The western Huai front: Luzhou (Hefei) is the command city, Anfeng jun (by the old Shao reservoir) and Haozhou hold the Huai crossings, Hezhou and Wuwei jun guard the Yangtze side, and Chuzhou (Langya) watches the road from Xuyi.
Across the river the Jin hold Shouzhou on the north bank, Yingzhou and Taihe. Rice and iron reach the front from Jiankang; the paymaster-general at Jiankang pays the garrisons. The Anfeng reservoir and its dikes feed military and civil fields along the border. No fighting in the winter of 1199-1200 is recorded.
Who he is
- Name
- Not known for 1 January 1200
- Title
- Pacification commissioner of Huainan West (Huaixi anfu shi), the prefect of Luzhou, with the prefects of Anfeng jun, Haozhou, Hezhou, Wuwei jun and Chuzhou as garrison commanders
- Since
- not pinned
- Confidence
- low
Institutional knowledge. zh.wikipedia on the proscribed lists the former staff of a Huaixi commissioner, Zhao Rutan.
Overlord
The Privy Council.
What it holds
- Luzhou's walls and the Huaixi command office
- Anfeng and Haozhou, the two Huai crossings
- The military fields (tuntian) of the Anfeng reservoir
How it was acquired
Standing since the 1140s.
Allies and rivals
Faces the Jin at Shouzhou, Yingzhou and Taihe.
How things stand that morning
Quiet.
Wealth
Rice of the Chao Lake and Anfeng fields.
Military
Garrison troops and levies; no numbers.
Threats
- A Jin offensive: in 1206 Haozhou and Anfeng fall in the 12th month
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- December 1206Haozhou and Anfeng jun fall to the Jin; Luzhou holds under Tian Lin (11th month).Depends on: The northern war. Stopped by: Peace holds.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: No named holder.
On the map: Drawn as the garrison belt behind the Huai.
Primary sources for Southern Song
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- Outline and Details of Two Reigns (thirteenth century, after 1224). A Song outline-and-detail chronicle of exactly the two reigns around 1200, drawn from the court's daily records. Read online
- Annals of the Western Xia, Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成) (1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. Read online
- History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. Read online
- History of Song, chapters 488 and 489: Jiaozhi, Dali, Champa, Zhenla, Pagan, Srivijaya, Java, Brunei, Chola and Tambralinga, Toqto'a (Tuotuo) and the Yuan history office, from the Song court records (1343 to 1345, from Song veritable records and court diaries). The Chinese court's record of its southern neighbours, compiled from Song archives. Read online
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Record of the Great Jin State, Attributed to Yuwen Maozhao (宇文懋昭); the attribution is doubtful (preface dated 1234; probably assembled in the Southern Song from Song and Jin material, with later accretions). A Song-side history of the Jin, with annals for each emperor and chapters on institutions, customs, the capitals and the Jurchen way of life. Read online
12 more in the sources library for South China.
Sources and studies
- zh.wikipedia, Qingyuan dangjin (the list of the proscribed)
- Songshi quanwen, juan 29 xia, Ningzong annals Jiatai 1 to Kaixi 3 (zh.wikisource, Siku edition)
- General knowledge of Song administrative and economic history (Hartwell, Von Glahn, Smith and Twitchett eds., Cambridge History of China vol. 5 part 2), not re-checked line by line in this pass
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.