Is “Did Xun Linfu detain Dian Jie in the Jin army for setting fire against orders?” true?
In the Records of the Grand Historian, the Hereditary House of Jin, there is no mention of Dian Jie setting fire against orders or being detained. In the Chronicles of the Eastern Zhou Kingdoms, chapter 40, Duke Wen of Jin, because Dian Jie set fire to Xi Fuji's house without authorization, ordered Xun Linfu to arrest him: "Then he sent Xun Linfu to summon Dian Jie... In a moment, Xun Linfu brought Dian Jie in chains. Duke Wen scolded him, saying: 'Why did you burn the house of Minister Xi?'" The novel uses Xun Linfu's hand to carry out the arrest of the disobedient general.
The detention of Dian Jie is a fictional invention of the novel.
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