诸葛丰 / Zhuge Feng (Western Han)

Overview

诸葛丰 / Zhuge Feng enters the wiki through Hanji 478 as a Western Han official whose reversal from praising 周堪 and 张萌 to denouncing them becomes a case of unreliable political speech under 汉元帝.

Current Profile

The episode presents Zhuge Feng as a once-forceful censorial figure whose conduct becomes politically suspect after demotion. He had served as Sili Xiaowei, offended imperial relatives, and was reduced to Chengmen Xiaowei. When he later submits a memorial attacking Zhou Kan and Zhang Meng, Yuan treats the reversal itself as evidence that Zhuge Feng is not acting from stable public principle.

Zhuge Feng’s importance in the source is diagnostic. His speech is not evaluated only for content but for trajectory: a person who once praised officials and later destroys their reputation with hard-to-verify language may be pursuing factional access rather than truth.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han official formerly serving as Sili Xiaowei, later demoted to Chengmen Xiaowei.
• Known in the episode for forceful conduct that offends imperial relatives.
• Previously praises Zhou Kan and Zhang Meng before later denouncing them.
• Accuses with claims the episode describes as difficult to verify.
• Used by Sima Guang and the host as an example of speech that may serve factional advancement rather than public correction.

Evidence

Career and demotion:

• Hanji 478 says Zhuge Feng first serves as Sili Xiaowei, behaves willfully, repeatedly offends imperial relatives, and is later demoted to Chengmen Xiaowei.

Reversal:

• Hanji 478 says Zhuge Feng had repeatedly praised Zhou Kan and Zhang Meng but later memorializes against them.

Judgment:

• Hanji 478 says Yuan spares him corporal punishment because of age but removes him to commoner status, while Sima Guang criticizes both Zhuge Feng’s reversal and Yuan’s mixed handling.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 478. It does not settle Zhuge Feng’s full biography, exact memorial text, legal record, private motive, or whether any part of his accusation had independent historical basis.

What Changed

• Created from Hanji 478 as the reversal-and-denunciation case inside opportunistic court alignment.

Relationships

• 周堪 - earlier praised and later denounced by Zhuge Feng.
• 张萌 - paired target of Zhuge Feng’s later accusation.
• 汉元帝 - ruler who removes Zhuge Feng while still demoting Zhou Kan and Zhang Meng.
• 投机型朝堂站队 - concept Zhuge Feng illustrates through speech reversal and faction-seeking suspicion.