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Wang Hong was an official.
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 134Volume 134 Biographies 59: Yuwen, Wei, Yang, Wang · 7 passages
有詔訊鞫，林甫使楊慎矜、楊國忠、王鉷、吉溫等文致其獄，帝惑之，貶堅縉雲太守，惟明播川太守，籍其家。
The emperor ordered an investigation. Li Linfu set Yang Shenjin, Yang Guozhong, Wang Hong, Ji Wen, and others to fabricate the case. Misled, the emperor demoted Wei Jian to prefect of Jinyun and Huangfu Weiming to prefect of Bochuan, and had their families' property seized.
會慎矜擢戶部侍郎，仍兼中丞，林甫疾其得君，且逼己，乃與鉷謀陷之。
When Shenjin was promoted to vice minister of revenue while retaining the censor-in-chief post, Li Linfu resented his closeness to the emperor and the threat he posed, and conspired with Wang Hong to destroy him.
王鉷，中書舍人晉側出子也。
Wang Hong was an illegitimate son of Secretariat drafter Wang Jin.
林甫方興大獄，撼東宮，誅不附己者，以鉷險刻，可動以利，故倚之，使鷙擊狼噬。
Li Linfu was then launching major prosecutions, undermining the crown prince, and destroying those who would not join him. Wang Hong was ruthless and could be bought, so Linfu relied on him as a weapon — set loose to strike and tear.
鉷所摧陷，多抵不道。
Most of those Wang Hong destroyed were charged with capital crimes.
故鉷迎帝旨，歲進錢鉅億萬，儲禁中，以為歲租外物，供天子私帑。
Wang Hong therefore catered to the emperor's wishes, each year presenting hundreds of millions in coin, stored within the palace as revenue beyond the annual rent, to fill the emperor's private purse.
於是韋堅、楊慎矜、王鉷、楊國忠各以裒刻進，剝下益上，歲進羨緡百億萬為天子私藏，以濟橫賜，而天下經費自如，帝以為能，故重官累使，尊顯烜赫。
Then Wei Jian, Yang Shenjin, Wang Hong, and Yang Guozhong each rose by ruthless extraction, squeezing the people to enrich the throne. Each year they forwarded tens of billions in surplus coin into the emperor's private hoard to fund lavish gifts, while ordinary state expenses seemed untouched. The emperor took this for competence and heaped offices and commissioner posts on them until they blazed with rank and power.