Ming Hanrong (明漢榮)

Overview

Ming Hanrong was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 936 to AD 942 晉高祖時
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 36

Career and standing

Left Commandant of the Headquarters Guard 左都押衙
Held
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 36

Events and relationships

Had killed
Assassination · Instigator · With Pang Lingtu (龐令圖)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 41
Poisoned
Assassination · Poisoner · With Jia Renzhao (賈仁沼)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 41
Urged detention
Political · Counselor · With Li Jinquan (李金全)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 37
Relation Subordinate of · Person Li Jinquan (李金全)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 36

Assessments and attributes

Assessment wielded power unlawfully · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 48, passage 36

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 48Volume 48 Miscellaneous Biographies 28: Lu Wenjin, Li Jinquan, Yang Siquan, Yin Hui, Wang Hongzhi, Liu Shenjiao, Wang Zhou, Gao Xingzhou, Bai Zairong, An Shuqian · 4 passages

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金全左都押衙明漢榮用事，所為不法，高祖患之，不欲因漢榮以累功臣，為選廉吏賈仁沼代之，且召漢榮。 Jinquan’s Left Commandant Ming Hanrong held real power and broke the law. Gaozu resented it but would not ruin a meritorious man on Hanrong’s account; he chose the upright Jia Renzhao to replace him and summoned Hanrong as well.

漢榮教金全留己而不遣，金全客龐令圖諫曰：「仁沼昔事王晏球，晏球攻王都於中山，都遣善射者登城射晏球，中兜牟，仁沼從後引弓，射善射者，一發而斃，晏球求其人，欲厚賞之，仁沼退而不言，此天下之忠臣也。 Hanrong taught Jinquan to detain him and refuse the summons. Client Pang Lingtu urged: “Renzhao once served Wang Yanqiu. When Yanqiu besieged Wang Du at Zhongshan, Du put a crack bowman on the wall who struck Yanqiu’s helmet. Renzhao drew from behind, one arrow, and the bowman fell. Yanqiu hunted for the man to reward him; Renzhao stayed silent—that is loyalty under heaven.

宜納仁沼而遣漢榮。」 Take Renzhao in and send Hanrong off.”

漢榮聞之，夜使人殺令圖而冘仁沼，仁沼舌壞而死。 Hanrong heard, and that night had Lingtu killed and Renzhao poisoned; Renzhao’s tongue putrefied and he died.