Lower Huai commands

Who he is

Title

Defence commissioner of Sizhou (fangyushi) and the prefects of Suzhou, Haizhou and Pizhou

Since

not known

Born

not known

Family

not known

Confidence

low

No holder is named for 1 January 1200 in anything we could reach. The Jinshi names officers only inside individual biographies (zh.wikisource, ctext, Baidu Baike and CBDB were all unreachable from here), so the office, not the man, is what this record gives.

Overlord

the Jin emperor Zhangzong (Wanyan Jing), Cheng'an 4, through the Department of State Affairs at Zhongdu

What it holds

• Sizhou (Linhuai) with Huaiping and Hong
• Suzhou (Fuli) on the Bian road
• Pizhou (Xiapi) and Haizhou (Qushan) of the Shandong circuits
• The patrol posts of the Huai line

How it was acquired

Sizhou, Haizhou and the Huai line were fixed in 1141 to 1142 and confirmed in 1165, when the Song gave back Hai, Si, Tang, Deng, Shang and Qin (recalled; Wikipedia, read, says only that the 1165 treaty brought no major territorial change).

Allies and rivals

The Song across the water (Xuyi, Chuzhou, Lianshui and the Huai'an garrisons) are the South China sheet's. Relations are the correct ones of two courts at peace under the treaty of 1165: the Song envoy crossing at Sizhou, the market trading; the sources we read record no raids before 1204 (raids from 1204 are the likely course, not yet true).

How things stand that morning

At peace. The Dili zhi says the Huai-line inspectors (yanhuai xunjian shi) were set up only in 1208 (Taihe 8), so in 1200 there is no standing Huai patrol of that name.

Wealth

The Sizhou market and the Huai tolls; the payment passing through; salt of the coast (Haizhou).

Military

Prefectural garrisons under the defence commissioners and military governors; the Wuning and Baojing armies. No numbers.

Threats

• Smugglers and runaways across the river
• The flood of the Si and the new river bed

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.

1. Mid-June 1206 (the two Wikipedia pages give 14 and 20 June)The Song declare war. Bi Zaiyu takes Sizhou; the Jin besiege the Song town of Chuzhou on the canal for three months and take Zaoyang and Guanghua on the central front (Wikipedia, read).Depends on: The raids of 1204 to 1206 and the Song court's choice for war. Stopped by: A settlement of the border incidents before the summer of 1206.
2. 1208 (Taihe 8)The Jin set up the Huai-line inspectors (yanhuai xunjian shi) (Dili zhi, read).Depends on: The war of 1206 to 1208. Stopped by: No war.

Places of note

• Sizhou (Linhuai): Sizhou (Linhuai): crossing and licensed market. The old city lies under the Hongze lake; the campaign board's coordinate is used and may be some kilometres out.
• Suzhou (Fuli): Suzhou (Fuli): the Baojing army and the Bian road. Fuli is where the Song army broke in May 1163 (recalled).

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: The towns, offices and the 1159 closures are from the Dili zhi (read); the 1165 handover and the delivery at Sizhou are recalled.

On the map: An office record draws the ground the office directly works, not the whole circuit; the prefectures themselves are in the province records. Edges follow modern county seats and the nearest-unit rule.

Primary sources for Jin empire

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.

• 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
• 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
• Essentials of the History of Goryeo, Kim Jong-seo (金宗瑞) and the Joseon history office (1452). The chronological companion to the Goryeosa, finished a year after it and drawing on the same lost records, sometimes with entries the Goryeosa omits. 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
• Record of the Personal Campaigns of the Holy Warrior (Chinggis Khan) (presented to Khubilai in 1288, finished in Mongolian in 1290; the surviving Chinese version dates from 1369). A year-by-year Chinese account of Temujin's wars, drawn from the lost Altan Debter (the same source behind the Yuan shi's first chapter and Rashid al-Din). Read online
• The Secret History of the Mongols (1228 or 1240 (the colophon's Year of the Rat is disputed), with later additions; the surviving Chinese transcription and gloss were made under the Ming in the 1380s). The only Mongol account of Temujin's rise, written within living memory. 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
• 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

14 more in the sources library for North China and Manchuria.