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Yang Shenjin was an official.
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 134Volume 134 Biographies 59: Yuwen, Wei, Yang, Wang · 17 passages
明年，慎矜父冢草木皆流血，懼，以問所善胡人史敬忠。
The following year, plants and trees at Shenjin's father's tomb seemed to bleed. Alarmed, he consulted the foreigner Shi Jingzhong, a man he trusted.
又言天下且亂，勸慎矜居臨汝，置田為後計。
He also declared that the realm would soon be thrown into chaos and urged Shenjin to retire to Linru and buy land against the days ahead.
慎矜從之。
Shenjin took his advice.
帝常問所從來，婢奏為慎矜家所賣。
When the emperor asked where she came from, the maid said she had been sold by Shenjin's household.
婢具言敬忠夜過慎矜，坐廷中，步星變，夜分乃去；
The maid described how Jingzhong had visited Shenjin at night, sat in the courtyard performing star-walking rites, and did not leave until midnight;
始，慎矜奪鉷職田，辱詬其母，又嘗私語讖書，鉷銜之，未有發也。
Shenjin had long ago seized Hong's official fields and publicly insulted his mother; he had also privately discussed prophetic texts. Hong had brooded on these grievances but found no opening — until now.
異時奏事，數稱引慎矜，帝悖然曰：「爾親邪，毋相往來！」
On another occasion, while reporting to the throne, Hong repeatedly praised Shenjin. The emperor snapped, "Are you his kinsman? Stay away from him!"
鉷知帝惡甚，後見慎矜，輒慢侮不為禮，慎矜怒。
Hong knew how deep the emperor's hatred ran. Thereafter he treated Shenjin with open contempt whenever they met, and Shenjin was furious.
鉷乃與林甫作飛牒，告慎矜本隋後，蓄讖緯妖言，與妄人交，規復隋室。
Hong then conspired with Li Linfu to draft a secret denunciation, charging that Shenjin was a Sui descendant who hoarded prophetic texts, consorted with charlatans, and plotted to restore the Sui dynasty.
帝方在華清宮，聞之震怒，收慎矜尚書省，詔刑部尚書蕭炅、大理卿李道邃、殿中侍御史盧鉉、楊國忠雜訊。
The emperor was then at Huaqing Palace. Enraged, he had Shenjin arrested at the Ministry of Revenue and ordered Minister of Justice Xiao Jiong, chief judge Li Daosui, palace censor Lu Xuan, and Yang Guozhong to conduct a joint interrogation.
捕太府少卿張瑄致會昌傳舍，劾瑄與慎矜共解圖讖，搒掠不服。
They arrested Vice Minister of the Palace Storehouse Zhang Xuan and brought him to the Huichang post station, charging that he and Shenjin had together decoded prophetic charts. Under torture he refused to confess.
鉉遣御史崔器索讖書，於慎矜小妻臥內得之，詬曰：「逆賊所寘固密，今得矣！」
Lu Xuan sent censor Cui Qi to search for the prophetic texts and found them in the bedchamber of Shenjin's younger wife. Cui Qi exclaimed, "The rebel hid them well enough — but we have them now!"
以示慎矜，慎矜曰：「它日無是，今得之，吾死，命矣夫！」
When the books were shown to Shenjin, he said, "These did not exist before. Now that they have been 'found,' my death is sealed."
溫又誘敬忠首服詰言，慎矜不能對。
Ji Wen then coerced Jingzhong into confessing and testifying against him, and Shenjin had no answer.
有詔杖敬忠，賜慎矜、瑄死，籍其家，子女悉置嶺南。
An edict ordered Jingzhong beaten, condemned Shenjin and Zhang Xuan to death, confiscated their families' property, and sent all their children to Lingnan.
慎矜兄弟友愛，事姊如母，儀幹皆秀偉，愛賓客，標置不凡，著稱於時。
The brothers were devoted to one another and treated their elder sister as a mother. All were tall and striking in appearance, loved to entertain guests, and carried themselves with uncommon distinction — they were celebrated figures of their age.
寶應初，慎矜、王琚、韋堅皆復官爵。
In the early Baoying reign, the court posthumously restored the offices and titles of Shenjin, Wang Ju, and Wei Jian.