Overview
Bao Yong was a general and Official.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|
| Courtesy name |
Junzhang |
君長 |
Junzhang |
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 25 to AD 56 光武
AD 24 to AD 24 更始二年
AD 24 to AD 29 鮑永晚降
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
Places and affiliations
- Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation Served
Works and attributed material
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment surrendered late, showing the principle of serving the new order · Mode historian-judgment
References in the histories
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Book of Later Han, Chapter 31Volume 28a: Biographies of Huan Tan; Feng Yan · 14 passages
更始二年，遣尚書僕射鮑永行大將軍事，安集北方。
In Gengshi 2 the court sent Bao Yong, vice director of the secretariat, north as acting grand marshal to settle the region.
衍因以計說永曰：
Feng Yan laid a strategy before Bao Yong:
永既素重衍，為且受使得自置偏裨，乃以衍為立漢將軍，領狼孟長，屯太原，與上党太守田邑等繕甲養士，扞衛並土。
Bao Yong, who already respected Feng Yan, let him name subordinates and made him General Who Establishes Han and magistrate of Langmeng, camped at Taiyuan with Tian Yi of Shangdang to arm the border.
因遣使者招永、衍，永、衍等疑不肯降，而忿邑背前約，衍乃遺邑書曰：蓋聞晉文出奔而子犯宣其忠，趙武逢難而程嬰明其賢，二子之義當矣。
He then sent envoys to summon Bao Yong and Feng Yan; they hesitated and refused to submit, and resenting Tian Yi for breaking their earlier pact, Feng Yan wrote to him: "When Duke Wen of Jin fled into exile, Zi Fan showed his loyalty; when Duke Wu of Zhao met disaster, Cheng Ying proved his worth—both acted as righteousness required."
為伯玉深計，莫若與鮑尚書同情戮力，顯忠貞之節，立超世之功。
For Tian Yi's good, join Bao Yong in one loyal effort and win a fame beyond your time.
如以尊親系累之故，能捐位投命，歸之尚書，大義既全，敵人紓怨，上不損剖符之責，下足救老幼之命，申眉高談，無愧天下。
If kinship moves you to lay down command and return to Bao Yong, you keep the great right, slacken your foe's hate, honor your commission above, save your family below, and hold your head high before the world.
君長、敬通揭節垂組，自相署立。
You, Bao Yong, and Feng Yan hung up seals and named yourselves generals.
君長據位兩州，加以一郡，而河東畔國，兵不入彘，上黨見圍，不窺大谷，宗正臨境，莫之能援。
Bao Yong, you held two provinces and a commandery, yet when Hedong rebelled your men never reached Zhi, when Shangdang was ringed you never looked to Dagu Pass, and when the clansman's army came you sent no aid.
或訛言更始隨赤眉在北，永、衍信之，故屯兵界休，方移書上党，雲皇帝在雍，以惑百姓。
Rumors placed the Gengshi Emperor with the Red Eyebrows in the north; Bao Yong and Feng Yan believed them, camped at Jiexiu, and drafted letters to Shangdang claiming the court was at Yong to confuse the people.
永遣弟升及子媚張舒誘降涅城，舒家在上黨，邑悉系之。
Bao Yong sent his brother Sheng and son Bao Mei with Zhang Shu to win Nie by defection; Zhang Shu's kin lived in Shangdang, and Tian Yi arrested every one of them.
又書勸永降，永不答，自是與邑有隙。
He wrote again urging Bao Yong to yield; Yong did not answer—so the two were enemies thereafter.
永、衍審知更始已歿，乃共罷兵，幅巾降於河內。
When Bao Yong and Feng Yan learned Gengshi was dead, they disbanded their host and surrendered to Han at Henei in plain cloth.
帝怨衍等不時至，永以立功得贖罪，遂任用之，而衍獨見黜。
Emperor Guangwu resented their late arrival; Bao Yong bought pardon with merit and kept office, but Feng Yan alone was cast aside.
永謂衍曰：“昔高祖賞季布之罪，誅丁固之功。
Bao Yong said, "Gaozu pardoned Ji Bu and executed Ding Gu for ingratitude.
Book of Later Han, Chapter 32Volume 28b: Biography of Feng Yan · 1 passage
Book of Southern Qi, Chapter 49Volume 49 Biographies 30: Wang Huan, Cong Dihui, Zhang Cong · 1 passage