Wei Zheng
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Wei Zheng was born to a poor family in modern Hebei, and joined Li Mi's rebellion against the Sui dynasty in his youth. After Li Mi's submission to the Tang Empire, Wei Zheng became a Tang official and eventually served on the staff of Li Jiancheng, the Crown Prince and eldest son of Emperor Gaozu, the Tang dynasty's founding emperor. As such, he served against the interests of Li Jiancheng's younger brother, Li Shimin (the Prince of Qin), with whom Li Jiancheng was locked in an intense rivalry. In 626, Li Shimin ambushed and killed Li Jiancheng, and then effectively forced Emperor Gaozu to yield the throne to him. Rather than punishing Wei Zheng, however, he was impressed with Wei's faithfulness to Li Jiancheng, and he made Wei an important official, eventually a chancellor. Wei Zheng's promotion to this position gave him far broader freedom to criticise others, particularly the emperor, than other officers of the court. He emphasized propriety and opposed overextending the state. His advice and criticism were not always accepted, but in accordance with Confucian etiquette, the emperor would concede to his suggestions with some regularity.
After Wei Zheng's death in 643, the emperor commented that he was a mirror to show the mistakes of the court, and built an elaborate tomb for him near his own imperial tomb and betrothed one of his daughters, Princess Hengshan, to Wei Shuyu (), Wei Zheng's son. Subsequently, as a result of false accusations made by others in the court, the stone monument that Emperor Taizong had built for Wei Zheng was destroyed, and Emperor Taizong cancelled the planned marriage between Princess Hengshan and Wei Shuyu. However, after the failure of the campaign against Goguryeo in 646, Emperor Taizong, believing that Wei Zheng would have stopped him from going on the campaign had he lived longer, restored the stone monument. Wei Zheng's effect and influence has been examined by many historians long after his death. Wei Zheng is also revered as a minor god of doorways in parts of Taiwan. Provided by Wikipedia
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4by Wei, Zheng, Zhang, Zhaoru, Wang, Xiaoqiao, Chen, Yuanjie, Zhou, MengGet access
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5by Wei, Zheng, Zhang, Zhaoru, Wang, Xiaoqiao, Chen, Yuanjie, Zhou, MengGet access
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6by Wei‐Zheng, QU, Yan‐Fang, LI, Chun, LI, Ling, DU, Fei, HUANGGet access
Published in Chinese Journal of Geophysics (2014)
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7by Kai-Shan Wang, Di Wu, Tao Zhang, Kai Wu, Chong-Wei Zheng, Cheng-Tao Yi, Yue YuGet access
Published in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2023)
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8by Kai-Shan Wang, Di Wu, Tao Zhang, Kai Wu, Chong-Wei Zheng, Cheng-Tao Yi, Yue YuGet access
Published in Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2023)
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10by Haoqiu Wang, Chao Yang, Zhou Sun, Wei Zheng, Wei Zhang, Hua Yu, Yarong Wu, Xavier Didelot, Ruifu Yang, Jingcao Pan, Yujun CuiGet access
Published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (2020)
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11by Wei Sun, Xiuli Huang, Hao Li, Gregory Tawa, Ethan Fisher, Takeshi Q. Tanaka, Paul Shinn, Wenwei Huang, Kim C. Williamson, Wei ZhengGet access
Published in Malaria Journal (2017)
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