郑飒 / Zheng Sa (late Han)

Overview

郑飒 / Zheng Sa (late Han), also preserved by one source note as 郑萨, is a court actor whose wiki profile now has two accusation environments. Hanji 885 places him at the start of the 168 CE Dou Wu crisis, where 山冰 arrests him and interrogation turns him into evidence against 曹节 and 王甫. Hanji 903 later places the same route in Wang Fu’s case against 刘亏, where monitored association is recoded as treason evidence.

Current Profile

The current synthesis treats Zheng Sa as an evidentiary hinge rather than an independent faction leader. In Hanji 885, Dou Wu and Chen Fan are trying to remove the eunuch side; Shan Bing impeaches and arrests Zheng, and Zheng’s interrogation gives Dou’s side a written basis to request the arrest of Cao Jie and Wang Fu. That makes Zheng part of the fragile procedural path that Dou Wu chooses instead of Chen Fan’s faster kill-first advice.

Hanji 903 shows a later or separately summarized accusation environment. Wang Fu monitors Zheng’s contacts with Liu Kui and 董腾, then has 廉中 forge evidence that Zheng and others plan to welcome Liu as emperor. Across the two sources, Zheng’s stable importance is that interrogation, monitoring, and written accusation can turn a connected court figure into material for either anti-eunuch action or eunuch-side retaliation.

Key Characteristics

• Zheng Sa is a court-associated figure whose importance comes from how others use his statements or contacts.
• In the 168 CE Dou Wu crisis, his arrest produces accusation material against Cao Jie and Wang Fu.
• His handling exposes the tension between Chen Fan’s lethal-tempo argument and Dou Wu’s procedural method.
• In the later Liu Kui case, his social connections are monitored and turned into forged treason evidence.
• His page is therefore a compact case of accusation politics rather than a full independent biography.

Evidence

• Arrest and confession in the Dou Wu crisis: Hanji 885 says Shan Bing arrests Zheng Sa, interrogation names Cao Jie and Wang Fu, and Yin Xun plus Shan Bing submit a memorial asking Dou Miao to authorize their arrest.
• Procedure-versus-tempo role: Hanji 885 contrasts Chen Fan’s demand to kill captured eunuch-linked actors with Dou Wu’s decision to continue interrogation.
• Monitored association in the Liu Kui case: Hanji 903 says Wang Fu watches Zheng’s contacts with Liu Kui and Dong Teng before turning the unpaid access-bargain conflict into accusation.
• Forged treason evidence: Hanji 903 says Lian Zhong forges evidence claiming Zheng and others plotted to welcome Liu Kui as emperor.

Qualifications

• The page normalizes 郑飒 and 郑萨 to one route because the romanized name and Wang Fu-linked late-Han accusation role overlap, but the character variant remains source-scoped.
• The sources do not provide Zheng Sa’s independent motives; they show how his custody, contacts, and alleged statements are used by stronger court actors.
• Hanji 885’s interrogation claim and Hanji 903’s forged-evidence claim belong to different narrative moments and should not be collapsed into one continuous proven plot.

What Changed

• Hanji 885 adds an earlier arrest-and-confession role inside the Dou Wu crisis.
• Zheng Sa is now framed as an accusation-evidence hinge across anti-eunuch and eunuch-side cases.
• The spelling variant is preserved while the existing canonical route remains stable.

Relationships

• 山冰 - Dou-side small yellow-gate who arrests Zheng in Hanji 885.
• 尹勋 - official who joins Shan Bing in requesting arrests after Zheng’s interrogation.
• 窦武 and 陈蕃 - anti-eunuch actors whose procedural disagreement runs through Zheng’s custody.
• 曹节 and 王甫 - named targets in the Hanji 885 interrogation account.
• 刘亏 - imperial kinsman whom Zheng is later accused of trying to install.
• 董腾 - connected court figure in the later accusation environment.
• 廉中 - official said to forge the later evidence.
• 谋反指控陷阱 - concept for how Zheng’s contacts and alleged statements become lethal evidence.