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Overview The translated histories identify Yang Zhan as an official. This record brings together 4 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
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Yang Zhan
楊湛
Yang Zhan
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Book of Han, Chapter 94 Volume 83: Xue Xuan and Zhu Bo · 4 passages
始高陵令楊湛、櫟陽令謝游皆貪猾不遜，持郡短長，前二千石數案不能竟。
Magistrate Yang Zhan of Gaoling and Magistrate Xie You of Liyang had long been corrupt, slippery, and defiant; they had leverage over the commandery, and successive governors had tried and failed to bring them down.
宣察湛有改節敬宣之效，乃手自牒書，條其奸臧，封與湛曰：「吏民條言君如牒，或議以為疑於主守盜。
Seeing that Yang Zhan might yet reform and defer to him, Xue Xuan drew up a private memorandum detailing his corruption, sealed it, and handed it over with the message: "Petitions from clerks and people match this list; some advisers think the sums approach the crime of a custodial official stealing state property.
湛自知罪臧皆應記，而宣辭語溫潤，無傷害意。
Yang Zhan knew every charge was true, yet the tone stayed gentle, without malice.
湛即時解印綬付吏，為記謝宣，終無怨言。
He surrendered his seal at once, sent a courteous note of thanks, and never spoke a word of bitterness.