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Wang Chonggu was an official.
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History of Ming, Chapter 219Volume 219 Biographies 107: Zhang Siwei, Ma Ziqiang, Xu Guo, Zhao Zhigao, Zhang Wei, Zhu Geng · 2 passages
張四維，字子維，蒲州人．嘉靖三十二年進士．改庶吉士，授編修．隆慶初，進右中允，直經筵，尋遷左諭德．四維倜儻有才智，明習時事．楊博、王崇古久歷邊陲，善談兵．四維，博同里而崇古姊子也，以故亦習知邊務．高拱深器之．
Zhang Siwei, styled Ziwei, came from Puzhou. He passed the jinshi examination in the thirty-second year of the Jiajing reign, entered the Hanlin Academy as a bachelor, and was appointed compiler. At the start of the Longqing reign he rose to Right Middle Submitter and served at the Classics Lectern, then soon became Left Mentor. Siwei was bold and able, with a keen grasp of affairs of the day. Yang Bo and Wang Chonggu had long experience on the frontier and were adept at military discussion; Siwei was Bo's townsman and Chonggu's nephew by marriage, and so he too grew familiar with border affairs. Gao Gong held him in high regard.
拱掌吏部，超擢翰林學士．甫兩月，拜吏部右侍郎．俺答封貢議起，朝右持不決．四維為交關於拱，款事遂成．拱益才四維，四維亦干進不已，朝士頗有疾之者．御史郜永春視鹽河東，言鹽法之壞由勢要橫行，大商專利，指四維、崇古為勢要，四維父、崇古弟為大商．四維奏辨，因乞去．拱力護之，溫詔慰留焉．
When Gao Gong headed the Ministry of Personnel, he promoted Siwei straight to Hanlin Academician; within two months Siwei was made Right Vice Minister of Personnel. Debate over Altan's enfeoffment and tribute left the court divided, but Siwei acted as Gao's go-between and the peace settlement went through. Gao prized him all the more, while Siwei never stopped pressing for advancement, and many at court came to dislike him. Censor Gao Yongchun, inspecting the salt administration in Hedong, blamed the ruin of the salt laws on powerful men acting lawlessly and great merchants monopolizing profit; he named Siwei and Chonggu as the powerful men and Siwei's father and Chonggu's brother as the great merchants. Siwei memorialized in his defense and asked to leave office. Gao defended him vigorously, and a reassuring edict kept him in post.