Wang Shangzhi (王尚之)

Overview

Wang Shangzhi was a Sihao’s chief clerk, boiled alive in the Ye market.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 574 武平五年
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 14, passage 121

Career and standing

chief clerk / Left Assistant of the Field Headquarters 行臺左丞
Appointed by Sihao · With Gao Sihao (高思好)
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 14, passage 121
Boiled alive in the Ye market
Executed
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 14, passage 133

References in the histories

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 14Volume 14 Biographies 6: Guangping Gongcheng; Yangzhou Gong Yongle; Di Zhangbi; Prince of Xiangle, Xiang Guo; Prince of Shangluo, Si Zong; Zi Yuanhai; Di Sihao; Prince of Pingqin, Guiyan; Prince Pu of Wuxing; Changle, Governor of Lingshan; Sizi Fuhu · 2 passages

Open chapter

思好至陽曲，自號大丞相，置百官，以行臺左丞王尚之為長史。 Sihao reached Yangqu and styled himself grand chancellor. He set up a full bureaucracy and made left assistant of the field headquarters Wang Shangzhi his chief clerk.

暴思好屍七日，然後屠剝焚之，烹尚之於鄴市，令內參射其妃於宮內，仍火焚殺之。 Sihao's corpse was put on display seven days, then butchered, skinned, and burned. Shangzhi was boiled alive in the Ye market. Palace eunuchs were told to shoot Sihao's consort inside the palace — then burn what remained.