吕禄 / Lü Lu (Western Han)

Overview

吕禄 / Lü Lu is presented as the Lü-family general who held the Northern Army in Chang’an after 吕雉’s death, then surrendered its seal and command under pressure from his friend 郦寄, opening the way for 周勃 to take the capital’s central force.

Current Profile

Hanji 205 part 2 says Lü Lu followed Lu Zhi’s deathbed instruction to remain with the northern army rather than attend her funeral. That arrangement helped preserve immediate order but also made control of the capital’s troops the decisive object of the emerging anti-Lü coalition.

The same source makes Lü Lu’s daughter the wife of 刘章 and the reported intelligence channel through which Liu Zhang learned of an alleged Lü-family coup plan. Her loyalty, the plan, and Lü Lu’s own intent remain claims inside the episode’s transmitted narrative.

Hanji 207 part 1 supplies the outcome: 郦寄 reportedly helps separate Lü Lu from Northern Army control, after which the victorious coalition kills Lü Lu and his household during the wider Lü-family purge. The source’s Ban Gu defense centers on alleged coercion of Li Ji’s father and does not settle Lü Lu’s full intent or legal culpability.

Hanji 206 part 2 reconstructs the transfer itself. A proposal presents surrender of office as a way to remove Qi’s pretext and protect the Lü household; Lü Lu hesitates amid divided family advice, trusts Li Ji, hands over the general’s seal, and leaves the camp. Zhou Bo then enters and tests the troops’ allegiance. The conduct is source-supported within the episode, but Lü Lu’s private reasoning and whether voluntary retreat could actually have secured safety remain uncertain.

Key Characteristics

• Lü-family military figure holding the northern army after Lu Zhi’s death.
• Executor of a deathbed security arrangement that preserves surface order in Chang’an.
• Father-in-law of Liu Zhang through an unnamed daughter.
• Political target whose military position helps trigger inside-outside anti-Lü coordination.
• Friend of Li Ji whose trust enables the reported handover of the general’s seal and Northern Army command.
• Defeated factional figure whose attempted retreat fails to prevent household liquidation.

Evidence

Military control and succession crisis:

• Hanji 205 part 2 assigns Lü Lu command of the northern army and says he remains on duty through Lu Zhi’s funeral.

Family intelligence channel:

• Hanji 205 part 2 says Lü Lu’s daughter informs her husband Liu Zhang of the alleged clan plan.

Loss of command and death:

• Hanji 206 part 2 supplies the persuasion, hesitation, surrender of the seal, departure from camp, and Zhou Bo’s subsequent allegiance test.
• Hanji 207 part 1 links Li Ji’s intervention to the Northern Army transfer and places Lü Lu’s household among those killed after the coup.

Qualifications

This remains a source-bounded profile. The alleged coup plan, the daughter’s information and motives, Lü Lu’s intent, coercion of Li Shang, exact chain of command, proposal, dialogue, seals, tally procedure, arm-baring response, death list, and legal basis of household punishment require comparison with transmitted histories. The promise that surrender would protect the Lü household is a proposal inside the narrative, not proof of a viable or enforceable settlement.

What Changed

• Added the mechanism of the Northern Army transfer: persuasion through Li Ji, surrender of the general’s seal, departure from camp, and Zhou Bo’s allegiance test.
• Distinguished the proposed safety-through-retreat bargain from the later reality of household liquidation.

Relationships

• 吕雉 - senior Lü ruler whose deathbed arrangement assigns him military custody.
• 吕产 - parallel Lü-family commander associated with the southern army.
• 刘章 - son-in-law who becomes an internal anti-Lü organizer.
• 摄政终结后的内外合击动员 - crisis pattern activated around his control of capital forces.
• 郦寄 - friend whose intervention reportedly removes him from Northern Army control.
• 继位合法性清洗 - post-victory mechanism that expands defeat into household liquidation.