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Xu Lingyan was an official.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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Right Assistant 右丞
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 87Volume 87 Biographies 12: Xiao, Fu, Shen, Li, Liang · 1 passage
聞越王侗立，乃上書稱大司馬、錄尚書事、天門公，承制置百官，以陳果仁為司徒，孫士漢司空，蔣元超尚書左仆射，殷芊左丞，徐令言右丞，劉子翼選部侍郎，李百藥為掾。
When he heard that Prince Yue Yang Tong had been set up at Luoyang, he sent a memorial styling himself grand marshal, recorder of the masters of writing, and Duke of Tianmen, and issued edicts appointing a full bureaucracy: Chen Guoren as minister of education, Sun Shihan as minister of works, Jiang Yuanchao as left vice-president of the masters of writing, Yin Qian as left assistant, Xu Lingyan as right assistant, Liu Ziyi as vice director of selections, and Li Baiyao as a secretarial officer.