袁著 / Yuan Zhu (late Han remonstrant)

Overview

袁著 / Yuan Zhu is the nineteen-year-old langzhong in Hanji 846 whose memorial warns 梁冀 to reduce power before disaster. Liang interprets the warning as a threat, hunts Yuan through disguise and false-death tactics, and has him beaten to death.

Current Profile

Hanji 846 presents Yuan Zhu as a young court official who uses direct warning rather than armed resistance. He submits a memorial at the palace gate advising Liang to be cautious at the height of power and to reduce authority in order to preserve the family. The warning is protective in form, but it still attacks the premise of Liang’s unchecked position.

Liang’s response turns remonstrance into a hunt. Yuan changes name and pretends to have died; his family stages a funeral with a grass dummy. Liang sees through the ruse, continues the pursuit, captures Yuan, and has him flogged to death. The episode therefore treats Yuan as a speech victim whose advice exposes how closed Liang’s correction channel has become.

Key Characteristics

• Young langzhong who warns Liang Ji at the height of Liang power.
• Remonstrant whose advice is framed as family-preserving withdrawal rather than rebellion.
• Fugitive who uses name change and staged death to avoid capture.
• Victim beaten to death after Liang sees through the concealment.
• Source case where corrective speech becomes personal offense to a powerholder.

Evidence

• Memorial content: Hanji 846 says Yuan Zhu advises Liang Ji to reduce power and preserve the Liang family while still at the peak.
• Concealment attempt: Hanji 846 says Yuan changes his name, pretends to die, and has family use a grass dummy in a staged funeral.
• Death: Hanji 846 says Liang captures Yuan and has him flogged to death.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 846 and does not reconstruct Yuan Zhu’s wider family or official career. His memorial is treated as the episode’s source-scoped account of protective warning, not as proof that Liang ever had a viable peaceful exit.

What Changed

• Hanji 846 creates Yuan Zhu’s page as a late-Han remonstrance victim under Liang Ji.

Relationships

• 梁冀 - warned powerholder who orders Yuan Zhu’s pursuit and death.
• 崔琦 - another adviser-writer killed after criticizing Liang.
• 报复性政治恐怖 - concept illustrated by the pursuit and killing after remonstrance.
• 君臣反馈失灵 - adjacent pattern where truthful correction cannot reach power as usable warning.