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governmental buildings, as the eunuchs believed the officials to be complicit with the plot. As the chancellors were about to have lunch, this was reported to them, and they fled. Shu changed into civilian clothes and rode out of Anhua Gate (安化門), but was chased down by Shence Army soldiers and arrested. Meanwhile, the eunuchs submitted a confession that Wang Ya wrote after being tortured, in which he claimed that he and the other imperial officials had intended to overthrow
Emperor Wenzong and replace him with Zheng, and Emperor Wenzong subsequently accepted the confession as true.
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executed by being cut in halves at the waist. Their families were slaughtered. His brothers Shu
Yuangong and Shu Yuanjiong were also killed. Shu had written an ode to peonies that was considered well written, and after Shu's death, there was an occasion when Emperor Wenzong viewed peonies and recited the ode; he wept and mourned Shu.
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served as the chief imperial censor, he requested that Shu oversee the miscellaneous matters at the Office of the
Imperial Censors (御史臺). Subsequently, when Li Guyan became chancellor, at his request, Shu was made acting deputy chief imperial censor (御史中丞). It was said that Shu impressed Emperor
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December 17, the Shence Army soldiers escorted Shu, along with Wang Ya, Wang Fan (王璠), Luo Liyan (羅立言), Guo Xingyu (郭行餘), Jia, and Li Xiaoben (李孝本), along with Li Xun's head, to the imperial ancestral shrine, to be presented like sacrifices. They then were escorted to the execution field and
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As Shu considered himself highly talented, he was ambitious in seeking higher officer. In 831, he submitted a petition to
Emperor Wenzong in which he attached his writing and compared himself to the earlier chancellors
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Jiangxia (江夏, i.e., Wuchang's capital), and the military governor
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Wenzong by ruling on criminal cases quickly, such that the backlog dissipated within three months, and thereafter was made deputy minister of justice (刑部侍郎,
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