张尤 / Zhang You (Western Han)

Overview

张尤 / Zhang You enters the wiki through Hanji 576 as the Western Han official whose self-protective false report opens the Feng Yuan case. Sent to Zhongshan to attend the ill Liu Jizi, he leaves without authorization and then claims 冯媛 is cursing 汉哀帝 and 傅太后.

Current Profile

Hanji 576 makes Zhang You important less for policy than for trigger mechanics. His reported illness and unauthorized return to Chang’an expose him to punishment. To explain the return, he recodes dereliction as urgent intelligence, saying that Feng Yuan is using curses against the emperor and Fu Taihou.

The accusation is useful because it lands in an already hostile palace field. Fu Taihou has older resentment against Feng Yuan, and later investigation under 史立 converts the report into torture, treason framing, and family deaths. Zhang You is then rewarded as if he had uncovered rebellion, making him a case of false reporting that succeeds because power prefers the story.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han official sent to Zhongshan for Liu Jizi’s illness.
• Leaves his assignment without authorization after an illness episode.
• Protects himself by falsely reporting Feng Yuan’s alleged curse against Aidi and Fu Taihou.
• Supplies the accusation that Fu Taihou can turn into a palace revenge case.
• Receives reward despite the source presenting the case as a wrongful accusation.

Evidence

• Assignment: Hanji 576 says Aidi sends Zhang You to Zhongshan because Liu Jizi is ill.
• Unauthorized departure: Hanji 576 says Zhang You leaves Zhongshan and returns to Chang’an.
• False report: Hanji 576 says he claims Feng Yuan is cursing Aidi and Fu Taihou.
• Reward: Hanji 576 says Zhang You is later rewarded for supposedly exposing rebellion.

Qualifications

The source does not reconstruct Zhang You’s full career, medical condition, exact office history, or inner motive beyond the episode’s reading that he lied to escape punishment for leaving his assignment.

What Changed

• Created Zhang You as the false-report trigger in the Feng Yuan case.

Relationships

• 冯媛 / 冯太后 - target of Zhang You’s false accusation.
• 傅太后 - powerful addressee whose old resentment makes the accusation usable.
• 汉哀帝 - ruler whose illness-concern mission Zhang You turns into a palace accusation.
• 史立 - investigator who transforms Zhang You’s claim into coercive prosecution.
• 政治案件证据怀疑 - interpretive frame for treating Zhang You’s useful accusation cautiously.