张牧 / Zhang Mu (late Han)

Overview

Zhang Mu is the Nanyang official who joins 岑晊 in urging 成瑨 to arrest and kill 张汎. His source role is narrower than Cen Zhi’s but still important: he marks the enforcement action as an internal Nanyang administrative push rather than Cheng Jin acting alone.

Current Profile

Hanji 871 introduces Zhang Mu as a Nanyang-side official, specifically a crime-office actor in the Zhang Fan case. He does not receive a full independent biography, but his co-presence with Cen Zhi matters because the action against Zhang Fan is presented as a local-administrative judgment against a protected private power.

The aftermath makes that judgment dangerous. Cheng Jin and Liu Zhi are jailed and later remembered as dying in prison, while Cen Zhi and Zhang Mu escape. Zhang Mu therefore belongs to the same liability chain as Cen Zhi, but the current evidence does not give a later shelter scene or independent speech for him.

Key Characteristics

• Nanyang local official connected to criminal enforcement.
• Co-advocate with Cen Zhi for action against Zhang Fan.
• Participant in an enforcement case that rebounds through eunuch complaint.
• Fugitive survivor after Cheng Jin and Liu Zhi die in prison.
• Source-bounded supporting actor rather than a developed biographical profile.

Evidence

• Enforcement role: Hanji 871 says Zhang Mu joins Cen Zhi in persuading Cheng Jin to arrest Zhang Fan.
• Administrative setting: Hanji 871 places Zhang Mu inside the Nanyang enforcement branch against a palace-connected Wan merchant.
• Rebound context: Hanji 871 says the Zhang Fan action becomes part of the accusation against Cheng Jin and Liu Zhi.
• Flight aftermath: Hanji 874 keeps Zhang Mu source-scoped in the same aftermath in which Cheng Jin and Liu Zhi die and Cen Zhi becomes a fugitive.

Qualifications

The page does not infer Zhang Mu’s wider career. It records only his function in the Cheng Jin and Cen Zhi enforcement chain, with the transcript’s Zhang Mao form normalized to 张牧 / Zhang Mu.

What Changed

• Created this bounded supporting profile from Hanji 871 and Hanji 874.

Relationships

• 岑晊 - co-advocate in the Zhang Fan enforcement action.
• 成瑨 - administrator persuaded to arrest and execute Zhang Fan.
• 张汎 - target of the Nanyang enforcement action.
• 刘质 - parallel accused official in the same rebound case.
• 宦官庇护下的地方暴行 - mechanism that explains why the enforcement action becomes dangerous to its officials.