Sui and Tang · Official

Wang Hong 王銘

Attested AD 713 - AD 756

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Hong was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 713 to AD 756 開元
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 134, passage 241

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 232

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 134Volume 134 Biographies 59: Yuwen, Wei, Yang, Wang · 4 passages

初，鉷附楊慎矜以貴，已而佐林甫陷慎矜，覆其家。 At first Wang Hong had climbed to power by attaching himself to Yang Shenjin; later he helped Li Linfu destroy Shenjin and wipe out his family.

凡五年，而鉷亦族矣。 Within five years Hong's entire clan was destroyed as well.

至鉷得罪，方為閑廄判官，妄曰：「大夫以牒索馬五百，我不與。」 When Hong fell from power, Xuan was serving as case officer of the privy stables and falsely claimed: "The chief censor sent a document demanding five hundred horses, and I refused."

鉷、國忠後出，橫虐最甚，當方毒，天下復思融雲。 Hong and Guozhong came later and their oppression was worst of all; when their cruelty peaked, the whole realm again looked back with longing to Yuwen Rong.