Yang Zhicheng (楊志誠)

Overview

Yang Zhicheng was a Military Officer and Warlord.

Life and dates

Death

Killed · At Shangzhou 商州
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 89

Attested activity

AD 833 太和七年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 78
AD 831 太和五年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 34, 58
AD 834 太和八年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 86

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Wife of Yang Zhicheng
wife 妻
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 56

Kinship Role children · Quantity plural-unspecified · 孥 — children killed with wife
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 56

Career and standing

acting administrator and Left Regular Attendant 節度觀察留後、檢校左散騎常侍
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 76
acting Minister of Works and vice military governor 檢校工部尚書、節度副大使
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 77
Right Vice Director 尚書右僕射
Appointed
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 85
deputy commander of the Youzhou rear guard 幽州後院副兵馬使
AD 831 太和五年 · Held
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 58
overall commander of cavalry and infantry 馬步都知兵馬使
Seized
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 61
acting Minister of Personnel 檢校吏部尚書
AD 833 太和七年 · Transferred
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 78

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banishment to Lingnan 流嶺南
Suffered
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 88

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 76
At Youzhou 幽州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 58

Events and relationships

Detained imperial envoys
Political · Detainer · With Wei Baoyi (魏寶義)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 82-83
Driven out
AD 834 太和八年 · Political · Victim · With Shi Yuanzhong (史元忠)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 86
Drove out Li Zaiyi
AD 831 太和五年春 · Political · Mutineer · With Li Zaiyi (李載義)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 34, 60-61
Relation Subordinate of · Person Li Zaiyi (李載義)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passages 34, 58

Assessments and attributes

Item dragon robes and embroidered regalia 袞龍衣 · Relation Made
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 180, passage 87

References in the histories

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History

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 180Volume 176 Biographies 126: Li Zongmin, Yang Sifu, Yang Yuqing, Ma Zhi, Li Rangyi, Weipi, Zhou Chi, Cui Guicong, Zhengsu, Lu Shang · 15 passages

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五年春，為其部下楊志誠所逐，因入覲。 In the spring of the fifth year his subordinate Yang Zhicheng drove him out, and he came to court to pay homage.

以楊志誠復為部下所逐，過太原，載義躬身毆擊，遂欲殺之，賴從事救解以免。 When Yang Zhicheng was again ousted by his own men and passed through Taiyuan, Zaiyi personally assaulted him and tried to kill him; only the intervention of a staff officer saved Zhicheng.

楊志誠，太和五年為幽州後院副兵馬使，事李載義。 Yang Zhicheng was in the fifth year of Taihe made deputy commander of the Youzhou rear guard under Li Zaiyi.

載義延中使擊鞠，志誠亦與焉，遂於鞠場叫呼謀亂。 Zaiyi entertained the imperial envoy with a game of cuju, and Zhicheng joined in; at the playing field Zhicheng suddenly shouted and incited a mutiny.

載義奔於易州，志誠乃為本道馬步都知兵馬使。 Zaiyi fled to Yizhou, and Zhicheng made himself overall commander of the circuit's cavalry and infantry.

則今日志誠之得，猶前日載義之得也。 Zhicheng's rise today is no different from Zaiyi's rise yesterday.

今若假志誠節鉞，惜其土地，必自為力。 If we now grant Zhicheng the commission and leave his territory intact, he will surely exert himself on our behalf.

尋以嘉王運遙領節度，以志誠為節度觀察留後，檢校左散騎常侍，兼幽州左司馬。 Soon afterward Prince Yun of Jia was named titular military governor, while Zhicheng was appointed acting administrator, surveillance commissioner, acting Left Regular Attendant, and Left Assistant Governor of Youzhou.

及使至，其傔奔還，奏曰：「楊志誠怒不得僕射，三軍亦有怨言。 When the envoy arrived, his attendants fled back and reported, "Yang Zhicheng is furious at not receiving the vice directorship, and the whole army is muttering in discontent.

春衣使魏寶義、兼他使焦奉鸞，尹士恭，並為志誠縶留矣。」 The spring-clothing envoy Wei Baoyi, the envoy Jiao Fengluan, and Yin Shigong have all been detained by Zhicheng."

志誠遣將王文穎謝恩，並讓官，復賜官告批答，文穎不受而歸。 Zhicheng sent the general Wang Wenying to express thanks while declining the appointment; the court issued another commission with a written reply, but Wenying refused it and returned.