郑朋 / Zheng Peng (Western Han)

Overview

郑朋 / Zheng Peng enters the wiki through Hanji 478 as a Western Han court actor whose failed attachment to 萧望之 turns into resentment and then accusation through 史高’s outer-relative side.

Current Profile

The episode gives Zheng Peng a compact but sharp profile: he had connections to 周堪, tried to attach himself to Xiao Wangzhi, and was rejected when Xiao judged him corrupt or untrustworthy. Zheng then carries private resentment into factional politics, moving toward Shi Gao and supplying accusations against Xiao Wangzhi, Zhou Kan, and Liu Gengsheng.

Zheng Peng therefore matters less as an independent policy figure than as a mechanism of political injury. The source uses him to show how a private slight can become public accusation when an ambitious person finds a hostile faction willing to use his grievance.

Key Characteristics

• Former friend or associate of Zhou Kan in the episode’s account.
• Attempts to attach himself to Xiao Wangzhi but is rejected as untrustworthy.
• Turns resentment against Xiao Wangzhi into factional alignment with Shi Gao’s side.
• Supplies accusations used against Xiao Wangzhi, Zhou Kan, and Liu Gengsheng.
• Illustrates how private grievance can become political weaponry.

Evidence

Failed attachment:

• Hanji 478 says Zheng Peng was connected to Zhou Kan and tried to attach himself to Xiao Wangzhi.
• Hanji 478 says Xiao Wangzhi saw Zheng as wicked or corrupt and cut him off.

Accusation channel:

• Hanji 478 says Zheng Peng turns toward Shi Gao’s outer-relative group and provides accusations that help remove Xiao Wangzhi, Zhou Kan, and Liu Gengsheng.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 478. It does not settle Zheng Peng’s full offices, exact relationship to Zhou Kan, the content of his accusations, his later fate, or the broader legal record around Xiao Wangzhi’s fall.

What Changed

• Created from Hanji 478 as the private-grievance-to-factional-accusation case.

Relationships

• 萧望之 - rejected Zheng Peng and later became a target of his accusations.
• 周堪 - earlier associate and later target in the accusation field.
• 史高 - outer-relative power holder whose side uses Zheng Peng’s accusations.
• 投机型朝堂站队 - concept Zheng Peng illustrates through resentment-driven factional movement.