Hu Ji 胡濟

After becoming Chancellor, Zhuge Liang issued an instruction to the officials saying that taking part together in affairs was a way to gather the thoughts of many and widen loyal and beneficial counsel. He also said that when he first befriended Cui Zhouping he often heard about his own successes and failures; that later, befriending Xu Shu (Xu Yuanzhi), he was diligently instructed; that earlier, when he took part in affairs with Dong He (Dong Youzai), Dong He said everything he had to say whenever he spoke; and that later, when he worked with Weidu, Weidu repeatedly remonstrated with him and held him back. Zhuge Liang said that although his own nature was base and dull and he could not accept all of it, he had remained on good terms with these four men from beginning to end, which was enough to show that he did not mistrust frank words. Chen Shou's main text refers to this Weidu only by his courtesy name. Records, Shu 9 §4 · 6

Dong Yun once arranged an outing and banquet with the Director of the Imperial Secretariat Fei Yi, the Supervisor of the Central Army Hu Ji and others, and even had the carriages made ready. Just then Dong Hui of Xiangyang, a Gentleman of the Palace, came to pay his respects to Dong Yun; being young and of low rank, when he saw that Dong Yun had halted his outing, he hesitated and made to withdraw. Dong Yun said that he had meant to go out only to talk at leisure with like-minded friends, and that now that Dong Hui had come in person to open his heart, it would not be right to abandon this conversation for the banquet; he had the outside horses unhitched. Fei Yi and the others also stopped their carriages and did not go. Records, Shu 9 §30–31

In the spring of the 19th year of Yanxi (256), Jiang Wei was promoted on the spot to General-in-Chief. Jiang Wei again put his troops and horses in order and agreed to meet the General-in-Chief Who Guards the West Hu Ji at Shanggui, but Hu Ji broke the agreement and did not come. Because of this, Jiang Wei was defeated at Duangu by Wei's senior general Deng Ai; his troops scattered like stars and a great many died. As the people grumbled and the lands west of Long were also in turmoil, Jiang Wei apologized for his fault and asked to be demoted, and as General of the Rear he acted in the office of General-in-Chief. The Biography of the Later Sovereign records this as the General Who Guards the West Hu Ji breaking the agreement and not coming, and Jiang Wei being defeated by Deng Ai at Shanggui in the autumn, in the 8th month. Records, Shu 14 §38Records, Shu 3 §36

Originally the First Sovereign, Liu Bei, had left Wei Yan to hold Hanzhong, filling all the defensive strongpoints with troops to keep out enemies from outside. Jiang Wei proposed changing this: when news came that the enemy was approaching, the troops of the strongpoints should be withdrawn and the grain gathered, and they should fall back to hold the two cities of Hancheng and Lecheng, while mobile forces watched for the enemy's weak points, and when the enemy withdrew, all the cities should sally out together and strike. Accordingly Hu Ji, who had been in command of Hanzhong, was pulled back to stay at Hanshou, the Army Supervisor Wang Han was set to guard Lecheng, and the Protector of the Army Jiang Bin to guard Hancheng. Records, Shu 14 §41–42

Chen Shou's main text records nothing else of his deeds, nor his death. The assessment of volume 9 discusses Dong He, Liu Ba, Ma Liang, Chen Zhen and Dong Yun, and that of volume 14 discusses Jiang Wan, Fei Yi and Jiang Wei, but neither mentions Hu Ji. Records, Shu 9 §45Records, Shu 14 §52