Sent Up Letter Defending Dòu Wǔ and Chén Fān
上書理竇武、陳蕃
[Dòu] Wǔ and the rest were upright and direct, but met with entrapment and harm; the treacherous and evil fill the Court, good men are blocked out.
From Wèi zhì, Wǔdì jì annotation citing Wèi shū.
武等正直,而見陷害,奸邪盈朝,善人壅塞。〈《魏志·武帝紀》注引《魏書》。〉
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