Guo Sheng 郭勝

Chapter 1 of the Romance relates that when ill omens followed one after another in the reign of Emperor Ling, the Gentleman-Consultant Cai Yong submitted a memorial saying that 'the falling rainbow and the hen turning into a cock are caused by women and eunuchs meddling in government', but was charged with a crime on another matter and sent back to his home village. After that, ten men, Zhang Rang, Zhao Zhong, Feng Xu, Duan Gui, Cao Jie, Hou Lan, Jian Shuo, Cheng Kuang, Xia Yun and Guo Sheng, banded together and committed every kind of wrong, so that people called them the 'Ten Regular Attendants'; the emperor went so far as to revere Zhang Rang and call him 'Father', and the government of the state went from bad to worse, so that the hearts of the people across the realm longed for upheaval and bandits rose up like swarms of bees. Romance, Ch. 1 §5–6

In Chapter 2, when Emperor Ling falls gravely ill in the summer, the 4th month, of the 6th year of Zhongping, the Regular Palace Attendant Jian Shuo advises him that if he wishes to set up Prince Xie, he must first kill He Jin. Warned by his Major Pan Yin, He Jin does not enter the palace, and when the emperor has passed away he enters at the head of five thousand Imperial Guards led by Yuan Shao and some thirty high ministers, and before Emperor Ling's coffin places the Heir Apparent Bian on the throne. Romance, Ch. 2 §36 · 38–41

When the officials have finished hailing and bowing to the new emperor, Yuan Shao enters the palace to seize Jian Shuo, and Jian Shuo flees in panic into the imperial garden, where he is killed beneath the shade of the flowers by the Regular Palace Attendant Guo Sheng. The palace troops Jian Shuo commanded all surrender, and Yuan Shao tells He Jin that they should take advantage of this momentum to kill all the eunuchs. Romance, Ch. 2 §42

In Chapter 3, after Zhang Rang and the others kill He Jin at the gate of the Jiade Hall and throw his head over the wall, Yuan Shao cries out that the eunuchs have murdered a high minister, and He Jin's subordinate general Wu Kuang sets fire outside the Qingsuo Gate. Yuan Shu leads his troops into the palace and kills every eunuch in sight, high or low, and Guo Sheng, together with Zhao Zhong, Cheng Kuang and Xia Yun, is driven to the front of the Cuihua Tower and hacked into a mass of flesh. Yuan Shao then sends his troops out in groups to kill the families of the Ten Regular Attendants, old and young alike. Romance, Ch. 3 §10–11 · 13–14 · 16