Fu Zhaoyuan

Career

During the Guangshun era of Later Zhou, he entered a military yamen post in the Tianxiong Army through hereditary privilege and held the title of inspector of Xingzhou. In 954, he held the titles Jianjiao Shangshu Zuopushe, Sanqi Changshi, and Yinqing Guanglu Dafu, and served as Yanei Duzhihuishi of the Tianxiong Army and as inspector of Xingzhou. In the early Song, he held Jianjiao Situ and Jinzi Guanglu Dafu in 960; in 963 he bore the title Kaiguo Nan, and in 969 and 972 successively served as inspector of Enzhou and Luozhou. The date of his appointment as Deputy Commissioner of the Western Capital Workshops is disputed: one account places it in the seventh year of Kaibao (974), another in the eighth year (975).

He accompanied Emperor Taizong in the campaign against Northern Han and served as the Four-Sided Patrol Commissioner of the Palace Army; during the attack on Liao at Youzhou, he and Song Wo, military governor of Dingguo Army, led troops in constructing a fortified camp south of the city. After the army returned, he was appointed inspector of Caizhou, administered Bingzhou and Chanzhou, and was transferred again to Bingmen with concurrent deputy command. In the first year of Taiping Xingguo (976), he was Shangshi Shi and the metropolitan patrol commissioner for Caizhou and Chenzhou; in the second year (977), he also held the Caizhou military-governorate title and administered Bingzhou. In the first year of Duangong (988), he held the titles Jianjiao Taibao and Kaiguo Gong and concurrently served as deputy commander of the cavalry and infantry at Taiyuan Prefecture. In the second year of Duangong (989), he served as prefect of Jingzhao with concurrent command of the cavalry and infantry, as a tuanlianshi of Caizhou, and as a patrol commissioner of the Shaanxi Circuit, while also bearing the title Yunhui Jiangjun. His other listed posts included prefect of Chanzhou; prefect of Bingzhou with concurrent pacification authority; prefect of Yongxing Army with concurrent pacification authority; prefect of Zizhou with concurrent pacification authority; prefect of Huazhou; and military qianxia.

At the beginning of the Xianping era, he served as the two qianxia of Tianxiong Army and Xingzhou; after falling ill, he returned to court, was granted the name Fang Yuyao, and was appointed defense commissioner of his own prefecture, dying soon afterward. The appointment lists additionally place him as military qianxia of Xingzhou in 999 and as defense commissioner of Caizhou and military governor of Zhendong Army in 1001. Alongside his prefectural and military offices, he held such titles as Guanglu Dafu, Shangzhuguo, Taishi, Yushi Dafu, and fief revenues, as well as Jianjiao Shangshu Zuopushe, Jianjiao Situ, Jianjiao Taibao, Yinqing Guanglu Dafu, and Jinzi Guanglu Dafu.

Family and associations

His father was Fu Yanqing; his grandfather was Fu Cunshen; and his great-grandfather was Fu Chu. His sisters included two women recorded as empresses, one of Emperor Zhao Jiong and one of Chai Rong; his younger brother was Fu Zhaoshou. He married Lady Li and had three recorded sons—Fu Chengxu, Fu Chengyou, and Fu Chengdu—and four daughters; the husbands of his eldest and second daughters were Wang Xiyi and Li Zongliang, respectively. Liu Kai wrote to him. His burial place was Luoyang.