丹阳郡变 / Danyang Coup (late Han)

Overview

丹阳郡变 / Danyang Coup names the Hanji 1067 sequence in which 孙翊 is murdered in 丹阳郡, 孙河 is also killed during investigation, and 徐夫人 engineers the death of the conspirators 妫览 and 戴员.

Current Profile

The event begins as an inside assassination. Gui Lan and Dai Yuan buy off 边鸿, who kills Sun Yi at a banquet, after which the conspirators blame the murder on Bian Hong’s madness. The episode frames the political background as Jiangdong’s insecure local order after 孙策’s death and 孙权’s succession.

The event then becomes a revenge-and-stabilization case. Lady Xu delays Gui Lan through mourning propriety, stages willingness to remarry, hides Sun Gao and Fu Ying in her room, and coordinates a wider action that kills Gui Lan, Dai Yuan, and other conspirators. Sun Quan later arrives, destroys the remaining conspirator side, and rewards the loyalists.

Key Characteristics

• Shows that Sun-family control in Jiangdong remains exposed to local elite backlash after succession.
• Begins through intimate access and cover-story management rather than open battle.
• Escalates when an investigator from the Sun side is also killed.
• Turns on Lady Xu’s use of ritual, reputation, and enemy desire as tactical resources.
• Ends with Sun Quan’s punitive cleanup and reward of loyal followers.

Evidence

Assassination and cover story

• Hanji 1067 describes Bian Hong killing Sun Yi and Gui Lan/Dai Yuan attributing the act to madness.

Sun-family exposure

• Hanji 1067 links the conspirators to local strongman grievance after Sun-side consolidation and has Sun He killed during the follow-up.

Revenge and cleanup

• Hanji 1067 follows Lady Xu’s ambush plan and Sun Quan’s later execution of remaining conspirator households and rewards.

Qualifications

This page is a source-scoped event node. It uses “coup” as a compact English label for the assassination-and-local-power seizure described by the episode, while the source itself does not supply a formal event name. Exact offices, household punishments, and non-central participants remain source-scoped.

What Changed

• Created an event node for the Sun Yi assassination and Lady Xu revenge sequence.

Relationships

• 丹阳郡 - place where the event occurs.
• 孙翊 - first victim.
• 孙河 - investigator also killed.
• 徐夫人 - revenge planner.
• 妫览 - local conspirator killed in the trap.
• 戴员 - local conspirator killed by the wider loyalist group.
• 边鸿 - intimate assassin.
• 孙权 - ruler who carries out post-event cleanup and rewards.
• 女性复仇与政治秩序 - concept for the revenge as partial restoration of order.