毛钦 / Mao Qin (late Han)

Overview

Mao Qin is the Waihuang county official in Hanji 894 who comes armed to 李笃’s home while 张俭 is being sheltered, then leaves without arresting him.

Current Profile

The current evidence presents Mao Qin as a local official who can enforce the party-prohibition arrest order but chooses discretion after testing Li Du. His scene matters because it shows that local officeholders are not only instruments of the purge: they can also decide whether a written charge becomes an immediate capture. That discretion remains dangerous and temporary, because the broader shelter chain still ruins many households.

Key Characteristics

• Waihuang county official entering the Zhang Jian flight story with coercive capacity.
• Tests Li Du through moral language rather than conducting a direct search in the source note.
• Accepts Li Du’s implicit appeal and leaves without taking Zhang Jian.
• Represents limited local discretion inside a larger repression system.

Evidence

• Official capacity: Hanji 894 says Mao Qin arrives at Li Du’s home holding a weapon.
• Moral testing: Hanji 894 has Mao Qin probe Li Du with language about the shame of seeking only personal safety.
• Discretionary non-arrest: Hanji 894 says Mao Qin understands Li Du’s meaning and departs, allowing Zhang Jian’s escape route to continue.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped and narrow. It does not establish Mao Qin’s wider career, whether his official title is preserved outside the episode, or whether later accounts interpret his non-arrest differently.

What Changed

• Initial page created from Hanji 894’s Li Du and Zhang Jian shelter scene.

Relationships

• 李笃 - host whose indirect appeal persuades Mao Qin to leave.
• 张俭 - pursued fugitive whom Mao Qin does not arrest.
• 收留逃亡者的牵连风险 - risk field in which Mao Qin’s discretion matters.
• 安全第一政治生存 - broader survival frame complicated by Mao Qin’s willingness to accept some moral risk.
• 党锢亲属牵连扩大 - repression setting that makes local non-arrest consequential.