Wei Kang 韋康

Yang Fu had earlier gone to Xu and back as an Attendant Officer of the province, serving as envoy for Wei Duan, Governor of Liang Province. When Wei Duan was summoned to become Minister Coachman, his son Wei Kang became Inspector in his place and summoned Yang Fu to be his Aide-de-camp. When Yang Fu was recommended as Filial and Incorrupt and summoned to the Chancellor's office, the province submitted a memorial to keep him and had him take part in military affairs. Records, Wei 25 §24–25

In the biography of Xun Yu, Chen Shou wrote that the Grand Progenitor regarded Xun Yu as a good judge of men, and that the men he recommended all proved equal to their posts, except that Yan Xiang, given Yang Province, and Wei Kang, given Liang Province, later came to ruin. Records, Wei 10 §16

After his defeat at Weinan, Ma Chao fled and took refuge among the Rong peoples. The Grand Progenitor pursued him as far as Anding, but when Su Bo rebelled in Hejian he prepared to lead his army back east. Yang Fu, who was there as an envoy at the time, said that Ma Chao had greatly won the hearts of the Qiang and Hu, and that unless strict precautions were taken, the commanderies of Longshang would no longer belong to the state. The Grand Progenitor approved, but because the army returned in haste, the precautions did not cover everything. Records, Wei 25 §26

When Ma Chao led the Rong chieftains to attack the commanderies and counties of Longshang, they all rallied to him, but the city of Ji alone held firm in support of the provincial and commandery heads. Ma Chao, who had absorbed the whole host of Longyou and was further aided by Yang Ang, a senior general sent by Zhang Lu, attacked the city with more than 10,000 men. Yang Fu led over a thousand fighting men from among the local gentry and the young men of his clan in close combat and held out from the 1st month to the 8th month, but no relief came. The biography of Xiahou Yuan records that when Ma Chao besieged Wei Kang, Inspector of Liang Province, at Ji, Xiahou Yuan went to his rescue, but Wei Kang was defeated before he arrived. Records, Wei 25 §27Records, Wei 9 §17

The province secretly sent out the Aide-de-camp Yan Wen to report the emergency to Xiahou Yuan. Yan Wen slipped out through the water at night but was captured and brought beneath the walls, where he shouted to the city that the main army would arrive within three days and that they should take heart, and was then killed by Ma Chao. At this the Inspector and the Administrator lost color and for the first time began to plan surrender to Ma Chao. Records, Wei 18 §83–85Records, Wei 25 §28

Yang Fu wept and remonstrated that he had led his fathers and elder brothers, sons and younger brothers to encourage one another in righteousness and to die rather than be of two minds, and asked whether they meant to throw away a deed nearly accomplished and fall into a name for unrighteousness; he himself would hold out to the death. But the Inspector and the Administrator in the end sent men to sue for peace and opened the city gates to receive Ma Chao. Ma Chao entered, confined Yang Fu's cousin Yang Yue at Ji, and had Yang Ang kill the Inspector and the Administrator. The biography of Ma Chao records that Ma Chao killed Wei Kang, Inspector of Liang Province, occupied the city of Ji, and took over his following. Records, Wei 25 §28Records, Shu 6 §28

Afterwards Wei Kang's former officials and people, Yang Fu, Jiang Xu, Liang Kuan, Zhao Qu and others, plotted together to strike Ma Chao. Yang Fu went to see his elder cousin on his mother's side, Jiang Xu, and said that he had defended the city without being able to hold it and had not been able to die when his lord died; Ma Chao had turned against his father and rebelled against his sovereign and cruelly killed the general of the province, so that the gentry of the whole province all bore that disgrace. The biography of Yang Fu records that they raised troops at Lucheng in the 9th month of the 17th year of Jian'an (212). Records, Shu 6 §29Records, Wei 25 §29 · 31

After Longyou was pacified, the Grand Progenitor granted Yang Fu the rank of Marquis Within the Passes, but Yang Fu declined, saying that while his lord lived he had done nothing to ward off the calamity, and when his lord died he had not proved his loyalty by dying. Records, Wei 25 §33

Chen Shou's text does not give Wei Kang's courtesy name, his place of origin or the year of his death, and the assessment at the end of volume 25, which contains the biography of Yang Fu, does not evaluate him separately. Records, Wei 25 §24–33 · 120