Wang Guoyong (王國用)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Guoyong as an official. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Guoyong	王國用	Wáng Guóyòng
Title	Director of the Yu Bureau	虞部郎中
Personal name	Wang Guoyong	王國用

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:127:s0101

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 善長死之明年 · Western Year: AD 1391
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:127:s0101

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Ming Taizu (太祖)
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0101, mingshi:127:s0102, mingshi:127:s0103, mingshi:127:s0104, mingshi:127:s0105, mingshi:127:s0106, mingshi:127:s0107, mingshi:127:s0108, mingshi:127:s0109, mingshi:127:s0110, mingshi:127:s0111, mingshi:127:s0112, mingshi:127:s0113

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: defended-li-shanzhang-posthumously · Other Person Id: Li Shanchang (李善長)
Explicit · mingshi:127:s0101, mingshi:127:s0114

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 15: Li Shanzhang, Wang Guangyang · 1 passage

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善長死之明年，虞部郎中王國用上言：「善長與陛下同心，出萬死以取天下，勳臣第一，生封公，死封王，男尚公主，親戚拜官，人臣之分極矣。 In the year after Shanzhang died, Wang Guoyong, director in the Yu Bureau, submitted a memorial: "Shanzhang stood with Your Majesty in one purpose, risked death again and again to win the empire, and stood first among the founding ministers—duke in life, king in death, a son married to a princess, kinsmen raised to office. No subject could ask for more.