Ma Shiqiu / 马士求

Overview

Ma Shiqiu / 马士求 is a Julu man in Hanji 657 who plots to raise Yan and Zhao forces against 王莽. His failed conspiracy becomes evidence for late-新朝 local resistance and mass punitive response.

Current Profile

The source gives Ma Shiqiu a single but revealing role. His plan shows that anti-Xin resistance is not limited to already established rebel movements; local actors also imagine regional mobilization against Wang Mang. Once Wang Dan reports the plot, Wang Mang sends high officials to arrest people across commanderies and kingdoms, and more than a thousand implicated people are killed.

Key Characteristics

• Julu plotter against Wang Mang.
• Local-resistance signal in the late-Xin crisis field.
• Figure whose failed conspiracy triggers broad investigation and mass execution.

Evidence

• Plot notice: Hanji 657 says Ma Shiqiu joins others to mobilize Yan and Zhao forces against Wang Mang.
• Detection: Hanji 657 says Wang Dan discovers and reports the conspiracy.
• Punitive outcome: Hanji 657 says the case implicates more than a thousand people across commanderies and kingdoms, all of whom are killed.

Qualifications

The page is source-scoped. Ma Shiqiu’s wider network, social base, exact plan, and personal fate beyond the mass punishment notice are not independently developed by this source.

What Changed

• Created from Hanji 657 as a local anti-Xin plotter whose case shows widening resistance and exemplary punishment.

Relationships

• 王莽 - ruler targeted by Ma Shiqiu’s plot.
• 新朝 - regime facing the local conspiracy.
• 连坐式牵连惩罚 and 报复性政治恐怖 - punishment patterns visible in the mass execution after the plot.
• 赤眉 and 绿林 - larger anti-Xin revolt field that later dominates the collapse sequence.