Yan Fei

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Yan Fei ({{zh|s=颜斐|t=顏斐}}), courtesy name Wenlin ({{zh|文林}}),{{cite book |last=Yu |first=Songnian |date=1840 |title=Yi jia tang cong shu |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5b1ZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP816 |via=Google Books |accessdate=2022-03-18 }} was a Grand Administrator of Jingzhao during the Three Kingdoms period.

Yan Fei was from Jibei.{{cite book |last=de Crespigny |first=Rafe |date=2007 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Later Han to the Three Kingdoms (23-220 AD) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=49OvCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA933 |location=Leiden |publisher=Brill Publishers |via=Google Books |page=933 |isbn=978-90-04-15605-0 |accessdate=2022-03-18 }} When Cao Pi was the presumptive heir to the Cao Wei throne, Yan was one of his attendants. After Cao became the emperor, Yan was appointed a {{ill|Gentleman-in-Attendance of the Yellow Gates|zh|黃門侍郎}}, an official who served at the palace. After Jingzhao experienced a civil war and was conquered by the general Ma Chao, Yan "restored good and popular government" upon becoming the region's grand administrator.{{cite book |last1=Tang |first1=Yan |last2=Guo |first2=Lei-Xian |editor1-last=Liu |editor1-first=Yuan-Ming |editor2-last=Fu |editor2-first=Dong |editor3-last=Tong |editor3-first=Zhen-Xin |editor4-last=Bao |editor4-first=Zhi-Qing |editor5-last=Tang |editor5-first=Bin |date=2016 |chapter=Farming space in ancient Chinese cities: Harmonious urban development shaped by agricultural civilization and rural relations |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TukbDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 |title=Civil Engineering and Urban Planning IV: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Urban Planning, Beijing, China, 25-27 July 2015 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TukbDAAAQBAJ |location=London |publisher=Taylor & Francis |via=Google Books |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=TukbDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 114] |isbn=978-1-138-02903-3 |accessdate=2022-03-18 }} People at the time largely had little experience in farming.{{cite journal |author=王明前 |editor=张明海 |date=December 2011 |title=三国两晋十六国南北土地制度的分与合 |trans-title=The division and integration of the land systems in the north and south of the Three Kingdoms, the Jin dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms |language=zh |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41357049.pdf |journal=Journal of Henan Business College |publisher=Henan University |issn=1008-3928 |volume=24 |issue=6 |doi=10.3969/j.issn.1008-3928.2011.06.018 |page=69 |accessdate=2022-03-18 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318091636/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/41357049.pdf |archivedate=2022-03-18 }} Yan encouraged his people to do urban agriculture work, suggesting that they use their leisurely time to farm. At his home, Yan started vegetable plots. Observing that the citizenry were in the predicament of lacking carts and cattle, he urged them to make carts, sell pigs and dogs, and buy cattle. Within two years, nearly all households had carts and cattle.{{cite book |author=陶元珍 |date=1989 |title=三國食貨志 |trans-title=Three Kingdoms Food and Goods |language=zh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2N-GLi7c_9MC&pg=PP53 |location=Taipei |publisher={{ill|The Commercial Press (Taiwan)|lt=The Commercial Press|zh|臺灣商務印書館}} |via=Google Books |isbn=957-05-0054-9 |accessdate=2022-03-18 }} According to the Chinese historical text Weilüe, under Yan's leadership, Jingzhao became the best of Yongzhou's ten prefectures.{{cite book |author=萬繩楠 |date=2002 |title=魏晉南北朝史論稿 |trans-title=On the History of Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties |language=zh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-s3hEqGDzAC&pg=PA33 |location=Taipei |publisher=雲龍出版社 |via=Google Books |page=33 |isbn=986-7938-02-X |accessdate=2022-03-18 }}