sentences:  Mǐn is also the name of the main river in this area, but the ethnonym is probably older.Li Si, the famous prime minister of Qin, deposed the king of Minyue, establishing instead a paramilitary province there called Minzhong Commandery.Minyue was a "de facto" kingdom until one of the emperors of the Qin dynasty, the first unified imperial Chinese state, abolished its status.