冯绲 / Feng Gun (late Han)

Overview

Feng Gun was a late-Han legal official whose current wiki profile centers on a punishment reversal during Emperor Huan’s eunuch-dominated court. As tingwei, he becomes vulnerable after a eunuch relative dies in custody and palace accusation turns legal handling into supposed wrongdoing.

Current Profile

Feng Gun’s role is structurally similar to Li Ying and Liu You in the 165 CE cluster. 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

• Legal official whose 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 episode.
• Later eligible for recovery through Ying Feng’s remonstrance, showing the punishment was politically contestable.

Evidence

• 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 only a narrow case profile for Feng Gun. It should not treat him as a fully synthesized late-Han reform faction figure until additional sources fill out his earlier offices, alliances, and later career.

What Changed

• Created the page for Feng Gun as a distinct legal-official node.
• Connected the 165 custody accusation to the later 169 pardon context.
• Framed Feng Gun’s punishment as part of the broader enforcement-reversal pattern rather than as an isolated prison incident.

Relationships

• 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.
• Ying Feng - remonstrant who later pushes pardon for Feng Gun and other punished officials.
• Eunuch Patronage Violence Shield - Feng Gun’s case shows how protected networks can turn legal custody into a charge against the legal officer.
• Emperor Huan of Han - ruler under whom the punishment reversal takes effect.