Yuan · Official

Temüder 鐵木迭兒

Tiěmùdié'ér

Attested AD 1311 - AD 1322

Passages: 31
Chapters: 3
Histories: 1

Overview

Temüder was an official.

Life and dates

Death

died of illness 病死
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 127
already dead by this speech
Directly stated · History of Yuan 207, passage 5

Attested activity

AD 1311 to AD 1320 仁宗朝
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 179, passage 35
AD 1320 延祐七年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 110, passages 625-627
AD 1316 延祐三年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 110, passages 605-607
AD 1319 延祐六年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 110, passages 620-622
AD 1317 延祐四年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 110, passages 610-612
AD 1322 至治二年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 110, passages 641-643

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AD 1321 至治元年
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 110, passages 636-638
AD 1320 英宗即位
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 179, passage 42
AD 1322 鐵木迭兒之子也
Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 207, passage 2

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Suonan (鎖南)
son 子
Directly stated · History of Yuan 207, passage 2

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Grand Preceptor 太師
AD 1320 延祐七年 · Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 110, passages 625-627
Grand Preceptor 太師
AD 1316 延祐三年 · Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 110, passages 605-607
Grand Preceptor 太師
AD 1319 延祐六年 · Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 110, passages 620-622
Grand Preceptor 太師
AD 1317 延祐四年 · Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 110, passages 610-612
Grand Preceptor 太師
AD 1322 至治二年 · Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 110, passages 641-643
Grand Preceptor 太師
AD 1321 至治元年 · Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 110, passages 636-638

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Chief Minister 丞相
Held
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passages 35, 102
accepted bribe of 60,000 strings 受其賂六萬緡
Bribery · Committed
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passage 35
Proposed
Estate confiscation ordered · Authority Shidebala (英宗)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 207, passage 5

Places and affiliations

Polity Id yuan · Relation Active in
Strongly inferred · History of Yuan 207, passage 2
Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Yuan 110, passage 607

Events and relationships

Executed
Political · Persecutor · With Yang Duoerzhi (楊朵兒只)
Directly stated · History of Yuan 179, passages 42, 123

Assessments and attributes

Assessment insatiably corrupt · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Yuan 207, passage 5

References in the histories

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History

31 passages

History of Yuan, Chapter 110Volume 110 Tables 5: Three Ducal Ministers 1 · 6 passages

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History of Yuan, Chapter 179Volume 179 Biographies 66: He Sheng, Yang Duoerzhi, Xiao Baizhu · 22 passages

丞相鐵木迭兒受其賂六萬緡，終不為直。 Chief Minister Temüder accepted a bribe of sixty thousand strings of cash and ultimately failed to see justice done.

勝素惡鐵木迭兒貪暴，居同巷，不與往來。 Sheng had long despised Temüder for his greed and cruelty. Though they lived on the same lane, Sheng refused any contact with him.

帝亦素惡鐵木迭兒，欲誅之。 The emperor had likewise long hated Temüder and wished to put him to death.

鐵木迭兒走匿太后宮中，太后為言，僅奪其印綬而罷之。 Temüder fled and hid in the empress dowager's palace. She pleaded for him, and he was merely stripped of rank and dismissed.

及英宗即位，在諒暗中，鐵木迭兒遂復出據相位，乃執楊朵兒隻及中書平章政事蕭拜住，同日戮於市。 When Emperor Yingzong came to the throne, Temüder reappeared during the mourning period and reclaimed the chief ministership. He then had Yang Duoerzhi and Assistant Administrator Xiao Baizhu arrested and executed in the market on the same day.

未幾，復為中丞，遷集賢大學士，為權臣鐵木迭兒所害而死，年四十二。 Not long after, he was again appointed Censor-in-Chief and then transferred to Grand Academician of the Hall of Encouraging Literature. He was killed by the powerful minister Temüder at the age of forty-two.

初，武宗崩，皇太后在興聖宮，鐵木迭兒為丞相，踰月，仁宗即位，因遂相之。 Earlier, when Emperor Wuzong died, the empress dowager was at Xingsheng Palace and Temüder served as chief minister. More than a month later, when Emperor Renzong came to the throne, he retained Temüder as chief minister.

御史中丞蕭拜住拜中書右丞，又拜平章政事，稍牽制之。 The Censor-in-Chief Xiao Baizhu was appointed Right Assistant Administrator of the Secretariat and then Assistant Administrator, and began to check Temüder's conduct.

朵兒只自侍御史拜御史中丞，慨然以糾正其罪為己任。 Promoted from Investigating Censor to Censor-in-Chief, Duoerzhi resolutely made it his duty to bring Temüder's crimes to justice.

上都富民張弼殺人繫獄，鐵木迭兒使大奴脅留守賀伯顏出之，及強以他姦利事，不能得。 Zhang Bi, a wealthy man of Shangdu, was imprisoned for murder. Temüder sent his chief slave to intimidate Governor He Bayan into releasing him and also tried to extort other illicit gains, but failed.

一日，坐都堂，盛怒，以官事召留守，將罪之，留守昌言：「大奴所干非法，不敢從，他實無罪。」 One day Temüder sat in the chief minister's hall in a rage and summoned the governor on official business, intending to punish him. The governor spoke plainly: "Your chief slave's demands were illegal, and I refused them. In other matters I am guilty of nothing."

鐵木迭兒語詘，得解去。 Temüder was silenced and let him go.

朵兒只廉得其所受弼贓巨萬萬，大奴猶數千，使御史徐元素按得實，入奏。 Through investigation Duoerzhi learned that Temüder had taken bribes from Bi worth tens of millions, and from the chief slave several thousand more. He had Investigating Censor Xu Yuansu establish the facts and memorialized the throne.

帝震怒，有詔逮問，鐵木迭兒逃匿，帝為不御酒數日，以待決獄，盡誅其大奴同惡數人，鐵木迭兒終不能得。 The emperor was furious. An edict ordered Temüder arrested and interrogated, but he fled into hiding. For several days the emperor abstained from wine while awaiting the outcome of the case. Several of Temüder's chief slaves and accomplices were executed, but Temüder himself could not be found.

帝仁孝，恐誠出太后意，不忍重傷咈之，但罷其相位，而遷朵兒只為集賢學士。 The emperor, filial by nature, feared that the empress dowager truly meant it and could not bear to wound her deeply. He merely removed Temüder from the chief ministership and transferred Duoerzhi to Academician of the Hall of Encouraging Literature.

所念者，鐵木迭兒雖去君側，反得為東宮師傅，在太子左右，恐售其姦，則禍有不可勝言者。」 What troubles me is that although Temüder has left your side, he has become tutor in the Eastern Palace and stands at the heir apparent's elbow. I fear he will work his treachery there, and the harm will be beyond telling."

仁宗崩，英宗猶在東宮，鐵木迭兒復相，乃宣太后旨，召蕭拜住、朵兒隻至徽政院，與徽政使失里門、御史大夫禿忒哈雜問之，責以前違太后旨之罪。 When Emperor Renzong died, Emperor Yingzong was still in the Eastern Palace. Temüder again became chief minister. Proclaiming the empress dowager's order, he summoned Xiao Baizhu and Duoerzhi to the Office of Imperial Provisions and jointly interrogated them with Commissioner Shilimen and Censor-in-Chief Tutuqa, charging them with having earlier defied the empress dowager's will.

鐵木迭兒又引同時為御史者二人，證成其獄。 Temüder also produced two former censors to establish the case against him.

鐵木迭兒權勢既成，毫髮之怨，無不報者，太后驚悔，而帝亦覺其所譖毀者皆先帝舊臣。 Once Temüder's power was secure, he avenged even the smallest slight. The empress dowager was shocked and filled with regret, and the emperor came to see that those Temüder had slandered were all former ministers of the late emperor.

未及論治，而鐵木迭兒以病死。 Before he could be brought to justice, Temüder died of illness.

英宗即位之十有九日，右丞相鐵木迭兒怨拜住在省中牽制其所為，又發其奸贓、專制等事，遂請依皇太后旨，並前御史中丞楊朵兒只皆殺之。 On the nineteenth day of Emperor Yingzong's reign, Right Chief Minister Temüder, resenting Baizhu's checks on his conduct in the Secretariat and angered by exposures of his bribery and despotism, requested by the empress dowager's order that Baizhu and the former Censor-in-Chief Yang Duoerzhi be executed.

竟殺之，並籍其家，語見楊朵兒隻及鐵木迭兒傳。 They were killed anyway, and their households were confiscated. The full account appears in the biographies of Yang Duoerzhi and Temüder.

History of Yuan, Chapter 207Volume 207 Biographies 94: Rebellious Ministers · 3 passages

治書侍御史鎖南，鐵木迭兒之子也，罷為翰林侍講學士，鐵失奏復其職，英宗不允。 Suonan, an associate censor of the Secretariat, was Temuder's son. After his dismissal to a Hanlin lecturing post, Tie Shi asked that he be reinstated, but Emperor Yingzong refused.

曩者，鐵木迭兒貪蠹無厭，汝等拱默不言，其人雖死，宜籍其家，以懲後也。」 When Temuder was alive his greed knew no limit, yet you said nothing. He is dead now, but his estate should still be confiscated to warn future offenders."

時鐵木迭兒既死，罪惡日彰，英宗委任拜住為右丞相，振立紀綱，修舉廢墜，以進賢退不肖為急務。 By then Temuder was dead and his crimes were coming to light. Emperor Yingzong put Bayiju in charge as right chancellor to restore order, revive neglected institutions, and make promoting the worthy and removing the unfit his top priority.