A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Fu Pi

by Herbert A. Giles

597 Fu Pi 富弼(T. 彥國). Died A.D. 1085. A native of Honan, who distinguished himself by his scholarship and was appointed in 1402 to a post in connection with criminal administration at the capital. As this was displeasing to Lü I-chien, when it became necessary to send an envoy to the Kitan Tartars, he at once suggested Fu Pi. The latter was completely successful in his mission, persuading the Tartars to give up their claim to any further territory on condition of receiving an increased subsidy. Returning home, he was rewarded by various important appointments; but he was unable to reconcile himself to the innovations of Wang An-shih, and in 1068 he retired on the plea of old age. He was ennobled as Duke, and canonised as 文忠.