Liang Mao 涼茂

Liang Mao, courtesy name Bofang, was a native of Changyi County in Shanyang Commandery. In his youth he loved learning, and in discussions he always based himself on the classics to judge right and wrong. Records, Wei 11 §24

Taizu summoned him as a clerk to the Minister of Works, and Liang Mao, recommended with a high grade, was appointed Attending Secretary. At that time there were many bandits in Taishan, so Liang Mao was made Administrator of Taishan, and within a month or so more than a thousand households came to him carrying their children on their backs in swaddling cloths. Records, Wei 11 §24

Liang Mao was transferred to Administrator of Lelang. Gongsun Du, who held Liaodong, detained Liang Mao on his own authority and did not send him on to his post, but Liang Mao never bowed to him. Records, Wei 11 §24

Gongsun Du asked Liang Mao and his generals: he had heard that Lord Cao had gone off on a distant campaign and that Ye had no defenses, so if he now headed straight for Ye with 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, who could stop him? When the generals all agreed, Gongsun Du turned to Liang Mao and asked his opinion. Records, Wei 11 §25

Liang Mao said that of late the realm had been in great turmoil and the altars of the state were about to topple, yet the general, with a host of 100,000, sat at ease watching to see who would win and who would lose; could one who was another's subject truly behave like this? Lord Cao, he said, grieved over the peril of the state and pitied the sufferings of the people, and was leading righteous troops to strike down the cruel bandits for the sake of the realm; it was only because the realm had barely been settled that he had not yet called the general to account for his crimes, and if the general raised troops and marched west, the outcome of survival or ruin would be decided before the morning was out. On hearing Liang Mao's words the generals all trembled, and after a long while Gongsun Du said, 'What Master Liang says is right.' Records, Wei 11 §25–27

Later Liang Mao was summoned and transferred to Administrator of Wei Commandery and Chancellor of Ganling, and achieved results wherever he went. When Emperor Wen became General of the Household for All Purposes, Liang Mao was chosen as his Chief Clerk and was then transferred to Left Military Adviser. After that, Bing Yuan replaced Liang Mao as Chief Clerk to the General of the Household for All Purposes. Records, Wei 11 §27 · 72

When the state of Wei was first founded, Liang Mao was transferred to Supervisor of the Imperial Secretariat, and later became Commandant of the Capital and Minister of Ceremonies. When Emperor Wen became Crown Prince, Liang Mao was made his Grand Tutor and He Kui his Junior Tutor, and the two tutors were specially charged with selecting the officials of the Crown Prince's and the marquises' households together with the Eastern Bureau of the Imperial Secretariat. Liang Mao was greatly respected and honored in the Eastern Palace, and he died in office. When Liang Mao died, He Kui took his place. Records, Wei 11 §27Records, Wei 12 §53

In his assessment Chen Shou said that Yuan Huan, Bing Yuan and Zhang Fan walked the path of purity in their own persons and advanced and withdrew in accordance with the Way, so that they were perhaps the peers of Gong Yu and the two Gongs, and that Liang Mao and Guo Yuan came next after them. Records, Wei 11 §111