Three Kingdoms and Six Dynasties · Official and Rebel Associate

Wang Ji 王基

c. AD 478 - AD 542

Passages: 7
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Ji was an official and Rebel Associate.

Life and dates

Death

AD 542 興和四年冬
killed by a slave 為奴所害 · Age Value: 65 · Reckoning: Sui
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 25, passage 170

Attested activity

AD 542 興和四年冬
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 25, passage 170

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Wang Hong (王紘)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 25, passage 160

Career and standing

posthumous general who campaigns east 征東將軍
Granted
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 25, passage 171
Prince of Jibei 濟北王
Granted · Authority Ge Rong (葛榮)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 25, passage 161

Events and relationships

Captivity · Captive · With Helouling Bofan (紇豆陵步藩) · At Hexi 河西
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 25, passage 164
Diplomatic · Envoy · With Yuwen Tai (周文帝)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 25, passage 166

Assessments and attributes

Assessment extortionate but upright · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 25, passage 169

References in the histories

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 25Volume 25 Biographies 17: Zhang Zuan; Zhang Liang; Zhang Yao; Zhang Qi; Xu Yuan; Wang Jun; Wang Hong · 7 passages

父基，頗讀書，有智略。 His father Ji was well read and possessed wisdom and strategy.

初從葛榮反，榮授基濟北王、寧州刺史。 At first he followed Ge Rong in rebellion; Ge Rong made Ji Prince of Jibei and governor of Ning Province.

後葛榮破，而基據城不下，尒朱榮遣使喻之，然後始降。 Later, when Ge Rong was defeated, Ji held the city and would not submit; Erzhu Rong sent envoys to instruct him, and only then did he surrender.

榮死，紇豆陵步藩虜基歸河西，後逃歸尒朱兆。 When Rong died, Hedouling Bufan took Ji captive to Hexi; later he escaped and returned to Erzhu Zhao.

高祖平兆，以基為都督，除義寧太守。 When Gao Huan pacified Zhao, Ji was made area commander and governor of Yining.

基先於葛榮軍與周文帝相知，及文帝據有關中，高祖遣基與長史侯景同使於周文帝，文帝留基不遣。 Ji had earlier known Zhou Wendi while in Ge Rong's army; when Wendi held Guanzhong, Gao Huan sent Ji with chief clerk Hou Jing on a mission to Zhou Wendi, and Wendi detained Ji and would not send him back.

基後逃歸，除冀州長史，後行肆州事。 Ji later escaped and returned; he was made chief clerk of Ji Province, then acting administrator of Si Province.