Yinmofu / 阴末赴 / 殷墨傅 (Jibin King)

Overview

Yinmofu / 阴末赴 / 殷墨傅 enters the wiki through Hanji 516 as a subordinate prince who cooperates with Han envoy Wen Zhong against the ruler of 罽宾, receives Han recognition and a royal seal, and later attacks another Han mission.

Current Profile

The episode makes Yinmofu the hinge between intervention and diplomatic failure. His local position lets Wen Zhong alter Jibin’s rulership without a direct Han expedition, but the seal-backed relationship does not bind him durably. After conflict with Zhao De, Yinmofu detains the envoy and kills the deputy envoy and more than seventy attendants, then sends an apology mission that the distant Han court refuses to receive normally.

The episode also equates Yinmofu with the Greek king Hermaeus and locates his base near present-day Kabul. Because it supplies no underlying source comparison, that identification remains attributed rather than settled.

Key Characteristics

• Subordinate Western Regions ruler who becomes king of Jibin through cooperation with a Han envoy.
• Recipient of a Han royal seal and nominal recognition.
• Locally powerful actor whose later violence exposes the limits of that recognition.
• Identified by the episode with Hermaeus, a Greek king associated with the Kabul region.

Evidence

Rise through local alliance:

• Hanji 516 says Wen Zhong and Yinmofu plan against the existing Jibin king, after which Yinmofu is installed and accepts a Han seal.

Breakdown of relations:

• Hanji 516 says Yinmofu detains Zhao De, kills the deputy envoy and more than seventy attendants, and later sends an apology mission.

Greek-king identification:

• Hanji 516 attributes to historians the identification of Yinmofu with Hermaeus and calls the investiture unique.

Qualifications

The page preserves multiple name forms because the supplied transcript says 殷墨傅 while the canonical title also records 阴末赴. The Hermaeus equation, Kabul location, subordinate-polity relationship, uniqueness claim, motives, and exact sequence of violence are not independently established by this one podcast summary. The source also varies the neighboring name between 容曲 and 戎区.

What Changed

• Created a bounded profile that keeps the Han-recognition narrative separate from the unverified Hermaeus identification.

Relationships

• 罽宾 - polity over which Yinmofu is installed and later rules.
• 能力约束下的边疆承诺 - his case exposes the enforcement limit behind distant investiture.
• 边疆册封信用权衡 - royal recognition creates prestige and obligation without guaranteeing compliance.
• 汉成帝 - ruler indicated by the episode’s own Heping 4 chronology.