杨潭 / Yang Tan

Overview

杨潭 / Yang Tan enters the wiki through Hanji 457 as 杨恽’s nephew and Anping marquis, a kin adviser who tries to reassure Yang Yun that his offense may not permanently end his career.

Current Profile

Yang Tan’s function in the source is to show that Yang Yun had more than one chance to lower the temperature. Unlike 孙会宗, who stresses fear and repentance, Yang Tan offers a restoration argument: Yang Yun has merit, the offense may not be too large, and future reuse by the state remains possible. Yang Yun’s reply that merit is useless and service is not worth giving to the ruler becomes another sign of hardened resentment.

Yang Tan is then drawn into the consequences. The episode says he is demoted to commoner status after Yang Yun’s punishment, making him part of the case’s collateral damage.

Key Characteristics

• Kin adviser who counsels Yang Yun toward patience and possible restoration.
• Anping marquis whose status makes the later demotion politically visible.
• Evidence of Yang Yun’s refusal to preserve future room for office.
• Collateral victim in the expanded punishment around Yang Yun’s case.

Evidence

Advice and rejected restoration logic:

• Hanji 457 says Yang Tan tells Yang Yun that his offense may not be too serious and that his earlier merit may allow future reuse.
• Hanji 457 says Yang Yun rejects that hope by saying merit is useless and service to the ruler is not worth it.

Punishment:

• Hanji 457 says Yang Tan is demoted to commoner status after Yang Yun is sentenced.

Qualifications

This page is source-scoped to Yang Tan’s role in Yang Yun’s case. The episode does not provide a fuller career or family genealogy.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 457’s kin-advice and demotion material.

Relationships

• 杨恽 / Yang Yun - uncle whose political despair and speech bring Yang Tan into danger.
• 孙会宗 / Sun Huizong - parallel adviser who warns Yang Yun from a different angle.
• Collateral Punishment And Guilt By Association - concept illustrated by Yang Tan’s demotion after Yang Yun’s execution.
• Emperor Xuan of Han / 汉宣帝 / 刘询 / 刘病已 - ruler under whose court Yang Tan’s demotion occurs.