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Emperor Wucheng was a ruler.
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- Polity Northern Qi 北齊 · Relation Ruled
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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 39Volume 39 Biographies 31: Cui Jishu; Zu Ting · 16 passages
逖懼不敢通，其事頗泄，彥深等先詣帝自陳。
Ti was afraid and did not dare forward it. Word leaked. Yanshen and the others went first to the emperor and confessed.
帝大怒，執珽詰曰：「何故毀我士開？」
The emperor flew into a rage, seized Ting, and demanded, "Why do you ruin my Shikai?"
珽因厲聲曰：「臣由士開得進，本無欲毀之意，陛下今旣問臣，臣不敢不以實對。
Ting answered in a harsh voice, "I rose through Shikai and never meant to ruin him. Since Your Majesty asks, I dare not answer except with the truth.
陛下不以為意，臣恐大齊之業隳矣。」
Your Majesty pays no heed. I fear the great enterprise of Qi is being ruined."
帝曰：「爾乃誹謗我！」
The emperor said, "You are slandering me!"
珽曰：「不敢誹謗，陛下取人女。」
Ting said, "I do not slander. Your Majesty took a man's daughter."
帝曰：「我以其儉餓，故收養之。」
The emperor said, "I took her because she was poor and starving and I adopted her."
帝益怒，以刀環築口，鞭杖亂下，將撲殺之。
The emperor grew angrier still, struck his mouth with the knife ring, and blows from cane and club rained down until they were ready to beat him dead.
大呼曰：「不殺臣，陛下得名，殺臣，臣得名。
He shouted, "If you do not kill me, Your Majesty wins a name. Kill me, and I win a name.
若欲得名，莫殺臣，為陛下合金丹。」
If you want a name, do not kill me—I will compound golden elixir for Your Majesty."
珽又曰：「陛下有一范增不能用，知可如何？」
Ting also said, "Your Majesty has a Fan Zeng you will not use—what does that tell you?"
帝又怒曰：「爾自作范增，以我為項羽邪！」
The emperor raged again. "You make yourself Fan Zeng and call me Xiang Yu!"
陛下藉父兄資，財得至此，臣以項羽未易可輕。
Your Majesty, on your father's and brother's capital, reached only this. I say Xiang Yu is not to be despised lightly.
臣位非輔弼，疏外之人，竭力盡忠，勸陛下禪位，使陛下尊為太上，子居宸扆，於己及子，俱保休祚。
I am no chief minister, only an outsider, yet I spend myself in loyalty, urging Your Majesty to abdicate so you stand honored as grand emperor and your son holds the hinge—for you and your son alike, fortune preserved.
帝愈恚，令以土塞其口，珽且吐且言，無所屈撓。
The emperor grew still more furious and ordered earth stuffed into his mouth. Ting spat and spoke on, never bending.
武成崩，後主憶之，就除海州刺史。
When Wucheng died, the Later Sovereign remembered him and at once made him inspector of Hai province.