张绍 / Zhang Shao, Fengguo chancellor

Overview

张绍 / Zhang Shao enters the wiki through Hanji 629 as the Fengguo chancellor who joins 安众侯刘崇 in the failed 6 CE attack on Wan against 王莽.

Current Profile

Zhang Shao’s profile is tied to the same fragile resistance judgment as Liu Chong. He shares the belief that Wang Mang’s actions will threaten the Liu house and that wider opposition exists but lacks a first mover.

The source gives him no independent command success. His importance is that a local chancellor joins a Liu royal’s symbolic challenge, making the Wan episode a small but visible anti-Wang Mang action before later, larger uprisings.

Key Characteristics

• Fengguo chancellor associated with Liu Chong’s anti-Wang Mang planning.
• Shares the judgment that Wang Mang will harm the Liu royal house.
• Treats Liu-led action as a possible trigger for wider opposition.
• Participates in the failed Wan attack.
• Remains source-scoped with no independent later career in this note.

Evidence

• Joint planning: Hanji 629 says Zhang Shao and Liu Chong discuss Wang Mang’s threat and the need for a Liu-led move.
• Failed attack: Hanji 629 says Zhang Shao joins the roughly one hundred-person attack on Wan that fails before entering the city.
• Kinship aftermath: Hanji 629 says his cousin 张竦 later distances himself through a petition praising Wang Mang and denouncing Liu Chong.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 629. It does not settle Zhang Shao’s full office history, his exact relation to Fengguo’s local institutions, or his fate after capture beyond the episode’s summary. The page is disambiguated from modern Zhang Shaofeng and other Zhang Shao/Zhang Zhao figures.

What Changed

• Created from Hanji 629 as Liu Chong’s co-planner in the first symbolic anti-Wang Mang rising.

Relationships

• 安众侯刘崇 - Liu royal co-planner whose banner gives the action dynastic meaning.
• 王莽 - regent targeted by the failed Wan action.
• 张竦 - cousin whose later petition marks the family survival branch after defeat.
• 刘氏反莽第一枪 - concept relationship because Zhang Shao helps turn the idea into action.