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Overview The translated histories identify Huang Zicheng as an official and statesman. This record brings together 6 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Huang Zicheng
黃子澄
Huang Zicheng
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History of Ming, Chapter 5 Volume 5 Annals 5: Chengzu 1 · 6 passages
帝納齊泰、黃子澄謀，欲因事以次削除之。
The emperor took Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng's counsel and planned to pick them off one by one when occasion offered.
泰、子澄密勸帝除王，帝未決。
Tai and Zicheng secretly pressed the emperor to destroy the Prince, but he could not bring himself to act.
上書天子，指泰、子澄為奸臣，並援《祖訓》「朝無正臣，内有奸惡，則親王訓兵待命，天子密詔諸王統領鎮兵討平之」。
He memorialized the throne, naming Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng as traitors and invoking the Ancestral Instructions: "When the court has no upright ministers and villains stir within, imperial princes are to ready their troops and await command, and the Son of Heaven will secretly order the princes to lead frontier forces and put the rebellion down."
癸丑，至大名，聞齊泰、黄子澄已罢，上書请召還吳杰、平安、盛庸兵。
On guichou he came to Daming. Learning that Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng had been removed from office, he memorialized the throne to recall the forces of Wu Jie, Ping An, and Sheng Yong.
大索齊泰、黄子澄、方孝孺等五十余人，榜其姓名曰奸臣。
He hunted Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, and more than fifty besides, and posted their names under the heading “treacherous ministers.”
丁丑，殺齊泰、黄子澄、方孝孺，並夷其族。
On dingchou he put Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, and Fang Xiaoru to death and extirpated their kin to the last degree.