晉 Jìn

His grandson Jin, in the Xiantian era, was Chief of Staff of Yong Prefecture and was known for his government; he inherited the princely title. He was put to death for taking part in the plot of the Princess Taiping, and his family's surname was changed to Li [written with the character for "cruel"]. When Jin went to his execution, his officials and clerks all ran off, and only Li Zong, Administrator of the Section for Merit Assessment, attended the prince as on any other day; when Jin was dead, he wept over the body with the fullest grief. Yao Yuanchong sighed and said, "He is one of the kind of Luan and Xiang [men of the Han who mourned their executed masters]!" He promoted him to be a Gentleman of the Department of State Affairs. Edit

Youliang, Prince of Changle Commandery, was violent and hasty by nature. Gaozu admonished and restrained him many times, but he did not mend his ways. When someone stole his horse, he killed the man out of hand. The emperor said in anger, "The thief was guilty indeed, but may a prince kill on his own authority?" He ordered Li Gang, Minister of Rites, to call together the imperial clan in the court hall and give Youliang a hundred blows of the heavy stick before he was released. He was sent out as Area Commander-in-chief of Liang Prefecture, where he gathered lawless men about him as his attendants, and the people of the town and villages suffered from them. Edit

When Taizong came to the throne, someone reported that the prince was secretly keeping armed men and was in contact with people beyond the border. Yuwen Shiji, Director of the Secretariat, was ordered by edict to go and take his place and to look into the case. Shiji pressed the matter hard, and Youliang's attendants were frightened; they wanted to take the prince by force along back roads to Chang'an to clear himself, or failing that to flee north to the Turks. Shiji impeached him openly, and the emperor again sent the Attendant Censor Sun Fujia to examine him; the statements were the same, and he was ordered to take his own life. His descendant in the sixth generation, Hui, has a biography of his own. Edit

Wei, Prince Lie of Cai, was Area Commander of Shuo Prefecture under the Zhou. He had two sons, An and Zhe. Edit