张婴 / Zhang Ying (Guangling, late Han)

Overview

张婴 / Zhang Ying (Guangling, late Han) enters the wiki through Hanji 825 as the rebel who rises again in 广陵郡 after 张纲 has died. Hanji 823 now supplies the missing prehistory: Zhang Ying had disturbed Yang and Xu for more than ten years, accepted Zhang Gang’s direct negotiation, surrendered with more than ten thousand followers and families, and was stabilized through residence, land, and office arrangements before the settlement later frayed.

Current Profile

Hanji 823 presents Zhang Ying as the head of a long-running Guangling rebellion. The episode frames his movement as arising from real anger at predatory two-thousand-shi officials, while still treating rebellion against the Han court as politically illegitimate and militarily doomed if he refuses settlement.

Zhang Ying’s turning point comes when Zhang Gang arrives without asking for more troops and asks to meet him directly. Zhang Gang’s speech gives Zhang Ying a path to surrender without denying the rebels’ grievance: the state can recognize abuse, pardon the group, grant status, and use local offices to absorb descendants, while also retaining the threat of a multi-province army if Zhang Ying rejects terms.

The surrender is not merely verbal. Zhang Ying brings more than ten thousand followers and families out of rebellion, and Zhang Gang disperses them, chooses housing and farmland for Zhang Ying, and gives office routes to younger kin or descendants who want local service. Zhang Ying’s group mourns Zhang Gang’s death and helps carry the coffin home, which shows that the settlement created personal attachment.

Hanji 825 supplies the rebound. After Zhang Gang dies, Zhang Ying again gathers several thousand people and occupies Guangling. The profile therefore holds both facts together: Zhang Ying is a successful surrender case under Zhang Gang and also evidence that person-dependent pacification can reopen when the trusted official disappears.

Key Characteristics

• Long-running Guangling rebel whose movement affects Yang and Xu before Zhang Gang’s appointment.
• Grievance figure whose rebellion is explained through earlier official greed and violence without being treated as righteous.
• Surrender actor who responds to a negotiation that pairs dignity, pardon, and credible coercive alternative.
• Reintegration case whose followers and families are dispersed and settled rather than simply crushed.
• Person-dependent pacification test because mourning after Zhang Gang’s death coexists with later renewed revolt.
• Disambiguated from 张英, the later Liu Yao-side Jiangdong officer.

Evidence

• Long-running disturbance: Hanji 823 says Zhang Ying has disturbed the Yang-Xu region for more than ten years before Zhang Gang arrives.
• Grievance and illegitimacy: Hanji 823 says Zhang Gang names greedy and violent officials as the cause of anger while warning Zhang Ying that continued rebellion is not righteous and invites imperial force.
• Surrender and settlement: Hanji 823 says Zhang Ying surrenders with more than ten thousand people and families, after which Zhang Gang disperses followers and arranges housing, farmland, and local office pathways.
• Mourning and attachment: Hanji 823 says Zhang Ying and more than five hundred people mourn Zhang Gang and escort the coffin home.
• Renewed revolt: Hanji 825 says Zhang Ying again gathers several thousand people and occupies Guangling after Zhang Gang’s death.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 823 and Hanji 825. It does not reconstruct Zhang Ying’s full family background, exact military organization, later suppression, or the precise legal titles implied by the surrender settlement. Hanji 823’s transcript form 张英 is normalized to 张婴 because Hanji 825 already uses the Guangling Zhang Ying identity and the received Tongjian passage distinguishes him from the later 张英.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 823 as the full prehistory of Zhang Ying’s rebellion, negotiated surrender, and settlement under Zhang Gang.
• Reframed Hanji 825’s renewed revolt as a rebound after documented submission rather than the first visible Zhang Ying event.
• Added the identity caution separating Guangling 张婴 from the later Jiangdong 张英.

Relationships

• 张纲 - official whose personal credibility brings Zhang Ying into surrender and whose death exposes the settlement’s fragility.
• 广陵郡 - commandery where Zhang Ying both surrenders under Zhang Gang and later rises again.
• 扬州 - one side of the broader regional field affected by Zhang Ying’s long-running disturbance.
• 徐州 - paired regional field affected by Zhang Ying before the Guangling surrender.
• 查因安抚式治理 - concept clarified by Zhang Ying’s grievance-aware surrender and reintegration.
• 仁厚地方治理 - concept extended by the non-crushing settlement of Zhang Ying’s followers and family group.
• 人亡政息式治理脆弱性 - failure mode shown when the pacification does not outlive Zhang Gang reliably.
• 张英 - distinct later figure whose name overlap requires disambiguation.