刘质 / Liu Zhi (Taiyuan late Han)

Overview

Liu Zhi is the Taiyuan administrator whose source-bounded role parallels 成瑨: he punishes a protected local offender, 赵津, and then becomes a target of eunuch-backed accusation. Hanji 871 supplies the enforcement setup, while Hanji 873 and Hanji 874 preserve the case as a later remonstrance example and prison-death aftermath.

Current Profile

Liu Zhi’s current profile is an enforcement-rebound case. In Hanji 871, Zhao Jin is a small yellow-gate eunuch whose abuse harms a county. Liu Zhi sends 王允 to arrest him and kills him after an amnesty. That action is paired with Cheng Jin’s execution of Zhang Fan at Wan.

The case then moves from local order to palace retaliation. Hou Lan uses Zhang Fan’s wife’s petition and eunuch complaint channels to accuse both Cheng Jin and Liu Zhi. Later source notes keep Liu Zhi as one of the capable officials defended by Xiang Kai and as one of the men whose death in prison shapes Jia Biao’s refusal to shelter Cen Zhi. His page therefore records a local official whose punitive action is morally defended but procedurally exposed.

Key Characteristics

• Taiyuan administrator acting against a locally harmful eunuch.
• Superior who sends Wang Yun to arrest Zhao Jin.
• Parallel to Cheng Jin in the post-amnesty enforcement-rebound chain.
• Remonstrance example of an official endangered by eunuch slander.
• Prison-death case that later changes how others assess fugitive shelter.

Evidence

• Taiyuan enforcement: Hanji 871 says Liu Zhi is the Taiyuan administrator and sends Wang Yun to arrest Zhao Jin.
• Post-amnesty vulnerability: Hanji 871 says Zhao Jin is killed after an amnesty, placing Liu Zhi in the same vulnerable procedural position as Cheng Jin.
• Accusation rebound: Hanji 871 says Liu Zhi is imprisoned with Cheng Jin after eunuch-backed accusation.
• Remonstrance case: Hanji 873 says Xiang Kai defends Liu Zhi and Cheng Jin as officials who removed dangerous people but were endangered after eunuch slander.
• Prison-death aftermath: Hanji 874 remembers Liu Zhi and Cheng Jin as dead in prison in the Jia Biao and Cen Zhi aftermath.

Qualifications

The page uses 刘质 / Liu Zhi for the Taiyuan administrator and keeps the TaiyuanLateHan suffix to avoid confusion with unrelated modern or late-Han Liu names. The evidence defends his public purpose but also preserves the post-amnesty timing that opponents exploit.

What Changed

• Created this profile from Hanji 871’s Taiyuan enforcement case and the Hanji 873-874 aftermath.

Relationships

• 赵津 - eunuch offender whose arrest and execution trigger Liu Zhi’s danger.
• 王允 - official sent by Liu Zhi to arrest Zhao Jin.
• 成瑨 - parallel local official imprisoned after punishing Zhang Fan.
• 侯览 - eunuch whose complaint channel helps transform the case into prosecution.
• 宦官庇护下的地方暴行 - concept directly illustrated by Liu Zhi’s enforcement rebound.