Five Dynasties · Envoy

Zhai Shousu 翟守素

Attested AD 951 - AD 954

Passages: 3
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhai Shousu was an envoy.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 951 to AD 954 太祖遣使者翟守素
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 50, passage 11

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Miscellaneous Biographies 30: Wang Jun, Wang Yin, Liu Ci, Wang Huan, Zhe Congruan · 3 passages

太祖遣使者翟守素馳至陜州，諭峻欲親征。 Taizu sent Zhai Shousu racing to Shan to say he meant to take the field himself.

峻屏左右謂守素曰：「晉州城堅不可近，而劉旻兵銳亦未可當，臣所以留此者，非怯也，蓋有待爾。 Jun sent attendants away and told Shousu: "Jin’s walls cannot be neared and Liu Min’s men are too sharp to meet head-on. I stay here not from fear but because something must ripen first.

守素馳還，具道峻言。 Shousu raced back and repeated Jun’s every word.