冯绲 / Feng Gun (late Han)

Overview

Feng Gun was a late-Han official whose current wiki profile now has four Huan-era layers: a 145 CE Xu-Yang anti-bandit command, a successful 162 CE Jingzhou campaign managed under anticipated eunuch scrutiny, a later dismissal after renewed disorder gives eunuch enemies an opening, and a 165 CE legal-office punishment after a protected prisoner dies in custody.

Current Profile

The 145 CE backfill places Feng Gun in the Xu-Yang anti-bandit campaign before the later Jingzhou sequence. 梁妠 seeks commanders for disorder in Xu and Yang provinces; 滕抚 takes the Jiujiang commandery branch, while 赵序 is appointed zhonglang jiang to assist Feng Gun.

The next current layer is Hanji 856. Feng Gun receives command in the southern Jingzhou crisis after Ma Mu, Liu Du, and Li Su have failed. Because previous commanders were accused through military finance, he asks Emperor Huan to send a eunuch supervisor to monitor expenditures; the move is self-protection inside a court where military success can later be converted into accusation.

The same source shows Feng Gun’s operational strength. He brings former Wuling administrator 应奉 as a staff aide, accepts rebel surrender at Changsha, attacks the Wuling branch, and pacifies Jingzhou. After victory he refuses a large cash reward, credits Ying Feng, and recommends him for further office. This makes Feng Gun a case where crisis command includes both field judgment and post-victory credit allocation.

The 163 CE layer in Hanji 858 shows the limit of that earlier self-protection. The source says eunuchs already hated Feng Gun; after he returns from campaign, local disorder breaks out again, giving his enemies material to accuse him and have him dismissed.

Feng Gun’s later role is structurally similar to Li Ying and Liu You in the 165 CE cluster. Hanji 866 places him as tingwei. He acts through formal legal office, but the death of Shan Qian in prison allows eunuch-aligned accusers to recode the matter as an offense against a protected network.

The later pardon context is important because it shows Feng Gun was not simply a disgraced outlier. He belongs to the same group of punished officials whom Ying Feng later tries to recover, making him part of a broader conflict between bureaucratic enforcement and eunuch patronage.

Key Characteristics

• Campaign official whose profile begins with 145 CE Xu-Yang anti-bandit command before later Jingzhou service.
• Field leader who uses Ying Feng’s local experience in the 162 CE Jingzhou campaign.
• Reward refuser who redirects credit toward Ying Feng after pacifying the Wuling branch.
• Huan-era official already hated by eunuchs before renewed disorder gives them a dismissal opportunity.
• Legal official whose later institutional role is exposed when a protected prisoner dies in custody.
• Target of palace accusation rather than beneficiary of a neutral review process.
• Companion case to Li Ying and Liu You in a shared left-workshop punishment and pardon context.

Evidence

• Xu-Yang command layer: Hanji 826 says Liang Na seeks commanders for Xu-Yang disorder and sends Zhao Xu to assist Feng Gun.
• Adjacent reward campaign: Hanji 826 places Feng Gun beside Teng Fu’s reward-backed suppression of the same unrest field.
• Financial self-protection: Hanji 856 says Feng Gun asks Emperor Huan to assign a eunuch to supervise campaign accounts because earlier commanders had been accused over military funds.
• Campaign execution: Hanji 856 says Feng Gun brings Ying Feng, receives surrender at Changsha, attacks the Wuling branch, and pacifies Jingzhou.
• Reward refusal and credit transfer: Hanji 856 says Feng Gun refuses a large cash reward and credits Ying Feng’s contribution instead.
• Eunuch-hostility dismissal: Hanji 858 says eunuchs hate Feng Gun and later use renewed local disorder after his return as the basis for accusation and dismissal.
• Prison-case vulnerability: Hanji 866 places Feng Gun as tingwei over the Shan Qian custody case and records the reversal after Shan dies in prison.
• Shared punishment cluster: Hanji 866 groups Feng Gun with Li Ying and Liu You as officials sent to left-workshop labor after confronting eunuch-linked interests.
• Contestable punishment: Hanji 869 includes Feng Gun among the punished officials whose pardon Ying Feng pushes during the later political reset.

Qualifications

The wiki currently has a bounded case profile for Feng Gun, not a full biography. Hanji 826 supplies an earlier Xu-Yang command notice but does not detail Feng Gun’s own field actions there. Hanji 856 and Hanji 858 transcript forms such as 冯滚 are normalized to 冯绲 because the campaign settings, Huan-era court context, and later eunuch-hostility role match the established route. The page should not treat him as a fully synthesized late-Han reform faction figure until additional sources fill out his offices, alliances, and later career.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 826 as Feng Gun’s earlier Xu-Yang anti-bandit command layer.
• Preserved Hanji 856 as Feng Gun’s successful Jingzhou campaign and financial self-protection layer.
• Reframed Hanji 858’s dismissal as a relapse-and-accusation sequel to a prior pacification, not Feng Gun’s first field appearance.
• Reframed the 165 custody accusation as a later vulnerability episode rather than Feng Gun’s only bounded profile.
• Kept the later 169 pardon context as evidence that his punishments were politically contestable.

Relationships

• Emperor Huan of Han - ruler under whom Feng Gun’s dismissal and later punishment reversal take effect.
• 滕抚 - adjacent 145 CE campaign commander in the same Xu-Yang unrest field.
• 赵序 - zhonglang jiang assigned to assist Feng Gun during the 145 CE campaign.
• 赏募动员式平乱 - campaign context where appointed command and reward-backed local action work together.
• Ying Feng - campaign aide whom Feng Gun credits after the 162 CE Jingzhou pacification and later remonstrant who pushes pardon for him.
• 荆州 - provincial arena for Feng Gun’s 162 CE pacification and later renewed-disorder accusation.
• 宫廷接触垄断 - court access condition that helps eunuch enemies turn accusation into personnel consequence.
• Li Ying - parallel enforcement official punished in the same 165 CE left-workshop cluster.
• Liu You - fiscal enforcement official whose case is grouped with Feng Gun’s punishment.
• Eunuch Patronage Violence Shield - Feng Gun’s case shows how protected networks can turn legal custody into a charge against the legal officer.