石德 / Shi De (Western Han)

Overview

石德 / Shi De enters the wiki through Hanji 385-2 as 卫太子刘据’s tutor during the palace-search stage of the 巫蛊之祸. His role is narrow but important: when 江充 claims to find incriminating objects in Liu Ju’s palace and 汉武帝 is unreachable at Ganquan, Shi De argues that waiting may let malicious ministers destroy the heir.

Current Profile

The source presents Shi De as a crisis adviser rather than a fully biographed official. He fears that Liu Ju’s tutor household will be destroyed if Jiang Chong’s accusation succeeds, but his advice is not only self-protection. By invoking the precedent of Fusu, he gives Liu Ju a political diagnosis: a crown prince cut off from the ruler may face forged or manipulated authority before he can prove innocence. Shi De therefore recommends using a forged command and tally to arrest Jiang Chong’s group, investigate the plot, and then report to Wudi.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han crown-prince tutor appearing at the decisive palace-search moment of the Wugu crisis.
• Crisis adviser who treats Jiang Chong’s accusation as a likely trap rather than ordinary legal evidence.
• Actor who invokes Fusu’s precedent to warn that unreachable imperial authority can be manipulated against an heir.
• Proponent of preemptive arrest of Jiang Chong’s group before Liu Ju is formally destroyed.
• Source-scoped figure whose broader career is not developed by the episode.

Evidence

Trapped-heir advice:

• Hanji 385-2 says Liu Ju consults Shi De after Jiang Chong claims to find wooden figures and written charges in the Eastern Palace.
• Hanji 385-2 says Shi De recommends falsely issuing an imperial command to arrest Jiang Chong and his associates so the alleged plot can be investigated.

Fusu precedent:

• Hanji 385-2 says Shi De warns Liu Ju that Han Wudi’s condition is unclear and that the prince should remember Fusu’s fate.
• Hanji 385-2 says Liu Ju hesitates because he does not want to issue a false edict or kill ministers without authorization.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 385-2. It does not reconstruct Shi De’s full career, official title variants, primary-source wording, or later fate. The episode’s spelling and summary are normalized to the established Liu Ju Wugu sequence.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 385-2 to capture the tutor-advice and Fusu-precedent stage before Liu Ju’s open conflict.

Relationships

• 卫太子刘据 / Liu Ju, Crown Prince of Western Han - crown prince whom Shi De advises during Jiang Chong’s palace search.
• 江充 / Jiang Chong (Western Han) - investigator whom Shi De recommends arresting before the accusation reaches Wudi.
• Emperor Wu of Han / 汉武帝 - unreachable ruler whose illness and isolation create the crisis logic in Shi De’s advice.
• 巫蛊之祸 / Wugu Incident (Western Han) - event context in which Shi De appears.
• 太子师傅公器化 / Crown-Prince Tutor Public Interest - adjacent crown-prince tutor concept, though Shi De’s current evidence is crisis advice rather than long-term education.