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Cai Ze
蔡澤
Cai Ze
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Cai
蔡
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Cai
蔡
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Cai Ze
蔡澤
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Book of Han, Chapter 99 Volume 87b: Yang Xiong 2 · 4 passages
昔三仁去而殷虛，二老歸而周熾，子胥死而吳亡，種、蠡存而粵伯，五□入而秦喜，樂毅出而燕懼，范睢以折□而危穰侯，蔡澤雖噤吟而笑唐舉。
The Three Worthies left and Shang collapsed; the Two Elders came home and Zhou flourished; Wu died with Wu Zixu; Yue rose while Zhong and Fan Li lived; five captives entered Xianyang to Qin’s delight; Yue Yi’s exile struck terror into Yan; Fan Ju’s stratagem toppled the Marquis of Rang; Cai Ze, stammering all the while, still got the laugh on the physiognomist Tang Ju.
范、蔡以下何必《玄》哉？」
Men like Fan and Cai never needed such a book—why should you?"
蔡澤，山東之匹夫也，顉頤折頞，涕唾流沫，西揖強秦之相，扼其咽，炕其氣，附其背而奪其位，時也。
Cai Ze was a rough man from the eastern hills—stooped, scarred, slobbering—yet he crossed to Qin, bowed to the chief minister, seized him by the throat, leaned on his back, and took his chair because the hour called for it.
有談范、蔡之說於金、張、許、史之間，則狂矣。
To peddle the stratagems of Fan Ju and Cai Ze in the antechambers of the Jin, Zhang, Xu, and Shi clans would be madness.
Book of Han, Chapter 117 Volume 100a: Afterword and Family History 1 · 1 passage