Sui and Tang · Official and General

Yang Zichong 楊子崇

Attested AD 581 - AD 618

Passages: 17
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Yang Zichong was an official and General.

Life and dates

Death

Killed when the righteous army rose · Body Treatment corpse cast below the city walls
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 225
killed by enemies 為仇家所殺 · At Lishi 離石
Directly stated · Book of Sui 43, passage 115

Attested activity

AD 617 to AD 618 大業末
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passages 224-225
AD 605 to AD 618 煬帝嗣位後
Dated from the passage context · Book of Sui 43, passage 99
AD 581 to AD 590 開皇初
Directly stated · Book of Sui 43, passage 97

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Yang Pensheng (楊盆生)
father 父
Directly stated · Book of Sui 43, passage 95

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Administrator of Lishi Commandery 離石郡太守
Appointed
Directly stated · Book of Sui 43, passage 104
Administrator of Lishi commandery 離石郡太守
AD 617 to AD 618 大業末 · Served
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 224
posthumous office 贈官
Posthumously granted
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 227

Works and attributed material

Speech · Addressee · With Emperor Yang of Sui (隋煬帝)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 43, passage 103

Events and relationships

Warned of Turk raid
Military · Adviser · At Fenyang Palace 汾陽宮
Directly stated · Book of Sui 43, passage 101
Burial · Deceased · With Li Denian (李德佋) · At Lishi 離石 · Burial Type ceremonial burial
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passages 225-227
Relation Younger clansman of · Person Emperor Wen of Sui (隋文帝)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 43, passage 94
treated Li Denian with exceptional courtesy
Relation Honored subordinate · Person Li Denian (李德佋)
Directly stated · Book of Sui 72, passage 224

References in the histories

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History

17 passages

Book of Sui, Chapter 43Volume 43 Biographies 8: He Jian Wanghong, Yang Chugang, Yang Zichong, Guang De, Wang Xiong · 13 passages

○楊子崇 Yang Zichong

楊子崇，高祖族弟也。 Yang Zichong was a younger clansman-cousin of Emperor Wen.

子崇少好學，涉獵書記，有風儀，愛賢好士。 Zichong loved study from childhood, read widely, carried himself with dignity, and delighted in talented men.

從帝幸汾陽宮，子崇知突厥必為寇患，屢請早還京師，帝不納。 When he accompanied the emperor to the Fenyang Palace, Zichong was convinced the Turks would soon raid the frontier and repeatedly urged an early return to the capital, but the emperor refused to listen.

及賊退，帝怒之曰：「子崇怯軟，妄有陳請，驚動我眾心，不可居爪牙之寄。」 When the enemy withdrew, the emperor raged at him: "Zichong is cowardly and weak. His ill-timed warnings have unsettled the army. He is unfit to hold a commander's post."

自是突厥屢寇邊塞，胡賊劉六兒複擁眾劫掠郡境，子崇上表請兵鎮遏。 From then on the Turks raided the frontier repeatedly, and the rebel Liu Liu'er gathered forces to pillage the commandery. Zichong petitioned for troops to restore order.

帝複大怒，下書令子崇巡行長城。 The emperor erupted in anger again and ordered Zichong to make a patrol inspection of the Great Wall.

子崇出百餘裡，四面路絕，不得進而歸。 Zichong marched out more than a hundred li, but every route was blocked and he was forced to turn back.

時百姓饑饉，相聚為盜，子崇前後捕斬數千人。 With famine driving people to banditry, Zichong captured and executed several thousand in the course of his duties.

子崇患之，言欲朝集，遂與心腹數百人自孟門關將還京師。 Alarmed by the growing chaos, Zichong announced that he would go to court and, with several hundred trusted men, set out from Mengmen Pass toward the capital.

輜重半濟，遇河西諸縣各殺長吏，叛歸師都，道路隔絕，子崇退歸離石。 Their baggage train was still half across the river when word came that the counties west of the Yellow River had killed their magistrates and joined Liang Shidu. With the roads cut off, Zichong retreated to Lishi.

子崇悉收叛者父兄斬之。 Zichong rounded up the fathers and elder brothers of the deserters and had them all executed.

城陷，子崇為仇家所殺。 The city fell, and Zichong was killed by men who bore a grudge against him.

Book of Sui, Chapter 72Volume 72 Biographies 37: Filial Piety · 4 passages

大業末，為離石郡司法書佐，太守楊子崇特禮之。 At the end of the Daye reign he served as Legal Clerk of Lishi commandery, and Administrator Yang Zigong treated him with exceptional courtesy.

及義兵起，子崇遇害，棄屍城下，德佋赴哭盡哀，收瘞之。 When the righteous army rose, Zigong was killed and his body cast below the walls; Denian rushed there, wept his fill, and gathered and buried him.

至介休，詣義師，請葬子崇。 He went to Jiexiu, presented himself to the righteous army, and asked leave to bury Zigong properly.

大將軍嘉之，因贈子崇官，令德佋為使者，往離石禮葬子崇焉。 The great general praised this, posthumously granted Zigong an office, and appointed Denian envoy to return to Lishi and bury Zigong with full ceremony.