Xiahou Shang, courtesy name Boren, was a Chinese military general and politician of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
24 Facts About Xiahou Shang
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Xiahou Shang was a distant younger relative of Xiahou Yuan and a close friend of Cao Pi, the first emperor of the Cao Wei state.
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Xiahou Shang was a distant younger relative of Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Xuan, generals who served under Cao Cao, the warlord who rose to power in the late Eastern Han dynasty and laid the foundation for the Cao Wei state in the Three Kingdoms period.
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Cao Pi, one of Cao Cao's sons, highly regarded Xiahou Shang and treated him as a close friend.
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In 211, after Cao Pi was appointed General of the Household for All Purposes in the Han imperial court, Xiahou Shang served as a wenxue under him.
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In 213, after Emperor Xian, the figurehead emperor of the Han Empire, enfeoffed Cao Cao as the Duke of Wei, Xiahou Shang was reassigned to be a Gentleman of the Yellow Gate in Cao Cao's dukedom.
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Xiahou Shang first appointed Xiahou Shang as a Regular Mounted Attendant and later promoted him to Commandant of the Central Army.
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Xiahou Shang was appointed as General Who Attacks the South and Inspector of Jing Province, and put in charge of supervising military affairs in the southern frontiers of Wei.
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Xiahou Shang achieved success in his mission and pacified a total of three commanderies and nine counties.
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Xiahou Shang ordered Xiahou Shang, Cao Zhen and others to lead troops to attack Jiangling, which was defended by the Wu general Zhu Ran, while he was stationed at Wan to provide backup.
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That night, Xiahou Shang ordered some 10,000 troops to split up and board smaller boats to cross the river and launch a stealth attack on Zhuge Jin on both land and water.
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Xiahou Shang gave Xiahou Shang a ceremonial axe and promoted him to Governor of Jing Province.
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When Xiahou Shang assumed governorship of Jing Province, the lands were barren and infrastructure was in ruins after years of war.
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Xiahou Shang married the younger sister of Cao Zhen, an adopted son of Cao Cao and a close childhood friend of Cao Pi.
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When Cao Pi heard about it, he decided to intervene as a show of support for his fellow members of the Cao clan, so he had Xiahou Shang's concubine executed by strangulation.
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In 225, when Xiahou Shang became critically ill, he had to be sent back to the Wei imperial capital, Luoyang, from his post in Jing Province.
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Xiahou Shang was like my stomach and heart, and like claws and teeth to me.
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Xiahou Shang married Cao Zhen's younger sister, whose personal name is unknown; she was referred to as the Lady of Deyang District.
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Xiahou Shang Xuan inherited his father's peerage and marquisate as the Marquis of Changling.
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Cao Pi removed 300 taxable households from the marquisate and awarded it to Xiahou Feng, a nephew of Xiahou Shang who was enfeoffed as a Secondary Marquis.
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Xiahou Shang had another daughter who married He You, He Qia's son, and bore He Jiao.
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Xiahou Shang had a younger cousin Xiahou Ru, according to the Weilue, who served as a military officer in Cao Wei under Zhang Ji.
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Xiahou Shang is a minor character in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which romanticises the historical figures and events before and during the Three Kingdoms period.