Dates uncertain · Prefect of Maoling

Yin 尹公

Dates uncertain

Passages: 11
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yin as an official. This record brings together 11 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yin	尹公	Yin
Title	chief clerk	主簿	zhubu
Title	Lord Yin	尹公	Yin Gong
Title	Lord Yin	尹君	Yin Jun
Title	Prefect Yin of Maoling	茂陵守令尹公	Maoling Yin
Surname	Yin	尹	Yin

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Uncertain

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Death

stabbed and killed as chief clerk / 客刺殺主簿
Explicit · hanshu:104:s0284

Career and standing

chief clerk / 主簿
Explicit · hanshu:104:s0281
Prefect of Maoling / 茂陵守令
Explicit · hanshu:104:s0257

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 104Volume 92: Youxias · 11 passages

是時，茂陵守令尹公新視事，涉未謁也，聞之大怒。 The new Maoling prefect Yin had not been visited; when he heard, he raged.

知涉名豪，欲以示眾厲俗，遣兩吏脅守涉。 Knowing Yuan She's fame, Yin posted two bailiffs on him to teach the town a lesson.

會涉所與期上塚者車數十乘到，皆諸豪也，共說尹公。 Dozens of chariots of his grave-appointment allies roared in and pleaded with Yin.

尹公不聽，諸豪則曰：「原巨先奴犯法不得，使肉袒自縛，箭貫耳，詣廷門謝罪，於君威亦足矣。」 Yin refused; they offered, "Since the guilty slave cannot be caught, let Yuan She strip, bind himself, thread his ear with an arrow, and kowtow at your gate—that should satisfy your authority."

尹公許之。 Yin agreed.

初，涉與新豐富人祁太伯為友，太伯同母弟王游公素嫉涉，時為縣門下掾，說尹公曰：「君以守令辱原涉如是，一旦真令至，君復單車歸為府吏，涉刺客如雲，殺人皆不知主名，可為寒心。 Yuan She had befriended Qi Taibo, a wealthy man of Xinfeng. Taibo's younger maternal half brother, Wang Yougong, had always resented Yuan She and was then a clerk in the county office. He told Yin, "As acting magistrate, you have humiliated Yuan She. Once the permanent magistrate arrives, you will return alone by cart to your old post as a commandery clerk. Yuan She's assassins are as numerous as clouds, and when they kill, no one ever knows who ordered it. The thought should chill you.

尹公如其計，莽果以為真令。 Yin followed the advice; Wang Mang gave him the full prefecture.

故茂陵令尹公壞涉塚捨者為建主簿，涉本不怨也。 The old prefect Yin who had smashed his tomb-shrine now served as Shentu Jian's chief clerk—Yuan bore him no malice.

涉從建所出，尹公故遮拜涉，謂曰：「易世矣，宜勿復相怨！」 Yin blocked his path, bowed, and said, "Times have turned—we should bury the feud."

涉曰：「尹君，何一魚肉涉也！」 Yuan She said, "Lord Yin, how could you treat me like fish on the chopping block!"

涉用是怒，使客刺殺主簿。 For this Yuan She was angry and had a guest stab and kill the chief clerk.