杨琦 / Yang Qi (late Han)
Hanji 914 backfills Yang Qi’s earlier service under 汉灵帝. When Ling asks how he compares with Emperor Huan, Yang Qi answers by comparing the pair to Shun and Yao; the episode reads the answer as too straight and insufficiently flattering for Ling’s desired self-image.
Ling responds by calling Yang Qi a stubborn descendant of 杨震 and invoking the large-bird omen associated with Yang Zhen’s burial. The Hanji 914 transcript renders the name as “杨齐”; this page keeps the existing Yang Qi route because the later Hanji 985 source already uses 杨琦 for a late-Han shizhong whose career continues into the Emperor Xian crisis.
Hanji 985 later shows Yang Qi as the shizhong who urges 汉献帝 not to rebuke 李傕 after Li Jue sends rotten beef bones instead of usable food. Yang Qi warns that Li Jue already knows he has committed a grave rebellion and may move the emperor toward Chiyang’s Huangbai city, so anger could worsen captivity rather than correct it.
His page is source-scoped. Yang Qi matters as a survival adviser: under ordinary sovereignty the emperor’s anger could punish disrespect, but under Li Jue’s control it becomes a bodily risk to be suppressed.