Quan Yi 全懌

Quan Yi's father Quan Cong was a man of Qiantang County in Wu Commandery. The Biography of Zhong Hui records Quan Cong as a relative of Sun Quan by marriage and a senior minister. Quan Cong died in the 12th year of Chiwu (249), and his son Quan Yi succeeded him. Quan Yi later took over the family's position and commanded troops. Records, Wu 15 §21 · 30Records, Wei 28 §99

According to the Biographies of Consorts, Lady Quan, who became Sun Liang's empress, was the daughter of Quan Shang; at that time five members of the Quan family had been enfeoffed as marquises and all commanded troops and horses, while the rest became Attendant Gentlemen and Cavalry Commandants and served as guards at the emperor's side. Chen Shou wrote that since the rise of Wu, no imperial in-laws had ever matched them in rank and prosperity. Records, Wu 5 §28–29

In the 5th month of the 2nd year of Ganlu (257), Zhuge Dan, General-in-Chief Who Conquers the East of Wei, held the city of Shouchun with the forces of Huainan, sent General Zhu Cheng to submit a memorial declaring himself a vassal of Wu, and had his Chief Clerk Wu Gang take his young son Zhuge Jing there to ask for help. In the 6th month Wu gave Wen Qin, Tang Zi, Quan Duan and others 30,000 infantry and cavalry to rescue Zhuge Dan. The Biography of Zhuge Dan records that Wu had its generals Quan Yi, Quan Duan, Tang Zi, Wang Zuo and others lead 30,000 men and go secretly together with Wen Qin to support Zhuge Dan, and the Biography of Sun Chen likewise records that Wen Qin, Tang Zi, Quan Duan, Quan Yi and others were sent with 30,000 men. Records, Wu 3 §16Records, Wei 28 §36Records, Wu 19 §84

The Biography of Zhong Hui records that Quan Cong's son Quan Yi, his grandson Quan Jing, and his nephews Quan Duan, Quan Pian, Quan Ji (全緝) and others all came leading troops to rescue Zhuge Dan. Wang Ji, General Who Guards the South, had just arrived and surrounded Shouchun, but while the encirclement had not yet closed, Tang Zi, Wen Qin and others made use of the hills and rugged terrain northeast of the city and led their forces inside. Records, Wei 28 §99 · 36

In the 6th month the General-in-Chief Sima Wenwang (Sima Zhao) came leading 260,000 troops of the central and provincial armies and had Wang Ji, Chen Qian, General Who Brings Peace to the East, and others surround Shouchun in a double ring, inside and out. Zhu Yi of Wu, who came to the rescue, twice brought a large army but was beaten each time, and Sun Chen, angered that he fought without advancing, put him to death. Food in the city gradually ran short and no help came from outside, and Zhuge Dan's trusted men Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi climbed over the city wall and went over to the General-in-Chief. Records, Wei 28 §37–38

Meanwhile, younger members of the Quan family who had remained at Jianye went over to Wei. The Biographies of the Three Successor Rulers record that in the 11th month of that year Quan Xu's sons Quan Yi (全禕) and Quan Yi (全儀) fled to Wei with their mother. The Biography of Zhong Hui records them as Quan Hui and Quan Yi (全儀), sons of Quan Yi (全懌)'s elder brother, and says that when a quarrel and lawsuit broke out in their family, the two took their mother, led several dozen households of their retainers across the River, and went over to Wenwang of their own accord. Records, Wu 3 §17Records, Wei 28 §99

Zhong Hui devised a plan: he secretly wrote a letter in the names of Quan Hui and Quan Yi (全儀) and had people the two trusted carry it into the city to inform Quan Yi (全懌) and the others. The letter said that the Wu court, angered that Quan Yi and the others had failed to break the siege of Shouchun, meant to kill the families of all the generals, and that they had therefore fled and come to entrust their lives to Wei. Quan Yi and the others, frightened, at last led the troops under their command out through the eastern city gate and surrendered, and all received fiefs and favor. Because of this, those inside the city turned against one another and fell apart. The Biography of Zhuge Dan records this as the General-in-Chief using a ruse to sow discord and winning over Quan Yi and the others with an unexpected stratagem, whereupon Quan Yi and the others opened the city gate and came out leading several thousand men, and the city was struck with fear and did not know what to do. Records, Wei 28 §99–100 · 38

The Biographies of the Three Successor Rulers record that in the 12th month Quan Duan, Quan Yi and others went from the city of Shouchun to Sima Wenwang, and the Annals of the Three Young Emperors record that in the 12th month, winter, the Wu grand generals Quan Duan, Quan Yi and others surrendered with their troops. Wei made Quan Yi General Who Pacifies the East and enfeoffed him as Marquis of Linxiang. The Biography of Quan Cong records that the sons of Quan Yi's elder brother, Quan Yi (全禕), Quan Yi (全儀), Quan Jing and others, also surrendered to Wei and all served as commandery administrators and became marquises. According to the Annals of the Three Young Emperors, in the 2nd month of the following year, the 3rd year of Ganlu (258), Sima Wenwang took the city of Shouchun and beheaded Zhuge Dan. Records, Wu 3 §17Records, Wei 4 §87–88Records, Wu 15 §30

The Biographies of Consorts record that when Zhuge Dan came over with Shouchun, Quan Yi (全懌), Quan Duan, Quan Yi (全禕), Quan Yi (全儀) and others all took the opportunity to surrender to Wei, and that Quan Xi was killed when his plot leaked, so that the Quan clan declined. Later Sun Chen, who had deposed Sun Liang, said in a letter to Sun Xiu that the Minister of Ceremonies Quan Shang, though his family had received favor for generations, had failed to keep his kinsmen in check, so that Quan Duan and others had abandoned their city and gone over to Wei. Records, Wu 5 §29Records, Wu 19 §90–91

Chen Shou's main text does not record Quan Yi's courtesy name, the year of his birth or the year of his death. In the assessment at the end of Records of Wu 15, Chen Shou only said that his father Quan Cong had the talent of his age and was esteemed in his time, but drew criticism and stained his name because he failed to restrain a wicked son; he did not say who that son was, and he did not assess Quan Yi separately. Records, Wu 15 §30 · 86