Wang Pu (王溥) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Pu as an administrator and official. This record brings together 5 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Pu	王溥	Wang Pu
Personal name	Wang Pu	王溥	Wang Pu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · mingshi:140:s0089

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · mingshi:140:s0097

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 洪武元年 · Western Year: AD 1368
Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:115:s0020, mingshi:115:s0015
Source Date: Text: 洪武末 · Western Year: AD 1398
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0090

Family

Sibling of Younger brother of Wang Pu (王溥之弟)
Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

Label: 副詹事 · Action: concurrent
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020
Label: administrative commissioner of Guangdong / 廣東參政 · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0090
Label: 中書右丞 · Action: held
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020
Status: imprisonment · Action: imprisoned · Label: imperial prison / 詔獄
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0096

Places and affiliations

Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: served
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0090
Place: Guilin / 桂林
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0089

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0092

Events and relationships

Kind: infrastructure · Role: organizer · Action: improved-overland-grain-transport
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0093
Relation: tutor-of · Person Id: Zhu Biao (朱標)
Explicit · mingshi:115:s0020, mingshi:115:s0021

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: famed for integrity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · mingshi:140:s0090

References in the histories

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History of Ming, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 3: Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, Emperor Ruizong Xingxian · 1 passage

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於是左丞相李善長兼太子少師，右丞相徐達兼太子少傅，中書平章錄軍國重事常遇春兼太子少保，右都督馮宗異兼右詹事，中書平章政事胡廷端、廖永忠、李伯升兼同知詹事院事，中書左、右丞趙庸、王溥兼副詹事，中書參政楊憲兼詹事丞，傅瓛兼詹事，同知大都督康茂才、張興祖兼左右率府使，大都督府副使顧時、孫興祖同知左右率府事，僉大都督府事吳楨、耿炳文兼左右率府副使，御史大夫鄧愈、湯和兼諭德，御史中丞劉基、章溢兼贊善大夫，治書侍御史文原吉、范顯祖兼太子賓客。 Li Shanchang, left chancellor, became junior tutor; Xu Da, right chancellor, junior mentor; Chang Yuchun, associate director for military affairs, junior guardian; Feng Zongyi, right commissioner, right household master; Hu Tingduan, Liao Yongzhong, and Li Bosheng, associate directors, associate household masters; Zhao Yong and Wang Pu, vice directors, deputy household masters; Yang Xian, participating secretary, household master assistant; Fu Rong, household master; Kang Maocai and Zhang Xingzu, associate capital commissioners, left and right rate-office commandants; Gu Shi and Sun Xingzu, deputy commissioners, associate commandants; Wu Zhen and Geng Bingwen, commissioners, deputy commandants; Deng Yu and Tang He, censors-in-chief, preceptors; Liu Ji and Zhang Yi, vice censors-in-chief, senior companions; Wen Yuanji and Fan Xianzu, investigating secretaries, crown prince's guests.

History of Ming, Chapter 140Volume 140 Biographies 28: Wei Guan, Tao Houzhong, Liu Shihuan, Wang Zongxian, Lu Wensui, Wang Guan, Dao Tong, Lu Xi, Qing Wensheng · 4 passages

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〈（王溥徐均）〉 (Wang Pu and Xu Jun appended)

後有王溥者，桂林人。 Later there was Wang Pu, who came from Guilin.

溥命還之，曰：「一衣雖微，不可不慎，此汙行辱身之漸也。」 Pu ordered it returned, saying, "A single garment may seem trifling, but one must be careful—this is how tainted conduct and personal disgrace begin."

糧運由海道多漂沒，溥至庾嶺，相度形勢，命有司鑿石填塹，修治橋梁，易以車運。 Grain shipments by sea were often lost at sea. When Pu reached Dayu Ridge, he surveyed the terrain and ordered officials to cut stone, fill gullies, repair bridges, and switch to overland cart transport.