即墨大夫（齐末） / Late-Qi Jimo Dafu

Overview

即墨大夫（齐末） / Late-Qi Jimo Dafu is the unnamed late-齐国 official who proposes turning Qi into a base for exiled Three Jin and Chu elites after 雍门司马 prevents 齐王建 / 田建 from entering Qin.

Current Profile

He reads the successful remonstrance as evidence that Qi Wang Jian may still act. Drawing on 即墨’s history as a military stronghold and restoration center, he argues that Qi should recruit exiled officers, assign them troops, recover their former territories, and reverse Qin’s conquest. The source admires his courage but treats his force estimates and operational confidence as unrealistic because Qi has not fought for decades while Qin is battle-hardened.

Key Characteristics

• Offers the clearest active-resistance alternative in the episode.
• Tries to convert displaced elites into restoration forces for the Three Jin and Chu.
• Draws symbolic credibility from Jimo’s earlier survival and Tian Dan’s restoration campaign.
• Overstates or inherits overstated claims about Qi’s territory and available troops.
• Is source-scoped as courageous in purpose but weak in practical military assessment.

Evidence

• Restoration coalition: 《资治通鉴·秦纪》119-4｜史上能称巨婴的君王—齐王建 attributes to him the proposal to arm more than one hundred displaced Three Jin officers and additional Chu exiles.
• Jimo political memory: 《资治通鉴·秦纪》119-4｜史上能称巨婴的君王—齐王建 connects his office to the city that held out during Le Yi’s conquest and became Tian Dan’s restoration base.
• Capability qualification: 《资治通鉴·秦纪》119-4｜史上能称巨婴的君王—齐王建 rejects the proposal’s expansive troop claims and contrasts Qi’s long inactivity with Qin’s combat experience.

Qualifications

The source gives no personal name or biography, and “即墨大夫” is an office label. His force figures may be rhetorical or textually inflated. This page is intentionally distinct from 即墨大夫, the official evaluated under 齐威王 roughly a century earlier.

What Changed

• A new disambiguated identity records the late-Qi adviser without collapsing two officeholders from different periods.
• The final anti-Qin proposal is preserved together with the source’s operational skepticism.

Relationships

• 齐王建 / 田建 - ruler he urges to sponsor restoration warfare.
• 雍门司马 - remonstrant whose success encourages his intervention.
• 即墨 - office base and source of restoration symbolism.
• 田单 - earlier restoration commander whose history gives Jimo strategic prestige.
• 长期和平战备退化 - condition that undermines his proposal.
• 即墨大夫 - earlier officeholder from whom this identity is explicitly disambiguated.