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. Hanji 386-1 adds that Liu Ju at first resists this advice, then follows it only after direct appeal fails.

Current Profile

The sources present 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. Hanji 386-1 matters because it shows the advice was not instant rebellion: Liu Ju first seeks father-son clarification, and Shi De’s path becomes actionable only after access to Wudi is blocked.

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.
• Adviser whose proposal becomes the actual escalation path only after Liu Ju cannot reach Wudi.
• 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.
• Hanji 386-1 says Liu Ju initially judges Shi De’s proposal improper and wants to go to Wudi to plead and explain.
• Hanji 386-1 says Liu Ju eventually follows the advice after Jiang Chong’s palace control prevents that direct appeal.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 385-2 and Hanji 386-1. It does not reconstruct Shi De’s full career, official title variants, primary-source wording, or later fate. The episodes’ spelling and summaries are normalized to the established Liu Ju Wugu sequence.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 386-1’s hesitation-and-follow-through layer: Liu Ju first rejects Shi De’s advice as improper, then follows it after direct appeal to Wudi is blocked.

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.