Overview
Xiao Baizhu was an official and Statesman.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
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| Posthumous name |
Zhongmin |
忠愍 |
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Life and dates
Death
AD 1320 英宗即位之十有九日
executed 殺
Attested activity
AD 1316 延祐三年
AD 1312 皇慶元年
AD 1320 英宗即位之十有九日
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Origins and identity
- Ethnicity Khitan 契丹
- Lineage Shimo clan of the Khitan 契丹石抹氏
Places and affiliations
- Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
References in the histories
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History of Yuan, Chapter 179Volume 179 Biographies 66: He Sheng, Yang Duoerzhi, Xiao Baizhu · 15 passages
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.
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.
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.
未幾，稱旨執朵兒只，載諸國門之外，與蕭拜住俱見殺。
Before long, by imperial order Duoerzhi was seized, taken outside the capital gate, and executed together with Xiao Baizhu.
會有天災，求直言，會議廷中，集賢大學士張珪、中書參議回回，皆稱蕭、楊等死甚冤，是致不雨。
When a natural disaster struck and the throne called for frank criticism, Grand Academician Zhang Gui and Secretariat Participant Huihui both declared at court that the deaths of Xiao, Yang, and the others were gross injustices and were the cause of the drought.
若蕭、楊等冤，何可不亟昭雪也！」
If the injustice done to Xiao, Yang, and the others is not swiftly redressed, how can we govern?"
○蕭拜住
Xiao Baizhu
蕭拜住，契丹石抹氏也。
Xiao Baizhu belonged to the Shimo clan of the Khitan.
拜住，乃哈剌帖木兒之子也。
Baizhu was the son of Qarach Temür.
嫗對曰：「有蕭知府，餘不知也。」
The woman replied, "There is Prefect Xiao; of the rest I do not know."
合辭對曰：「蕭知府奔喪還，欲速其來，是以禱也。」
They answered together, "Prefect Xiao has returned from mourning and we wish to hasten his coming; that is why we pray."
武宗即位，起復為中書左司郎中，出為河間路總管，召為右衞率使，遷戶部尚書，遂拜御史中丞。
When Wuzong acceded, Baizhu was recalled from mourning and appointed director in the Central Secretariat's left department. He went out as general administrator of Hejian Circuit, was summoned as commissioner of the Right Guard, was transferred to minister of revenue, and was then appointed censor-in-chief.
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.
泰定間，贈守正佐治功臣、太保、儀同三司、柱國，追封薊國公，諡忠愍。
During the Taiding reign he was posthumously granted the title of Merit for Upholding Integrity and Assisting Governance, Grand Preceptor, Grand Preceptor with Honored Ceremony Equal to the Three Dukes, and Pillar of State. He was posthumously enfeoffed as Duke of Ji with the posthumous name Zhongmin.
拜住之死，有吳仲者，潛守其屍，三日不去，竟收葬之。
When Baizhu died, a man named Wu Zhong secretly kept watch over his body. For three days he would not leave, and in the end he gathered and buried him.