Place

Tay Vu

The district that Ma Yuan, having put down Cuu Chan, reported as having thirty-two thousand households, its furthest reaches more than a thousand li from the district seat; he asked to split it into two districts, Phong Khe and Vong Hai, and the court agreed.

At a glance

Location
Its furthest reaches lay more than a thousand li from the district seat, by Ma Yuan’s report1
Type
A district; by Ma Yuan’s report it had thirty-two thousand households, and it was split into two districts, Phong Khe and Vong Hai1

About the place

The old chronicles say

Having put down Cuu Chan, Ma Yuan reported to the throne that Tay Vu district had thirty-two thousand households, and that its furthest reaches lay more than a thousand li from the district seat. He asked to split it into two districts, Phong Khe and Vong Hai. The court agreed. The biography of Ma Yuan in the Book of the Later Han goes on: wherever Yuan passed, he repaired walls and dug channels to water the fields, for the benefit of the people.1

Mentioned in

  1. Episode 1Ma Yuan's bronze pillars and the policy of assimilation16 min

Sources for this page

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  1. Book of the Later Han

    book 24, Biography of Ma Yuan, main text

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