Cheng Cui 成倅

According to the Annals of the Three Young Emperors, in the 4th month, in summer, of the 5th year of Ganlu (260), an edict raised the General-in-Chief Sima Wenwang (Sima Zhao) to Chancellor of State, enfeoffed him as Duke of Jin and added the Nine Bestowments. On the jichou day of the 5th month the Duke of Gaogui Village died, at the age of twenty. The Empress Dowager issued an order stating that the Duke of Gaogui Village had summoned the Palace Attendant Wang Chen, the Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary Wang Ye and the Master of Writing Wang Jing and shown them an edict on yellow silk from the fold of his robe, and that when Wang Chen and Wang Ye informed the General-in-Chief, he led his attendants out of the Yunlong Gate, drew his sword himself and entered among the ranks of soldiers, where he was struck down by the vanguard. Records, Wei 4 §97–98 · 100–101

On the wushen day the General-in-Chief Wenwang submitted a memorial. When the Duke of Gaogui Village, leading his attendants and soldiers, came toward his quarters with swords drawn, sounding gongs and drums, he wrote, he had feared that blades would clash and had ordered his officers and men to do no harm, warning that anyone who disobeyed would be dealt with under military law. But Cheng Ji, Retainer of the Crown Prince and younger brother of the Cavalry Commander Cheng Cui, had wilfully plunged into the ranks and struck the Duke, finally causing his death, and so he had at once seized Cheng Ji and carried out military law. Records, Wei 4 §107

Wenwang went on to say that he had issued order after order that no one approach the imperial carriage, but that Cheng Ji had suddenly rushed into the ranks and brought about the great calamity. Stating that under the law those guilty of great treason and depravity are beheaded together with their parents, wives, children and siblings, he reported that he had ordered the Attending Censor to arrest Cheng Ji's family and hand them over to the Commandant of Justice for judgement of their crime. In her edict the Empress Dowager said that she had thought Cheng Ji could not simply be treated as guilty of great treason, but that since the General-in-Chief's intent was earnest and his words were moving, she granted what he had memorialized. Records, Wei 4 §108–110

In Chen Shou's main text, Cheng Cui appears only in the single phrase 'younger brother of the Cavalry Commander Cheng Cui' in this memorial, and his courtesy name and origin, his other offices and deeds, and his death are not recorded. Records, Wei 4 §107