巴肃 / Ba Su (late Han)

Overview

巴肃 / Ba Su is a late-Han figure introduced by Hanji 888 as a Bohai-associated participant in Dou Wu’s failed anti-eunuch plan. The episode makes him a compact example of a person who chooses public responsibility over escape once punishment arrives.

Current Profile

Ba Su’s profile is defined by a single crisis sequence. He is initially not discovered when the plot against the eunuch side collapses, but he is later barred from office and then targeted by an arrest order. Instead of hiding or fleeing, he rides to the county court.

The county magistrate offers to abandon office and flee with him, turning survival into a real alternative rather than a purely abstract option. Ba Su refuses. His answer treats a minister’s political plan and legal guilt as matters that cannot be hidden or evaded, and he is executed. The source uses that refusal to test the boundary between loyal responsibility and survival-first political prudence.

Key Characteristics

• Ba Su is tied to the Dou Wu anti-eunuch plan and its post-defeat persecution field.
• His defining action is voluntary surrender after arrest becomes unavoidable.
• He refuses an official’s offer of escape, making his death a chosen responsibility rather than a failed hiding attempt.
• The episode uses him to contrast honor-bound accountability with the practical argument for staying alive.
• His current wiki profile is source-scoped and does not yet establish a wider biography beyond this crisis.

Evidence

• Anti-eunuch association: Hanji 888 places Ba Su among the people connected to the failed Dou Wu plan and says he was not found out at first.
• Arrest and surrender: Hanji 888 says Ba Su later receives an arrest order and rides to the county court rather than fleeing.
• Rejected escape: Hanji 888 says the county magistrate is moved and offers to flee with him, but Ba Su refuses and is executed.
• Survival counterpoint: Hanji 888 explicitly raises the “留得青山在” alternative before honoring Ba Su’s refusal.

Qualifications

• The page is based on one podcast source note and should not be treated as a full prosopographical account of Ba Su.
• The episode does not require the reader to generalize Ba Su’s choice into a universal rule; it stages the survival objection before presenting his death as admirable.
• His refusal also reduces the county magistrate’s potential collateral exposure, but the source does not develop that institutional consequence in detail.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 888’s account of Ba Su’s voluntary surrender and execution.

Relationships

• Hanji 888 - source note for Ba Su’s late-Han crisis profile.
• 窦武 - anti-eunuch plot context connected to Ba Su’s prosecution.
• 赴死式责任承担 - concept anchored by Ba Su’s refusal to flee.
• 安全第一政治生存 - counter-strategy explicitly raised by the episode.
• 忠义牵连困境 - adjacent problem because escape would have implicated the county magistrate who offered help.
• 曹节 - victorious eunuch-side figure in the political field after Dou Wu’s defeat.