Wu Youwen (吳友文) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Youwen as a named individual. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wu Youwen	吳友文	Wú Yǒuwén
Given	Youwen	友文	Yǒuwén

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · yuanshi:192:s0074

Roles

Named Individual

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至治二年 · Western Year: AD 1322
Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:192:s0074, yuanshi:192:s0073

Family

Kinship Role: concubines · Count: 11
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0075

Career and standing

Status: arrested-and-punished · Action: sentenced · Authority Person Id: Lin Xingzu (林興祖)
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0080, yuanshi:192:s0081

Events and relationships

Kind: criminal · Role: ringleader · Action: counterfeited-paper-money
Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0074, yuanshi:192:s0075

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 192Volume 192 Biographies 79: Virtuous Officials 2 · 4 passages

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鉛山素多造偽鈔者，豪民吳友文為之魁，遠至江淮、燕薊，莫不行使。 Qianshan had long been notorious for counterfeit paper money; a powerful local named Wu Youwen led the ring, and his notes circulated as far as the Jiang-Huai region and the Yan-Ji area.

友文姦黠悍鷙，因偽造致富，乃分遣惡少四五十人，為吏於有司，伺有欲告之者，輒先事戕之，前後殺人甚眾，奪人妻女十一人為妾，民罹其害，銜冤不敢訴者十餘年。 Youwen was cunning, fierce, and ruthless; enriched by counterfeiting, he placed forty or fifty ruffians as clerks in government offices to watch for accusers and kill them first; they murdered countless people and he seized eleven women as concubines; for more than ten years the people suffered under him, yet those who had grievances dared not bring suit.

友文自至官，為之營救，興祖命並執之。 Youwen came in person to the yamen to arrange their release; Xingzu ordered him arrested as well.

須臾，來訴友文者百餘人，擇其重罪一二事鞫之，獄立具，逮捕其黨二百餘人，悉置之法。 Within moments more than a hundred people came forward to accuse Youwen; he tried one or two of the gravest charges, the case was swiftly concluded, more than two hundred accomplices were arrested, and all were punished according to law.