Zhao Yang.

About Zhao Yang

Zhao Yang 趙鞅, cognomen (Zhao) Meng 孟, also known as Ying Yang 趙鞅 (personal), Zhi Fu 志父, and posthumously as Zhao Jian-zi 趙簡子 or Viscount Jian of Zhao, was a fifth century bce Jin state Head noble of the Zhao lineage. Serving as Chief minister under Duke Ding 晉定公, he was head of the Jin state government and army as its highest military commander, as well as a legal reformer, with the feudal-era Jin state uniting civil and military authority. He was Grandson of Zhao Wu 趙武.