Qin and Han · Local Magnate

Wang Xian 王咸

Attested AD 188

Passages: 1
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wang Xian was a Local Magnate.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 188 出為監軍使者，領益州牧
Dated from the passage context · Records of the Three Kingdoms 31, passage 20

References in the histories

Records of the Three Kingdoms, Chapter 31Volume 31: Book of Shu 1: Biographies of the Two Governor Lius · 1 passage

焉上書言米賊斷道，不得複通，又託他事殺州中豪強王咸、李權等十馀人，以立威刑。 Liu Yan memorialized that “rice-bandit” cultists had severed the roads and cut him off from court, then used other excuses to execute a dozen leading local families—Wang Xian and Li Quan among them—to cow the gentry.