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Overview The translated histories identify Feng Yi as an eunuch and official. This record brings together 15 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
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Feng Yi
馮益
Feng Yi
Given
Yi
益
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Death Attested activity Source Date: Text: 十九年Western Year: AD 1149
Source Date: Text: 王即位Western Year: AD 1127
Source Date: Text: 紹興三年Western Year: AD 1133
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History of Song, Chapter 469 Volume 469 Biographies 228: Eunuchs 4: Shao Chengzhang, Lan Gui Kanglu, Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, Dong Songchen · 15 passages
馮益張去為陳源甘王德謙關禮董宋臣
Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, and Dong Songchen
自是履等益自衒，愈有輕外朝心。
From that day Lu and his circle preened all the more and looked on the civil bureaucracy with open contempt.
中書舍人季陵言：“中官復召，其黨與相賀，氣焰益張，中外切齒。”
Palace draftsman Ji Ling warned, “Recall the eunuchs and their clique celebrates—insolence redoubles, and court and country grind their teeth in rage.”
馮益，康王邸舊人也。
Feng Yi was a veteran of Prince Kang’s household.
帝幸浙東，益與御前右軍都統製張俊爭渡，以語侵俊，且訴於帝。
During the flight to eastern Zhe he quarreled with Right Army Commander Zhang Jun over a ferry crossing, insulted him, and appealed to the emperor.
時帝用侍御史常同言，詔皇城司並隸台察，益言非祖宗舊制，帝為追寢前詔。
The emperor, heeding attendant Chang Tong, had placed the Imperial City Office under censorial oversight; Yi protested that this broke ancestral practice, and the emperor rescinded the order.
益自言藩邸舊吏，乞 加恩，遂升明州觀察使。
Calling himself an old prince’s retainer, he begged extra favor and was made Military Commissioner of Mingzhou.
內廄舊有騏驥院官，益請別置禦馬院，自領其事，又擅穿皇城便門。
He asked to split off a new Imperial Horse Office from the old Qiji Stud and run it himself, and without permission pierced a private gate through the palace wall.
會劉豫揭榜山東，言益遣人收買飛鴿，因有不遜語。
Liu Yu posted placards in Shandong claiming Yi was buying carrier pigeons and adding seditious slogans.
張浚請斬益以釋謗，帝不許。
Zhang Jun demanded Yi’s execution to silence the slander; the emperor refused.
鼎言事關國體，當解職加罰。
Zhao Ding said the affair touched national dignity and Yi should be stripped and punished.
帝喜曰：“聞益交關外事，漸不可長。”
The emperor said gladly, “I hear Yi is meddling abroad—such conduct cannot be indulged.”
益自是家居廩祠者十四年。
Yi thereafter lived at home on temple grain for fourteen years.
先是，偽柔福帝姬之來，自稱為王貴妃季女，益自言嚐在貴妃閤，帝遣之驗視，益為所詐，遂以真告。
Earlier, when the impostor Princess Roufu appeared claiming to be Consort Gui’s youngest daughter, Yi said he had served in the consort’s quarters; the emperor sent him to verify; the woman duped him and he declared her genuine.
及事覺，益坐驗視不實，送昭州編管，尋以與皇太后連姻得免。
When the fraud was exposed he was banished to Zhao Prefecture for false testimony, then pardoned through kinship with the empress dowager.