清河王国 / Qinghe Kingdom (late Han)

Overview

清河王国 / Qinghe Kingdom enters the current wiki through Hanji 829 as the royal setting attached to 刘蒜 and the failed attempt by 刘文 and 刘伟 to install him as emperor. The source makes Qinghe a succession-memory site rather than a developed territorial history.

Current Profile

Hanji 829 uses Qinghe in two linked ways. First, Liu Suan is identified as Qinghe king, which matters because earlier officials such as 李固 judged him a stronger accession candidate than the later 汉桓帝. Second, the plotters’ abduction of 谢浩 shows that Qinghe office and royal status could become leverage in a wider succession claim.

The incident ends with state suppression rather than a new regime. Liu Wen and Liu Wei are executed, Liu Suan is demoted to Weishi Hou, exiled to Guiyang, and dies by suicide. Qinghe therefore appears as the local stage where residual succession legitimacy is converted into a chargeable rebellion.

Key Characteristics

• Late-Han royal kingdom attached to Liu Suan in the Hanji 829 evidence.
• Succession-memory site because Liu Suan had been treated as an alternative to Emperor Huan.
• Local office field where Xie Hao becomes valuable to rebels seeking legitimacy.
• Failed-rebellion setting that ends in execution, demotion, exile, and suicide.
• Source-bounded place page without a reconstructed full institutional history.

Evidence

• Royal status: Hanji 829 identifies Liu Suan as Qinghe king in the failed succession plot.
• Plot setting: Hanji 829 says Liu Wen and Liu Wei claim the Qinghe king should rule the realm.
• Office coercion: Hanji 829 says the plotters seize Qinghe official Xie Hao after the plan leaks.
• Suppression outcome: Hanji 829 says the rebels are executed and Liu Suan is demoted, exiled, and later dies by suicide.

Qualifications

This page is not a full history of Qinghe’s administrative geography, royal line, or later officeholders. It records only the source-bounded succession and rebellion context. The source does not specify how Qinghe’s institutions respond beyond Xie Hao’s refusal and death.

What Changed

• Created Qinghe Kingdom as the jurisdictional and royal context for Hanji 829’s Liu Suan plot.
• Framed Qinghe as a succession-memory site rather than as a general territorial page.

Relationships

• 刘蒜 - Qinghe king whose alternative legitimacy anchors the source’s plot.
• 刘文 - Qinghe-linked rebel who claims Liu Suan should rule.
• 刘伟 - Nanjun co-plotter who joins the Qinghe claim.
• 谢浩 - Qinghe official abducted and killed after refusing the plot.
• 未定继承人风险 - succession-risk concept adjacent to Liu Suan’s unused candidacy and later plot.