Sui and Tang · Official

Yang Shenjin 楊慎矜

Attested AD 740 - AD 746

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Yang Shenjin was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 740 to AD 746 開元天寶
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 73

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Son of Yang Shenjin
father 父
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 134, passage 73

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 134Volume 134 Biographies 59: Yuwen, Wei, Yang, Wang · 2 passages

見宇文融、楊慎矜父子以聚斂進，乃運江、淮租賦，所在置吏督察，以佐國稟，歲終增鉅萬。 Observing how Yuwen Rong and Yang Shenjin and his son had risen through fiscal exploitation, he took charge of transporting rent and tax goods from the Jiang and Huai regions, posting supervisory officials along the route to bolster the state's grain supply. By year's end revenues had swelled by tens of thousands.

於是韋堅、楊慎矜、王鉷、楊國忠各以裒刻進，剝下益上，歲進羨緡百億萬為天子私藏，以濟橫賜，而天下經費自如，帝以為能，故重官累使，尊顯烜赫。 Then Wei Jian, Yang Shenjin, Wang Hong, and Yang Guozhong each rose by ruthless extraction, squeezing the people to enrich the throne. Each year they forwarded tens of billions in surplus coin into the emperor's private hoard to fund lavish gifts, while ordinary state expenses seemed untouched. The emperor took this for competence and heaped offices and commissioner posts on them until they blazed with rank and power.