Person
Trieu Ho
Trieu Da's grandson and successor in Nam Viet, with the posthumous title Van Vuong. When Man Viet attacked he did not fight back but asked the Han to issue an edict; he promised to go to court, then pleaded illness and did not go.
At a glance
- Also known as
- Named Ho, with the posthumous title Van Vuong1
- Dates
- Came to the throne when Trieu Da died in 137 BC; more than ten years after sending his crown prince to serve in the Han palace guard, he fell gravely ill and died1
- Family
- Grandson of Trieu Da; father of the crown prince Anh Te1
Life
The old chronicles say
Two years after he took the throne, by the date the account of the Eastern Viet gives, the neighbouring state of Man Viet sent troops into Nam Viet. He did not fight back, but sent a letter up to the Han: the two Viet states were both vassals of the throne and might not raise troops against each other on their own authority; Man Viet had invaded, his servant did not dare raise troops, and asked only that the Son of Heaven issue an edict. The Han praised him as a man of principle and sent an army against Man Viet, and the affair ended when the Man Viet king's younger brother, Du Thien, killed his own brother in order to surrender.21
He promised to go to court and wait upon the Son of Heaven, then pleaded illness and did not go, because his high ministers warned him in very blunt words: go to court and you will not come back — that is the way a country is lost. Instead he sent his crown prince, Anh Te, to the Han capital to serve in the palace guard. That son, once king, likewise pleaded illness. Two kings, two pleas of illness: Nam Viet kept up the forms of a vassal with letters and hostages, but would not let its king go to court.1
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