Qiu Jian 丘建

Having pacified Shu, Zhong Hui secretly harbored other ambitions; he secretly reported that Deng Ai showed signs of rebellion and had him summoned in a cage cart, and then commanded the great army alone. Considering that his achievements and fame overshadowed the age and he could no longer serve under another, he was plotting rebellion when Wenwang sent a letter saying that he was sending Jia Chong into the Ye Valley and would himself station 100,000 men at Chang'an. Believing that Wenwang had seen through his other ambitions, Zhong Hui decided to act quickly. Records, Wei 28 §120–123

Zhong Hui arrived on the 15th day of the 1st month of the 5th year of Jingyuan (264), and the next day he summoned all the Protectors of the Army, Administrators, Gate Commanders and Cavalry Commanders and above, together with the former officials of Shu, and held mourning rites for the Empress Dowager in the court hall of Shu. He forged a testamentary edict of the Empress Dowager ordering him to raise troops and depose Wenwang, passed it around to those seated there, and had men close to him and trusted by him take over command of the armies. He confined all the officials he had summoned in the buildings of the various offices of Yi Province, closed the city gates and palace gates, and had them strictly surrounded and guarded by troops. Records, Wei 28 §124–125

Qiu Jian, Zhong Hui's Commander of the Headquarters Guard, had originally belonged to Hu Lie; Hu Lie had recommended him to Wenwang, and Zhong Hui had asked to have him in his own following and trusted and favored him. Qiu Jian, pitying Hu Lie for being confined alone, asked Zhong Hui to let one of Hu Lie's personal guards in to go out and fetch food. The various Gate Commanders likewise each had one man let in. Records, Wei 28 §125

Hu Lie told his personal guard a lie and also sent a letter to his son, claiming it was news Qiu Jian had secretly passed to him: Zhong Hui had already dug a great pit and prepared several thousand white cudgels, and meant to call in all the troops outside, give each man a white cap and make them supernumerary generals, and then beat them to death one after another with the cudgels and bury them in the pit. The personal guards of the various Gate Commanders all passed on this story too, and in a single night it spread everywhere. Someone said that all the Gate Commanders and Cavalry Commanders and above should be killed, but Zhong Hui hesitated and could not decide. Records, Wei 28 §125–126

At noon on the 18th, when Hu Lie's troops marched out of the gates beating drums together with Hu Lie's son, the soldiers of the various armies, without any prior agreement, beat their drums, shouted and raced each other to the city. Zhong Hui sent troops to kill the Gate Commanders and Administrators he had confined, but those inside lifted tables together to prop the doors shut so they could not be broken, and the Gate Commanders and Administrators escaped over the roofs and joined up with their own troops. The crowd cut down Jiang Wei and raced each other to kill Zhong Hui. Zhong Hui was then forty years old. Records, Wei 28 §127–128

This is the only passage in Chen Shou's main text where Qiu Jian appears. His courtesy name, his origin and what became of him after the uprising are not recorded, and Chen Shou's assessment in Records of Wei 28 does not mention him either. Records, Wei 28 §125 · 140