阳安 / Yang’an (late Han)

Overview

阳安 / Yang’an is the late-Han locality in Hanji 1046 where 李通 and 赵俨 face the problem of proving loyalty to 曹操 without provoking local unrest through urgent cotton-silk collection.

Current Profile

The source places Yang’an in the Jian’an 5 / 200 CE pressure field around the 官渡之战. Neighboring commanderies are unstable or rebelling, while Yang’an remains aligned with the court-and-Cao side. That loyal status does not remove risk: forcing households to send cotton-silk quickly could give discontented actors an opening and turn a supportive region into a liability.

Key Characteristics

• Functions as a local loyalty test during the Cao-Yuan confrontation.
• Shows that a politically aligned locality can still be fragile under emergency taxation.
• Makes cotton-silk collection a stability problem rather than only a fiscal procedure.
• Becomes settled after the levy is returned and local burden is eased.

Evidence

• Local loyalty field: Hanji 1046 says surrounding commanderies are rebelling while Yang’an remains loyal to the court side.
• Levy risk: Hanji 1046 has Zhao Yan warn that household cotton-silk collection could create local disturbance.
• Loyalty signaling: Hanji 1046 has Li Tong worry that delaying the goods will make Yang’an look as if it is hedging.
• Settlement outcome: Hanji 1046 links Cao Cao’s return of the cotton-silk to Yang’an’s stabilization.

Qualifications

The source uses Yang’an as a local-governance setting, not as a full administrative history. The wiki keeps its exact late-Han administrative status source-scoped and distinguishes this locality from unrelated uses of “Yang’an” elsewhere.

What Changed

• Created this page for Hanji 1046’s Yang’an tax-and-stability case.

Relationships

• 李通 - Cao-aligned local commander responsible for the levy dilemma.
• 赵俨 - official who warns against destabilizing collection.
• 曹操 - central power whose resource needs and final return order define the case.
• 许都 - destination Li Tong worries about failing to supply quickly.
• 税赋与地方稳定权衡 - concept illustrated by Yang’an’s cotton-silk burden.
• 战时绵绢财政资源 - resource type collected in the case.
• 官渡之战 - wider war setting that raises the cost of local instability.