Wang Chongshi (王重師)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Chongshi as a general and military officer. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Chongshi	王重師	Wang Chongshi
Personal name	Wang Chongshi	王重師	Wang Chongshi
Personal name	Wang Zhongshi	王重師	Wang Zhongshi

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · jiuwudaishi:020:s0060, xinwudaishi:044:s0011
Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0063

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: executed · Negated: false
Explicit · xinwudaishi:044:s0011

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 开平三年五月己卯 · Western Year: AD 909
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:002:s0063
Source Date: Text: 無罪見殺 · Western Interval: Start: AD 907 · End: AD 912
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:044:s0011
Source Date: Text: 開平四年 · Western Year: AD 910
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0060, jiuwudaishi:020:s0063

Career and standing

Label: military governor of Youguo / 佑国军节度使 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0063
Status: executed · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Zhu Quanzhong (朱全忠)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:002:s0063, xinwudaishi:044:s0011, xinwudaishi:044:s0018

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20 Book of Later Liang 20: Biographies 10: Xie Tong, Si Maye, Liu Han, Wang Jinrao, Gao Shao, Ma Sixun, Zhang Cunjin, Kou Yanqing · 1 passage

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及從駕幸河中，詔追王重師赴行在，以捍為雍州節度觀察留後。 When the court moved to Hezhong, Wang Chongshi was recalled and Han was made acting military and surveillance commissioner of Yongzhou.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 2Volume 2 Later Liang Annals 2: Taizu 2 · 1 passage

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五月己卯，至自河中，杀佑国军节度使王重师。 In the fifth month, on the day jimao, he returned from Hezhong and had Wang Chongshi, military governor of Youguo, executed.

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Miscellaneous Biographies 24: Liu Zhijun, Ding Hui, He Delun, Yan Bao, Kang Yanxiao · 3 passages

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知俊功益高，太祖性多猜忌，屢殺諸將，王重師無罪見殺，知俊益懼，不自安。 Zhijun’s fame rose—and so did Zhu Wen’s suspicion. Generals died one after another; Wang Zhongshi was killed though innocent. Zhijun grew afraid and could not rest easy.

知俊報曰：「王重師不負陛下而族滅，臣非背德，但畏死爾！」 Zhijun answered: “Wang Zhongshi was loyal and his house was wiped out. I am not faithless—I am afraid to die!”

太祖復使語曰：「朕固知卿以此，吾誅重師，乃劉捍誤我，致卿至此，吾豈不恨之邪？ Zhu Wen sent word again: “I knew why you fled. I killed Zhongshi because Liu Han misled me and drove you away—do you think I do not regret it?