Overview
Xue Wenjie was a Revenue Commissioner of Min.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Death
AD 933 to AD 934 是歲
Dismembered by soldiers
Attested activity
Career and standing
prosecutor of Wu Ying 劾英
Assigned
Learning and skills
- Skill divination 數術 · Level practiced
Works and attributed material
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68: Hereditary House of Min · 9 passages
文傑與內樞密使吳英有隙，英病在告，文傑謂英曰：「上以公居近密，而屢以疾告，將罷公。」
Wenjie bore a grudge against the Inner Palace Military Affairs Commissioner Wu Ying. While Ying was on sick leave Wenjie told him, "The emperor thinks that because you hold a post at court you ought not keep pleading illness. He means to remove you."
文傑因教英曰：「即上遣人問公疾，當言『頭痛而已，無他苦也。』」
Wenjie coached him: "When the emperor sends someone to ask after your health, say only, 'A headache—nothing more serious than that.'"
鏻以語文傑，文傑曰：「未可信也，宜問其疾如何。」
Lin told Wenjie what the sorcerer had said. Wenjie replied, "That alone proves nothing. Ask what his illness actually is."
鏻以為然，即以英下獄，命文傑劾之，英自誣伏，見殺。
Lin took this as confirmation, threw Ying into prison, and ordered Wenjie to prosecute him. Ying confessed to the fabricated charge and was executed.
是歲，吳人攻建州，鏻遣其將王延宗救之，兵士在道不肯進，曰：「得文傑乃進。」
That year the Wu attacked Jianzhou. Lin sent his general Wang Yancong to relieve the city, but the troops on the march refused to go forward, crying, "Hand over Wenjie, then we march!"
鏻惜之不與，其子繼鵬請與之以紓難，乃以檻車送文傑軍中。
Lin was loath to surrender him. His son Jipeng urged that Wenjie be given up to avert disaster, and Wenjie was sent to the army in a prison cart.
文傑善數術，自占云：「過三日可無患。」
Wenjie was skilled in divination and cast his own fortune, saying, "In three days I shall be safe."
送者聞之，疾馳二日而至，軍士踴躍，磔文傑於市，閩人爭以瓦石投之，臠食立盡。
Hearing this, the escorts spurred their horses and reached the army in two days instead of three. The soldiers erupted in joy, dismembered Wenjie in the marketplace, and the people of Min pelted his body with tiles and stones until every scrap of flesh was gone.
初，文傑為鏻造檻車，以謂古制疏闊，乃更其制，令上下通，中以鐵芒內向，動輒觸之，既成，首被其毒。
Wenjie had once designed a prison cart for Lin, finding the old model too loose. He redesigned it with open top and bottom and inward-pointing iron spikes so that any movement drew blood. When it was finished he became its first victim.