Han campaigns against Minyue

Han campaigns against Minyue
Part of the southward expansion of the Han dynasty

Map showing the expansion of Han dynasty in the 2nd century BC
Date138 BC, 135 BC, and 111 BC
Location
Minyue (modern Fujian)
Result

138 BC

135 BC

  • Minyue defeated and partitioned into Minyue and Dongyue

111 BC

  • Cultural assimilation and displacement of the Dongyue by the Han Empire
  • Eastern Ou annexed by the Han Empire[1][2][3]
  • Han settlement and migration southward
  • Contact and establishment of commercial trade with various foreign kingdoms across Southeast Asia
Belligerents
Han dynasty Minyue
Commanders and leaders

138 BC
Zhuang Zhu
135 BC
Wang Hui
Han Anguo
111 BC

Han Yue
Yang Pu
Wang Wenshu
Two marquises of Yue

135 BC
Zou Ying
111 BC

Zou Yushan

The Han campaigns against Minyue were a series of three Han military campaigns dispatched against the Minyue state. The first campaign was in response to Minyue's invasion of Eastern Ou in 138 BC. In 135 BC, a second campaign was sent to intervene in a war between Minyue and Nanyue. After the campaign, Minyue was partitioned into Minyue, ruled by a Han proxy king named Zou Yushan, and Dongyue.[1] During the concluding months of 111 BC, after the unsuccessful uprising led by Zou Yushan in thwarting General Yang Pu's conspiratorial intentions to undermine him, the aspiration for autonomous rule in Dongyue gradually waned. The rebellion instigated by Zou was suppressed, prompting the Han dynasty's complete annexation of Dongyue into its dominion and the conquest of the residual territories that constituted the former Minyue, effectively consolidating the permanent integration of both domains into the Han empire indefinitely.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ a b c Yu 1986, p. 456.
  2. ^ a b Lorge 2012, p. 85.
  3. ^ a b Sima & Watson 1993, p. 223.