Sui and Tang · Tang Statesman and Grain-Transport Reformer

Pei Yaoqing 裴耀卿

Attested AD 730 - AD 737

Passages: 8
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Pei Yaoqing was a Tang Statesman and Grain-Transport Reformer.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Alternate name	Yaoqing

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 734 二十二年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 54, passages 147, 149
AD 735 開元二十三年
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 27, passage 147
AD 730 to AD 737 開元十八年至二十五年
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 53, passages 12, 28

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Chancellor 宰相
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 54, passage 149
Chief Attendant 侍中
Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 27, passage 147

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 27, passage 147; New Book of Tang 54, passage 149
Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 53, passage 12

Works and attributed material

Court opinion · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 54, passages 149-150
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 27, passages 147-157

Events and relationships

Designed and administered a relay granary system for Jiang Huai grain
Administrative · Official
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 53, passages 12, 28
Opposed private minting
AD 734 二十二年 · Policy · Opponent
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 54, passages 149-150

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 54, passage 149

References in the histories

Search passages

History

8 passages

New Book of Tang, Chapter 53Volume 53 Treatises 43: Finance and Economics 3 · 7 passages

開元十八年，宣州刺史裴耀卿朝集京師，玄宗訪以漕事，耀卿條上便宜曰：「江南戶口多，而無征防之役。 In Kaiyuan 18 (730), Xuancheng prefect Pei Yaoqing came to court for the annual assembly. Xuanzong asked his views on grain transport, and Yaoqing submitted a detailed plan: 'Jiangnan is densely populated yet exempt from frontier garrison duty.

二十一年，耀卿為京兆尹，京師雨水，穀踊貴，玄宗將幸東都，復問耀卿漕事，耀卿因請「罷陝陸運，而置倉河口，使江南漕舟至河口者，輸粟於倉而去，縣官雇舟以分入河、洛。 In Kaiyuan 21 (733), now metropolitan governor of Jingzhao, Yaoqing faced floods in the capital and soaring grain prices as Xuanzong prepared to move to Luoyang. Asked again about transport, he urged: 'End the Shan overland haul, build river-mouth granaries where Jiangnan convoys would unload and leave, and have the state hire boats to move grain into the Yellow River and Luo systems.

玄宗大悅，拜耀卿為黃門侍郎、同中書門下平章事，兼江淮都轉運使，以鄭州刺史崔希逸、河南少尹蕭炅為副使，益漕晉、絳、魏、濮、邢、貝、濟、博之租輸諸倉，轉而入渭。 Delighted, Xuanzong made Yaoqing vice director of the Huangmen and chief minister, with overall charge of Jiang-Huai transport; Cui Xiyi and Xiao Jiong served as deputies. Rent from eight more prefectures was added to the relay into the Wei.

及耀卿罷相，北運頗艱，米歲至京師纔百萬石。 After Yaoqing left office the northern route faltered; only a million shi a year reached the capital.

自裴耀卿言漕事，進用者常兼轉運之職，而韋堅為最。 After Pei Yaoqing's reforms, favored officials usually held transport portfolios as well; Wei Jian stood at the peak.

初，耀卿興漕路，請罷陸運，而不果廢。 When Yaoqing opened the new water route he had sought to end overland hauls, but the land leg survived.

耀卿罷久之，河南尹裴迥以八遞傷牛，乃為交場兩遞，濱水處為宿場，分官總之，自龍門東山抵天津橋為石堰以遏水。 Years after Yaoqing left office, Henan governor Pei Jiong cut the eight relays to two exchange points with riverside depots and official overseers, and built stone weirs from east of Longmen to Tianjin Bridge to tame the current.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 54Volume 54 Treatises 50: Finance and Economics 3 · 1 passage

議下百官，宰相裴耀卿、黃門侍郎李林甫、河南少尹蕭炅、祕書監崔沔皆以為「嚴斷惡錢則人知禁，稅銅折役則官冶可成，計估度庸則私錢以利薄而自息。 The proposal was circulated among the court officials. Chancellor Pei Yaoqing, Yellow Gate Vice Director Li Linfu, Henan Junior Prefect Xiao Jiong, and Secretariat Director Cui Mian all argued: "Strictly suppressing bad coin would make the people understand the prohibition; taxing copper and commuting labor service would enable the official mints to operate; setting valuations and labor quotas would make private coinage unprofitable and cause it to cease of itself.