杨可 / Yang Ke (Western Han)

Overview

杨可 / Yang Ke enters the wiki as the 汉武帝-era official whom the source places in charge of intensified告缗 enforcement. His subordinates’ actions provoke 义纵 to make arrests, turning fiscal extraction into a conflict over livelihood, implementation, and obedience to imperial orders.

Current Profile

Hanji 335 gives Yang Ke an enforcement role rather than a full biography. After voluntary contributions disappoint Wudi, Yang leads 告缗式奖励告发财政执法 against concealed commercial wealth. The episode attributes huge confiscations and severe commercial damage to the campaign. When Yi Zong arrests several of Yang’s subordinates in opposition to the way it is being carried out, Yang reports the action and Wudi has Yi executed for resisting the edict.

Key Characteristics

• Western Han fiscal-enforcement official associated with the告缗 campaign.
• Administrative link between Wudi’s war-finance pressure and local denunciation or confiscation.
• Court reporter whose complaint about Yi Zong’s arrests leads to imperial punishment.
• Source-scoped figure whose office, wider career, and precise legal authority remain undeveloped.

Evidence

Fiscal enforcement:

• Hanji 335 says Wudi appoints Yang Ke to manage告缗 after wealthy households fail to provide the desired funds.

Confiscatory effect:

• Hanji 335 attributes large property seizures, enslaved people, and commercial ruin to the enforcement wave.

Conflict with Yi Zong:

• Hanji 335 says Yang reports Yi Zong’s detention of several subordinates, after which Wudi orders Yi investigated and killed.

Qualifications

The episode does not establish Yang Ke’s office title, personal enforcement decisions, the identities or conduct of the detained subordinates, or the full legal procedure against Yi Zong. Its confiscation totals and claim of broad middle-class ruin are source-attributed and should not be treated as quantified institutional history without corroboration.

What Changed

• Created the page to anchor the named enforcement actor in the episode’s告缗 and Yi Zong conflict.

Relationships

• 汉武帝 - ruler who assigns the告缗 enforcement role and punishes resistance.
• 义纵 - official who arrests Yang Ke’s subordinates and is executed after Yang reports him.
• 告缗式奖励告发财政执法 - fiscal mechanism Yang administers in the source.
• 官营商业垄断式汲取 - wider Han Wudi fiscal package to which the enforcement campaign belongs.