公孙贺 / Gongsun He (Western Han)

Overview

公孙贺 / Gongsun He enters the wiki through Hanji 384-1 as the Western Han chancellor destroyed with his son during the upstream phase of the 巫蛊之祸. The episode emphasizes his political meaning less as an isolated defendant than as a Wei-family in-law and support pillar around 卫太子刘据.

Current Profile

The page is currently source-scoped to Hanji 384-1. Gongsun He is presented as connected to 卫子夫 by marriage and therefore tied into Liu Ju’s court support network. His son Gongsun Jingsheng is accused of using curse magic against 汉武帝 and of adultery with Yangshi Princess; once the case is treated as proven in the episode’s account, father and son die in prison and the chancellorship is vacated.

The episode’s synthesis is that Gongsun He’s destruction weakens Liu Ju before the later open Wugu crisis. Alongside 卫伉’s death, the case removes a high-office outer support from the empress-crown-prince side and helps explain why the later conflict becomes so lopsided.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han chancellor implicated in the 91 BCE Wugu wave.
• Wei-family in-law whose office and kinship make him politically relevant to Liu Ju.
• Father of Gongsun Jingsheng, whose alleged crimes trigger the episode’s account of the family’s fall.
• Support-network casualty whose death helps isolate Liu Ju before later open conflict.

Evidence

• Office and kinship role: Hanji 384-1 identifies Gongsun He as chancellor, Wei Zifu’s brother-in-law, and Liu Ju’s maternal-side elder.
• Case trigger: Hanji 384-1 says Gongsun Jingsheng is accused of cursing Han Wudi and committing adultery with Yangshi Princess.
• Political effect: Hanji 384-1 treats the destruction of the Gongsun side as part of removing Liu Ju’s external support.

Qualifications

This page is not a full biography of Gongsun He or Gongsun Jingsheng. It preserves Hanji 384-1’s compact podcast account and does not independently reconstruct the legal dossier, textual variants, chronology of the investigation, or the full family network.

What Changed

• Created from Hanji 384-1 as the chancellor-side support-network casualty in the Wugu prelude.

Relationships

• 卫太子刘据 / Liu Ju, Crown Prince of Western Han - crown prince whose support network is weakened by Gongsun He’s destruction.
• 卫子夫 / Empress Wei Zifu (Western Han) - imperial consort-family connection that gives Gongsun He succession significance.
• Emperor Wu of Han / 汉武帝 - ruler allegedly cursed in the case against Gongsun Jingsheng.
• 卫伉 / Wei Kang (Western Han) - parallel Wei-side casualty in the same Wugu wave.
• 巫蛊之祸 / Wugu Incident (Western Han) - broader crisis that makes the case politically consequential.