上官安 / Shangguan An (Western Han)

Overview

上官安 / Shangguan An enters the wiki through Hanji 400-1 as the younger, more openly predatory actor inside the anti-霍光 conspiracy. Hanji 399 adds the grievance prelude: Huo refuses repeated requests to reward Ding Wairen and blocks Shangguan family office-seeking, helping push Shangguan An into the anti-Huo alignment.

Current Profile

The episode uses Shangguan An to show how a rebellion coalition can fracture even before it acts. Publicly, the conspirators propose killing Huo Guang, deposing 汉昭帝刘弗陵, and installing 燕王刘旦. Privately, Shangguan An plans to lure Liu Dan in, kill him, and enthrone his father 上官桀.

His most revealing moment is the question of what would happen to the young empress, his own daughter. Shangguan An answers through a hunting metaphor that implies the pursuit of the deer matters more than the hare. The episode reads this as the point where kinship, marriage alliance, and office all collapse under the desire for supreme power.

Key Characteristics

• Young Shangguan-family conspirator in the Han Zhao regency crisis.
• Office-seeking outer-relative actor whose resentment grows after Huo Guang refuses private appointments and Ding Wairen advancement.
• Planner who treats Liu Dan as a disposable claimant rather than a trusted ally.
• Son of Shangguan Jie and father-linked beneficiary of the second-stage coup plan.
• Figure used by the episode to illustrate kinship sacrifice under power competition.
• Destroyed after the leaked conspiracy is reported to Han Zhao.

Evidence

Coalition role:

• Hanji 399 says Shangguan An becomes emperor’s father-in-law after the Shangguan granddaughter becomes empress, but Huo Guang still refuses office and title requests advanced through Gai Chang Gongzhu.
• Hanji 400-1 includes Shangguan An among the actors planning to kill Huo Guang and depose Han Zhao.

Internal betrayal:

• Hanji 400-1 says Shangguan An separately plans to lure and kill Liu Dan before installing Shangguan Jie.

Kinship sacrifice:

• Hanji 400-1 presents Shangguan An’s “猎狗逐鹿，不顾兔” answer as disregard for his daughter’s fate once the coup begins.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 399 and Hanji 400-1. It does not reconstruct Shangguan An’s complete official career, marriage politics, daughter-empress chronology, or all prior anti-Huo activity.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 399’s office-seeking and Ding Wairen grievance background before Hanji 400-1’s intra-coalition betrayal profile.

Relationships

• 上官桀 / Shangguan Jie (Western Han) - father whom Shangguan An plans to install after eliminating Liu Dan.
• 燕王刘旦 / Liu Dan, Yan King (Western Han) - temporary claimant and intended victim in Shangguan An’s private plan.
• 汉昭帝刘弗陵 / Emperor Zhao of Han - ruler targeted for deposition.
• 上官太后 / Empress Dowager Shangguan (Western Han) - daughter later known through the empress/empress-dowager page, whose nonparticipation helps her survive the family disaster.
• 盖长公主 / Gai Chang Gongzhu (Western Han) - co-conspirator whose household becomes the leak channel.