Xi Zhen

Xi Zhen (習禎, onyomi: Shū Tei) was an official who served Liu Bei during the late Han Dynasty. With little information known about him historically, he is absent from the novel.

Roles in Games
Romance of the Three Kingdoms portrays Xi Zhen as a capable official serving under Liu Bei around the start of 210. His domestic stats are decent, ranging from the high 60s to low 70s, making him a reliable civil officer useful for construction and reform projects. His leadership and war are terrible in comparison, with measly scores of 33 and 29 respectively.

Historical Information
Xi Zhen, style name: Wenxiang (文祥), was from Xiangyang, Jingzhou. In the year 201, when Liu Bei joined Liu Biao in Jing province, Xi Zhen came to serve Liu Bei then and was given a staff position. Later in the year 211, he was one of those who accompanied Liu Bei to Yi province to seize it from Liu Zhang. After the campaign's successful conclusion, Xi Zhen was rewarded for his participation and served as the "Prefect of Luo County (雒縣)", "Prefect of Pi County", and "Administrator of Guanghan Commandery (廣漢郡)" successively.

Well-known as a skilled writer and persuasive speaker, Xi Zhen's fame was equal to Ma Liang's but less prominent than Pang Tong's. The Shu official Yang Xi in his "Ji Han Fuchen Zan" praised Xi Zhen as "sometimes showing his talent, and sometimes hiding his talent".

Xi Zhen would later die in an unknown year. His son, Xi Zhong (習忠) went on to serve in the imperial secretariat of Shu. Xi Zhong's son Xi Long (習隆) would serve as an infantry colonel and intelligence officer in Shu. Xi Zhen's sister married Pang Lin (龐林), who was the younger brother of Pang Tong. In 208, when Cao Cao invaded Jing province, she was separated from her husband and was one of the many civilians captured. She would reunite with Pang Lin more than a decade later after the Battle of Yiling, when he and Huang Quan (Shu) were separated from Liu Bei's main army and were forced to defect to Wei. During all the time the two were separated, she maintained her faith in her husband and raised their daughter by herself. Cao Pi admired her for her loyalty and virtue and gave her many gifts.