施延 / Shi Yan (late Han)

Overview

施延 / Shi Yan now appears as a recurring late-Han official whose current record begins with Emperor An’s worthy-and-upright selection process. Hanji 794 records his exceptional examination result and shizhong appointment; Hanji 801 names him among Hongdu Gate remonstrants for Liu Bao; Hanji 815 later records his appointment as taiwei.

Current Profile

Hanji 794 gives Shi Yan’s first current layer. After Chen Zhong warns Emperor An to tolerate direct criticism from recommended worthy men, Shi Yan performs especially well and is appointed shizhong. The source does not yet show his policy voice, but it places him inside a court process where criticism and selection are linked.

Hanji 801 gives Shi Yan an explicit remonstrance role. After Liu Bao is deposed as Jiyin Wang on 124-09-07, Shi Yan joins Lai Li, Zhu Chang, and other officials at Hongdu Gate to argue that the prince is blameless.

Hanji 815 then makes Shi Yan an office-continuity marker. His promotion closes the Pang Can dismissal sequence: after Pang Can is removed in the seventh month, the eighth-month first-day appointment makes Shi the new taiwei.

Key Characteristics

• Worthy-and-upright examinee appointed shizhong after an unusually strong result.
• Early example of Emperor An accepting a personnel outcome after Chen Zhong’s warning to tolerate criticism.
• Hongdu Gate remonstrant who joins the collective defense of Liu Bao in 124 CE.
• Later serves as dahonglu before promotion.
• Becomes taiwei after Pang Can’s dismissal in 133 CE.
• Functions in the current evidence as a selection, remonstrance, and office-continuity marker more than a fully developed policy actor.

Evidence

• Selection and shizhong appointment: Hanji 794 says Shi Yan is appointed shizhong after the recommendation process produces an exceptional result.
• Hongdu Gate remonstrance: Hanji 801 names Shi Yan among the officials who remonstrate that Liu Bao is blameless after the crown prince is demoted.
• Office transition: Hanji 815 says Shi Yan is appointed taiwei on the first day of the eighth month after Pang Can’s seventh-month dismissal.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 815, Hanji 801, and Hanji 794. The sources do not provide Shi Yan’s full policy profile, factional position, exact examination text, exact Hongdu Gate speech, or later actions. The page should remain sparse until later sources add substance.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 794 as Shi Yan’s earliest current layer: worthy-and-upright success and shizhong appointment.
• Preserved Hanji 801 as Shi Yan’s Hongdu Gate remonstrance role.
• Preserved Hanji 815 as the precise office-succession marker in the 133 CE Shun court sequence.

Relationships

• 陈忠 - adviser whose open-remonstrance warning precedes Shi Yan’s appointment.
• 汉安帝 - ruler who appoints Shi Yan and later receives his Liu Bao remonstrance.
• 汉顺帝 - Liu Bao, defended by Shi Yan before later becoming the ruler under whose court Shi Yan is appointed.
• 来历 - fellow Hongdu Gate remonstrant who persists after others retreat.
• 朱伥 - fellow Hongdu Gate remonstrant who later becomes a Shun-era remonstrance channel.
• 庞参 - predecessor whose dismissal opens the taiwei seat.
• 直谏入罪 - adjacent pattern because the collective remonstrance is threatened as hidden disloyalty.
• 任官适任性国家能力 / Appointment Quality as State Capacity - related concept because the source places Shi’s appointment in an office-stability sequence after dismissal.