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陈宫 / Chen Gong (late Han)

Hanji 964 is treated cautiously as a backfill for Chen Gong’s earliest Yanzhou invitation role. The transcript renders the persuader as “成公,” but the content matches the existing Yanzhou branch in which Chen Gong helps make 曹操 acceptable to local officials after 刘岱 dies. This page records the connection as source-scoped transcript normalization rather than an independent new certainty.

Hanji 973 gives Chen Gong’s open action before Hanji 974 supplies the motive layer. With 曹操 campaigning in 徐州, Chen Gong and 张邈 welcome 吕布 into 兖州, cutting Cao Cao’s rear down to a few remaining cities.

The source uses the action as a cliffhanger rather than a full explanation. It marks Chen Gong as the practical bridge between Cao Cao’s external campaign and the internal Yanzhou collapse that later pages analyze through local-elite fear and adviser faction.

Hanji 974 supplies the source’s motive layer before Chen Gong appears in the open 兖州 rupture. The episode presents Chen Gong as a Yanzhou-side elite actor who had helped bring 曹操 into the province, then becomes alarmed after 边让 is killed and Cao Cao’s reliance on kin and outsiders seems to narrow local elite security.

In this source, Chen Gong’s advice to 张邈 turns fear into a strategic proposal. With Cao Cao away in 徐州, Chen Gong, 许汜, 王楷, and 张超 argue that Zhang Miao can invite 吕布 and jointly control Yanzhou. This makes Chen Gong part of 地方士族安全恐慌 before later pages treat him as Lü Bu’s Yanzhou gentry channel.

Hanji 975 adds Chen Gong’s first role in the Yanzhou rupture before the later Fan County and Cangting branches. While 曹操 is away in 徐州, Chen Gong and 张邈 welcome 吕布 as 兖州 governor, turning Cao Cao’s rear into a legitimacy and command crisis.

This source does not yet develop Chen Gong’s later tactical movement toward 东阿. Its contribution is the earlier political conversion: internal officials and local actors are described as joining the rebellion, so Chen Gong’s role begins as an insider alignment shift that 荀彧 has to detect before it becomes a completed provincial loss.

Hanji 978 adds Chen Gong as a pressure actor in the immediate pre-Cangting Yanzhou crisis. The source says 程昱 is sent east because Chen Gong is threatening 东阿, and Cheng Yu’s persuasion of 靳允 at 范县 is framed partly by comparing Chen Gong and 吕布’s durability against 曹操.

Hanji 979 adds Chen Gong’s failed approach to 东阿 before his later field defeat with 吕布. He tries to reach the remaining Cao Cao-side base through 仓亭津, but 程昱 blocks the crossing and pulls away boats, preventing the attack from converting Yanzhou betrayal into complete base loss.

Hanji 987 adds Chen Gong’s immediately earlier field role before the Xiapi factional-balance episode. He appears with 吕布 leading more than ten thousand troops from Dongming against 曹操 in 兖州, only to be defeated when Cao Cao uses the dike and forest terrain at 定陶之战.

陈宫 / Chen Gong (late Han) enters the wiki through Hanji 1000 as the high-ranking 吕布 adviser whom 曹性 accuses of involvement in 郝萌’s Xiapi revolt. The source says Chen Gong is sitting beside Lü Bu when named and reportedly blushes, but Lü Bu does not punish him.

The episode’s interpretation is that Chen Gong cannot be read only as an individual suspect. He represents the Yanzhou士族 and adviser channel that helped Lü Bu after he entered Cao Cao’s former Yanzhou base, while 高顺 and 张辽 represent Lü Bu’s Bingzhou military core. Punishing Chen Gong would therefore risk breaking a factional balance Lü Bu still needs.

The page keeps several claims source-scoped: possible gray contact with 袁术, the meaning of Chen Gong’s blush, and the idea that shame could be used as political performance. The wiki records those as part of 吕布集团派系平衡, not as settled independent proof of Chen Gong’s role in the revolt.

Hanji 1025 adds the immediate pre-execution position. 荀攸 and 郭嘉 tell 曹操 that Chen Gong has wisdom but is slow to decide, so the Xiapi siege should be pressed before he settles a plan. Inside the city, Chen Gong opposes 吕布’s surrender impulse, but 侯成, 宋宪, and 魏续 capture him with 高顺 and hand over the troops, turning his protected factional position into lost command leverage.

Hanji 1026 gives Chen Gong’s endpoint after 曹操 captures 下邳. Chen Gong says 吕布 failed because he did not follow Chen Gong’s advice, then accepts execution after Cao Cao asks about his mother, wife, and children. The source adds a political-memory layer: Cao Cao kills Chen Gong but later supports his mother and arranges care for his family.

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