Sui and Tang · Envoy and Attendant

Cheng Wuying 程務盈

Died AD 800

Passages: 4
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Cheng Wuying was an envoy and Attendant.

Life and dates

Death

AD 800 十六年
Killed · Killed by Cao Wenqia (曹文洽) · At Changle Post 長樂驛
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 15
AD 800 十六年
Killed · Killed by Cao Wenqia (曹文洽) · At Changle Post 長樂驛
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 43

Attested activity

AD 800 十六年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 12, 15
AD 800 十六年
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 40

Career and standing

minor envoy / aide 小使
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 12

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passage 12

Events and relationships

Carried false memorial by express relay
AD 800 十六年 · Legal · Envoy · With Yao Nanzhong (姚南仲)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 40
Carried false memorial by relay
AD 800 十六年 · Diplomatic · Messenger · With Xue Yingzhen (薛盈珍) · At Changle Post 長樂驛
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 153, passages 12, 14
Relation Agent of · Person Xue Yingzhen (薛盈珍)
Directly stated · Old Book of Tang 157, passage 40

References in the histories

Old Book of Tang, Chapter 157Volume 153 Biographies 103: Yao Nanzhong, Liu Nai, Yuan Gao, Duan Pingzhong, Xue Cuncheng, Lu Tan · 4 passages

十六年，盈珍遣小使程務盈馳驛奉表，誣奏南仲陰事。 In the sixteenth year Yingzhen sent his aide Cheng Wuying by express relay with a memorial falsely accusing Nanzhong of secret wrongdoing.

文洽私懷憤怒，遂晨夜兼道追務盈，至長樂驛及之，與同舍宿； Wenqia burned with private rage and pursued Wuying day and night by forced marches. He overtook him at Changle Post and lodged in the same inn;

中夜殺務盈，沈盈珍表於廁中，乃自殺。 at midnight he killed Wuying, sank Yingzhen's memorial in the privy, and then took his own life.

日旰，驛吏辟門，見血流塗地，旁得文洽二緘，一告於南仲，一表理南仲之冤，且陳首殺務盈。 At sundown the post attendant opened the door and found blood spread across the ground. Beside the bodies lay two letters from Wenqia: one to Nanzhong and one pleading Nanzhong's innocence and confessing that he had killed Wuying.