Yi Yin

伊尹
Yi Yin
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Book mentions
17
Roles:
politician
Factions:
Shang dynasty (primary)
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Appears in 9 chapters:
  • Chapter 3 — In Wenming Garden, Dong Zhuo Denounces Ding Yuan; With Red Hare, Li Su Bribes Lu Bu.
    Yi Yin; ancient minister cited as the model for Dong Zhuo's deposition speech.
  • Chapter 8 — Wang Yun Prepares The Chaining Scheme; Dong Zhuo Rages At Phoenix Pavilion.
    Cited in Wang Yun's banquet flattery: not even the ancient sages Yi Yin and the Duke of Zhou could match the Prime Minister's virtue.
  • Chapter 43 — Zhuge Liang Disputes With The Southern Scholars; Lu Su Denounces The Majority Opinion.
    The farmer of Shen who became a founding minister - first name in Zhuge Liang's roll of great men no one asked for reading lists.
  • Chapter 56 — Cao Cao Feasts In The Bronze Bird Tower; Zhuge Liang Provokes Zhou Yu A Third Time.
    The great minister Yi Yin, paired with Duke Zhou in the court's chorus of flattery after the banquet speech.
  • Chapter 68 — Gan Ning's Hundred Horsemen Raid The Northern Camp; Zuo Ci's Flung-Down Cup Fools Cao Cao.
    Half of the memorial's yardstick: not even Yi Yin's service to the state matches the Duke of Wei's.
  • Chapter 79 — Brother Oppressing Brother: Cao Zhi Composes Poems; Nephew Harming Uncle: Liu Feng Receives Punishment.
    First allusion of Meng Da's farewell memorial — the minister-founder whose task Liu Bei's was to equal.
  • Chapter 105 — The Lord of Wuxiang Leaves A Plan In The Silken Bag; The Ruler of Wei Removes The Bronze Statue With The Dew Bowl.
    Named in Du Fu's second elegy as one of the two founding ministers Zhuge Liang is likened to: 'Akin was he to famous Yi Yin, Lu Wang.'
  • Chapter 109 — A Ruse Of A Han General: Sima Zhao Is Surrounded; Retribution For The House Of Wei: Cao Fang Is Dethroned.
    Alluded to three times, and the repetition is the point. Li Feng claims the Emperor was reading about 'Yi Yin and how he upheld the Shang'; Sima Shi tells Cao Fang 'I have served Your Majesty as Yi Yin served his master'; and he justifies the deposition to the assembled officers by 'following the precedents of Yi Yin and Huo Guang'. The minister who set a king aside for the dynasty's good is the fig leaf the whole chapter is draped in.
  • Chapter 113 — Ding Feng Makes A Plan To Slay Sun Chen; Jiang Wei Arrays A Battle To Defeat Deng Ai.
    Named in the poem on Sun Liang's deposition, as the precedent Sun Chen is abusing: 'The sage example of the wise Yi Yin / Perverted now to traitor's use we see.' The same pair of names Sima Shi used for the same purpose in ch109.