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Xue Kuang was an official.
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- gentleman of the right bureau 右曹侍郎
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Book of Han, Chapter 94Volume 83: Xue Xuan and Zhu Bo · 14 passages
事下有司，御史中丞眾等奏：「況朝臣，父故宰相，再封列侯，不相敕丞化，而骨肉相疑，疑咸受修言以謗毀宣。
The case went to the regular judiciary. Vice-Imperial Secretary Zhong and colleagues memorialized: "Xue Kuang is a court official whose father was twice a chancellor and a marquis, yet instead of setting a moral example he let kin turn on kin; Shen Xian is thought to have taken Xue Xiu's stories and used them to defame Xue Xuan.
況知咸給事中，恐為司隸舉奏宣，而公令明等迫切宮闕，要遮創戮近臣於大道人眾中，欲以隔塞聰明，杜絕論議之端。
Kuang knew Shen Xian served in palace attendance and feared he would impeach Xue Xuan once metropolitan superintendent; he therefore sent Ming and others to crowd the palace approaches, waylay a senior minister in broad daylight in a public street, hoping to deafen the throne to criticism.
《春秋》之義，意惡功遂，不免於誅，上浸之源不可長也，況首為惡，明手傷，功意俱惡，皆大不敬。
The Spring and Autumn Annals condemn evil intent even when the crime "succeeds"; the first trickle of contempt for authority must not be tolerated—especially when the blow is premeditated, delivered with the fist, and both motive and act are outrageous.
明當以重論，及況皆棄市。」
Ming deserves the full penalty; Kuang and his accomplices should die in the public square."
況以故傷咸，計謀已定，後聞置司隸，因前謀而趣明，非以恐咸為司隸故造謀也。
Kuang struck Shen Xian over an old feud; the ambush was already planned before a metropolitan superintendent was named, and Ming merely carried it out—Kuang did not hatch the scheme only because he feared Shen Xian's new appointment.
今以況為首惡，明手傷為大不敬，公私無差。
To brand Kuang as the arch-villain and Ming's punch as "great irreverence" collapses public crime with private brawling.
原況以父見謗發忿怒，無它大惡。
Kuang acted from rage at slander against his father; there was no deeper treason.
明當以賊傷人不直，況與謀者皆爵減完為城旦。」
Ming should answer for malicious battery; Kuang and his fellow plotters should lose one noble rank and serve wall-dawn labor at intact status."
況竟減罪一等，徙敦煌。
Kuang's sentence was commuted one step and he was exiled to Dunhuang.
宣子況為右曹侍郎，數聞其語，賕客楊明，欲令創咸面目，使不居位。
Xue Xuan's son Kuang served as gentleman of the right bureau. Hearing Shen Xian's talk again and again, he bribed retainer Yang Ming to maim Shen Xian's face and drive him from office.
會司隸缺，況恐咸為之，遂令明遮斫咸宮門外，斷鼻脣，身八創。
When the metropolitan superintendency fell vacant, Kuang feared Shen Xian would be appointed. He sent Ming to ambush and hack Shen Xian outside the palace gate, cutting his nose and lips and leaving eight wounds on his body.
況私從敦煌歸長安，會赦，因留與主私亂。
Xue Kuang slipped back from Dunhuang to Chang'an during a general amnesty and began a clandestine affair with the princess.
而況與呂寬相善，及寬事覺時，莽並治況，發揚其罪，使使者以太皇太后詔賜主藥。
Kuang was close to Lü Kuan; when Lü's plot came to light, Wang Mang prosecuted Kuang, publicized his guilt, and sent agents with an edict from the grand empress dowager ordering the princess to take poison.
況梟首於市。
Xue Kuang's head was hung in the marketplace.