刘勋 / Liu Xun (late Han)

Overview

刘勋 / Liu Xun is the late-Han Lujiang holder whose appointment marks Yuan Shu’s broken promise to Sun Ce, whose refuge role after Yuan Shu’s death adds food pressure, and whose defeat shows Sun Ce turning Lujiang into a campaign prize.

Current Profile

The current synthesis presents Liu Xun as a beneficiary of 袁术’s patronage who gains a strong base but lacks the strategic and logistical judgment needed to hold it after Yuan Shu’s collapse. Hanji 983 makes him the appointee who receives 庐江郡 after Yuan Shu had promised it to 孙策. Hanji 1033 adds the immediate refuge scene: 袁胤 brings Yuan Shu’s seals, family, and troops to Liu Xun after Yuan Shu’s death. Hanji 1037 interprets that arrival together with 郑宝’s followers as a grain burden. Hanji 1038 then shows Sun Ce exploiting that pressure with the Shangliao lure while Liu Xun ignores 刘晔’s warning, leaves his rear open, loses 皖城, and flees north to 曹操.

Key Characteristics

• Embodies Yuan Shu’s reward-credit failure because he receives Lujiang after Sun Ce had been promised it.
• Holds a base strong enough that Sun Ce initially avoids direct frontal assault.
• Serves as a refuge for Yuan Shu remnants after Yuan Shu’s death.
• Accepts armed and dependent groups whose food and discipline costs strain his position.
• Misreads Sun Ce’s gift-and-deference performance as opportunity rather than bait.
• Rejects Liu Ye’s accurate warning about Shangliao difficulty and rear-base exposure.
• Becomes dependent on outside rescue after defeat, first through Huang Zu and then through flight to Cao Cao.

Evidence

• Broken-promise appointment: Hanji 983 says Yuan Shu promised Lujiang to Sun Ce but appointed Liu Xun after Sun Ce defeated Lu Kang.
• Refuge role: Hanji 1033 says Yuan Yin takes Yuan Shu’s seals, family, and troops to Liu Xun after Yuan Shu’s death.
• Integration burden: Hanji 1037 says Liu Xun accepts Zheng Bao’s thousands from Liu Ye and later receives Yuan Yin with Yuan Shu remnants and households, rapidly consuming stored grain.
• Strong-position problem: Hanji 1038 frames Liu Xun’s Lujiang as a difficult target that Sun Ce prefers to empty through deception.
• Ignored warning and collapse: Hanji 1038 has Liu Ye warn against Shangliao, then reports Liu Xun finding it empty, losing Wan City, being defeated near Pengze, failing through Huang Zu’s aid, and fleeing to Cao Cao.

Qualifications

The page is bounded to Liu Xun’s role in Yuan Shu’s reward politics, the Zheng Bao/Yuan Yin logistics pressure, and Sun Ce’s Lujiang campaign. It does not attempt to reconstruct his full later career under Cao Cao.

What Changed

• Hanji 1033 adds Liu Xun’s immediate refuge role after Yuan Shu’s death, anchoring the later food-pressure interpretation.
• Hanji 1037 and Hanji 1038 still provide the main logistics and campaign interpretation of Liu Xun’s mistake.

Relationships

• 袁术 - patron whose broken promise places Liu Xun in Lujiang and whose remnants later come to him.
• 孙策 - rival who turns Liu Xun’s strong base into an exposed rear target.
• 刘晔 / 刘业 - adviser whose followers-transfer and later warning both shape Liu Xun’s branch.
• 郑宝 - dead armed leader whose followers are transferred to Liu Xun.
• 袁胤 - Yuan-family remnant carrier whose arrival adds to Liu Xun’s food burden.
• 庐江郡 - commandery Liu Xun receives and then loses.
• 皖城 - base captured after Liu Xun leaves for Shangliao.
• 黄祖 - outside aid channel that fails to reverse Liu Xun’s defeat.
• 武装部众整合成本 - cost pattern explaining the burden of absorbed followers.
• 诱敌离位 - campaign pattern that explains Liu Xun’s displacement.