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Overview The translated histories identify Xiao Yu as an official. This record brings together 22 passages from 5 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names Type English Chinese Pinyin
Personal
Xiao Yu
蕭育
Xiao Yu
Courtesy
Cijun
次君
Cijun
Surname
Xiao
蕭
Xiao
Personal name
Xiao Yu
蕭育
Xiao Yu
Given
Yu
育
Yu
Identity
Historicity Historical
Identification Named
Sex Male Life and dates Attested activity Works and attributed material Events and relationships Relation: former-friend-of ·
Person Id: Zhu Bo (朱博) ·
Relationship State: endedReferences in the histories Open any source group to read the Chinese and English passage in context.
Book of Han, Chapter 88 Volume 77: Gai, Zhuge, Liu, Zheng, Sun, Wujiang and He · 2 passages
Book of Han, Chapter 89 Volume 78: Xiao Wangzhi · 16 passages
望之八子，至大官者育、咸、由。
Of his eight sons, Yu, Xian, and You rose highest.
育字次君，少以父任為太子庶子。
Yu, courtesy name Cijun, entered service young as palace attendant to the crown prince through his father's influence.
大將軍王鳳以育名父子，著材能，除為功曹，遷謁者，使匈奴副校尉。
Grand General Wang Feng, noting the fame of father and son and Yu's proven ability, made him merit officer, then usher, then deputy colonel on a Xiongnu mission.
後為茂陵令，會課，育第六。
He later became magistrate of Maoling; at the annual review he ranked sixth.
而漆令郭舜殿，見責問，育為之請，扶風怒曰：「君課第六，裁自脫，何暇欲為左右言？」
Magistrate Guo Shun of Qi ranked last and was rebuked; Yu pleaded for him. The governor of Fufeng snapped, "You ranked sixth yourself and barely escaped censure—what business have you speaking for others?"
育徑出曹，書佐隨牽育，育案佩刀曰：「蕭育杜陵男子，何詣曹也！」
Yu walked straight out; a clerk grabbed him, and Yu gripped his sword and cried, "I am Xiao Yu of Duling—why should I go to the bureau!"
育過扶風府門，官屬掾史數百人拜謁車下。
As he passed the Fufeng government gate, hundreds of officials bowed beneath his carriage.
以鄠名賊梁子政阻山為害，久不伏辜，育為右扶風數月，盡誅子政等。
When the notorious bandit Liang Zizheng of Hu had long defied the law from the hills, Yu as governor of Right Fufeng exterminated him and his band within months.
哀帝時，南郡江中多盜賊，拜育為南郡太守。
Under Emperor Ai the middle Yangtze swarmed with pirates, and Yu was named governor of Nan commandery.
上以育耆舊名臣，乃以三公使車載育入殿中受策，曰：「南郡盜賊群輩為害，朕甚憂之。
Treating him as a senior statesman, the emperor sent a ducal carriage to fetch him into the hall and said, "The river bandits plague Nan commandery, and the matter weighs on Us.
育至南郡，盜賊靜。
When Yu entered Nan commandery, the bandits subsided.
育為人嚴猛尚威，居官數免，稀遷。
Yu was harsh, fond of intimidation, often cashiered, seldom promoted.
始育與陳咸俱以公卿子顯名，咸最先進，年十八，為左曹，二十餘，御史中丞。
Yu and Chen Xian, both sons of the elite, rose early—Xian at eighteen was a left aide and in his twenties palace secretary.
時，朱博尚為杜陵亭長，為咸、育所攀援，入王氏。
Zhu Bo was still a Duling precinct chief when Xian and Yu pulled him into the Wang faction.
後遂並歷刺史、郡守相，及為九卿，而博先至將軍上卿，歷位多於咸、育，遂至丞相。
All three later governed provinces and sat among the nine ministers; Bo climbed first to general and senior minister, outstripped the other two in offices, and ended as chancellor.
育與博後有隙，不能終，故世以交為難。
Yu and Bo later split, which is why men say friendship at the top is perilous.
Book of Han, Chapter 90 Volume 79: Feng Fengshi · 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 94 Volume 83: Xue Xuan and Zhu Bo · 2 passages
Book of Liang, Chapter 14 Volume 14: Jiang Yan; Ren Fang · 1 passage