魏屠耆 / Wei Tuqi (Western Han Loulan-Shanshan)

Overview

魏屠耆 / Wei Tuqi enters the wiki through Hanji 403-2 as the Loulan hostage in Chang’an whom 傅介子 announces as king after killing Angui.

Current Profile

The source presents Wei Tuqi as the hinge between punitive assassination and post-assassination settlement. Because he has been kept in Chang’an as a hostage, Han can use him as a prepared successor after Angui’s death. Fu Jiezi’s announcement makes the succession a Han-backed reordering of Loulan, paired with the renaming of Loulan as Shanshan.

Wei Tuqi’s own agency appears in the return arrangement. Before leaving Chang’an, he requests a Han military-agricultural presence at Yixun so that Han force can help stabilize his new position. The court answers with a small sima-led group of forty men, making the succession depend on light but visible Han support rather than on the assassination alone.

Key Characteristics

• Loulan hostage in Chang’an used as Han’s replacement ruler after Angui’s killing.
• Installed in the episode as king when Loulan is renamed Shanshan.
• Receives Han ritual and material support before returning west.
• Requests a small Yixun屯田 presence to secure his authority.
• Source case for hostage kingship as a low-cost frontier proxy mechanism.

Evidence

Hostage succession:

• Hanji 403-2 says Fu Jiezi announces Wei Tuqi, then a hostage in Chang’an, as the new ruler after Angui’s death.

Return and support:

• Hanji 403-2 says Han gives Wei Tuqi a seal, a palace woman as wife, carts, horses, and supplies, and sends him out from Chang’an with formal escort.

Yixun request:

• Hanji 403-2 says Wei Tuqi asks Han to station a general at Yixun and receives a small sima-led屯田 detachment of forty men.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 403-2. It does not reconstruct Wei Tuqi’s full reign, Shanshan’s later institutional history, the precise location and administration of Yixun, or the durability of his local acceptance after returning from Chang’an.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 403-2 as the hostage-successor side of Fu Jiezi’s Loulan operation.

Relationships

• 傅介子 / Fu Jiezi (Western Han) - envoy who announces Wei Tuqi as successor after the assassination.
• 楼兰 / Loulan Kingdom (Western Han) - polity renamed Shanshan as Wei Tuqi is installed.
• 安归 / Angui, King of Loulan (Western Han) - killed predecessor whose removal opens Wei Tuqi’s accession.
• 汉昭帝刘弗陵 / Emperor Zhao of Han - Han ruler whose court supports the new king with seal, escort, and屯田.
• 以夷攻夷式边疆策略 / Frontier Proxy Conquest Strategy - concept illustrated by hostage kingship plus light Han support.