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赵忠 / Zhao Zhong (late Han)

Hanji 898 backfills Zhao Zhong’s intimate favorite-status layer before the burial-meeting, palace-finance, patronage, and succession-crisis branches. The source says 汉灵帝 calls 张让 “father” and Zhao Zhong “mother,” making Zhao’s page begin with ruler dependence before later action-specific cases.

Hanji 900 backfills Zhao Zhong as the zhongchangshi ordered by 汉灵帝 to supervise the meeting over 窦皇太后’s burial. The episode’s procedural point is that the meeting is not a neutral room: Zhao Zhong’s supervision places the debate inside palace access and 既定结果会议程序 before Hanji 901 shows his pressure on the assembled officials.

Hanji 901 backfills Zhao Zhong before his later favorite, palace-finance, and succession-crisis roles. During the 172 CE meeting over whether 窦皇太后 should be buried with 汉桓帝, Zhao Zhong presses officials to stop delaying and state a position.

After 陈球 / 陈求 drafts the pro-Dou proposal, the source says Zhao Zhong reacts with visible anger. His resistance is read as defensive eunuch politics: posthumously honoring Dou would also revive the memory of 窦武 and 陈蕃, older anti-eunuch figures whose defeat implicates the palace-favorite line later represented by 曹节 and 王甫.

Hanji 921 adds Zhao Zhong’s pre-Yellow-Turban favorite status before the later resentment, palace-finance, and succession-crisis branches. After 曹节 dies in 181 CE, Zhao Zhong succeeds him as acting dachangqiu; the episode describes him as rough, proud, and greedy, while 汉灵帝 is said to treat him with intimate dependency.

This early branch makes the later Zhao Zhong material look like continuity rather than sudden corruption. Before he blocks 傅燮’s reward, joins 张让 in palace-finance extraction, or becomes a target in the 十常侍 collapse, he is already the successor to an older eunuch-power line associated with Cao Jie, 陈蕃, and 窦武.

Hanji 927 adds Zhao Zhong’s earlier resentment toward 傅燮. Zhao Zhong sees Fu Xie’s memorial criticizing the eunuch-rooted court environment behind the Yellow Turban crisis, resents it, and later slanders Fu Xie so that military merit does not become a fief.

This branch makes Zhao Zhong’s later Hanji 936 patronage offer more legible. His attempt to route Fu Xie’s reward through private favor follows an earlier injury: Fu Xie had named the eunuch problem in front of 汉灵帝, and Zhao Zhong could turn the merit channel into punishment.

Hanji 932 adds Zhao Zhong’s earlier palace-finance role. Zhao Zhong and 张让 persuade 汉灵帝 to impose added field money for palace repair and bronze statues, while the same eunuch-side environment turns 陆康’s protest into a punishable insult.

This branch makes Zhao Zhong’s page start before his later Huangfu Song, Fu Xie, succession, and death roles. He appears as part of a court-finance channel in which imperial construction, material inspection, and office-entry fees become 修宫钱转嫁盘剥.

Hanji 934 adds Zhao Zhong’s earlier conflict with 皇甫嵩. Huangfu Song sees Zhao Zhong’s residence near Ye as far beyond court norms and memorializes that it should be confiscated. Zhao Zhong then joins 张让 in slandering Huangfu Song to 汉灵帝, producing Huangfu Song’s recall and reduction.

This branch comes before Zhao Zhong’s later patronage route toward 傅燮 in Hanji 936 and before the succession crisis. It shows the same pattern in an anti-corruption setting: a memorial against eunuch luxury can become political exposure for the official who reports it.

Hanji 936 backfills Zhao Zhong before the succession crisis. As chariot general handling Yellow Turban merit, he sends his brother Zhao Yan to solicit 傅燮 with a private-favor route toward marquis status. Fu Xie refuses, after which Zhao Zhong resents him but fears his reputation enough to move him outward to 汉阳郡 rather than openly destroy him.

The same source later removes Zhao Zhong from office after the 186 CE eclipse and crisis sequence. Hanji 936 therefore presents Zhao Zhong as a patronage broker and resentment channel before later sources show him as part of the endangered eunuch faction.

Hanji 943 adds Zhao Zhong before his death in Hanji 946. 蹇硕 writes to Zhao Zhong and other palace attendants asking them to close the palace gates and kill 何进 before He Jin can strike first, but the proposal is blocked after 郭胜 gives the letter to He Jin.

The source matters because Zhao Zhong appears first as part of the attempted eunuch self-defense channel, not only as a later victim of the palace purge. The failed letter shows how fragmented that channel already is before the 十常侍 crisis hardens.

赵忠 / Zhao Zhong (late Han) enters the wiki through Hanji 946 as a named eunuch killed during the anti-eunuch backlash after 何进’s death. The episode places him near Zhuque Gate, where 袁绍 and 何苗 first capture and kill him before the broader palace killing expands.

His page is intentionally narrow. Zhao Zhong marks the transition from targeted revenge against leading 十常侍 figures into the larger purge in which Yuan Shao closes the North Palace gates and kills eunuchs indiscriminately.

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