上金 Shàngjīn

Prince of Ze

Shangjin, Prince of Ze, was first made Prince of Qi. In the third year of Yonghui he was made Grand Area Commander-in-chief of Yi Prefecture in absentia. He served as Prefect of the two prefectures of Fu and Shou. Empress Wu hated his mother, so the officials concerned brought false charges against him in a memorial; his fief was cut and he was moved to live at Li Prefecture. After a long time the empress made a show of being well disposed and memorialised that Shangjin, Prince of Qi, and Sujie, Prince of Poyang, be allowed to attend the court assemblies, and that the husbands of the two Princesses of Yiyang and Xuancheng each be raised in rank. As a result Shangjin was made Prefect of Mian Prefecture and Sujie Prefect of Yue Prefecture, but in the end they were never allowed to come to court. When Gaozong died, an edict called Shangjin, Sujie and the two princesses to come to the mourning. In the first year of Wenming he was moved to Prince of Bi, and then to Prince of Ze. He served as Prefect of five prefectures. In the Zaichu era Wu Chengsi prompted Zhou Xing to accuse Shangjin and Sujie falsely of plotting rebellion, and they were summoned and held in the Censorate prison. When Shangjin heard that Sujie had already been killed, he at once hanged himself, and his seven sons were all exiled and died in Xian Prefecture. At the beginning of Shenlong his offices and titles were restored posthumously, and his son Yixun was made Prince by Succession. When Yixun had first been banished, he had hidden himself as a hired labourer, and Guan, Prince of Xu by Succession, coveting his title and fief, accused Yixun of being an impostor, so he was again exiled beyond the Ridges. At the beginning of Kaiyuan, Qiu, son of Sujie, was made Shangjin's heir, but the Princess of Yuzhen memorialised that Yixun was truly Shangjin's son, so Qiu's title was taken away and Yixun was again made Prince by Succession and appointed Director of the Court of the Watches. When he died his son Hui succeeded him. Edit