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Wu Rui

d. 201 BCE · 3rd century BCE

Wu Rui was a Qin magistrate of Po county, popular with the Yue peoples of the south, who joined the rebellion against the Qin dynasty with his son-in-law Ying Bu. In 206 BCE Xiang Yu made him King of Hengshan in the middle Yangtze, but he supported Liu Bang, and after the Han victory in 202 BCE he became the first King of Changsha.

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Kingdom of Hengshan

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