Yang Xian (楊憲) | 24 Histories

Overview

Yang Xian was a Participating Secretary and Household Master Assistant.

Life and dates

Death

Died for misconduct · Cause misconduct 不良
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 323
Execution
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 129

Attested activity

AD 1368 to AD 1371 楊憲
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 127, passages 59, 125
AD 1368 洪武元年
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 115, passages 15, 20
AD 1368 洪武元年
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 323

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Career and standing

詹事丞
Concurrent
Directly stated · History of Ming 115, passage 20
中書參政
Held
Directly stated · History of Ming 115, passage 20
died for misconduct 以不良死
Died for misconduct · Died
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 323

Places and affiliations

AD 1368 洪武元年
Polity Ming 明 · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 323

Events and relationships

Relation Associate of · Person Xia Yu (夏煜)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 323
Relation Rival of · Person Wang Guangyang (汪廣洋)
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 126
Relation Tutor of · Person Zhu Biao (朱標)
Directly stated · History of Ming 115, passages 20-21

Assessments and attributes

Assessment made surveillance and persecution their business · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 323

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 323

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History of Ming, Chapter 115Volume 115 Biographies 3: Emperor Xingzong Xiaokang, Emperor Ruizong Xingxian · 1 passage

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於是左丞相李善長兼太子少師，右丞相徐達兼太子少傅，中書平章錄軍國重事常遇春兼太子少保，右都督馮宗異兼右詹事，中書平章政事胡廷端、廖永忠、李伯升兼同知詹事院事，中書左、右丞趙庸、王溥兼副詹事，中書參政楊憲兼詹事丞，傅瓛兼詹事，同知大都督康茂才、張興祖兼左右率府使，大都督府副使顧時、孫興祖同知左右率府事，僉大都督府事吳楨、耿炳文兼左右率府副使，御史大夫鄧愈、湯和兼諭德，御史中丞劉基、章溢兼贊善大夫，治書侍御史文原吉、范顯祖兼太子賓客。 Li Shanchang, left chancellor, became junior tutor; Xu Da, right chancellor, junior mentor; Chang Yuchun, associate director for military affairs, junior guardian; Feng Zongyi, right commissioner, right household master; Hu Tingduan, Liao Yongzhong, and Li Bosheng, associate directors, associate household masters; Zhao Yong and Wang Pu, vice directors, deputy household masters; Yang Xian, participating secretary, household master assistant; Fu Rong, household master; Kang Maocai and Zhang Xingzu, associate capital commissioners, left and right rate-office commandants; Gu Shi and Sun Xingzu, deputy commissioners, associate commandants; Wu Zhen and Geng Bingwen, commissioners, deputy commandants; Deng Yu and Tang He, censors-in-chief, preceptors; Liu Ji and Zhang Yi, vice censors-in-chief, senior companions; Wen Yuanji and Fan Xianzu, investigating secretaries, crown prince's guests.

History of Ming, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 15: Li Shanzhang, Wang Guangyang · 6 passages

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太祖所任張昶、楊憲、汪廣洋、胡惟庸皆獲罪，善長事寄如故。 Zhang Chang, Yang Xian, Wang Guangyang, and Hu Weiyong, whom the throne had raised, all fell for crime, yet Shanzhang's trust held.

時右丞楊憲專決事。 Right Vice Director Yang Xian then monopolized affairs.

廣洋依違之，猶為所忌，嗾御史劾廣洋奉母無狀。 Guangyang temporized and was still resented; Yang Xian set censors to accuse him of failing in filial duty toward his mother.

憲再奏，徙海南。 Yang Xian memorialized again and he was exiled to Hainan.

憲誅，召還。 After Yang Xian was executed, Guangyang was recalled.

舟次太平，帝追怒其在江西曲庇文正，在中書不發楊憲奸，賜敕誅之。 At Taiping the Emperor's anger flared anew over his shielding of Wen Zheng in Jiangxi and his failure to expose Yang Xian at the Secretariat, and an edict ordered his death.

History of Ming, Chapter 135Volume 135 Biographies 23: Chen Yu, Ye Dui, Fan Chang, Song Siyan, Guo Jingxiang, Yang Yuangao, Ruan Hongdao, Kong Keren · 1 passage

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洪武元年使總制浙東諸府，與高見賢、楊憲、凌說四人以伺察搏擊為事，後俱以不良死。 In Hongwu 1 he was sent to oversee the prefectures of eastern Zhe; together with Gao Jianxian, Yang Xian, and Ling Shuo, the four devoted themselves to surveillance and persecution, and later all died for misconduct.