Wang Guangyang (汪廣洋)

Overview

Wang Guangyang was a statesman and Official.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Chaozong	朝宗	Cháozōng

Life and dates

Death

AD 1379 十二年十二月
Execution · At Taiping 太平 · Authority Ming Taizu (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 140

Attested activity

AD 1370 三年
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 127, passage 124
AD 1358 to AD 1364 先後用陶安、汪廣洋於江西
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 135, passages 155-156
AD 1379 十二年十二月
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passages 137, 140
AD 1377 十年復拜右丞相
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 134
AD 1355 to AD 1356 太祖渡江
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 127, passage 117
AD 1368 洪武元年
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 121

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Mother of Wang Guangyang (汪廣洋母)
mother 母
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 126

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Career and standing

clerk of the marshal's headquarters 元帥府令史
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 117
controller of the Jiangnan Branch Secretariat 江南行省提控
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 117
Jiangxi Pacification Commissioner 江西參政
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 120
Left Censor-in-Chief 左御史大夫
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 133
Left Vice Director 左丞
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 124
Right Chancellor 右丞相
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 132

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Vice Commissioner of the Secretariat 中書省參政
Appointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 122
Right Chancellor 右丞相
AD 1377 十年 · Reappointed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 134
Baron of Loyal Diligence 忠勤伯
Enfeoffed
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 130
Sent to
Exile · At Guangnan 廣南
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 139
Sent to
Exile · At Hainan 海南
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 128

Places and affiliations

Polity Ming 明 · Relation Served
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passages 121, 143
Polity Ming 明 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · History of Ming 135, passage 156
At Gaoyou 高郵
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 116
At Jiangxi 江西 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 156
At Taiping 太平 · Relation Sojourned in
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 116

Learning and skills

Skill poetry 歌詩 · Level adept
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 141
Skill seal and clerical script 篆隸 · Level skilled
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 141

Events and relationships

Executed for concealment and favoritism
Legal · Defendant · With Ming Taizu (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passages 137-140
Used in Jiangxi
Administrative · Pacification official · At Jiangxi 江西 · With Tao An (陶安)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 156

Assessments and attributes

Assessment could not expose treachery or keep calamity away · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 149
Assessment mild and self-restrained; ruined by inability to leave wicked colleagues · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 127, passage 142

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 156

References in the histories

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History

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History of Ming, Chapter 127Volume 127 Biographies 15: Li Shanzhang, Wang Guangyang · 18 passages

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太祖所任張昶、楊憲、汪廣洋、胡惟庸皆獲罪，善長事寄如故。 Zhang Chang, Yang Xian, Wang Guangyang, and Hu Weiyong, whom the throne had raised, all fell for crime, yet Shanzhang's trust held.

祺尚主後一月，御史大夫汪廣洋、陳寧疏言：「善長狎寵自恣，陛下病不視朝幾及旬，不問候。 A month after Qi's marriage, Censor-in-Chief Wang Guangyang and Chen Ning reported, "Shanzhang, emboldened by favor, had failed to attend the Emperor during a ten-day illness.

汪廣洋 Wang Guangyang

汪廣洋，字朝宗，高郵人，流寓太平。 Wang Guangyang, whose style was Chaozong, came from Gaoyou and had settled in Taiping.

洪武元年，山東平，以廣洋廉明持重，命理行省，撫納新附，民甚安之。 In Hongwu year one, with Shandong pacified, his integrity and steadiness won him charge of the branch secretariat to settle new subjects; the people lived at ease.

三年，李善長病，中書無官，召廣洋為左丞。 In year three, when Li Shanzhang fell ill and the Secretariat stood vacant, Guangyang was summoned as Left Vice Director.

廣洋依違之，猶為所忌，嗾御史劾廣洋奉母無狀。 Guangyang temporized and was still resented; Yang Xian set censors to accuse him of failing in filial duty toward his mother.

憲誅，召還。 After Yang Xian was executed, Guangyang was recalled.

其冬，封忠勤伯，食祿三百六十石。 That winter he was made Baron of Loyal Diligence with three hundred sixty piculs.

及善長以病去位，遂以廣洋為右丞相，參政胡惟庸為左丞。 When Shanzhang retired ill, Guangyang became Right Chancellor and Hu Weiyong Left Vice Director.

廣洋無所建白，久之，左遷廣東行省參政，而帝心終善廣洋，復召為左御史大夫。 He put forward little policy; eventually he was demoted to Guangdong, yet the Emperor still thought well of him and recalled him as Left Censor-in-Chief.

廣洋頗耽酒，與惟庸同相，浮沉守位而已。 He drank heavily; sharing power with Hu Weiyong, he merely floated along in office.

十二年十二月，中丞塗節言劉基為惟庸毒死，廣洋宜知狀。 In the twelfth month of year twelve, Vice Censor-in-Chief Tu Jie reported that Liu Ji had been poisoned by Hu Weiyong and that Guangyang should have known.

帝怒，責廣洋朋欺，貶廣南。 The Emperor raged, charged him with collusive deceit, and banished him to Guangnan.

廣洋少師余闕，淹通經史，善篆隸，工為歌詩。 As a youth he studied under Yu Que, mastered the classics and histories, excelled in seal and clerical script, and wrote verse with skill.

其從容丞弼之任者，李善長、汪廣洋、胡惟庸三人而已。 Only Li Shanzhang, Wang Guangyang, and Hu Weiyong truly bore the steady work of assisting rule.

故終明之世，惟善長、廣洋得稱丞相。 Thus through the entire Ming only Shanzhang and Guangyang ever bore the title chancellor.

廣洋謹厚自守，亦不能發奸遠禍。 Guangyang was cautious and upright, yet he could neither unmask traitors nor keep calamity at bay.

History of Ming, Chapter 135Volume 135 Biographies 23: Chen Yu, Ye Dui, Fan Chang, Song Siyan, Guo Jingxiang, Yang Yuangao, Ruan Hongdao, Kong Keren · 1 passage

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先後用陶安、汪廣洋於江西，而庭堅與王愷守浙東。 Tao An and Wang Guangyang were sent in turn to Jiangxi, while Pan and Wang Kai held eastern Zhejiang.