Bian Canal embankment repairs
The later Zizhi tongjian reports that Wang Jing and Wang Wu were dispatched to repair the Bian Canal embankments from Xingyang eastward to the sea outlet at Qiancheng.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource revision 2396387, juan 45. Line 107 distinguishes earlier breaches and an abandoned repair proposal from the fourth-month undertaking. The stated route describes the repair works, not an imperial journey.
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- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Environment, health and technology
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- Yongping 12, summer, fourth lunar month
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
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Dating notes from the research record
Read the complete Yongping 12 heading at zztj045.wikitext:101 and the event and surrounding narrative at lines 103–111. Read physical lines 31–32 of sinica-69-02-15.html and sinica-69-12-20.html: Julian AD 69 February 15 corresponds to Yongping 12 month 1 day 5; December 20 corresponds to month 11 day 18. The fourth month lies wholly between these endpoints, fixing the event to civil AD 69. Original quotation begins at line 107, character 3678.
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
夏，四月，詔發卒數十萬，遣景與將作謁者王吳修汴渠堤，自滎陽東至千乘海口千餘里AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In summer, in the fourth month, an edict mobilized several hundred thousand soldiers and dispatched Jing and Wang Wu, the emissary supervising construction, to repair the Bian Canal embankments, extending eastward from Xingyang to the sea outlet at Qiancheng, over a thousand li.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Sima Guang et al., Zizhi tongjian, juan 45; Wikisource contributors, https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2396387; CC BY-SA 4.0; project English translations shared alike.
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