谢浩 / Xie Hao (Qinghe chancellor, late Han)

Overview

谢浩 / Xie Hao is the Qinghe official in Hanji 829 who refuses to join 刘文 and 刘伟 after they try to install 刘蒜 as emperor. The source makes him the loyal-official counterpoint inside the failed rebellion: he is offered high office, refuses, rebukes the plotters, and is killed.

Current Profile

Hanji 829 presents Xie Hao as Qinghe state chancellor or chief official when the Liu Suan plot leaks. Liu Wen and Liu Wei seize him because his office could lend local legitimacy to their claim. Their offer of a Three Excellencies-level post shows that the plotters try to convert state office into rebellion through promise of rank.

Xie Hao rejects the offer and scolds them. His refusal does not save him: Liu Wen kills him in anger. The episode therefore makes Xie Hao a compact case of official loyalty under coercion, where morally correct refusal is immediately punished even though the rebellion itself later fails.

Key Characteristics

• Qinghe official targeted for coercion after the Liu Suan plot leaks.
• Loyal refusal case who rejects promised high office from rebels.
• Moral counterpoint to Liu Wen and Liu Wei’s attempt to exploit succession legitimacy.
• Victim killed after rebuking the rebels.
• Source-bounded official whose wider career is not reconstructed by current evidence.

Evidence

• Office setting: Hanji 829 says Liu Wen and Liu Wei abduct Qinghe state official Xie Hao after their plan leaks.
• Offered inducement: Hanji 829 says the rebels promise to make Xie Hao one of the Three Excellencies.
• Refusal and rebuke: Hanji 829 says Xie Hao refuses and rebukes them.
• Death: Hanji 829 says Liu Wen kills Xie Hao after the refusal.

Qualifications

This page is limited to the Hanji 829 incident. It does not infer Xie Hao’s earlier appointments, family background, or exact title beyond the Qinghe official role given in the source. His moral meaning is source-bounded to refusal under coercion.

What Changed

• Created Xie Hao as the Qinghe official killed after refusing Liu Wen and Liu Wei’s plot.
• Added a loyal-official counterpoint to the Liu Suan alternative-succession branch.

Relationships

• 刘文 - rebel who kills Xie Hao after refusal.
• 刘伟 - co-plotter who abducts Xie Hao with Liu Wen.
• 刘蒜 - imperial-clan figure the rebels claim should be emperor.
• 清河王国 - jurisdiction in which Xie Hao’s office gives the plotters a target.
• 善恶报应与政治结果错位 - concept illustrated by Xie Hao’s loyal refusal ending in death.