耿承 / Geng Cheng (Linru marquis, late Han)

Overview

耿承 / Geng Cheng is the Linru marquis in Hanji 846 who refuses 梁冀’s demand for Geng Guiren’s burial goods. Liang’s response, killing Geng Cheng and more than ten relatives, makes the case a grave-goods, kinship, and coercive-greed branch inside Liang’s crime record.

Current Profile

Hanji 846 introduces Geng Cheng through the death of Geng Guiren, Emperor An’s legitimate mother in the episode’s wording. Liang Ji wants the valuable grave goods associated with her burial and sends people to demand them from Geng Cheng, her nephew and Linru marquis.

Geng Cheng refuses. Liang becomes angry and has Geng Cheng and more than ten members of his family killed. Unlike the advice and local-enforcement cases, Geng Cheng’s conflict is over property and ritual boundary: refusal to surrender funeral goods becomes enough to trigger family killing.

Key Characteristics

• Linru marquis and nephew of Geng Guiren in the source’s account.
• Holder or guardian of burial goods Liang Ji wants to seize.
• Refusal actor whose conflict centers on grave goods rather than advice.
• Family-punishment victim killed with more than ten relatives.
• Source case for greed crossing ritual, kinship, and political boundaries.

Evidence

• Burial-goods demand: Hanji 846 says Liang Ji wants Geng Guiren’s burial goods and sends people to demand them from Geng Cheng.
• Refusal: Hanji 846 says Geng Cheng refuses Liang’s demand.
• Family killing: Hanji 846 says Liang has Geng Cheng and more than ten family members killed.

Qualifications

This page is source-bounded. It does not independently settle Geng Guiren’s full identity, the exact inventory of burial goods, or the legal form of Geng Cheng’s marquisate.

What Changed

• Hanji 846 creates Geng Cheng’s page as the burial-goods refusal branch in Liang Ji’s retaliation record.

Relationships

• 梁冀 - powerholder whose demand for grave goods leads to Geng Cheng’s death.
• 报复性政治恐怖 - concept illustrated by lethal punishment for refusing extraction.
• 牵连与连坐 - family-extension pattern visible in the killing of Geng Cheng’s relatives.
• 外戚专权与清算 - structural setting where Liang can coerce even high-status kin-linked households.