愔 Yīn

Prince of Shu

Yin, Prince Dao of Shu, was first made Prince of Liang in the fifth year of Zhenguan, enfeoffed at the same time as the five Princes of Tan, Han, Shen, Jiang and Dai. He was moved to be Prince of Shu, with a real fief of eight hundred households. He was sent out as Prefect of Qizhou. He often went hunting and roaming and broke the law; the emperor repeatedly reproved and instructed him, but he did not change, and the emperor said in anger: "Birds and beasts can be tamed by man, and iron and stone can be made into vessels, but Yin is not even their equal!" So half of his fief households and of the officials of his princely state were taken away, and he was moved to Guo Prefecture. After a long time the households were returned and increased to a thousand. Again he rode out hunting and ruined the people's crops. Yang Daozheng, the Commandant of his guard, seized his horse's bridle to remonstrate, and Yin grabbed him and beat him. Li Qianyou, Censor-in-Chief, impeached Yin for his offences; Gaozong was angry and demoted him to Prefect of Huangzhou, and promoted Daozheng to Commandant of the Kuangdao Garrison. When Ke, Prince of Wu, was found guilty, Yin, as his younger brother by the same mother, was reduced to a commoner and moved to Ba Prefecture. Soon after he was made Prince of Fuling, and died. At the beginning of Xianheng his rank and fief were restored; he was posthumously made Grand Area Commander-in-chief of Yizhou and buried beside the Zhao Mausoleum, and his son Fan succeeded him as prince. Fan died in banishment at Guicheng Prefecture in the time of Empress Wu. At the beginning of Shenlong, Yu, son of Wei, Prince of Langling, was made his heir as Prince by Succession. Edit