赵建德 / Zhao Jiande (Nanyue)

Overview

赵建德 / Zhao Jiande is the replacement king whom 吕嘉 installs after killing 赵兴 and 樛太后. His brief source-bounded profile runs from coup succession to flight and capture during Han’s conquest of 南越.

Current Profile

Hanji 352-1 identifies Zhao Jiande as a son of an earlier king by a Nanyue wife and says Lü Jia installs him after eliminating the pro-Han royal party. This makes his accession part of a rapid attempt to reconstruct royal legitimacy around resistance rather than a normal succession.

Hanji 354 supplies the endpoint. When the combined assault and surrender pressure around Panyu dissolve Nanyue’s defense, Zhao Jiande flees by sea with Lü Jia. Han personnel capture both, and regional submission follows. The two summaries do not establish how much independent authority Zhao Jiande exercises between enthronement and defeat.

Key Characteristics

• Nanyue royal son identified through a Nanyue maternal line.
• Replacement king installed after Lü Jia’s coup.
• Monarch associated with the resistance regime rather than the prior pro-Han royal party.
• King who flees Panyu by sea as the defense collapses.
• Captured ruler whose defeat marks Nanyue’s political end in the source sequence.

Evidence

• Coup succession: Hanji 352-1 says Lü Jia installs Zhao Jiande after killing Zhao Xing and the queen dowager.
• Flight and capture: Hanji 354 says Zhao Jiande and Lü Jia flee by sea after Panyu’s defense collapses and are captured.
• Political endpoint: Hanji 354 connects their capture to wider local submission and commandery reorganization.

Qualifications

The profile is bounded to two compressed Han-centered podcast summaries. They do not reconstruct Zhao Jiande’s prior title, age, participation in the coup, independent decisions, length of reign, support base, or precise capture. Installation by Lü Jia does not by itself prove that he lacked all agency, but the supplied sources do not establish a separate governing program.

What Changed

• Created a continuous profile joining coup enthronement to flight, capture, and the end of Nanyue.
• Kept Zhao Jiande’s independent agency unresolved rather than treating installation as complete proof of puppet status.

Relationships

• 吕嘉 - chancellor who installs Zhao Jiande and later flees with him.
• 赵兴 - killed predecessor whose removal creates the replacement succession.
• 樛太后 - member of the prior royal party eliminated before Zhao Jiande’s accession.
• 南越 - kingdom he briefly rules during resistance and conquest.
• 杨仆 - Han commander whose assault contributes to Panyu’s collapse.
• 路博德 - Han commander whose surrender policy helps dissolve resistance.