王业 / Wang Ye (Xin official)

Overview

王业 / Wang Ye enters the wiki through Hanji 660-2 as a Xin palace-market official whose conduct turns famine governance into deception and extraction. His role is narrow: he exploits market authority, receives reward for apparent savings, and then misleads 王莽 with staged food when the ruler asks about hunger in Chang’an.

Current Profile

Hanji 660-2 places Wang Ye inside the same disaster field as stolen relief grain. As refugees enter Guanzhong and relief channels fail, Wang Ye uses authority over Chang’an market transactions to buy goods from people at depressed prices. When Wang Mang hears of famine, Wang Ye presents market-bought polished rice and meat soup as if it represents ordinary conditions, and Wang Mang believes him.

The page therefore treats Wang Ye as a local information-failure actor. The political damage is not only corruption; false reassurance blocks the ruler from seeing the famine that his system has produced.

Key Characteristics

• Xin market official connected to Chang’an famine information failure.
• Uses official market authority to extract goods cheaply from civilians.
• Receives reward for apparent savings, reinforcing bad incentives.
• Misleads Wang Mang with staged food evidence when asked about famine.
• Illustrates how predatory administration and false reporting compound disaster.

Evidence

• Market extraction: Hanji 660-2 says Wang Ye presses market prices down when buying from civilians.
• Reward distortion: Hanji 660-2 says Wang Ye is rewarded because the purchases appear economical.
• False report: Hanji 660-2 says Wang Ye shows Wang Mang polished rice and meat soup and claims common people eat this way.

Qualifications

This page is source-bounded to Hanji 660-2 and does not reconstruct Wang Ye’s full office history. The source supports his role as a famine misinformation and market-predation actor, while exact office scope, purchase mechanics, and later punishment or reward remain outside the current evidence.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 660-2 as a Xin market official whose false reporting and extraction deepen famine governance failure.

Relationships

• 王莽 - ruler misled by Wang Ye’s staged food report.
• 新朝 - regime whose famine response is damaged by Wang Ye’s market conduct.
• 救灾物资贪腐 - adjacent corruption pattern in the same episode.
• Disaster Response State Capacity - broader capacity frame because relief and information channels both fail.
• 饥荒中的权利失败 - famine frame because food access fails even around the capital.