朱邑 / Zhu Yi (Western Han)

Overview

朱邑 / Zhu Yi enters the wiki through Hanji 439 as a Western Han senior fiscal official whose clean conduct and local reputation form the episode’s non-military counterpart to 赵充国.

Current Profile

The source presents Zhu Yi as 大司农, a high minister responsible for national rent, grain, money, salt, iron, and fiscal revenue. His public image is not built from spectacular reform in this note, but from frugal living, refusal of private accumulation, care for kin and local community, and a death that leaves little money for burial.

Emperor Xuan praises Zhu as clean, principled, public-minded, non-factional, and incorrupt, and grants his son gold for sacrifice. Zhu’s own burial wish shifts the measure of reputation from court rank to community memory: he wants to be buried where he once served locally, trusting that the people there will remember him better than descendants performing routine family sacrifice. The source says local people build and maintain worship for him after his death.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han 大司农 whose office tied him to state finance, grain, salt, and iron administration.
• Clean and frugal official whose household did not retain large surplus wealth after death.
• Public-minded figure praised by Emperor Xuan for integrity, non-factional conduct, and refusal of bribery.
• Official whose generosity was directed toward kin and local community rather than private luxury.
• Local-memory figure whose burial wish and later worship make popular gratitude part of his historical profile.

Evidence

Office and fiscal role:

• Hanji 439 says Zhu Yi served as 大司农 and managed national rent, grain, money, salt, iron, and fiscal income.
• Hanji 439 says the emperor valued him and ministers respected him.

Clean conduct and public trust:

• Hanji 439 says Zhu lived frugally and used salary and rewards to support kin and local people.
• Hanji 439 says he left little spare money when he died, making burial difficult.
• Hanji 439 says Emperor Xuan praised his clean public service, lack of party attachment, and refusal of bribery.

Local memory:

• Hanji 439 says Zhu asked to be buried where he had served because the local people loved him.
• Hanji 439 says those people built his tomb and shrine and continued annual sacrifices.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Hanji 439’s short closing section. It does not yet reconstruct Zhu Yi’s full fiscal administration, exact earlier local office, family network, or broader Han historical reception. The source’s place clarification is preserved without creating a separate geography claim.

What Changed

• Created the entity from Hanji 439 as a Western Han clean-official and local-memory case.

Relationships

• Emperor Xuan of Han / 汉宣帝 / 刘询 / 刘病已 - ruler who praises Zhu Yi after death and grants sacrificial support.
• Zhao Chongguo / 赵充国 (Western Han) - same-source contrast between military public responsibility and civil official integrity.
• 三不沾式清廉自守 / Three-Refusals Integrity - adjacent clean-office concept, though Zhu’s case emphasizes frugal public service and local memory rather than the later three-refusals formula.
• 清官能吏能力差 / Clean Official Capacity Gap - contrast because Zhu is presented as a respected high official, not merely a clean but ineffective figure.