Yang Dao
Yang Dao, a Nanyang native of Eastern Wu, served as a guest of the crown prince and urged Sun Quan to restore exchanges between the two palaces’ guests.
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Yang Dao was a native of Nanyang in Eastern Wu. He served as a guest of the crown prince, a Gentleman of the Central Secretariat, and a military inspector. He does not appear in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
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- When Sun Deng was crown prince, Yang Dao was among the guests at the Eastern Palace, along with Xie Jing, Fan Shen, Diao Xuan, and others. He initially served as a Gentleman of the Central Secretariat. At the age of twenty, he refused to associate with Yin Fan, the Commandant of Justice’s Supervisor. Yin Fan later rebelled, and only then did people accept Yang Dao’s judgment. (Recorded in the histories)
- In his final memorial, Sun Deng praised Yang Dao for his quick and eloquent debating and his talent for handling diplomatic exchanges. Yang Dao later rose to become Administrator of Guiyang and died. (Recorded in the histories)
- When Sun He and the Prince of Lu, Sun Ba, were at odds, and Sun Quan prohibited the guests of the two palaces from associating with one another, Yang Dao submitted a memorial urging Sun Quan to restore the formal courtesies and exchanges between the two palaces and their guests, to prevent rumors and doubts from spreading and harming the state. (Recorded in the histories)
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- 史 ch.59 §24→ Sun Quan
「臣聞古之有天下者，皆先顯別適庶，封建子弟，所以尊重祖宗，爲國藩表也。二宮拜授，海內稱宜，斯乃大吳興隆之基。頃聞二宮並絕賔客，遠近悚然，大小失望。竊從下風，聽採衆論，咸謂二宮智達英茂，自正名建號，於今三年，德行內著，美稱外昭，西北二隅，乆所服聞。謂陛下當副順遐邇所以歸德，勤命二宮賔延四遠，使異國聞聲，思爲臣妾。今旣未垂意於此，而發明詔，省奪備衞，抑絕賔客，使四方禮敬，不復得通，雖實陛下敦尚古義，欲令二宮專志於學，不復顧慮觀聽小宜，期於溫故博物而已，然非臣下傾企喁喁之至願也。或謂二宮不遵典式，此臣所以寢息不寧。就如所嫌，猶宜補察，密加斟酌，不使遠近得容異言。臣懼積疑成謗，乆將宣流，而西北二隅，去國不遠，異同之語，易以聞達。聞達之日，聲論當興，將謂二宮有不順之愆，不審陛下何以解之？若無以解異國，則亦無以釋境內。境內守疑，異國興謗，非所以育巍巍，鎮社稷也。願陛下早發優詔，使二宮周旋禮命如初，則天清地晏，萬國幸甚矣。」
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