14 Facts About Yue Wan

Yue Wan was a general and politician of Former Yan during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

Yue Wan defended Fancheng from Later Zhao in 339 and helped defeat Ran Min with Yao Xiang and Shi Zhi during the Yan-Wei War in 351.

Yue Wan was mostly known for his reforms in 368, in which he attempted to fix Yan's household registration system that was being abused by the nobility and corrupted officials.

Yue Wan was of Xianbei ethnicity and began his career in Yan as the City Chief of Kehu before becoming a part of Murong Huang's personal staff as one of his marshals.

Yue Wan carried out his invasion in early 350, but as the war progressed, Yan's main threat quickly shifted away from Zhao to Zhao's break-away state, Ran Wei, and its ruler Ran Min.

Yue Wan's tactic worked as the Wei army's morale fell.

Some time after, Yue Wan was appoint General of the Front.

In 354, Yue Wan followed Murong Ke to Lukou to subdue the self-proclaimed King of Anguo, Lu Hu.

Yue Wan pursued him, and eventually, Lu surrendered to Yan.

Yue Wan was assigned with four regents, Murong Ke, Murong Ping, Muyu Gen and Yang Wu.

Yue Wan had grown to the position of Left Supervisor of the Masters of Writing and was bestowed the title of Duke of Guangxin.

Yue Wan managed to uncover the ministers guilty of contributing to the problem and brought them to light.

Yue Wan restored around 200,000 people to the public register from the fiefs.

At the time of his reforms Yue Wan was already ill, and while he was verifying the census registers, his condition began to worsen.