Qin and Han · Armory Director

Son of Che Qianqiu 車千秋子

Attested BC 87 - BC 74

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Son of Che Qianqiu was an Armory Director.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 87 to BC 74 昭帝時
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 85, passage 6

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Che Qianqiu (車千秋)
son 子
Directly stated · Book of Han 85, passage 6

Career and standing

Luoyang armory director 雒陽武庫令
Held
Directly stated · Book of Han 85, passage 6
Luoyang armory director 武庫令
Resigned
Directly stated · Book of Han 85, passage 6

Places and affiliations

Han 漢
Relation Served
Directly stated · Book of Han 85, passage 6

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 85Volume 74: Wei Xiang and Bing Ji · 4 passages

會丞相車千秋死，先是千秋子為雒陽武庫令，自見失父，而相治郡嚴，恐久獲罪，乃自免去。 When Chancellor Che Qianqiu died, his son—who had been director of the Luoyang armory—feared that under Wei Xiang’s strict rule he might eventually be charged with some fault, and resigned without waiting to be dismissed.

武庫令西至長安，大將軍霍光果以責過相曰：「幼主新立，以為函谷京師之固，武庫精兵所聚，故以丞相弟為關都尉，子為武庫令。 When the armory director reached Chang’an, Huo Guang rebuked Wei Xiang: ‘The boy emperor has just ascended the throne; we posted the chancellor’s brother at Hangu Pass and his son at the armory because the pass guards the capital and the depot holds the crack troops.

今河南太守不深惟國家大策，苟見丞相不在而斥逐其子，何淺薄也！」 You, the governor of Henan, never weighed the state’s great strategy; you saw only that the chancellor was gone and drove off his son—how shallow!’

大將軍用武庫令事，遂下相廷尉獄。 Huo Guang seized on the armory incident and had Wei Xiang thrown into the commandant of justice’s jail.