Yang Zhen was born in Huayin, Hongnong. I liked studying when I was a teenager. I studied Ouyang Shangshu from Yuhuan Taiqing Palace, studied Confucian classics and read many books. I didn't get to the end of my study. Confucian scholars at that time therefore called him "Confucius Yang Qi Bo in Kansai", who usually lived in Lake City and never replied to the grand invitation of counties for decades. People say that he missed a good opportunity, but his ambition is getting stronger and stronger.
When General Deng Zhi heard that he was talented, he recommended him as an outstanding talent and was promoted to Jingzhou secretariat and Donglai satrap for many times. I passed Changyi when I took office. Earlier, Changyi, a Jingzhou scholar recommended by him, invited Wang Mi to meet him and gave him ten catties of gold in the evening. Yang Zhen said, "As an old friend, I know you, but you don't know your old friend. Why? " Wang Mi said, "Nobody knows at midnight." Yang Zhen said, "Heaven knows, earth knows, I know, and you know. How can you say that no one knows! " Wang Mi withdrew from the guest room in shame. Later, he was transferred to Zhuo Jun. He is fair and honest by nature and does not accept personal demands.
Yang Zhen's descendants often eat vegetarian dishes and go out on foot. Some relatives, friends and elders asked him to buy land for future generations, but he refused, saying, "Isn't it a rich legacy to let future generations boast that they are descendants of innocent officials and leave their names to them?"
In the fourth year of Yuan Dynasty, the court recruited him as a servant and promoted him as a squire. Prior to this, the selection and recommendation of doctors were mostly not based on actual ability. Yang Zhen recommended Chen Yanglun, a famous scholar in Ming Dynasty, which made Confucianism show its inheritance and was praised by many Confucian scholars.
In the first year of Yongning, Liu Kai was replaced as Stuart. The following year, Empress Dowager Deng died, and eunuchs' minions began to run amok. Andy's wet nurse Wang Sheng gave birth to the emperor by virtue of her kindness. Wang Sheng's daughter, Bo Rong, went in and out of the palace at will, spread news, committed treason and engaged in bribery, which was particularly extravagant and wasteful. He colluded privately with Liu Gui, the cousin of Hou Liuhu in Chaoyang. Liu Gui married her and made her inherit the title of Tiger Knight and become a servant. Yang Zhen hated it, wrote to the court to remonstrate, but did not reply after playing hydrophobic.
In two years, he replaced Liu Kai as Qiu. Ku's uncle, Da Honghan Gengbao, recommended Li Run's brother to Yang Zhen, but Yang Zhen didn't listen. Geng Bao personally went to see Yang Zhen and said, "Li often serves the country with people the country relies on. I want you to appoint his brother, but I just convey the emperor's meaning. Yang Zhen said: "The imperial court wants the three governments to recruit talents and talents. According to the rules, there must be official documents from ministers. "So he refused to promise, and Geng Bao left bitterly. Jin Wu Yanxian, the younger brother of the Queen, also recommended someone close to him to Yang Zhen, but Yang Zhen refused. Hearing these two things, Sikong Liu Shou immediately recruited the two men, and within ten days, they were promoted as an exception. From then on, Yang Zhen became more resentful.
In the spring of the third year of Yan Guang, the emperor traveled east to Mount Tai. While the emperor was driving in other places, Fan Feng and others competed to build a building. Shu Gao, Yang Zhen's subordinate, summoned craftsmen for torture, and got letters from Fan Feng and others in the name of imperial life, ready to broadcast all the facts. When Fan Feng and others heard the news, they were extremely frightened. It happened that he said that the astrology was abnormal, so they took the opportunity to slander Yang Zhen with the emperor. After the emperor's visit, he sent messengers to take back Yang Zhen's seal, and Yang Zhen closed Chai Men from now on and did not receive guests. Fan Feng and others hated him, so they asked General Gengbao to pretend to be Yang Zhen, who pleaded not guilty and held a grudge. The emperor sent Yang Zhen back to his original place in a letter. When Yang Zhen arrived at Jiyang Pavilion in the west of the city, he said emotionally to his son and students, "Death is the duty of a scholar. I hold a high position for my country. I hate treacherous officials for their cunning, but I can't punish them. I hate harem rebellion, but I can't ban them. How should I face goodbye to the sun, the earth and the moon? On the day I died, I made a coffin out of miscellaneous wood and covered it with a thin cloth. It was not buried in the ancestral grave, nor was there a shrine for sacrifice. " Said he died of drinking poisoned wine, at the age of seventy.