杨广 / Yang Guang (Wei Xiao retainer)

Overview

杨广 / Yang Guang is a source-bounded Wei Xiao subordinate in Hanji 704. His current significance is not an independent biography but a remonstrance-pressure role: Ma Yuan writes to him because Yang Guang has both an official ruler-minister tie and a private friendship tie to Wei Xiao, and therefore should either warn Wei Xiao openly or leave before collective ruin.

Current Profile

Hanji 704 introduces Yang Guang inside Wei Xiao’s failing western field. Ma Yuan urges him to join Niu Han and others in remonstrating with Wei Xiao, arguing that the balance of commanderies makes resistance untenable: Wei Xiao holds only two commanderies against the rest of the realm.

The episode then narrows Yang Guang’s profile by silence. Yang Guang does not answer Ma Yuan, so the current wiki should not infer later defection, martyrdom, or policy influence. His importance is the pressure point itself: Ma Yuan treats honest counsel as a duty created by both public hierarchy and private friendship, while the absence of a reply shows how hard such counsel can be inside a collapsing camp.

Key Characteristics

• Wei Xiao retainer whose current evidence is limited to one Hanji 704 warning-letter episode.
• Recipient of Ma Yuan’s strategic arithmetic about two commanderies standing against the wider realm.
• Actor positioned between public ruler-minister obligation and private friendship obligation.
• Silent figure whose nonresponse keeps his later stance source-scoped.

Evidence

• Position and obligation: Hanji 704 says Ma Yuan addresses Yang Guang as someone tied to Wei Xiao by both official and private relationship.
• Strategic warning: Hanji 704 says Ma Yuan frames Wei Xiao’s position as two commanderies against the remaining 104 commanderies and kingdoms.
• Remonstrance duty: Hanji 704 says Ma Yuan urges Yang Guang to remonstrate with Wei Xiao alongside Niu Han or leave if persuasion fails.
• Nonresponse boundary: Hanji 704 says Yang Guang does not answer the letter.

Qualifications

The page is single-source and should not be merged with Emperor Yang of Sui or Yang Guangxian. Niu Han is named only as another person to join in remonstrance, and the source does not establish Yang Guang’s later career, exact office, clan background, or final decision.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 704 as a disambiguated Wei Xiao-retainer entity.
• Defined Yang Guang by Ma Yuan’s warning-letter evidence rather than by an inferred biography.

Relationships

• 隗嚣 - leader whose failing position Yang Guang is urged to confront or leave.
• 马援 - adviser who warns Yang Guang through strategic arithmetic and role obligation.
• 保面子式归降失败 - related because Yang Guang’s warning context is Wei Xiao’s inability to turn apology into credible subordination.
• 交权换安全 - contrast because Yang Guang is warned before Wei Xiao rejects a survivable lower-status settlement.
• Hanji 704 - only current source for this entity.