Xue Ti 薛悌

In the summer of the 1st year of Xingping (194), Cao Cao had Xun Yu and Cheng Yu hold Juancheng and went once more to attack Tao Qian. Meanwhile Zhang Miao and Chen Gong rebelled and welcomed in Lü Bu, the commanderies and counties all went over to them, and only Juancheng, Fan and Dong'a stood firm. When men who had surrendered from Lü Bu's army said that Chen Gong intended to lead troops in person to take Dong'a and to send Fan Yi to take Fan, the officials and the people were all afraid. Records, Wei 1 §28–29Records, Wei 14 §8

At Xun Yu's urging, Cheng Yu persuaded Jin Yun, Prefect of Fan, on his way back, and Jin Yun stabbed Fan Yi to death and went back to put his troops in order and hold the county. Cheng Yu also sent a separate force of cavalry to cut off Cangting Ford so that Chen Gong could not cross, and at Dong'a the Prefect Zao Zhi was already leading the officials and the people in holding the city firmly. Further, Xue Ti, Attendant Officer of Yan Province, made plans together with Cheng Yu, and in the end they kept the three cities intact and awaited Cao Cao. Cao Cao, on his return, took Cheng Yu by the hand and said that but for his efforts he would have had nowhere to return to. Records, Wei 14 §9–12

While Xue Ti was Administrator of Taishan, he thought Chen Jiao, who was passing through Taishan on a mission as Officer of Merit of his commandery, out of the ordinary and made a close friend of him. Xue Ti said jokingly, 'For a commandery clerk to keep company with an official of two thousand shi is like the ruler of a neighboring state stooping to associate with another's rear vassal — and is that not also fine?' Records, Wei 22 §66

Xue Ti, Administrator of Taishan, made Gaotang Long, a man of Pingyang County in Taishan Commandery, his Investigator. When the commandery's Army Supervisor quarreled with Xue Ti and rebuked him by his personal name, Gaotang Long gripped the hilt of his sword and rebuked the Army Supervisor, saying that to call a lord by his personal name in front of his subject was something righteousness demanded be punished. The Army Supervisor turned pale, and Xue Ti rose in alarm and restrained him. Records, Wei 25 §59

After returning from his campaign against Sun Quan, Cao Cao had Zhang Liao, Yue Jin, Li Dian and others garrison Hefei with over 7,000 men. In the 3rd month of the 20th year of Jian'an (215), as he set out west to attack Zhang Lu, Cao Cao gave a written instruction to the Protector of the Army Xue Ti, having written on the edge of its case, 'Open when the enemy arrives.' Shortly afterward, when Sun Quan surrounded Hefei with a great army of 100,000, they opened the instruction together, and it said, 'If Sun Quan comes, General Zhang Liao and General Li Dian are to go out and fight; General Yue Jin is to guard the Protector of the Army and not join the battle.' The generals were all puzzled, but Zhang Liao said that it meant they should strike back before the enemy completed the encirclement and break its momentum, and the next day they fought a great battle. Records, Wei 1 §145–146Records, Wei 17 §10–11

Xue Ti later became Administrator of Wei Commandery and Director of the Imperial Secretariat, both times, it is said, succeeding Chen Jiao. Chen Shou's main text does not record Xue Ti's courtesy name or his death. Records, Wei 22 §66