Meng Ren 孟仁

In the 1st month, in spring, of the 6th year of Jiahe (237), Sun Quan issued an edict concerning officials in office who hastened to a funeral in violation of the rule that they must first hand over to their successors, directing the officials at court and in the provinces to deliberate again impartially and settle the regulation. Gu Tan, Hu Zong and others gave their views; Hu Zong proposed fixing a statute that would show the death penalty, and the Chancellor Gu Yong memorialized in favor of the death penalty. Records, Wu 2 §81–85

Afterwards Meng Zong, Prefect of Wu County, hastened home on his mother's death, and soon afterwards went to Wuchang of his own accord, confined himself and awaited punishment. Lu Xun set out his usual conduct and pleaded on his behalf, and Sun Quan reduced Meng Zong's offense by one degree but ruled that it was not to serve as a precedent afterwards; from then on such cases ceased. Records, Wu 2 §86

In the 9th month of the 3rd year of Taiping (258), Sun Liang plotted with the Minister of Ceremonies Quan Shang and the General Liu Cheng to kill Sun Chen, but the plan leaked out. Sun Chen led his men to attack Quan Shang by night, sent his younger brother Sun En to kill Liu Cheng outside the Canglong Gate, and surrounded the palace, and he had Meng Zong, Superintendent of the Imperial Household, announce to the ancestral temple and depose Sun Liang. Records, Wu 3 §18Records, Wu 19 §88

After Sun Xiu came to the throne, someone reported that Sun Chen harbored resentment and was plotting rebellion; Sun Xiu seized the man and handed him over to Sun Chen, who killed him. Made all the more fearful by this, Sun Chen asked through Meng Zong to go out and garrison Wuchang. Sun Xiu granted it and ordered that the more than ten thousand elite troops of the Central Camp under Sun Chen's command all be loaded with their baggage, and that all the weapons of the arsenal also be issued to them. In the 12th month of the 1st year of Yong'an (258), Sun Chen was seized at the La festival banquet and beheaded. Records, Wu 19 §98–100

In the 10th month, in winter, of the 5th year of Yong'an (262), Sun Xiu made the General of the Guards Puyang Xing Chancellor, and made the Commandant of Justice Ding Mi (丁密) and Meng Zong, Superintendent of the Imperial Household, Grandee Secretaries of the Left and Right. Records, Wu 3 §37

In the 12th month of the 2nd year of Baoding (267), under Sun Hao, Sun Hao had the acting Chancellor Meng Ren, the Minister of Ceremonies Yao Xin and others, with officials and two thousand infantry and cavalry of the Central Army, take the spirit carriage and the imperial cortege east to Mingling to receive the spirit. Sun Hao summoned Meng Ren and bowed to him in person in the courtyard as he sent him off. Mingling was where Sun Hao had reburied his father, Sun He. Records, Wu 14 §32–33

In the 2nd month, in spring, of the 3rd year of Baoding (268), the Grandee Secretaries of the Left and Right, Ding Gu and Meng Ren, became Minister over the Masses and Minister of Works. In the 3rd year of Jianheng (271), Ding Feng, Grand Marshal of the Right, and Meng Ren, Minister of Works, died. There is no biography of Meng Ren in the Records, nor any assessment of him by Chen Shou. Records, Wu 3 §60 · 63