Yang Sheng (羊勝) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Sheng as an assassin and courtier. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Sheng	羊勝	Yang Sheng
Given	Sheng	勝	Shèng
Personal name	Yang Sheng	羊勝	Yang Sheng
Personal	Yang Sheng	羊勝	Yáng Shèng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · shiji:108:s0036

Roles

Assassin
Courtier

Life and dates

Death

Manner: suicide / 自殺
Explicit · shiji:108:s0057

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 吳楚反時 · Western Year: BC 154
Explicit event contextual date · shiji:108:s0036, shiji:108:s0037
Source Date: Text: 梁孝王時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
Explicit · shiji:083:s0152, shiji:083:s0153

Events and relationships

Kind: assassination · Role: instigator · Action: ordered-assassination · Other Person Id: Yuan Ang (袁盎)
Explicit · shiji:108:s0036, shiji:108:s0037
Kind: political · Role: slanderer · Action: slandered · Other Person Id: Zou Yang (鄒陽) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 梁孝王時 · Western Interval: Start: BC 154 · End: BC 144
Explicit · shiji:083:s0153
Relation: associate-of · Person Id: Gongsun Gui (公孫詭)
Explicit · shiji:083:s0152

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 83Biographies of Lu Zhonglian and Zou Yang · 2 passages

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上書而介於羊勝、公孫詭之閒。 He submitted memorials and found himself drawn into the circle of Yang Sheng and Gongsun Gui.

勝等嫉鄒陽，惡之梁孝王。 Yang Sheng and his associates grew envious of Zou Yang and slandered him before King Xiao of Liang.

Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 108Biography of Han Changru · 7 passages

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公孫詭、羊勝說孝王求為帝太子及益地事，恐漢大臣不聽，乃陰使人刺漢用事謀臣。 Gongsun Gui and Yang Sheng persuaded King Xiao to seek designation as the Emperor's heir apparent and to petition for additional territory. Fearing that the great ministers of Han would not comply, they secretly sent assassins to murder the influential advisors at the Han court.

及殺故吳相袁盎，景帝遂聞詭、勝等計畫，乃遣使捕詭、勝，必得。 When they murdered Yuan Ang, the former Chancellor of Wu, Emperor Jing at last learned of the plots of Gongsun Gui and Yang Sheng. He dispatched envoys to arrest them, with orders that they must be captured.

內史安國聞詭、勝匿孝王所，安國入見王而泣曰：「主辱臣死。 Prefect Anguo learned that Gongsun Gui and Yang Sheng were hidden at King Xiao's residence. Anguo entered to see the king and wept, saying, "When the lord is disgraced, his minister must die.

今詭、勝不得，請辭賜死。」 Since Gui and Sheng cannot be captured, I ask to withdraw and receive death."

語未卒，孝王泣數行下，謝安國曰：「吾今出詭、勝。」 Before Anguo had finished speaking, King Xiao wept, tears streaming down several lines, and apologized to Anguo, saying, "I will now hand over Gui and Sheng."

詭、勝自殺。 Gongsun Gui and Yang Sheng took their own lives.

安國壁乃有七百餘人，出與戰，不勝，復入壁。 Anguo's fortress held only some seven hundred men. They sallied forth to fight but could not prevail, and retreated back behind the walls.