智雲 Zhìyún

Prince Ai of Chu

Zhiyun, Prince Ai of Chu, was first named Zhiquan. He was a good archer and skilled at calligraphy and the board game of weiqi. At the end of the Daye period of the Sui, he followed Jiancheng and lived in Hedong. When Gaozu first rose, Jiancheng fled to Taiyuan, and officials arrested Zhiyun and sent him to Chang'an, where he was killed by Yin Shishi at the age of fourteen. In the first year of Wude, he was posthumously made a prince and given a posthumous name. Edit

His mother, the Noble Consort Wan, was respectful and compliant by nature. The emperor treated her with courtesy, and every matter in the palace was referred to her for decision. Edit

In the third year, Taizong's son Kuan was made his heir, and he was further posthumously made Area Commander of Liang Prefecture and Grand Minister of Education. Kuan died young, and the fief was abolished. In the second year of Zhenguan, Linggui, son of Shidu, Duke of Jinan, was again made his heir. Linggui served as Prefect of Wei Prefecture; his government was stern, and robbers did not dare to act. He dug the Yongji Canal to connect with Xinshi, to the benefit of the people. When he died, his son Fu succeeded him and was reduced to a duke. When Fu died, his son Chengkuang succeeded him; in the Shenlong period he was General of the Right Palace Army, and died in the disaster together with Crown Prince Jiemin. Edit