Ming · Official

Yu Anxing 喻安性

Attested AD 1608

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Yu Anxing was an official.

PeriodMing
IdentityHistorical

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  • Zhu Geng’s townsman who defended him and criticized the transfer of power to the Directorate of Ceremonial.
    Biographical event · Participant
    Directly stated · History of Ming 219, passage 50

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History of Ming, Chapter 219Volume 219 Biographies 107: Zhang Siwei, Ma Ziqiang, Xu Guo, Zhao Zhigao, Zhang Wei, Zhu Geng · 1 passage
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先，考選科道，吏部擬上七十八人．候命踰年，不下，賡連疏趣之．三十六年秋，命始下．諸人列言路，方欲見風采，而給事中若霖先嘗忤賡，及是見黜，適當賡病起入直時．切謂賡修郤，攻訐四起，先後疏論至五十餘人．給事中喻安性者，賡里人，為賡上疏言：「今日政權不由內閣，盡移於司禮．」言者遂交章劾安性，復侵賡．是時賡已寢疾，乞休疏二十餘上．言者慮其復起，攻不已，而賡以十一月卒於官．遺疏陳時政，語極悲切．賡先加少保兼太子太保，進吏部尚書、文華殿大學士．及卒，贈太保，諡文懿．御史彭端吾復疏詆賡，給事中胡忻請停其贈諡，帝不聽． Earlier, in the censorate selection examination the Ministry of Personnel proposed seventy-eight men. They waited more than a year for orders; Geng submitted successive memorials urging action. In the autumn of the thirty-sixth year the orders came down. The men took their places in the censorate and were just about to show their mettle when Supervising Secretary Ruolin, who had earlier offended Geng, was dismissed just as Geng was rising from illness to attend duty. They sharply accused Geng of settling old scores; attacks erupted on every side, and more than fifty memorials criticized him in succession. Supervising Secretary Yu Anxing, Geng's townsman, submitted a memorial for him saying: 'Today governmental power does not lie with the Grand Secretariat but has entirely shifted to the Directorate of Ceremonial.' Censorate officials then impeached Anxing in succession and again attacked Geng. By then Geng was bedridden; he had submitted more than twenty retirement memorials. Censorate officials feared he would rise again and attacked without cease, while Geng died in office in the eleventh month. His final memorial on current policy was utterly grief-stricken. He had earlier been made Junior Guardian and Grand Guardian of the Crown Prince and promoted to Minister of Personnel and Grand Secretary of the Wenhua Hall. When he died he was posthumously made Grand Guardian with the posthumous name Wenyi. Censor Peng Duanwu again denounced him; Supervising Secretary Hu Xin asked that his posthumous honors be halted; the emperor refused.