entity Updated 2026-08-20 Tags: Person, Minister, Zhao-State, Pre-Qin, Warring-States

田不李 / Tian Buli

田不李 / Tian Buli appears in 《资治通鉴·周纪》66丨中国历史上哪些帝王是被活活饿死的(1) as the adviser 赵武灵王 assigns to 赵章 after making Zhao Zhang Anyang Jun in the Dai region. The source calls his role a chancellor-like position, which the host treats as abnormal for an ordinary fief.

His importance is institutional. By giving Zhao Zhang both territory and Tian Buli as a governing partner, Zhao Wuling Wang turns consolation into a rival power base inside 赵国. The episode therefore makes Tian Buli one of the concrete mechanisms by which 宠爱驱动的立储风险 becomes organized factional danger.

李兑 describes Tian Buli as violent, proud, and hard to control. In that diagnosis, Tian Buli’s personal temperament matters because it joins Zhao Zhang’s resentment against 赵何 and makes a palace or field crisis more likely.

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