苏康 / Su Kang (late Han)

Overview

苏康 / Su Kang is a late-Han zhongchangshi introduced by Hanji 884 as a co-target in the first selective anti-eunuch punishment authorized by 窦妙 / 窦皇太后. The source gives him less individual detail than 管霸, but places both men in the same arrest-and-execution step.

Current Profile

Su Kang’s current profile is a narrow companion case. He matters because the first action against eunuch power is plural, not purely symbolic: Dou Miao allows Guan Ba and Su Kang to be arrested and executed after rejecting a complete purge.

At the same time, Su Kang’s case shows the limit of that action. The source does not present his execution as removing 曹节, 王甫, or the broader near-palace access environment that Chen Fan and Dou Wu see as dangerous.

Key Characteristics

• Su Kang is a zhongchangshi attached to the first anti-eunuch arrest step in Hanji 884.
• His individual biography remains thin in the current evidence.
• His execution confirms that Dou Miao accepts some punishment of eunuch actors.
• His case also shows the incompleteness of selective punishment when the larger access network survives.

Evidence

• Co-target status: Hanji 884 says Su Kang is arrested and executed with Guan Ba.
• Selective-purge context: Hanji 884 places his punishment immediately after Dou Miao says only lawbreaking eunuchs should be punished.
• Limited individual detail: Hanji 884 names Su Kang without giving the same power-and-ability description attached to Guan Ba.
• Unresolved target field: Hanji 884 leaves Cao Jie and Wang Fu in the broader removal question after the first executions.

Qualifications

The source does not provide a complete biography, separate accusation, or family network for Su Kang. The page should therefore remain a source-bounded entity until later sources add more evidence.

What Changed

• The page creates Su Kang as the paired execution case in Dou Miao’s limited purge.
• The current profile keeps his significance tied to the first anti-eunuch action rather than treating him as a later countercoup organizer.

Relationships

• 管霸 - paired target arrested and executed in the same first purge action.
• 窦妙 / 窦皇太后 - authority figure whose limited approval makes the arrest possible.
• 窦武 - anti-eunuch powerholder whose pressure precedes Su Kang’s punishment.
• 陈蕃 - urgency advocate whose broader removal logic is not completed by Su Kang’s execution.
• 曹节 and 王甫 - unresolved senior target field after the selective punishment.
• 死斗局优柔寡断风险 - timing-risk concept clarified by partial action in a lethal conflict.