羊元群 / Yang Yuanqun (late Han)

Overview

Yang Yuanqun was a late-Han official whose Beihai record becomes a compact case of local corruption protected by eunuch access. His importance in the wiki is not administrative achievement but the way his prosecution against public-property abuse rebounds onto Li Ying once bribery reaches the palace.

Current Profile

The current evidence presents Yang Yuanqun as a Beihai administrator with a strong local family background and a pattern of illegal appropriation during and after office. When the court orders Li Ying to investigate, Yang does not answer the charge through legal vindication; he uses eunuch bribery to reverse the pressure.

This makes Yang a useful early marker for the later Party Prohibition sequence. Before Li Ying is publicly restored and then celebrated as a model official, his attempt to enforce against Yang already shows a regime in which eunuch-mediated access can make ordinary investigation dangerous to the investigator.

Key Characteristics

• Local elite official whose Beihai tenure is associated with corruption and public-property abuses.
• Defendant whose strongest protection comes from bribing eunuch intermediaries rather than clearing the underlying accusation.
• Trigger case in which Li Ying’s enforcement role is punished instead of rewarded.
• Example of how local corruption and palace access reinforce one another under Emperor Huan.

Evidence

• Corrupt Beihai officeholding: Hanji 866 identifies Yang Yuanqun as the former Beihai commandery official whose abuses prompt a court investigation.
• Eunuch-mediated reversal: Hanji 866 says Yang bribes eunuchs, after which Li Ying rather than Yang becomes the punished party.
• Palace-backed impunity: Hanji 866 places the Yang case beside Feng Gun and Liu You, forming a cluster in which enforcement against eunuch-connected interests is inverted.

Qualifications

Yang Yuanqun is currently known in the wiki only through this episode’s treatment of the 165 CE case. The page should remain focused on his function as an evidence node for corruption reversal unless later sources provide an independent career profile.

What Changed

• Created the page as a distinct late-Han entity tied to the Beihai corruption investigation.
• Separated Yang Yuanqun’s role from later Li Ying reputation material by marking it as an earlier enforcement-reversal case.
• Normalized the transcript name to 羊元群 for the canonical route.

Relationships

• Li Ying - investigator whose prosecution of Yang Yuanqun rebounds through eunuch bribery.
• Beihai Commandery - jurisdiction where Yang Yuanqun’s corrupt official record is located.
• Eunuch Patronage Violence Shield - Yang’s case supplies a nonviolent corruption version of the same palace-protection pattern.
• Emperor Huan of Han - ruler whose court environment lets eunuch access override enforcement.
• Liu You - parallel official punished after enforcement against eunuch-linked property interests.