Translation of the Biography of the Righteous Yang Jinghe

During the Tianshun period, the Royal Guards commanded Menda to be arrogant. Whoever disagrees with him, he instigates secret agents to secretly accuse Luo Zhi, arrest and torture him. Even if the tortured person is wronged, he knows that he can't resist without any evidence. So, he was in power for a while, and everyone who spoke was silent. His colleague Bin Yuan was upright and upright, so Menda framed him and tortured him with a felony, and Luo Zhi was found guilty. Officials inside and outside the imperial court believed that Bin Yuan had been wronged, but no one dared to stand up and resist. There was a man named Yang Xuan in the capital, who turned out to be a soldier guarding the border. He never knew Bin Yuan, but wrote him a letter: "In the fourteenth year of orthodoxy, the emperor was trapped in the desert, and all the court ministers fled. Only Bin Yuan is a captain, but he can protect the personal safety of the emperor and suffer hardships. When the emperor came back and proclaimed himself emperor, he was awarded an official position as a reward, and everyone praised him. Now no one reports impeachment, but he is put in prison and tortured. He was convicted first and then arbitrarily forced by the law. Although the judicial department knows that he is wronged, how dare it refute him? Bin Yuan was framed to death, although it was only one person. However, the justice of punishment and moral justice have been hurt, and everyone has no sense of self-security. I request that Bin Yuan and others be handed over to the emperor for examination, hoping to clarify the truth, so that the dead have no regrets and the living are safe. I am a poor man with no formal salary. (But) seeing this unfair phenomenon, (I still have to) risk my life to write a book. " So he gave a speech on drums, but he was still sent to the Royal Guards Prison. Menda therefore wanted to root out all dissidents, so he sentenced Yang Feng to death with a suspended execution, and let him falsely accuse Li Xian, a college student of Shaobao Official Department. Yang Lan pretended to promise him. Menda then reported the incident and called the third division to interrogate in front of the noon gate. Yang Lan then stated the facts impartially. He said that everything he said before came from his own will and had nothing to do with Li Xian. Menda's trick failed, but Bin Yuan was demoted and his official residence was destroyed. Soon, Yingzong died. Taking Yang Lan's case as an example, the Speaker impeached Menda's crime. Menda was demoted and put to death in Nandan, and Bin Yuan resumed his original position, replacing Menda in charge of security affairs. In the early years of Chenghua, he compiled A Record of Yingzong, calling Yang a "righteous man". Jing He, whose name is Yang Mang, is from somewhere. His father is a painter. During Xuande's reign, he was sent to Japan to teach him how to paint with gold foil. Later, when he returned to China, Yang Xuan learned this skill, but he was able to use five-color gold and gold in a unique way, not just using gold in the old way. Therefore, the colors of these objects match each other. When the Japanese saw it, they bit their fingers and boasted that they were unattainable. Because of his talent and intelligence, although he doesn't study calligraphy and poetry very much, he can often achieve wonders, so his skills are also outstanding. He didn't shy away from the powerful minister, and made the above-mentioned courageous behavior. People dare not look at him with a skill. There was a man who wanted to give him an official position, but he didn't take office, so he hid himself in his own skills and kept himself aloof.