闽越 / Minyue

Overview

闽越 / Minyue is the southeastern Yue-descended political region that enters the wiki through Liu Bang’s recognition of Wuzhu and later reappears in the violent end of the Dongyue conflict and the removal of local populations to the Yangtze-Huai area.

Current Profile

Hanji 169 part 2 supplies the founding-recognition layer. 刘邦 rewards 无诸 for support during the Chu-Han struggle by recognizing him as king over Minzhong. The source links Minyue to the wider dispersal after Chu destroyed Yue and distinguishes this specific polity from the broader 百越 label.

Hanji 356-2 supplies a later coercive endpoint through the 东越 campaign. After 余善 is killed by insiders and the remaining forces surrender, 汉武帝 is said to judge the terrain difficult and the population repeatedly disloyal, order the inhabitants moved to the Yangtze-Huai area, and leave the old territory described as empty. The source’s terminology moves between Minyue and Dongyue, so this page preserves their connection without collapsing them into a single stable label.

Key Characteristics

• Southeastern Yue-descended polity or region associated with Minzhong.
• Initially represented through Han recognition of Wuzhu’s support and kingship.
• Related to, but not simply identical with, the broader Baiyue category.
• Later entangled with Dongyue rebellion, surrender, and post-conquest population transfer.
• Region whose difficult terrain becomes part of the episode’s justification for removal.

Evidence

• Founding recognition: Hanji 169 part 2 says Liu Bang grants Wuzhu Minyue kingship after his support for Han.
• Yue and Baiyue context: Hanji 169 part 2 connects Wuzhu to Yue descent and southern allied forces without making every Yue group identical.
• Conquest aftermath: Hanji 356-2 reports the killing of Yu Shan, surrender, and an imperial order moving the regional population to the Yangtze-Huai area.

Qualifications

The first source’s “吴珠” is normalized to the established Wuzhu branch. The second source alternates regional language around Minyue and Dongyue and contains several corrupted personal names and titles; it does not provide a clean constitutional history of their relationship. Its characterization of local people as inherently or repeatedly unreliable is imperial rhetoric reported by the episode, and its claim that the territory became wholly empty is not an audited demographic finding.

What Changed

• Migrated the page to synthesis-v1 while preserving its original evidence inventory.
• Extended the profile from founding recognition to the Dongyue conquest and population-removal aftermath.
• Added an explicit distinction between connected Minyue and Dongyue labels.

Relationships

• 无诸 - founding-era ruler recognized by Liu Bang.
• 刘邦 - Han founder who grants Minyue kingship.
• 百越 - broader southern category related to but not synonymous with Minyue.
• 东越 - later connected polity in the Yu Shan campaign.
• 余善 - ruler whose defeat precedes the population transfer.
• 汉武帝 - emperor credited with ordering the removal.
• 征服后人口迁出 - coercive postwar mechanism applied to the region.