许相 / Xu Xiang (late Han)

Hanji 938 backfills Xu Xiang’s 187 CE office movement before the 189 forged-appointment crisis. The episode records him moving from sikong to situ during a Three Excellencies turnover that also brings 丁宫 into the sikong office.

许相 / Xu Xiang (late Han) enters the wiki through Hanji 946 as the official whom the eunuch faction’s forged order appoints as Henan yin after killing 何进. He is paired with 樊陵, who is appointed sili xiaowei in the same attempted reset.

The episode treats Xu Xiang’s appointment and death as part of the same institutional collapse. 张让 and 段珪 use a false order to name him, then 袁绍 and 袁隗 use another false order to summon and kill him. The office still matters, but the process around it has become weaponized by armed factions.

Connections

• Hanji 938 and 丁宫 - 187 CE Three Excellencies office turnover before the later palace-crisis appointment layer.
• 樊陵 - paired forged appointee.
• 张让, 段珪, and 十常侍 - faction that appoints him.
• 袁绍 and 袁隗 - actors who kill him through their own false edict.
• 朝廷开府任官失序 and 名器合法性 - office and document authority under collapse.