姜叙 / Jiang Xu (late Han)

Overview

姜叙 / Jiang Xu is a late-Han commander recruited by his maternal cousin 杨阜 into resistance against 马超. His mother first supports the decision to rise and later becomes central to the retaliation when Ma Chao attacks Licheng and kills her after she denounces him.

Current Profile

Hanji 1137 places Jiang Xu at the decision point before the uprising. Yang Fu reaches him during leave for a wife’s burial, invokes the fall of Ji and 韦康’s death, and seeks access to Jiang Xu’s troops. Jiang Xu’s unnamed mother tells him not to let concern for her prevent action, after which he and Yang Fu help assemble outside forces and city insiders.

Hanji 1138 follows the decision into retaliation. Jiang Xu participates in the resistance, and Ma Chao’s later seizure and killing of his mother turns political defeat into violence against a family member. Her support and defiance are prominent across the sequence, but she remains unnamed in the supplied documents and is not assigned an invented canonical identity.

Key Characteristics

• Liangzhou-area commander presented as holding troops before the uprising against Ma Chao.
• Closely associated with Yang Fu in the initial mobilization.
• Maternal cousin of Yang Fu in Hanji 1137’s account and a target of funeral-period persuasion.
• Acts after his mother explicitly refuses to become a reason for inaction.
• Son of an unnamed woman killed after openly condemning Ma Chao at Licheng.
• Part of a resistance network whose political action produces severe household retaliation.

Evidence

• Recruitment and household authorization: Hanji 1137 says Yang Fu recruits Jiang Xu during funeral leave and that Jiang Xu’s mother supports rising against Ma Chao.
• Uprising role: Hanji 1138 pairs Jiang Xu with Yang Fu in raising forces against Ma Chao.
• Household retaliation: Hanji 1138 says Ma Chao captures Jiang Xu’s mother at Licheng and kills her after her denunciation.

Qualifications

The page is disambiguated from 蒋诩, a different Xin-era figure with a similar romanized name but different Chinese characters. The evidence consists of two sequential popular-history summaries, so office, troop control, geography, dialogue, sequence, and kinship details remain source-scoped. The mother’s prominence does not justify inventing a personal name absent from the sources.

What Changed

• Established Jiang Xu as a disambiguated late-Han entity.
• Connected his uprising role to the retaliatory killing of his mother without inventing her identity.
• Added Yang Fu’s funeral-period recruitment and the mother’s prior support as the decision-stage setup.
• Added source-scoped troop control and maternal-cousin kinship without treating either as independently verified.

Relationships

• 杨阜 - fellow initiator of resistance against Ma Chao.
• 马超 - opponent who kills Jiang Xu’s mother in the episode’s account.
• 赵昂 - fellow participant in the wider Ji-Qishan resistance network.
• 忠义牵连困境 - adjacent framework for household costs imposed through political conflict.