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Zhang Hanbin was an eunuch.
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 51Volume 51 Book of Later Tang 27: Biographies 3: Imperial Family · 7 passages
莊宗與劉後命內臣張漢賓齎急詔，所在催魏王歸闕。
Zhuangzong and Empress Liu dispatched the palace eunuch Zhang Hanbin with an urgent edict ordering Prince Wei to return to court at once.
張漢賓乘驛倍道急行，至興元西縣逢魏王，宣傳詔旨。
Zhang Hanbin raced by post relay at top speed, met Prince Wei at Xixian in Xingyuan, and delivered the imperial command.
王以本軍方討漢州，康延孝相次繼來，欲候之出山，以陳凱歌，漢賓督之。
The prince's own force was still reducing Hanzhou, and Kang Yanxiao was following close behind; he wanted to wait until both columns had cleared the mountains to celebrate victory, but Hanbin pressed him onward.
有軍謀陳岷，比事梁，與漢賓熟，密問張曰：「天子改換，且是何人？」
A staff officer named Chen Min, who had once served Liang and knew Hanbin well, asked him in private, "The throne has changed hands—who sits on it now?"
張色莊曰：「我嘗麵奉宣詔魏王，況大軍在行，談何容易。」
Zhang's face hardened. "I received this edict in person to deliver to Prince Wei, and a great army is on the march—such talk is not to be bandied about lightly."
張乃說：「來時聞李嗣源過河，未知近事。」
Zhang then admitted, "When I set out I heard Li Siyuan had crossed the Yellow River, but I do not know what has happened since."
張以莊宗命嚴，不敢遷延，督令進發，魏王至渭南遇害。）〉
Bound by Zhuangzong's strict order, Zhang would not delay and drove the march forward; Prince Wei reached Weinan and was killed.)〉