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Overview The translated histories identify Wei Shang as an administrator, military officer, and official. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
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Wei Shang
魏尚
Wei Shang
Personal
Shang
尚
Personal
Wei Shang
魏尚
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Roles Administrator Military Officer Official Life and dates Attested activity Career and standing Label: governor of Yunzhong / 雲中守Action: held
Label: governor of Yunzhong / 雲中守Action: restored
Status: stripped of nobility and sentenced to laborAction: punished
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Book of Han, Chapter 59 Volume 50: Zhang, Feng, Ji and Zheng · 8 passages
釋之事景帝歲餘，為淮南相，猶尚以前過也。
After a little more than a year serving Jing, Shizhi was made chancellor of Huainan, still on account of the earlier offense.
文帝曰：「吾居代時，吾尚食監高祛數為我言趙將李齊之賢，戰於鉅鹿下。
Emperor Wen said, "In my days in Dai my palace provender Gao Qu used to praise Zhao's general Li Qi and his fighting below Julu.
唐對曰：「齊尚不如廉頗、李牧之為將也。」
Feng Tang answered, "Li Qi was no match, as a commander, for Lian Po or Li Mu."
今臣竊聞魏尚為雲中守，軍市租盡以給士卒，出私養錢，五日壹殺牛，以饗賓客軍吏舍人，是以匈奴遠避，不近雲中之塞。
I hear that Wei Shang, as governor of Yunzhong, poured every penny of the army-market revenue into his troops, dug into his own purse, and butchered a steer every five days for his staff—so the Xiongnu gave the Yunzhong walls a wide berth.
虜嘗一入，尚帥車騎擊之，所殺甚眾。
On the one raid they tried, Shang led chariots and cavalry against them and killed very many.
且雲中守尚坐上功首虜差六級，陛下下之吏，削其爵，罰作之。
Take Wei Shang: he overstated six heads in his battle report; you sent him to the judges, stripped his nobility, and set him to hard labor.
是日，令唐持節赦魏尚，復以為雲中守，而拜唐為車騎都尉，主中尉及郡國車士。
That very day he sent Feng Tang with the imperial baton to free Wei Shang and reinstate him at Yunzhong, while Feng Tang himself was made chief commandant of chariots and cavalry, overseeing the metropolitan commandant and mounted forces from the provinces and principalities.
魏尚，槐里人也。
Wei Shang was a native of Huaili.