Five Dynasties · Ruler

Emperor

Attested AD 935 - AD 935

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Emperor was a ruler.

IdentityHistorical · Male · Title only
RolesRuler

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 47Volume 47 Book of Later Tang 23: Later Emperors Annals 2 · 6 passages
帝性仁恕,聽納不倦,嘗因朝會謂盧文紀等曰:「朕在藩時,人說唐代為人主端拱而天下治,蓋以外恃將校,內倚謀臣,故端拱而事辦。 The Emperor was by nature benevolent and forgiving, listening and accepting without weariness; once at court assembly he said to Lu Wenji and others: "When I was in the provinces, people said that in the Tang dynasty the ruler sat in dignified repose and the realm was well governed—because he relied outward on generals and inward on strategists, and so sitting in repose affairs were accomplished.