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Cai Que
Northern Song chancellor, courtesy name Chizheng, promoted by Wang Anshi, made Right Vice-Director in 1082 and later banished to Lingnan after the Chegai Pavilion poem case.
In a council hall, a long table holds an unrolled map scroll, a brass-cornered chest and a brush pot, with tall-backed chairs around it and a bronze lamp at the left; a figure stands with their back turned on the balcony at the right, with palace roofs beyond.
Also known as Courtesy name Chizheng
- Roles
- Chief Ministers
Cai Que, courtesy name Chizheng, came from Jinjiang in Quanzhou and was a Northern Song minister. He began as a military judge of Binzhou and was recommended to the court by Wang Anshi; in 1082 he became Right Vice-Director of State Affairs and Vice-Director of the Secretariat, and after Zhezong's accession Left Vice-Director with the Chancellery. In the Yuanyou years he was sent out to Chenzhou and Anzhou, where he wrote ten quatrains at the Chegai Pavilion; his rival Wu Chuhou charged that the poems mocked the court, producing the Chegai Pavilion poem case, and Cai was banished to Xinzhou and died there.
Life and times
- 1037 CEBorn
Song - 1093 CEDied