王成 / Wang Cheng (Li Gu student)

Overview

王成 / Wang Cheng is 李固’s student and 李燮’s protector in Hanji 853. The page uses a semantic suffix because the source develops him through his Li Gu student relationship, his flight-management role, and Li Xie’s later ritual repayment.

Current Profile

Hanji 853 presents Wang Cheng as the trusted executor of 李文姬’s survival plan. He takes Li Xie by boat down the Yangtze into 徐州, arranges name-changing and low-status cover work, and performs fortune-telling in the market while publicly pretending not to know Li Xie.

The source’s later detail makes the relationship more than tactical concealment. After Li Xie returns and Wang Cheng eventually dies, Li Xie buries him with ritual care and honors him seasonally as a guest of the highest rank. Wang Cheng therefore functions as a student-retainer loyalty case where old obligation becomes life-preserving action.

Key Characteristics

• Li Gu student whose loyalty continues after Li Gu’s political fall.
• Protector who moves Li Xie away from the pursuit zone and helps him adopt a hidden identity.
• Low-visibility shelter manager who reduces exposure by pretending not to know the fugitive he protects.
• Recipient of Li Xie’s later ritual repayment, making protection a lasting moral debt.

Evidence

• Entrusted mission: Hanji 853 says Li Wenji entrusts Li Xie to Wang Cheng because the family’s survival depends on him.
• Flight route: Hanji 853 says Wang Cheng takes Li Xie by boat along the Yangtze and into Xuzhou.
• Concealment method: Hanji 853 says Li Xie works under an assumed identity while Wang Cheng tells fortunes in the market and the two publicly pretend not to know each other.
• Ritual repayment: Hanji 853 says Li Xie later buries Wang Cheng and offers seasonal rites to him as an honored guest.

Qualifications

This page is limited to the Wang Cheng who appears as Li Gu’s student in Hanji 853. The source does not provide a broader biography, office history, or independent family background, so the route is deliberately disambiguated as WangChengLiGuStudent.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 853’s entrusted-protection and ritual-repayment evidence.

Relationships

• 李固 - teacher whose political disaster activates Wang Cheng’s old-student obligation.
• 李文姬 - planner who entrusts Li Xie’s survival to Wang Cheng.
• 李燮 - protected fugitive and later ritual repayer.
• 徐州 - destination region where Wang Cheng helps maintain Li Xie’s low-status cover.
• 收留逃亡者的牵连风险 - concept illustrated by shelter that lowers public exposure.
• 故吏报恩伦理 - adjacent loyalty pattern in which old bonds survive political catastrophe.