赵津 / Zhao Jin (late Han)

Overview

Zhao Jin is the small yellow-gate eunuch whose Taiyuan abuses make the parallel case to Zhang Fan of Wan. Hanji 871 uses him to show that eunuch-protected local harm could be punished by local officials and then converted into a court accusation against those officials.

Current Profile

Zhao Jin’s source profile is negative and concise. He is described as greedy, forceful, and a major harm to one county. 刘质, the Taiyuan administrator, sends 王允 to arrest him, and Zhao Jin is killed after an amnesty.

The episode makes Zhao Jin’s death politically consequential because it is paired with the Zhang Fan case. Both enforcement actions occur against protected actors after an amnesty, and both become the basis for eunuch-side accusations. Zhao Jin therefore anchors the eunuch-office branch of the same enforcement-rebound mechanism.

Key Characteristics

• Small yellow-gate eunuch connected to local abuse in Taiyuan.
• Described as greedy and unrestrained enough to become a county-level harm.
• Enforcement target of Liu Zhi and Wang Yun.
• Parallel to Zhang Fan as a protected actor whose punishment rebounds on officials.

Evidence

• Abuse profile: Hanji 871 describes Zhao Jin as a small yellow-gate eunuch whose conduct harms a county.
• Arrest path: Hanji 871 says Liu Zhi sends Wang Yun to arrest Zhao Jin.
• Post-amnesty execution: Hanji 871 says Zhao Jin is killed after an amnesty, making the action vulnerable to hostile legal framing.
• Rebound effect: Hanji 871 pairs Zhao Jin’s case with Zhang Fan’s case in the accusation against Cheng Jin and Liu Zhi.

Qualifications

The page records Zhao Jin only from the Hanji 871 Taiyuan branch. It does not connect him to later similarly named figures unless a future source provides stronger evidence.

What Changed

• Created this bounded profile from Hanji 871’s Taiyuan eunuch-abuse case.

Relationships

• 刘质 - Taiyuan administrator who orders Zhao Jin’s arrest.
• 王允 - official sent to arrest Zhao Jin before Wang Yun’s later better-known career.
• 张汎 - parallel protected target in the Nanyang branch.
• 宦官庇护下的地方暴行 - concept illustrated by the punishment rebound after Zhao Jin’s execution.