张举 / Zhang Ju (late Han)

Hanji 938 makes Zhang Ju the explicit title claimant in the Youzhou rebellion’s origin layer. Allied with 张纯 and 丘力居, he declares himself emperor and demands that 汉灵帝 abdicate, turning frontier disorder into a direct 名器合法性 challenge.

张举 appears in Hanji 942 as a rebel associated with 张纯 and the late-Han 幽州 disorder. The episode treats him less as an independent narrative center than as a signal of how the province’s crisis combines internal rebellion with frontier alignments.

刘虞 offers rewards for the heads of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun while also sending envoys to frontier groups. That mixed incentive structure helps produce surrender and dispersal without requiring a broad military escalation, making Zhang Ju part of the episode’s case for people-based political security.

Connections

• Hanji 938, 汉灵帝, and 名器合法性 - self-coronation and abdication demand.
• 张纯 - paired rebel figure in the Youzhou crisis.
• 刘虞 - uses reward, trust, and envoy policy to undercut Zhang Ju’s support.
• 丘力居 and 乌桓 - frontier actors connected to the same rebellion.
• 幽州 - the provincial setting of the disorder and pacification.
• political surrender cascade - the broader pattern of followers scattering or submitting once Liu Yu resets incentives.