芈完 / 楚考烈王 / Mi Wan
芈完 / Mi Wan enters the wiki through 《资治通鉴·周纪》92丨历史上第一位著名舔狗是谁？（1） as the 楚国 crown prince kept in 秦国 as hostage after the Qin-Chu repair arranged in the previous Huang Xie branch. The source presents him as the son and heir of 楚顷襄王, with 黄歇 / 春申君 having accompanied him in Qin for nine years.
His importance in the episode is succession leverage. When Mi Heng becomes gravely ill, Mi Wan’s status changes from ordinary diplomatic collateral into the person who may determine whether the Chu throne remains on the current crown-prince line. Huang Xie therefore argues to 范雎 that letting Mi Wan return would produce a grateful pro-Qin Chu ruler, while keeping him could make him worthless if another prince succeeds.
The first Zhouji 92 part stops before the outcome. It records Qin’s suspicion that Chu may be using the illness as a pretext, Qin’s plan to send Mi Wan’s teacher back to verify the situation, and Huang Xie’s counterplan: Mi Wan should disguise himself as a Chu envoy’s driver and flee, while Huang Xie stays behind in Xianyang and pretends the prince is ill.
《资治通鉴·周纪》92丨历史上第一位著名舔狗是谁？（2） completes the succession arc. Mi Wan reaches Chu, Mi Heng dies three months later, and Mi Wan succeeds as Chu Kaolie Wang. His first important wiki action is to reward 黄歇 / 春申君 with the chancellorship, a large fief, and the Chunshenjun title, confirming that the hostage-court companionship has become governing trust.
《资治通鉴·周纪》93丨在梦里藏着偷天改命？（1） uses his newly established reign as the transition into 262 BCE. The episode says Chu Kaolie Wang’s first year brings no battle but still sees 楚国 cede large territory to 秦国, so Mi Wan’s successful return does not reverse Chu’s broader decline under Qin pressure.
《资治通鉴·周纪》96丨毛遂自荐（2） makes Chu Kaolie Wang the hesitant ruler whom 平原君 tries to persuade during the 邯郸 crisis. The episode stresses that his past as a Qin hostage and his dependence on 黄歇 / 春申君’s escape plan help explain his fear of 秦国 even when 合纵 is strategically intelligible.
Mao Sui breaks that hesitation by using dignity-based persuasion. He reminds Chu Kaolie Wang that 白起’s earlier attacks took Ying, burned Yiling, and damaged royal tombs, making anti-Qin alliance a matter of Chu honor rather than merely Zhao rescue. The king accepts the alliance and participates in the blood oath, but the source then shows that his commitment still depends on transit through Wei to become battlefield relief.
《资治通鉴·周纪》98丨历史上首个老赖登场了！ gives Mi Wan another anti-Qin initiative after the 邯郸 relief. He wants to continue pressure while Qin looks checked, and 黄歇 / 春申君 proposes using the 周王室’s Son of Heaven name to summon the lords. The effort fails, however, turning Mi Wan’s coalition idea into Zhou Nan Wang’s debt humiliation rather than a decisive Chu-led victory.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》99-2｜明明一脸“败相”的蔡泽 凭什么拜相 adds a quieter governance branch under Mi Wan’s reign. 黄歇 / 春申君 appoints 荀子 as 兰陵 / Lanling magistrate after Chu takes former 鲁国 territory, showing the regime trying to govern a culturally weighty new zone through scholar-administration rather than only coalition warfare.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》99-4｜谁是孔子后最伟大的思想家？ dates Xunzi’s return to Lanling to Mi Wan’s twelfth year, 251 BCE. The source also records the darker endpoint under his reign: in 238 BCE Chu turmoil leads to Chunshenjun’s death, after which Xunzi can no longer remain Lanling magistrate. Mi Wan’s page therefore gains both the high point of scholar-administration and the political violence that ends it.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》107｜最后一次合纵伐秦 伐了个寂寞 adds Mi Wan’s late anti-Qin coalition role in 241 BCE. In the Chunshenjun-version account, he serves as nominal leader while 黄歇 / 春申君 commands the army. The failure does not give Chu new leverage over 秦国 and instead appears to weaken Mi Wan’s confidence in Chunshenjun.
The same source makes Mi Wan the ruler under whom 楚国 moves its capital to 寿春. 朱英’s argument is that Qin’s pressure through weakened 魏国 makes the old capital position unsafe; Mi Wan’s reign therefore adds a defensive relocation branch beside the earlier hostage-return and Lu-absorption branches.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》109-1｜历史上最著名的皇帝被“绿”了 adds Mi Wan’s childless late-reign succession vulnerability. The source says 黄歇 / 春申君 worries because Mi Wan has no son, then betrays the ruler’s long trust by sending him 李源妹妹 after she is already pregnant by Chunshenjun. Mi Wan favors her, recognizes the resulting son as crown prince, and unknowingly lets 李源 enter the power center as royal in-law.
《资治通鉴·秦纪》109-2｜春申君被皇帝大舅哥全族灭门 gives the end of Mi Wan’s reign. Seventeen days after 朱英 warns Chunshenjun, Mi Wan dies; the death triggers 李源 / 李元’s palace ambush, Chunshenjun’s killing, and the enthronement of 楚幽王. The episode also complicates the earlier childless frame by saying 李源妹妹 had two sons in the Chu court and that a younger royal son plus an older half-brother made succession politics less simple than one hidden heir.
Qinji 118-2 directly challenges the childless premise. The host cites the Shiji Suoyin tradition that Mi Wan, while a Qin hostage, married into the Qin royal line and had Xiong Qi / 昌平君, then cites additional Chu-lineage material around 熊负刍 / 楚王负刍. The episode’s conclusion is that Mi Wan had multiple sons, so the earlier hidden-pregnancy story should be preserved as a source tradition under dispute rather than flattened into settled biography.
Connections
- 楚顷襄王 - father and current Chu king whose illness creates the succession emergency.
- 黄歇 / 春申君 - attendant and strategist who protects his return path.
- 秦国, 秦昭襄王, and 范雎 - hostage court, ruler, and minister Huang Xie must persuade.
- 质子外交破裂 - adjacent hostage-politics frame; this source shows hostage value changing under succession pressure.
- 楚国 and 战国同盟转向 - state and alliance background behind his detention and proposed escape.
- 战国四公子 - later comparative frame opened when his reward makes Huang Xie Chunshenjun.
- 秦国 - Zhouji 93 first-year land cession pressure after succession repair.
- 毛遂, 平原君, 尊严激将式说服, and 合纵 - Zhouji 96 part 2 Chu-court commitment.
- 联盟救援借道依赖 and 魏国 - route problem after Chu agrees to rescue Zhao.
- 周赧王, 周王室, 虚名权威动员陷阱, and 债台高筑 - Zhouji 98 failed Son-of-Heaven coalition effort.
- 荀子, 兰陵 / Lanling, 鲁国, and 占领区怀柔治理 - Qinji 99 part 2 Lanling appointment under Chunshenjun’s Chu administration.
- 楚国 and 儒家理想治理 - Qinji 99 part 4 Xunzi’s final Lanling tenure and Chunshenjun’s death.
- 末次合纵失败, 朱英, 寿春, and Qinji 107 - late coalition leadership, failed campaign, and capital relocation under his reign.
- 李源, 李源妹妹, 孕身继承替换, and Qinji 109-1 - childless late-reign succession manipulation and hidden heir recognition.
- 李源 / 李元, 朱英, 楚幽王, and Qinji 109-2 - death-triggered palace ambush, succession, and Li-family court control.
- Qinji 118-2, 昌平君, 熊负刍 / 楚王负刍, 先秦姓氏身份, and 史书异文政治重量 - later source challenge to the childless-Mi-Wan premise.