403:) had fortified and entrenched the grounds of the Gongsha clan's ancestral temple, and was refusing to come out and submit to local authority. Wang Xiu, with some few mounted guards behind him, broke through the enclosure's gate and executed Gongsha Lu and his brothers. Satisfied with punishing the ringleader, Wang Xiu mollified the rest of the family. Banditry thereafter decreased.
898:, and carried a good deal of responsibility and power, thus quite unlikely to be assigned to one person. (See Hucker at 301.3570 and 471.6042). Another interpretation is that Wang Xiu was appointed to a hitherto and henceforth unknown position unique to Cao Cao's early government. The third interpretation is that the base text includes an error.
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Yuan Tan wished to launch a counterattack against his brother Yuan Shang, but Wang Xiu cautioned against it. When asked directly how to proceed with the campaign, Wang Xiu advocated concord, a recommendation which Yuan Tan rejected. Following some more internecine strife, Yuan Tan sought help from,
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Without reaching him, Wang Xiu learned that Yuan Tan had been killed. He sent word to Cao Cao requesting permission to bury Yuan Tan's body, saying that he only wished to repay his former master with a proper burial, so that he could stand for execution without regrets. Impressed, Cao Cao granted
501:) led a palace revolt against Cao Cao in 216, attacking the inner gates with a force of some scores of men. Wang Xiu heard the commotion, and before his horse and carriage could be fetched led his subordinates on foot to the palace gates in great haste to assist. After the revolt was suppressed,
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mildly chastised Wang Xiu, reminding him that it was customary for the Nine
Ministers to remain in their offices whenever there was trouble in the capital. Wang Xiu replied that it may be customary, but lacked the righteous dignity of assisting those in danger. Wang Xiu died soon after, leaving
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As central authority continued to erode, robbery and pillage increased. At one point, Kong Rong was under some duress from brigands, and when Wang Xiu heard he rode out at night to assist. Noting Wang Xiu's bravery, Kong Rong shortly thereafter appointed Wang Xiu as the district magistrate of
465:). One of Cao Cao's first orders to Wang Xiu was to retrieve the head of Guan Tong. Wang Xiu saw Guan Tong's behaviour as an excess of loyalty to his old lord, and rather than executing him, instead cut his bonds and brought him before Cao Cao to submit. Cao Cao, pleased, pardoned Guan Tong.
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was appointed as the
Inspector of Qing Province, and he employed Wang Xiu as an attendant. One of Wang Xiu's colleagues, Liu Xian, often spoke ill of and slandered him. When Liu Xian committed an offence deserving of death, Wang Xiu argued on his behalf and secured his reprieve.
823::346) carries a story about Guan Tong, alone of Yuan Tan's subordinates, abandoning his family to bandits in the northeast to come and aid Yuan Tan against rebellion. In this vignette, Wang Xiu correctly predicts Guan Tong's actions, establishing a relationship between the two.
890::347) contains the text "為大司農郎中令". This could be interpreted as "became Minister of Works and Chamberlain for Attendants" by assumption of a dropped listing comma (、) on the part of the punctuators of the modern edition. This interpretation is followed by the
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After being shuffled around a bit more, Wang Xiu found himself a mounted escort of Yuan Tan in 202, at the time of Yuan Shao's death. Due to unclear succession, a rift immediately developed between Yuan Tan and his youngest brother,
472:, and appointed as Superintendent of Treasury Officials, working with gold and silver instead of grain. In 212, following a memorial to Cao Cao complaining that his life was too easy, Wang Xiu was appointed as the Administrator of
377:), about 60 km from his hometown. As a district magistrate, Wang Xiu declared collective responsibility for harbouring criminals, helping to restore central authority over local magnates. Kong Rong nominated him as a
443:. Wang Xiu was in Le'an supervising grain shipments when he heard Yuan Tan was in trouble, and straight away gathered his guards and all the officials in his office, some several dozen men, and rode away to assist.
486:, among the highest civil positions in the bureaucracy. Following an exhortation against the establishment of corporal punishment, Wang Xiu moved laterally to the post of Minister of Imperial Ancestral Ceremonies (
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by Wang Yin (王隱). Both records agree that Wang Xiu had a single son, but disagree on the son's name and career. This article includes both for completeness, with the caveat that one or more sons may be
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Kong Rong often relied on Wang Xiu to assist with rebellion and other such difficulties, and Wang Xiu would always heed the call immediately, even if he was on leave, resting in his hometown.
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permission and further took Wang Xiu into his employ, keeping him in his same position, supervising grain shipments in Le'an for Cao Cao's prodigious army.
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due to his father's unfair execution. Became a famous recluse due to his steadfast refusal to enter service. Never married, and slain by
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431:. Yuan Shang attacked and defeated Yuan Tan, and Wang Xiu led a cadre of officials and conscripts to save Yuan Tan from capture.
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Province surrendered to Cao Cao except the Administrator of
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Jiaodong, which had been experiencing a rash of banditry. He arrived to find that a local named
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period. He was known for being compassionate and daring.
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1177:Government officials under Cao Cao
873:, which had yet to be established.
492:), another of the Nine Ministers.
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1187:Political office-holders in Hebei
351:Wang Xiu was born in Yingling,
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645:Yingling: 營陵, in present-day
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468:Wang Xiu was attached to the
49:Grand Minister of Agriculture
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1131:Tan Qixiang, ed. (1996) .
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380:xiaolian
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292:In this
252:Children
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