梁不疑 / Liang Buyi (late Han)

Overview

梁不疑 / Liang Buyi is Liang Ji’s brother and Liang Shang’s son whose current wiki profile now begins before the formal 141 CE Liang-family office handoff. Hanji 820 shows Liang Shang restraining a premature military appointment for him; Hanji 821 makes him Henan Yin; Hanji 822 makes him Zhang Gang’s co-target with Liang Ji; Hanji 836 later shows his scholar associations becoming a monitored and punishable family-politics site.

Current Profile

Hanji 820 supplies Liang Buyi’s earliest current layer. Emperor Shun wants to appoint him Step-Barracks Colonel, but Liang Shang says his son is too young for that military office. Shun changes course and gives Liang Buyi attendant and carriage-command roles instead, making the episode a case where family access is moderated by a parent’s fitness objection.

Hanji 821 supplies the formal office-transition layer. After Liang Shang dies, Shun appoints Liang Ji as Grand General and Liang Buyi as Henan Yin, making Liang Buyi part of the first explicit Liang-family office handoff in the current wiki.

Hanji 822 supplies the accountability layer. Zhang Gang refuses a routine inspection circuit, buries his carriage wheel in Luoyang, and impeaches Liang Ji and Liang Buyi on fifteen major charges. Shun knows the charges are right but cannot immediately punish the brothers because Liang-family harem favor and court networks are too strong.

Hanji 836 presents Liang Buyi as a member of the Liang family whose temperament and associations differ sharply from Liang Ji’s. He favors learning, Confucian culture, and contact with scholars, while Liang Ji is portrayed as indulgent, arrogant, and corrupt. After Liang Ji moves him into the Guanglu xun post and places young Liang Yin as Henan Yin, Liang Buyi resigns and closes his doors, but Liang Ji continues to monitor who visits him.

Key Characteristics

• Liang-family son whose early access is checked by Liang Shang’s appointment-fitness objection.
• Office beneficiary of the 141 CE Liang Shang-to-Liang Ji transition.
• Co-target of Zhang Gang’s direct impeachment against the Liang brothers.
• Scholar-leaning family member whose associations contrast with Liang Ji’s coercive style.
• Brother whose retreat from office does not end Liang Ji’s suspicion or surveillance.
• Household node through which ordinary visits by newly appointed officials become punishable political contact.

Evidence

• Premature appointment restraint: Hanji 820 says Liang Shang declines Liang Buyi’s Step-Barracks Colonel appointment and Shun substitutes less command-heavy offices.
• Henan Yin appointment: Hanji 821 says Liang Buyi becomes Henan Yin when Liang Ji succeeds Liang Shang as Grand General.
• Co-impeachment target: Hanji 822 says Zhang Gang directly impeaches Liang Ji and Liang Buyi on fifteen major charges, but Shun cannot immediately punish them.
• Scholar-leaning profile: Hanji 836 contrasts Liang Buyi’s love of learning, Confucian culture, and士人 with Liang Ji’s arrogance and corruption.
• Office and retreat: Hanji 836 says Liang Ji moves Liang Buyi to Guanglu xun, after which Liang Buyi resigns and closes his doors.
• Continued surveillance and punished visitors: Hanji 836 says Liang Ji sends disguised watchers and later punishes Ma Rong and Tian Ming after they visit Liang Buyi.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 836, Hanji 822, Hanji 821, and Hanji 820 and should not be treated as a full Liang Buyi biography. Hanji 820 shows appointment restraint, not proof that Liang Buyi lacked all ability. Hanji 822 establishes the co-impeachment layer but does not preserve the exact fifteen charges here. Hanji 836 does not reconstruct his whole office career, his exact factional program, or his later life after the monitored household episode.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 820 as Liang Buyi’s earliest current layer, before the Henan Yin appointment.
• Reframed Liang Buyi’s profile as beginning with restrained family access rather than only later Liang-family office power.
• Preserved Hanji 822’s co-impeachment layer and Hanji 836’s monitored scholar-association layer.

Relationships

• Emperor Shun - ruler who first softens Liang Buyi’s appointment and later cannot immediately punish him and Liang Ji.
• Liang Shang - father whose objection limits Liang Buyi’s early military office.
• Zhang Gang - inspector whose buried-wheel memorial directly targets Liang Buyi.
• Liang Ji - brother and coercive counterparty whose suspicion turns family conflict into surveillance.
• Ma Rong - visiting scholar-official punished after calling on Liang Buyi.
• Tian Ming - visiting official punished after calling on Liang Buyi.
• Outer-relative court power - broader pattern in which kinship power governs offices, households, and social contact.
• Scholar-official public duty - value field Liang Buyi is associated with through learning and士人 contact.