Lu Kuan (Dog-Blood Case) / 吕宽

Overview

Lu Kuan / 吕宽 enters the wiki through Hanji 616 as 王宇’s wife’s brother and the person who physically carries out the dog-blood act at 王莽’s gate.

Current Profile

The source gives Lu Kuan a narrow but decisive role. Wang Yu, Wu Zhang, and Lu Kuan want to help 卫太后 reach 汉平帝. When memorial persuasion fails, Lu Kuan executes Wu Zhang’s plan by spilling dog blood at Wang Mang’s gate at night.

The act is discovered quickly, making Lu Kuan the exposed operational link that pulls Wang Yu and Wu Zhang into the case. A variant account has him flee to Guanghan and encounter Lou Hu before being arrested and returned to Chang’an. He is soon killed, and his household is exiled to Hepu.

Key Characteristics

• Wife’s brother of Wang Yu, linking Wang Yu’s household to the operation.
• Direct executor of the dog-blood act.
• Operational weak point through whom the case is exposed.
• Fugitive in the Guanghan variant before Lou Hu sends him back.
• Punished quickly, with family exile extending the case beyond his own death.

Evidence

• Household link: Hanji 616 identifies Lu Kuan as Wang Yu’s wife’s brother.
• Dog-blood act: Hanji 616 says Lu Kuan spills dog blood at Wang Mang’s gate at night.
• Exposure path: Hanji 616 says the discovery leads investigators back to Wang Yu.
• Guanghan variant: Hanji 616 reports another version in which Lu Kuan reaches Lou Hu in Guanghan before being seized.
• Punishment: Hanji 616 says Lu Kuan is killed and his family exiled to Hepu.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 616. It does not settle Lu Kuan’s full biography, legal charge, exact route to Guanghan, or the complete fate of his family.

What Changed

• Created Lu Kuan as the executor and exposure point of the dog-blood case.

Relationships

• 王宇 - relative by marriage and higher-status conspirator implicated after Lu Kuan is exposed.
• 吕嫣 - sister whose pregnancy and later death show the case’s household reach.
• 吴章 - adviser whose plan Lu Kuan carries out.
• 楼护 - Guanghan official who sends Lu Kuan back to Chang’an in the variant account.
• 狗血案 - event named from Lu Kuan’s act.