虞诩 / Yu Xu (Eastern Han)

Overview

虞诩 / Yu Xu enters the wiki through Hanji 818 as the Shangshu Ling who opposes taxing submitted 武陵蛮 groups like ordinary Han households. His page anchors the earliest current wiki case for frontier taxation as a stability problem rather than a simple revenue question.

Current Profile

Yu Xu’s current profile is bounded to one source note. When the Wuling administrator argues that submitted Man groups should now pay rent and tax on the same model as Han people, most court participants agree. Yu Xu dissents, treating the earlier lighter arrangement as a political settlement whose credibility matters.

His warning is explicitly cost-based. He argues that changing inherited rules and increasing burdens will provoke resentment, and that the added revenue will not cover the cost of the disorder it creates. 汉顺帝 rejects the advice; the later tribute-cloth mismatch and tax pressure help trigger Wuling killings and revolt.

Key Characteristics

• Court official who judges frontier tax policy through stability costs rather than uniformity alone.
• Minority dissenter against a majority revenue proposal in Shun’s court.
• Defender of inherited settlement terms as a governance credibility problem.
• Warning figure whose rejected advice is vindicated by the Wuling revolt.
• Source-bounded Eastern Han official, not yet a full biography in the wiki.

Evidence

• Tax proposal: Hanji 818 says the Wuling administrator proposes taxing submitted Man groups under the same rent and tax expectations as Han people.
• Minority dissent: Hanji 818 says most agree with the proposal, while Yu Xu argues against it.
• Cost warning: Hanji 818 has Yu Xu warn that the gains will not repay the costs if rebellion follows.
• Rejection and outcome: Hanji 818 says Shun does not accept the advice and Wuling later erupts after extraction pressure and tribute mismatch.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 818 and does not attempt a complete Yu Xu biography. The episode transcript writes 于许; this page normalizes the durable route to 虞诩 while keeping the normalization caution visible through the source note.

What Changed

• Created the Yu Xu page for the Shun-era Wuling tax warning.

Relationships

• 汉顺帝 - ruler who rejects Yu Xu’s tax-stability warning.
• 武陵蛮 - frontier population whose burden increase proves Yu Xu’s warning.
• 税赋与地方稳定权衡 - concept modeled by Yu Xu’s cost warning.
• 李进 - later Wuling administrator who suppresses and repairs the revolt after Yu Xu’s advice is ignored.
• 边疆征发反噬 - adjacent frontier-overextraction risk in the same episode.