单匡 / Shan Kuang (late Han)

Overview

单匡 / Shan Kuang is 单超’s nephew and Jiyin administrator in Hanji 851. His source-bounded role is the protected-family offender whose corruption case escalates into an attempted killing of the investigator and a failed demand for formal confrontation.

Current Profile

Hanji 851 presents Shan Kuang as locally abusive under cover of Shan Chao’s power. As Jiyin administrator, he accumulates huge wealth and is accused of licentious conduct. 第五种 sends 魏宇 to investigate, and the resulting report brings Shan Kuang and Shan Chao into the same accusation field.

Shan Kuang then tries to control the evidence. He hires 任芳 to kill Wei Yu, but Wei Yu detects the plot and has Ren Fang captured and imprisoned in Luoyang. Shan Kuang seeks to arrange Ren Fang’s escape. When 杨秉 asks that Shan Kuang be brought to Luoyang for confrontation, the court punishes Yang Bing rather than sending the protected offender.

Key Characteristics

• Shan Chao’s nephew whose office turns eunuch kinship into local administrative power.
• Corrupt Jiyin administrator accused of immense illicit gain and licentious conduct.
• Witness-suppression actor who hires Ren Fang against Wei Yu.
• Protected offender whose case rebounds onto Yang Bing and Fifth Zhong.
• Concrete source for the wiki’s eunuch-patronage enforcement-inversion pattern.

Evidence

• Kinship and office: Hanji 851 identifies Shan Kuang as Shan Chao’s nephew and Jiyin administrator.
• Corruption scale: Hanji 851 says his corrupt gains are measured in tens of millions.
• Investigation: Hanji 851 says Fifth Zhong sends Wei Yu to examine and report Shan Kuang’s conduct.
• Assassination attempt: Hanji 851 says Shan Kuang hires Ren Fang to kill Wei Yu.
• Enforcement reversal: Hanji 851 says Yang Bing’s request to bring Shan Kuang to Luoyang produces Yang Bing’s punishment instead.

Qualifications

This page does not yet establish Shan Kuang’s full career, formal sentence, or death. The episode supplies strong evidence for corruption and witness suppression, but it does not show a completed trial against him. Jiyin is kept as source context rather than a standalone page until more evidence warrants it.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 851.
• Added Shan Kuang as the named offender at the center of the 159 CE protected-family enforcement reversal.

Relationships

• 单超 - uncle and eunuch power source behind Shan Kuang’s protected position.
• 第五种 - inspector whose report exposes Shan Kuang.
• 魏宇 - investigator targeted by Shan Kuang’s hired killing.
• 任芳 - assassin hired by Shan Kuang to remove the witness.
• 杨秉 - official punished after asking to confront Shan Kuang in Luoyang.
• 宦官庇护下的地方暴行 - concept grounded by Shan Kuang’s ability to shift enforcement danger onto others.
• 宫廷近身权力 - access structure that makes Shan Chao’s kinship politically protective.