谢万年 / Xie Wannian (Western Han)

Overview

谢万年 / Xie Wannian enters the wiki through Hanji 541 as the Jiangzuo Dajiang connected to 汉成帝’s Changling works and punished after the court reverses course. Hanji 537 supplies the prior decision layer: Xie recommends abandoning Yanling for a grander Changling project at Xinfeng, promises completion in three years, and becomes the official face of an overambitious mausoleum plan that remains unfinished after five years. Hanji 526 adds that Xie also encourages 陈汤 to revive a mausoleum county at Changling, explicitly noting the family residence, land, and status benefits such a county could bring them both.

Current Profile

Hanji 537 presents Xie Wannian earlier in the policy chain. His Changling proposal appeals to Chengdi’s desire for a more imposing tomb and to Xie’s own reputation interest, but the promised three-year completion proves unrealistic. Hanji 526 adds a related political entrepreneurship layer: Xie sees a new mausoleum county as a route to accomplishment and as a concrete household benefit for his and Chen Tang’s families. The project consumes money, labor, and transport capacity, including costly earth haulage from distant locations, until officials argue for stopping Changling and returning to the already advanced Yanling works.

Hanji 541 then presents Xie as part of the same punishment field as 陈汤. After Chengdi accepts arguments against continuing Changling palace-city works and rewards the proposal to stop them, Xie is blamed for having overseen works that harmed the people and is ordered to be moved to Dunhuang with Chen Tang.

His current profile is therefore administrative rather than biographical. The source does not give his broader career or inner motive; it records that when a public-works project becomes politically toxic, the official attached to implementation can be recoded as disloyal or harmful even while other actors are rewarded for cancellation.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han project official tied to the Changling works.
• Proposes replacing the already-started Yanling project with Changling and promises rapid completion.
• Encourages Chen Tang to support a renewed Changling mausoleum county, mixing project credit with family settlement advantage.
• Identified in Hanji 541 as Jiangzuo Dajiang.
• Punished after the same Changling policy field produces rewards for cancellation advocates.
• Moved toward Dunhuang with Chen Tang.
• Functions as a narrow example of proposal and implementation responsibility after a public-works reversal.

Evidence

• Proposal role: Hanji 537 says Xie Wannian advises Chengdi to build Changling at Xinfeng instead of continuing Yanling.
• Completion promise: Hanji 537 says Xie promises that Changling can be finished in three years.
• Mausoleum-county prompting: Hanji 526 says Xie urges Chen Tang to back a Changling county because it would improve both families’ living environment and could bring land and status.
• Failure of feasibility: Hanji 537 says Changling remains far from completion after five years and imposes heavy labor, material, and transport costs.
• Project role: Hanji 541 says Xie Wannian was the Jiangzuo Dajiang connected to the works.
• Punishment: Hanji 541 says he was condemned after the Changling works were criticized.
• Frontier relocation: Hanji 541 says Xie Wannian and Chen Tang were to be moved to Dunhuang.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 526, Hanji 537, and Hanji 541. It does not reconstruct Xie Wannian’s complete office history, exact office title at the moment of the Changling proposal, technical responsibility for every construction failure, legal charge wording, or later fate. Hanji 526 adds motive and prompting around the mausoleum-county idea, but not a full private correspondence record. Wang Hong’s identity in Hanji 541 remains source-scoped rather than merged into an existing Wang Hong page.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 526’s family-benefit and policy-prompting layer, making Xie’s Changling role extend from construction proposal to mausoleum-county advocacy.

Relationships

• 陈汤 - fellow punished figure in the Changling reversal.
• 汉成帝 - ruler whose court condemns the Changling works.
• 陵县式豪强迁徙 - policy revival Xie urges Chen Tang to promote.
• 不可成工程止损 - governance pattern sharpened by the failed Changling promise and stop-work return to Yanling.
• 公开理由与私下动机错位 - adjacent concept because Xie is punished in the same event where other actors are rewarded for reasons beyond the public explanation.
• 西汉 - dynastic setting.