Xu Gong
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Xu Gong | |
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Administrator of Wu Commandery ( | |
In office 194 –195 | |
Monarch | Emperor Xian of Han |
Preceded by | Sheng Xian |
Succeeded by | Chen Yu |
Commandant of Wu Commandery ( | |
In office ? –194 | |
Monarch | Emperor Xian of Han |
Succeeded by | Zhu Zhi |
Personal details | |
Born | Unknown |
Died | 200[1] |
Occupation | Politician, warlord |
Xu Gong (Eastern Han dynasty of China.[1]
) (died 200) was a Chinese politician and minor warlord who lived during the lateLife
[edit]Xu Gong started his career sometime between 190 and 193 as the Commandant (
Around the early 190s, the warlord Yuan Shu occupied parts of Yang Province and defeated the brothers Zhou Ang, Zhou Xin and Zhou Yu (Renming), who used to control the territories there. Xu Gong killed Zhou Yu (Renming) while the latter was on his way home to Kuaiji Commandery. As Yuan Shu also killed the Inspector (
In 194, Sheng Xian resigned because he was ill, so Xu Gong replaced him as the Administrator of Wu Commandery. Xu Gong, in turn, was succeeded by Zhu Zhi as the Commandant of Wu Commandery. After assuming office, Xu Gong attempted to murder his predecessor Sheng Xian. However, Gao Dai (
In 195, Sun Ce, a military officer under Yuan Shu, pretended to offer to help Yuan Shu conquer the territories in the Jiangdong region and was given some troops to carry out his task. After leaving Yuan Shu, Sun Ce embarked on a series of conquests in Jiangdong and became a warlord in his own right. He defeated Liu Yao and occupied Danyang Commandery (
Sun Ce caught up with Xu Gong and Yan Baihu and defeated them later, so they fled to Yuhang County (
After losing control over Wu Commandery, Xu Gong felt bitter and harboured the intention of seizing it back from Sun Ce, so in 200 CE he wrote a letter to the warlord Cao Cao, who controlled the Han central government and the figurehead Emperor Xian. In the letter, Xu Gong noted that Sun Ce was very much like Xiang Yu, and he urged Cao Cao to summon Sun Ce to the imperial capital Xu (
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b de Crespigny (2007), p. 904.
- Chen, Shou (3rd century). Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi).
- de Crespigny, Rafe (2007). A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms 23-220 AD. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004156050.
- Pei, Songzhi (5th century). Annotations to Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi zhu).