- Zhang Rang is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang.
Zhang Rang is a unique legendary Commander hero in Total War: Three Kingdoms. He is a member of Liu Hong in 182. He is a court noble and cannot be deployed on the campaign map or the battlefield.
General Information[]
Attributes[]
Main Article: Attributes (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
 Expertise |
 Resolve |
 Cunning |
 Instinct |
 Authority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 67 | 42 | 77 | 45 | 105 |
| -11% construction cost (administered commandery) +1k population growth (administered commandery) +6 satisfaction (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister) | ||||
Background[]
Main Article: Background (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Imperial Father
- +10 expertise
- +5 cunning
- +15 authority
- +10% income from commerce (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
Traits[]
Main Article: Traits (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Ambitious
- +8 authority
- +50% desire for higher office
- +5% income from all sources (administered commandery)
- Increases ambition to gain independence as administrator
- Admires Power, Wary of Ambition
- Eunuch
- -4 authority
- +3 bureaucrats influence
- -1000% chance of having children
- +10% character salary (faction-wide)
- -1000% chance of having an illegitimate child
- +2 food production
- Sympathetic to the Debilitated
- Resourceful
- Cunning
- +12 cunning
- Commends Perceptiveness, Admires Intelligence
Skills[]
Main Article: Skill (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
- Meditation
- +8 authority
- Nature's Ally
- Nobility
- +8 authority
- +1 available assignments (faction-wide, if leader, heir or prime minister)
Ancillaries[]
Main Article: Ancillary (Total War: Three Kingdoms)
Guanxi[]
Main Article: Guanxi
Zhang Rang doesn't have any relationships with other characters.
Biography[]
Zhang Rang was a eunuch and member of the Ten Attendants during the reign of Emperor Ling of Han. He first entered service under Emperor Huan, Ling's predecessor, but became vastly more important after Ling's ascension to the throne. He was one of the closest eunuchs to the emperor, with Ling referring to Zhang Rang as his "father" while Zhao Zhong, another eunuch, was his "mother". When the Southern Palace of Luoyang burned down in 185 AD, Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong worked together to embezzle as much money as they could during the reconstruction, funding new manors for themselves in the capital.
In 189 AD, Emperor Ling died, and the privileges employed by the Ten Attendants died with him. His successor, the child emperor Shao (Liu Bian), was effectively controlled by his mother, Empress Dowager He, and her half-brother, General-in-Chief He Jin. They worked together to purge some of the eunuch control over the empire, dismissing some of the less important eunuchs. The Ten Attendants were dismissed briefly, yet it was Zhang Rang who, through his adopted son's marriage, managed to sway the Empress Dowager into allowing them back into palace life.
While He Jin chose to compromise, hoping to scare the eunuchs in line by summoning additional troops and the dreaded warlord Dong Zhuo to the capital, the eunuchs chose violence. Particularly, Zhang Rang was the central figure in a plot that ended up assassinating He Jin. The victorious eunuchs waved around the severed head of He Jin as a sign of their new authority. When the military, particularly Yuan Shao, saw the severed head of their General-in-Chief, they responded by storming the palaces of Luoyang and slaughtering every eunuch they could get their hands on.
Zhang Rang and another of the Ten Attendants, Duan Gui, fled the capital with Emperor Shao, his younger half-brother Liu Xie, and the Empress Dowager in tow. They were pursued by the forces of Lu Zhi who would eventually catch up with them and kill the two eunuchs, freeing the young emperor. This liberation was short-lived however, as when Dong Zhuo arrived in Luoyang soon after, the regency over the emperor was practically available on a silver platter. With He Jin suffering from a mild case of death and the Empress Dowager a chronic case of being a woman, there was nothing stopping him from just claiming regency over the child emperor considering his soldiers already took control of the capital, which is exactly what Dong Zhuo did. He later poisoned the Empress Dowager and dethroned and killed Emperor Shao, ending a period of eunuch control over the empire and ushering in a period of warlord control.
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