居弥国 / Jumi Kingdom (late Han)

Overview

居弥国 / Jumi Kingdom enters the wiki through Hanji 838 as the Western Regions polity whose ruler Chengguo exploits hostility toward Khotan to redirect Han investigation authority. The page is source-bounded to the episode’s Jumi-Khotan rivalry rather than a full regional history.

Current Profile

Jumi appears because Zhao Ping’s son passes through it while escorting Zhao’s coffin. 居弥王成国 uses that transit point to claim that Zhao Ping was not merely dead from illness but murdered at 于阗王建’s direction through a Xiongnu doctor.

That accusation becomes politically operative when 王敬 also passes through Jumi. Chengguo tells Wang that Khotanese people want Chengguo as king, turning Jumi from a transit polity into the source of the narrative that drives Wang’s intervention in Khotan.

Key Characteristics

• Western Regions polity placed between Zhao Ping’s death report and Wang Jing’s mission.
• Rival polity whose ruler has an existing grievance against Khotan’s king.
• Information channel through which an accusation becomes a frontier-policy trigger.
• Source case for how local rivalry can capture Han investigative authority.

Evidence

• Transit and accusation point: Hanji 838 says Zhao Ping’s son passes through Jumi and hears Chengguo accuse Khotan King Jian.
• Rivalry context: Hanji 838 says Chengguo and King Jian already have enmity.
• Wang Jing contact: Hanji 838 says Wang Jing passes through Jumi before reaching Khotan.
• Intervention trigger: Hanji 838 says Chengguo tells Wang that Khotanese people want Chengguo as king.

Qualifications

This page keeps Jumi source-scoped to Hanji 838. It does not identify the kingdom’s wider geography, institutions, or later history beyond the rivalry and accusation chain preserved in the source note.

What Changed

• Created the Jumi Kingdom page from Hanji 838’s Western Regions branch.
• Added Jumi as a local-rivalry channel in a failed Han frontier investigation.

Relationships

• 居弥王成国 - ruler whose accusation makes Jumi central to the incident.
• 于阗国 - rival polity affected by Jumi’s accusation chain.
• 王敬 - Han official whose mission is redirected after passing through Jumi.
• 谣言驱动的边疆干预 - concept illustrated by Jumi’s role as accusation channel.