy household masters; Yang Xian, participating secretary, household master assistant; Fu Rong, household master; Kang Maocai and Zhang Xingzu, associate capital commissioners, left and right rate-office commandants; Gu Shi and Sun Xingzu, deputy commissioners, associate commandants; Wu Zhen and Geng Bingwen, commissioners, deputy commandants; Deng Yu and Tang He, censors-in-chief, preceptors; Liu Ji and Zhang Yi, vice censors-in-chief, senior companions; Wen Yuanji and Fan Xianzu, investigating secretaries, crown prince's guests.

History of Ming, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 15: Li Shanzhang, Wang Guangyang · 4 passages

善長因請自大逆而外皆除之，遂命與中丞劉基等裁定律令，頒示中外。 Shanzhang asked that every offense save grand treason be struck from collective punishment; the Emperor then ordered him, Vice Censor-in-Chief Liu Ji, and others to revise the code and publish it throughout the realm.

與中丞劉基爭法而訽。 He clashed with Vice Censor-in-Chief Liu Ji over legal policy and abused him.

基不自安，請告歸。 Liu Ji, ill at ease, asked permission to withdraw.

十二年十二月，中丞塗節言劉基為惟庸毒死，廣洋宜知狀。 In the twelfth month of year twelve, Vice Censor-in-Chief Tu Jie reported that Liu Ji had been poisoned by Hu Weiyong and that Guangyang should have known.

History of Ming, Chapter 298Volume 298 Biographies 186: Recluses · 3 passages

宋濂、劉基、葉琛、章溢之赴召也，舟溯桐江，忽有人黃冠鹿裘立江上，招基而笑，且語侵之。 When Song Lian, Liu Ji, Ye Chen, and Zhang Yi were traveling to answer the imperial summons, their boat went up the Tong River. Suddenly a man in a yellow cap and deerskin cloak stood on the bank, beckoned to Ji with a laugh, and spoke to him in mocking tones.

基望見，急延入舟中。 Ji saw him from afar and hastily invited him aboard.

基曰：「此徐方舟也。」 Ji said: "This is Xu Fangzhou."