张伯 / Zhang Bo (Western Han)

Overview

张伯 / Zhang Bo enters the wiki through Hanji 488 as 淮阳王刘清’s maternal uncle and 京房’s father-in-law. The episode makes him the private recorder and possible leak path through which Jing Fang’s post-audience discussions become prosecutable political material.

Current Profile

Zhang Bo is presented as a wind-reading court broker rather than a doctrinal figure. He studies the Yi with Jing Fang while Jing Fang is favored, marries his daughter to Jing Fang, and listens when Jing Fang reports conversations with 汉元帝 at home.

His decisive role is documentation. Hanji 488 says he secretly records Jing Fang’s words and then encourages a plan in which Liu Qing would petition to enter court and help push Jing Fang’s kaogong agenda. Once the plan is exposed, those notes and the princely petition route make Jing Fang vulnerable to 石显’s charge of conspiracy, slander, and improper involvement of a regional king.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han court-adjacent broker tied to Liu Qing and Jing Fang by kinship.
• Learns from Jing Fang when Jing Fang is politically favored.
• Records private political conversations that Jing Fang assumes are safe.
• Helps route Jing Fang’s reform hopes through Liu Qing’s petition channel.
• Becomes co-punished with Jing Fang after the case is exposed.

Evidence

• Kinship and learning: Hanji 488 says Zhang Bo is Liu Qing’s maternal uncle, learns the Yi from Jing Fang, and marries his daughter to him.
• Recording: Hanji 488 says Zhang Bo secretly records Jing Fang’s descriptions of conversations with Yuan.
• Petition route: Hanji 488 says Zhang Bo suggests using Liu Qing’s request to enter court to advance Jing Fang’s political proposal.
• Punishment: Hanji 488 says Zhang Bo is executed with Jing Fang after Shi Xian’s accusation.

Qualifications

The page is source-scoped to Hanji 488 and does not settle Zhang Bo’s full biography, whether he deliberately betrayed Jing Fang from the start, or whether the leak path passed through Liu Qing, Zhang Bo, or another actor in a precise legal sequence.

What Changed

• Created Zhang Bo as the Western Han figure distinct from other Zhang Bo/Zhang Bolu/Zhang Bohou routes.

Relationships

• 京房 - son-in-law and political speaker whose words Zhang Bo records.
• 淮阳王刘清 - nephew and proposed petition-channel actor.
• 石显 - power holder who uses the exposed material to accuse Jing Fang and Zhang Bo.
• 考功法改革反噬 - reform proposal around which Zhang Bo’s recorded speech becomes dangerous.
• 密奏泄露风险 - related secrecy-risk pattern, though this case works through private conversation rather than a sealed memorial.