劳修 / Lao Xiu (late Han)

Overview

劳修 / Lao Xiu is a late-Han accusation figure whose current wiki profile is source-bounded to Hanji 874. He appears as 张成’s disciple and the named channel through which eunuch-backed retaliation against 李膺 becomes the first Party Prohibition arrest order.

Current Profile

Hanji 874 gives Lao Xiu a narrow but important role. After Li Ying executes Zhang Cheng father and son despite an amnesty, Zhang Cheng’s eunuch ties seek retaliation. Lao Xiu then submits an accusation that Li Ying and others praise Taixue-associated游士, receive students, mutually praise one another, form parties, slander the court, and disorder customs.

The page therefore treats Lao Xiu as an accusation conduit. He is not yet a full political organizer in the wiki evidence, but his memorial matters because it translates a private grievance into a court-legible public-order case. Once 汉桓帝 accepts the framing, arrests begin and figures such as 陈蕃, 陈寔, and 范滂 enter the early Party Prohibition evidence field.

Key Characteristics

• Disciple or associate of Zhang Cheng in the Hanji 874 source field.
• Named memorialist who converts Zhang Cheng’s execution into accusation against Li Ying and other士人.
• Channel for eunuch-backed retaliation rather than an independently profiled court power.
• Accuser who frames reputation, teaching, mutual praise, and Taixue ties as political disorder.
• Immediate source-side bridge from criminal enforcement to first Party Prohibition arrests.

Evidence

• Disciple relation: Hanji 874 presents Lao Xiu as Zhang Cheng’s disciple.
• Retaliatory setting: Hanji 874 places Lao Xiu’s accusation after Li Ying executes Zhang Cheng father and son and after eunuch-side anger builds.
• Accusation content: Hanji 874 says Lao Xiu accuses Li Ying and others of praising Taixue游士, receiving students, mutual praise, party formation, slandering the court, and disordering customs.
• Arrest effect: Hanji 874 says Emperor Huan orders arrests after this accusation.

Qualifications

This page does not infer a full biography, office, or independent faction for Lao Xiu beyond Hanji 874. His significance here is procedural and rhetorical: he is the named route by which accusation language reaches the emperor. The transcript leaves his wider life outside the bounded evidence.

What Changed

• Hanji 874 creates Lao Xiu as a source-bounded accusation actor in the first Party Prohibition trigger.
• The page clarifies the bridge from Zhang Cheng’s criminal case to party-network political framing.

Relationships

• 张成 - teacher or principal figure whose execution motivates the accusation.
• 李膺 - main enforcement target recoded by Lao Xiu as a party-network danger.
• 汉桓帝 - ruler who receives the accusation and orders arrests.
• 陈蕃 - senior official who resists the resulting arrest order.
• 太学 - institutional reputation field named in Lao Xiu’s accusation.
• 朋党网络谋反化 - broader mechanism that Lao Xiu’s accusation anticipates before Hanji 893.