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Xu Jia was an eunuch.
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Book of Han, Chapter 47Volume 38: The Five Sons of Emperor Gao · 7 passages
齊有宦者徐甲，入事漢皇太后。
Among Qi's eunuchs was Xu Jia, who had gone to Chang'an to wait on the empress dowager.
宦者甲乃請使齊，必令王上書請娥。
Xu Jia volunteered for a mission to Qi, promising to bring back a formal request from the king for the girl's hand.
皇太后大喜，使甲之齊。
Delighted, she dispatched him north.
時主父偃知甲之使齊以取后事，亦因謂甲：「即事成，幸言偃女願得充王後宮。」
Zhufu Yan, seeing a chance for his own daughter, pulled Xu Jia aside: "If you pull this off, put in a word for my girl as a secondary consort."
甲至齊，風以此事。
In Linzi, Xu Jia sounded out the court on the match.
且甲，齊貧人，及為宦者入事漢，初無補益，乃欲亂吾王家！
As for Xu Jia—a pauper from Qi who bought his way into the Han palace—he has never done us a scrap of good, and now he would sow chaos in our house!
甲大窮，還報皇太后曰：「王已願尚娥，然事有所害，恐如燕王。」
Xu Jia, badly cornered, returned and reported to the empress dowager: "The king was willing to marry E, but there was danger in the matter; he feared it would be like the case of the king of Yan."