- Yang Yi
Chinese
t=楊儀
s=杨仪Yang Yi (? - 235) was a minister of the
Three Kingdoms period inChina 's history. Yang Yi was originally a subject ofCao Wei and later defected toGuan Yu , who sent him toLiu Bei .Liu Bei liked Yang Yi very after talking with him and kept him by naming him as Left General Commanding Officer (左将军兵曹掾), and after becoming an emperor,Liu Bei promoted Yang Yi as Imperial Secretary (尚书). While not a particularly spectacular general, Yang Yi inadvertently weakened theKingdom of Shu by slaying the generalWei Yan , one of Shu's only truly capable officers.Yang Yi participated the Northern Expeditions of Shu under the command of the strategist
Zhuge Liang . He and Wei Yan did not get along well, and it was only the command of Zhuge Liang that kept them from fighting one another outright.When Zhuge Liang died during his final campaign against the
Kingdom of Wei , both Yang Yi and Wei Yan attempted to succeed him as supreme commander (not knowing that Zhuge had already appointedJiang Wan to succeed him). Their disagreement finally broke out into a full-fledged battle, which Yang Yi eventually won. He also slew Wei Yan's entire family shortly after.Yang Yi was later expelled from the court for complaining about his current rank. He was later jailed for his libellous criticism of Shu Han, and committed suicide in prison.
ee also
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Three Kingdoms
*Personages of the Three Kingdoms
*"Records of Three Kingdoms "
*"Romance of the Three Kingdoms "
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