Jinzhou and Lizhou armies

Who he is

Title

Commanders of the Imperial Guards at Jinzhou and at Lizhou

Since

not pinned

Born

not known

Family

not known

Confidence

low

No commander is named for 1200. A Liu Changzu is deputy commander at Lizhou in 1218 (Chen Xifeng 2024), too late to carry back.

Overlord

The emperor Ningzong.

What it holds

• Jinzhou (Ankang) and its near valleys
• Lizhou (Guangyuan) and the gallery road to Jian'ge

How it was acquired

Part of the Shu army system of the 1130s; not itemised further.

Allies and rivals

Beside the Xingzhou and Xingyuan commands, under the Sichuan Zhizhi commissioner on paper.

How things stand that morning

Commanders not known. Quiet. The Jin-Song peace of 1165 (the Longxing treaty) is in force; no frontier war is under way on 1 January 1200.

Wealth

Paid through the Sichuan General Accounts Office.

Military

Imperial Guards commands; no numbers.

Threats

• The Jin over the Qinling and the Han.

Where the sources disagree

• The assignment lists the military commanders of 'Hanzhong, Hezhou and Xingzhou'. There is no Hezhou army in Sichuan; the Jinzhou and Lizhou commands are the other two.

Evidence: That a Lizhou command existed by 1218 is from Chen Xifeng 2024; that it and the Jinzhou command existed in 1200 is from our recollection of the Southern Song army list and is not re-checked.

On the map: Two small zones; stations not pinned.

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.