郑宝 / Zheng Bao (late Han)

Overview

郑宝 / Zheng Bao is the Yangzhou armed leader killed by 刘晔 in Hanji 1037 after trying to use Liu Ye’s reputation to organize a southward population movement.

Current Profile

The current source presents Zheng Bao as strong enough to command thousands but not legitimate or capable enough to organize a large migration on his own. He wants to seize Liu Ye and borrow Liu Ye’s imperial-clan standing, but Liu Ye turns a banquet with Cao Cao’s envoy into a killing scene and then uses Zheng Bao’s severed head to make the followers submit.

Key Characteristics

• Controls a large armed following in the Yangzhou disorder field.
• Plans to move people south of the Yangtze but lacks enough recognized authority to do it cleanly.
• Targets Liu Ye because Liu Ye’s imperial background and reputation can legitimize the project.
• Underestimates Liu Ye’s willingness to use sudden violence.
• Leaves behind followers who become a governance and food-supply problem after transfer to Liu Xun.

Evidence

• Reputation-borrowing plan: Hanji 1037 says Zheng Bao wants to seize Liu Ye and use his name to lead people south.
• Death scene: Hanji 1037 has Liu Ye invite Zheng Bao to a banquet with Cao Cao’s envoy and kill him suddenly.
• Aftermath: Hanji 1037 reports Zheng Bao’s thousands choosing Liu Ye, who then passes them to Liu Xun.

Qualifications

The page is source-bounded to Zheng Bao’s failed attempt to use Liu Ye and the transfer of his followers. It does not reconstruct his earlier career.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 1037’s Liu Ye-Zheng Bao branch.

Relationships

• 刘晔 - target whose reputation Zheng Bao tries to use and killer who ends his command.
• 曹操 - authority invoked through the envoy present in Liu Ye’s banquet trap.
• 刘勋 - later recipient of Zheng Bao’s followers.
• 扬州 - disorder field in which Zheng Bao operates.
• 武装部众整合成本 - concept explaining why Zheng Bao’s followers become a burden after his death.