鲍永 / Bao Yong (Eastern Han)

Overview

鲍永 / Bao Yong is an Eastern Han Sili xiaowei whose current wiki evidence comes from Hanji 710. He matters because the source places him in a royal-kin enforcement case after Lai Xi’s funeral: he impeaches Zhao king Liu Liang for a road dispute and gate-official abuse, then becomes part of the “two Bao” reputation that makes imperial relatives wary of censorial discipline.

Current Profile

Hanji 710 introduces Bao Yong after Lai Xi’s remains return to Luoyang and Liu Xiu personally mourns and escorts the funeral. On the way back, Zhao king Liu Liang disputes the road with Zhang Han and abuses gate officials. Bao Yong responds not as a court flatterer but as Sili xiaowei: he impeaches Liu Liang for violating vassal-minister decorum and committing great disrespect.

The source then pairs Bao Yong with Bao Hui, whom Bao Yong appoints as duguan congshi. Liu Xiu’s warning to royal kin and nobles to avoid the “two Bao” gives Bao Yong’s enforcement a reputation effect beyond the single case.

Bao Yong’s profile is not only harsh enforcement. When he later pays respects at the tomb of Gengshi emperor Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu is displeased, Zhang Zhan argues that remembering an old ruler and old ties is a worthy form of loyalty. Liu Xiu accepts the explanation, so the episode frames Bao Yong as a legally severe but morally legible official rather than merely a provocateur.

Key Characteristics

• Sili xiaowei whose authority is shown through impeachment of a royal kinsman.
• Enforcement figure who treats funeral-road misconduct and gate-official abuse as a public decorum and law problem.
• Reputation node in the “two Bao” warning to imperial relatives and nobles.
• Official whose old-loyalty mourning initially irritates Liu Xiu but is later defended as principled memory.
• Source-bounded actor whose current profile is court-enforcement and moral reputation rather than a full career biography.

Evidence

• Royal-kin impeachment: Hanji 710 says Bao Yong impeaches Zhao king Liu Liang after the road dispute and gate-official abuse.
• Enforcement rationale: Hanji 710 frames the charge as failure to observe vassal-minister ritual and great disrespect.
• “Two Bao” reputation: Hanji 710 says Bao Yong appoints Bao Hui and that Liu Xiu warns powerful relatives to avoid the two Bao.
• Old-loyalty defense: Hanji 710 says Zhang Zhan defends Bao Yong’s mourning at an earlier ruler’s tomb and Liu Xiu’s displeasure subsides.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 710. It does not reconstruct Bao Yong’s full office chronology, the formal result of the impeachment, or Bao Hui’s independent career. Liu Liang, Bao Hui, Zhang Han, and Zhang Zhan remain source-scoped here because the episode uses them mainly to define Bao Yong’s enforcement and reputation.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 710 as an Eastern Han royal-kin enforcement and “two Bao” reputation case.

Relationships

• 光武帝刘秀 - ruler whose funeral, royal-kin management, and later acceptance of Zhang Zhan’s explanation frame Bao Yong’s source role.
• 高位执法信号 - conceptual relationship because Bao Yong’s impeachment makes law and decorum visible against royal kin.
• 礼制政治秩序 - related order frame because the charge turns road conduct into vassal-minister ritual discipline.
• 朝廷名分高于私人恩主 - adjacent loyalty frame because Zhang Zhan defends Bao Yong’s old-ruler mourning as morally coherent rather than disloyal.
• 《资治通鉴》 - chronicle source frame for the court-law notice.