Sui and Tang · Official and General

Wang Zhongsheng 王仲昇

Attested AD 762 - AD 762

Passages: 5
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Zhongsheng was an official and General.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 762 上元三年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 110-111
AD 762 八月
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 138

Career and standing

Huai-Xi military governor 淮西節度
AD 762 上元三年 · Held
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 111
Captured
AD 762 上元三年 · Captivity
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passages 111, 113

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 110

Events and relationships

Fought and was captured
AD 762 上元三年 · Military · Commander · With Xie Qinrang (謝欽讓) · At Shenzhou 申州
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 111
Testified against Zhen
AD 762 八月 · Legal · Witness · With Lai Zhen (來瑱)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 114, passage 138

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 114Volume 110 Biographies 60: Li Guangbi, Wang Sili, Deng Jingshan, Xin Yunjing · 5 passages

後呂諲、王仲昇及中官皆言瑱布恩惠，懼其得士心，以瑱為鄧州刺史，充山南東道襄、鄧、唐、復、郢、隨等六州節度，余並如故。 Later Lü Shen, Wang Zhongsheng, and the eunuchs said Zhen was buying loyalty and might win the army's devotion. He was shifted to Dengzhou and given six prefectures; other titles stood.

俄而淮西節度王仲昇與賊將謝欽讓戰於申州城下，為賊所虜。 Soon Huai-Xi governor Wang Zhongsheng fought rebel general Xie Qinrang below Shenzhou and was taken prisoner.

初，仲昇被圍累月，呂諲病於江陵，瑱在襄州，又恐仲昇構己，遂顧望不救。 Zhongsheng had been besieged for months. Lü Shen lay ill at Jiangling; Zhen at Xiangzhou feared a plot against himself and held back from relief.

及師出，仲昇已沒。 When the troops finally marched, Zhongsheng had already fallen into rebel hands.

時中官驃騎大將軍程元振居中用事，發瑱言涉不順，王仲昇賊平來歸，證瑱與賊合，故令仲昇陷賊三年。 The eunuch Cheng Yuanzhen then dominated the court. He claimed that Zhen's words smacked of treason; after the rebels were pacified, Wang Zhongsheng returned and testified that Zhen had colluded with them and had deliberately left him in rebel hands for three years.