巴郡 / Ba Commandery (late Han)

Overview

巴郡 / Ba Commandery is a late-Han Yizhou commandery whose current wiki profile links repeated unrest to governance repair, religiously framed revolt, and later regional rebellion. The 145 CE layer now shows 服直’s small Heavenly King movement becoming politically significant because failed suppression exposes 种暠 and 应承 to 梁冀’s retaliation.

Current Profile

The earliest current layer is the Fu Zhi episode in 145 CE. Fu Zhi gathers several hundred people in Ba Commandery and calls himself Heavenly King. Zhong Hao and Ying Cheng fail to suppress him, and Liang Ji uses the failure to imprison both men until 李固’s memorial and 梁妠’s order reduce the punishment to dismissal.

The later Bandun Man layer makes Ba a clean example of governance-caused rebellion and repair. 陈鲍 diagnoses the revolt as a response to illegal taxation, coercive treatment, ignored complaints, and blocked access to the capital. The court sends 曹谦 as administrator and issues amnesty, after which the Bandun people quickly submit.

The Five-Pecks and Yizhou revolt layers then widen the commandery’s role. 张修’s religiously framed healing and rice contribution appear in Ba before attacks on commandery and county offices, while 马相 and 赵祗 later spread revolt into Ba and nearby commanderies after rising at 绵竹.

Key Characteristics

• Yizhou commandery where small-scale revolt can create high-stakes court consequences.
• Repeated unrest setting across Fu Zhi, Bandun Man, Five-Pecks, and Ma Xiang-Zhao Zhi layers.
• Governance-diagnosis case where illegal extraction and blocked complaints explain later Bandun Man rebellion.
• Religious and status-claim setting where rebel leaders use titles, healing, and rice contribution to organize followers.
• Regional node tied to 益州 and 巴蜀 rather than a generic geography label.

Evidence

• Fu Zhi revolt and failed suppression: Hanji 826 says Fu Zhi gathers several hundred people in Ba Commandery, claims Heavenly King status, and is not suppressed by Zhong Hao and Ying Cheng.
• Court consequence: Hanji 826 says Liang Ji has Zhong Hao and Ying Cheng imprisoned before Li Gu’s memorial and Liang Na’s order reduce the penalty.
• Bandun Man diagnosis and repair: Hanji 922 says Chen Bao attributes the Bandun Man revolt to illegal taxes, coercion, ignored complaints, and blocked capital access, then records repair through Cao Qian and amnesty.
• Five-Pecks setting: Hanji 929 uses Ba Commandery for Zhang Xiu’s healing, rice contribution, and later attack on commandery and county offices.
• Later Yizhou revolt spread: Hanji 940 names Ba alongside Qianwei after Ma Xiang and Zhao Zhi rise at Mianzhu.

Qualifications

This page is a source-bounded synthesis of Ba Commandery as it appears in the listed podcast notes. It does not reconstruct the commandery’s complete administrative geography or every local lineage. Fu Zhi, Bandun Man, Zhang Xiu, and Ma Xiang-Zhao Zhi are kept as distinct episodes unless a source explicitly connects them.

What Changed

• Migrated Ba Commandery into the synthesis-v1 entity schema.
• Added the 145 CE Fu Zhi revolt and failed-suppression punishment layer.
• Reframed Ba as a repeated Yizhou unrest setting with different causes and political afterlives.

Relationships

• 益州 and 巴蜀 - broader regional frame for Ba Commandery.
• 服直 - 145 CE rebel whose movement occurs in Ba Commandery.
• 种暠 and 应承 - officials punished after failing to suppress Fu Zhi.
• 李固 and 梁妠 - court actors who reduce the penalty after the failed suppression.
• 板楯蛮, 陈鲍, 曹谦, and 查因安抚式治理 - extraction-driven rebellion and clean-official repair.
• 张修 and 五斗米道 - early Five-Pecks-style revolt setting.
• 马相, 赵祗, and 犍为郡 - later Yizhou revolt spread.