孝協 Xiàoxié

Xiaoxie was first made Prince of Fanyang, but was soon reduced to Duke of Xun and made Prefect of Weizhou. In the Linde years he was sentenced to death for corruption. The Chief Minister of the Court of the Imperial Clan, Boyi, Prince of Longxi, and others spoke to Gaozong for him and begged for leniency, but the Emperor refused, and he killed himself. Edit

His younger brother Xiaobin was Administrator of the Yuanzhou Area Command. He had a son, Sixun, who was Magistrate of Jiangdu. When Empress Wu was killing many of the imperial clan, Sixun gave up his post and left. When Zhongzong was restored, Sixun was promoted as a respected elder to Chief Minister of the Court of the Imperial Clan and enfeoffed as Duke of Longxi Commandery, and he served as Administrator of the Yizhou Area Command. At the start of Kaiyuan he was raised to Duke of Peng, his fief increased to a full four hundred households, and he was promoted to Grand General of the Right Martial Guard. When he died he was posthumously made Area Commander-in-chief of Qinzhou and buried as an attendant at the Qiao Mausoleum. Sixun was a fine painter; he is the one whose work the world calls "General Li's landscapes". His younger brother Sihui was Aide of Yangzhou. Sixun's son Linfu has his own biography. Edit