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董宠 / Dong Chong (late Han)

董宠 / Dong Chong enters the wiki through Hanji 897 as an imperial relative whose access becomes political danger. The episode says he serves as zhijinwu after entering the capital, but then falsely invokes instructions from 董太后 to make private requests.

The case matters because kinship and guard office do not protect him once private advantage threatens the ruler’s legitimacy surface. The host reads the false-instruction behavior as giving opponents a handle against 汉灵帝: a relative who exploits the empress dowager’s name for favors makes the court look captured by family interest.

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