Sui and Tang · Official

Wei Zhen 韋楨

Wéi Zhēn

Attested AD 782

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Wei Zhen was an official.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 782 京兆少尹韋楨
Dated from the passage context · New Book of Tang 52, passage 22

Career and standing

Vice Prefect of Jingzhao 京兆少尹
Held
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 22

Places and affiliations

At Jingzhao 京兆 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 22

Events and relationships

Harshly enforced merchant loan collection in the capital
Administrative · Enforcer
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 22
Requested exemptions for small sums after popular protest
Administrative · Petitioner
Directly stated · New Book of Tang 52, passage 25

References in the histories

New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 2 passages

京兆少尹韋楨、長安丞薛萃，搜督甚峻，民有不勝其冤自經者，家若被盜。 Wei Zhen, vice prefect of Jingzhao, and Xue Cui, assistant magistrate of Chang'an, enforced collection with brutal severity. Some victims hanged themselves in despair; households were stripped as if by bandits.

韋楨懼，乃請錢不及百緡、粟麥不及五十斛者免，而所獲裁二百萬緡。 Fearing riot, Wei Zhen secured exemption for sums under one hundred strings or fifty bushels of grain, but the haul still reached only two million strings.