张义 / Zhang Yi (Eastern Han)

Overview

张义 / Zhang Yi enters the wiki through Hanji 728 as the doctor-scholar who corrects Liu Xiu’s preferred crown-prince tutor choice by asking whether the heir is for the Yin family or for the realm.

Current Profile

Hanji 728 gives Zhang Yi one concentrated role. When officials and Liu Xiu recommend Yin Shi as the crown prince’s teacher, Zhang Yi speaks severely: if the crown prince is for the Yin family, Yin Shi can teach him; if for the realm, then worthy talent from the realm should be selected.

Liu Xiu immediately accepts the correction. He says a doctor who can correct his mistake can also assist the crown prince, appoints Zhang Yi as crown-prince taifu, and gives him carriages and horses alongside Huan Rong. Zhang Yi’s profile is therefore a personnel-remonstrance case: he converts a sensitive appointment from kinship convenience into public duty.

Key Characteristics

• Eastern Han doctor-scholar visible in a crown-prince education appointment dispute.
• Uses a pointed question to distinguish family interest from realm interest.
• Corrects Liu Xiu directly enough that the emperor recognizes the error.
• Appointed crown-prince taifu after the remonstrance.
• Shares imperial gifts with Huan Rong after the tutor appointments.

Evidence

• Objection to Yin Shi: Hanji 728 says Zhang Yi asks whether the crown prince is being established for the Yin family or for the realm.
• Public-talent criterion: Hanji 728 records his argument that if the heir is for the realm, the court should choose worthy talent from the realm.
• Appointment: Hanji 728 says Liu Xiu accepts the correction and appoints Zhang Yi crown-prince taifu.
• Gift recognition: Hanji 728 says Liu Xiu gives carriages and horses to Zhang Yi and Huan Rong.

Qualifications

The transcript writes this figure as 张义. This page is distinct from 张仪, 张懿, and the modern Zhang Yi page. The current evidence does not reconstruct Zhang Yi’s wider career, works, or later service.

What Changed

• Created this page from Hanji 728 as the remonstrating crown-prince taifu.

Relationships

• 光武帝刘秀 - ruler whom Zhang Yi corrects and who appoints him taifu.
• 阴识 - kinship candidate whose selection Zhang Yi blocks on public-interest grounds.
• 桓荣 - fellow crown-prince teacher appointed in the same episode.
• 太子师傅公器化 - concept directly grounded in Zhang Yi’s argument.
• 选官方式竞争 - related broader issue of whether appointments follow status channels or role-fit criteria.