苏康 / Su Kang (late Han)

Overview

苏康 / Su Kang is a late-Han zhongchangshi whose current wiki profile connects underpriced property acquisition under 汉桓帝 with later execution in 窦妙 / 窦皇太后’s first selective anti-eunuch punishment. He remains less individually described than 管霸, but the added evidence makes his wrongdoing more concrete than a bare co-target label.

Current Profile

Su Kang’s current profile is a companion case with one concrete property branch. In the 165 CE layer, he and Guan Ba obtain valuable land and residences cheaply, while local authorities do not dare demand restitution. 刘祐 orders confiscation, but the court punishes Liu You instead, confirming Su Kang’s protection by proximity to eunuch power.

In the 168 CE layer, Su Kang 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 whose current evidence includes protected property acquisition before later arrest.
• His individual biography remains thinner than Guan Ba’s, but his property branch gives him independent content.
• Liu You’s punishment after trying to confiscate the holdings marks Su Kang as a beneficiary of palace protection.
• 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

• Property privilege: Hanji 866 says Su Kang and Guan Ba acquire valuable land and residences cheaply while local offices fear challenging them.
• Confiscation reversal: Hanji 866 says Liu You orders confiscation of the holdings but is punished with Li Ying and Feng Gun.
• 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 current sources do not provide a complete biography, separate family network, or role after execution for Su Kang. His page should therefore remain a bounded profile around protected property acquisition and the later selective purge.

What Changed

• The profile now includes Su Kang’s earlier property-acquisition privilege and Liu You’s failed confiscation order.
• The later execution remains a limited anti-eunuch action rather than a complete removal of the palace-access network.

Relationships

• 管霸 - paired target arrested and executed in the same first purge action.
• 刘祐 - fiscal official punished after trying to confiscate Su Kang and Guan Ba’s property acquisitions.
• 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.