Zhu Mai-chen (English: Zhu Mai-chen; Chu Mai-ch`ên)

Japanese: 朱買臣 - しゅばいしん（英語表記）Zhu Mai-chen; Chu Mai-ch`ên

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[Death] Yuantei 2 (115 BCE)
A Chinese official during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty. A native of Suzhou. Recommended by his fellow townsman Yan Zu, he served Emperor Wu and rose to the rank of Shizhong. Later, he proposed a plan to pacify the East Vietnam War, became the governor of Kuaiji, and together with General Han Shuo, defeated them. He rose from the rank of Chief Marshal to the rank of Nine Ministers. He accused the Chief Censor Zhang Tang of crimes, forcing him to commit suicide, but he himself was executed. When he was young, he would devote himself to reading books while carrying firewood on his back, and his wife grew tired of him and divorced him, but later, seeing him return to his hometown in glory, he committed suicide out of shame.

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Japanese:

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[没]元鼎2(前115)
中国，前漢の武帝時代の官僚。蘇州の人。同郷の厳助の推薦により武帝に仕え，侍中に進んだ。のち東越平定の策を献じ，会稽太守となり，将軍韓説とともにこれを討伐。主爵都尉から九卿に上った。御史大夫張湯の罪状を告発して自殺させたが，自分も誅された。若いとき薪を背負って読書にふけり，妻は愛想をつかし離縁したが，のち故郷に錦を飾った彼をみて，恥じて自殺したという。

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