Person
Dao Hoang
The man who led the Wu army sent to win back Giao Chi; after the Jin destroyed the Wu, he stayed on in Giao Chau. According to the Jin shu, he was in the south thirty years, and when he died the whole province wailed as if it had lost a loving father or mother.
At a glance
- Dates
- The Complete Annals place the campaign to retake Giao Chi in 269 and the battle at Phan Thuy in 271, but the Jin shu gives no year for the individual battles; according to the Jin shu, he was in the south thirty years12
- Role
- The man who led the Wu army sent to win back Giao Chi; according to the Jin shu, he beat Dong Nguyen by a ruse and gave bolts of brocade to Luong Ky, the rebel chief at Phu Nghiem (the Complete Annals call him Luong Te), and Ky brought more than ten thousand men to help; after the Jin destroyed the Wu in 280, he stayed on and sent a memorial asking the new court not to cut the troops in Giao Chau213
- Family
- His son Dao Uy, then governor of Thuong Ngo, was brought back to take up the post of inspector; according to the Jin shu, Uy won the people's hearts in office and died after three years, while the Complete Annals give thirty years. The Jin shu sums up the whole family: from Co down to Tuy, four generations, five men governed Giao Chau21
Life
The old chronicles say
The Wu sent an army to win Giao Chi back, and the man leading it was Dao Hoang. The Jin shu tells how he beat Dong Nguyen by a ruse, then took several thousand bolts of brocade and silk, seized earlier from the treasure ships, and gave them to Luong Ky, the rebel chief at Phu Nghiem; Ky brought more than ten thousand men to help Hoang. The Complete Annals copy this story, but change the chief's name to Luong Te. The Jin shu also keeps a sentence in his own words, about the people on the far shore: the southern shore depends on our salt and iron, cut it off, do not sell to them.21
According to the Jin shu, the lands of Vu Binh, Cuu Duc and Tan Xuong were rugged, and the Man people there were fierce and strong, and for generations had refused to submit. Dao Hoang put them down, and set up three commanderies, together with more than thirty districts belonging to Cuu Chan.2
In 280 the Jin destroyed the Wu. Dao Hoang stayed on, and sent a memorial to the new court asking it not to cut the troops in Giao Chau; the memorial has two figures in it: beyond the frontier, Lam Ap is only seven hundred li away, and the troops under my command were from the start more than seven thousand men. The Complete Annals copy that memorial too, but there the figure becomes eight thousand. The Jin shu says of him: he was in the south thirty years, and his authority and his kindness were renowned among peoples of strange customs; when he died, the whole province wailed as if it had lost a loving father or mother. The Complete Annals copy this almost exactly.321
The Jin shu goes on. His son Dao Uy, then governor of Thuong Ngo, was brought back to take up the post, and in office he won the people's hearts, and after three years he died. The Complete Annals copy that sentence almost word for word, adding only one character, the character for ten: in their version, Dao Uy held office thirty years before he died. The biography ends with a line summing up the whole family: from Co down to Tuy, four generations, five men governed Giao Chau.21
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