Yang Shuo (816 – April 11, 870), courtesy name Chengzhi, was a native of Tongzhou Feng Yi (present-day Dali, Shaanxi).

After claiming to be Yang Su, he lived in Feng Yi. Father Yang Zhizhi. Brother of Lingnan Jiedushi Yang Fa. The thirteen virtuous literary chants, known as prodigies, came to visit many people in the countryside and watched their poems, and even crushed the barriers. Huichang ascended the throne in the first year, and the retired official Hanlin bachelor, Yang Shuo and The Left Shence lieutenant Yang Xuanwei were married to the same sect. Tired official Zhongshu Shilang tongping Zhangshi. When Lu Yan was the prime minister, someone made up a song "Mocking the Four Phases": "It is true that no matter what happens, money is always collected." Merchants don't care, when will the goods (road) be closed? "It is said that the current prime ministers Cao Qing, Yang Shuo, Xu Shang, and Lu Yan are the prime ministers. For offending Yang Xuangu[1], Xiantong was exiled to Duanzhou in February of the eleventh year (870), and on March 15, while preparing to go to Qizhou, he was given the right to die in Duanzhou. [2]
Successive official positions
In the first year of Huichang (841), he ascended to the throne of Jinshidi, and was only twenty-six years old.
He served as the governor of Du Shu HuaiNan Jiedu Prefecture and was awarded the secretary of the provincial school secretary.
He assisted the chancellor Du Wei (杜悰) in charge of duzhi and served as an inspector.
Du Huan resigned, left the town of Eastern Shu, played the title of secretary, and transferred to the assistant lawyer.
Du Moved to The Town of Nishikawa and was reinstated as an observation judge.
Ma Zhi, the prime minister, was awarded the title of Weinan Lieutenant, and was relegated to the rank of chancellor and changed to supervise the imperial history. On the grounds that his second brother Yang Fei was only engaged in the Houfu, he was praised by Ma Zhi and returned to Xichuan.
When Pei Xiu was the prime minister, Yang Shuo was proficient in etiquette and used as a doctor of Taichang.
Mother funeral, back to Suzhou.
After three years of disobedience, Choi Hyun (mistaken for Cui Juan in the Old Book of Tang and Yang Shu Biography) resigned and went out to the town of Huainan, with Yang Shou as an observation envoy.
He was conscripted into the Western Terrace, served as a royal attendant, and was transferred to the position of Fang Ren Wailang.
Xiahou Zi, the chancellor, led the branch and used Yang As a judge.
In addition to the change of the Commandery, the Salt and Iron Case was sentenced, except for the Chang'an County Order, and the appointment of a member of the Official's Department of Foreign Lang.
On the joint recommendation of former Prime Minister Du Wei and Xiahou Zi, The Prime Minister ordered Hu Shu to use Yang as a Hanlin scholar, to make a scholar of Kubu Langzhong, to worship the Zhongshu Sheren, to give Jin Zi, to transfer the military department to serve as a waiter, and to undertake the will of the bachelor.
Befriended Yang Xuanwei, a lieutenant of the Left Army of Shen Ce, and believed that he was related to the clan. Soon after, he was worshipped as the Grand Master of Yinqing Guanglu, the Zhongshu Waiter, and the Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi (Zai Chancellor).
Add gold purple guanglu doctor, change the door under the waiter.
Please build a southern army in Jiangxi to suppress the rebellion of the southern barbarians, and was praised by the emperor, sheng tejin, bai shangshu right servant shooting, according to the former waiter's door under the Pingzhangshi.
In October of the eighth year of Xiantong (867), he resigned. Shangshu of the Ministry of Inspection and Proofreading, made an envoy for Xuanshe Observation. Wei Baoheng succeeded him as chancellor, exposing Yang for accepting bribes of millions of dollars, and in August of the following year, he was demoted to Sima of Duanzhou.
Next year, I will migrate to Yizhou. He also ordered The Inner Yang Guo Quan Mu Zhao Zhi to die in Duanzhou.
children
Fifth son:
Yang Jin, Zi Wentong
Yang Hong, Zi Bo Yue
Yang Ju, ZiWen Jie
Yang Yi
Yang Song, ziwenhao
Yang Ho
Yang collects epitaphs
The epitaphs of Yang And his wife Wei Dongzhen were unearthed in Gongyi, Henan, in recent years. The epitaph is currently in the possession of a private collector in Luoyang. Epitaph Gaiwen Seal Book "Tang Dynasty Xiangguo Special Right Servant Shooting Hongnong Yang Cemetery Epitaph", the four fires decorated with four gods and flowers such as green dragons, white tigers, suzaku and Xuanwu, the epitaph is 92 cm square and 21 cm thick. Epitaph letter, 51 lines, full line 50 words, a total of 2431 words.
pen
Dynasty: Tang Dynasty | Author: Yang Shuo
Although the bandits have things in their pockets, He Jian cannot be drilled. Once the dynasty exercises political authority, it will make the crown three ends.
Translations/Notes
Introduction to the author Yang Shuo
Yang Shuo, Zi Zangzhi, Feng Yiren of Tongzhou. It is six feet and two inches long, with a wide jaw and deep jaws, and a sparse eyebrow; it is reticent and smiling, and it is knowledgeable and strong. In the beginning, the family sent Shuyang and was very poor. Receiving a father who lost his father at the age of seven, he was mourned like an adult. And the eldest grandson's wife knows the book and teaches it herself. Thirteen, a little familiar with the scriptures, good at literature, Wu people called "prodigy". Received the middle brother's leave and did not ascend to the throne, and did not give it from the countryside for a long time. It is winter, harvest Chang'an, next year, climb the first place in one fell swoop, and the year is only twenty-six.