匡衡 / Kuang Heng (Western Han)

Overview

匡衡 / Kuang Heng enters the wiki through Hanji 570 as the earlier chancellor whom 耿育 blames for blocking fuller recognition of 陈汤 and 甘延寿 after the 郅支单于 campaign.

Current Profile

The source gives Kuang Heng a narrow adversarial role. He is not developed as a full biographical subject; he functions as the court actor whose obstruction lets Geng Yu show how a military achievement can be diminished inside bureaucratic reward politics.

Kuang Heng’s significance here lies in the downstream effect of under-recognition. If the reward for extraordinary service becomes small and the later contributor is vulnerable to attack, then the state teaches future actors that battlefield risk can be converted into court disappointment.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han chancellor figure currently known in this wiki from one Chen Tang vindication source.
• Blamed by Geng Yu for obstructing proportionate reward after the Zhizhi Chanyu campaign.
• Functions as a negative example of bureaucratic reward narrowing.
• Has no full independent career synthesis in the current wiki evidence.

Evidence

• Obstruction claim: Hanji 570 says Geng Yu accuses Kuang Heng of blocking the grading of Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou’s merit.
• Reduced reward: Hanji 570 says the result was only several hundred households, which the memorial treats as chillingly insufficient.
• Institutional effect: Hanji 570 links this treatment to later fear among people who might otherwise risk themselves for Han.

Qualifications

This page is source-bounded. It records Geng Yu’s accusation about the reward dispute, not a full assessment of Kuang Heng’s career, motives, office record, or the legal basis for the original reward.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 570.

Relationships

• 耿育 - memorialist who criticizes Kuang Heng’s handling of merit recognition.
• 陈汤 - commander whose reward is treated as obstructed.
• 甘延寿 - commander paired in the same reward dispute.
• 因功免责 - related concept because the source weighs service, fault, and proportional judgment.