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Overview Emperor Zhaozong was a Tang Emperor.
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 40 Volume 40 Miscellaneous Biographies 20: Li Maozhen, Han Jian, Li Renfu, Han Xun, Yang Chongben, Gao Wanxing, Wen Tao · 12 passages
晉王李克用請立珂，茂貞與韓建、王行瑜請立珙，昭宗不許。
Li Keyong of Jin backed Ke; Maozhen, Han Jian, and Wang Xingyu backed Gong. Zhaozong refused.
茂貞等怒，率三鎮兵犯京師，謀廢昭宗，立吉王保。
Enraged, Maozhen and his allies marched from three circuits on Chang’an, plotting to depose Zhaozong and raise Prince of Ji Bao.
晉兵至河中，繼鵬與行瑜弟行實等爭劫昭宗出奔，京師大亂，昭宗出居於石門。
Jin reached Hezhong. Jipeng and Xingyu’s brother Xingshi fought to drag Zhaozong away. Chang’an convulsed. The emperor took refuge at Shimen.
昭宗以謂晉遠而茂貞近，因欲庇之以為德，而冀緩急之可恃也；
Zhaozong reckoned Jin far and Maozhen near. He meant to shelter him as a favor and keep a warlord close at hand for trouble;
昭宗自石門還，益募安聖、捧宸等軍萬餘人，以諸王將之。
Zhaozong came back from Shimen and raised ten thousand more for the Ansheng and Bengchen guards, putting princes at their head.
茂貞遂犯京師，昭宗遣覃王拒之，覃王至三橋，軍潰，昭宗出居於華州。
Maozhen struck the capital again. Zhaozong sent Prince of Tan Sizhou to hold him at Sanqiao; the army broke. The emperor withdrew to Hua.
其後，昭宗為宦者所廢，既反正，宰相崔胤欲借梁兵誅諸宦者，陰與梁太祖謀之。
Later eunuchs deposed Zhaozong; after his restoration Chancellor Cui Yin sought Liang’s blades to destroy them and conspired in secret with Liang Taizu Zhu Wen.
天復元年，胤召梁太祖以西，梁軍至同州，全誨等懼，與繼筠劫昭宗幸鳳翔。
In Tianfu 1 (901) Yin called Zhu Wen west. Liang reached Tongzhou. Quanhui and his party, terrified, joined Jiyun and dragged Zhaozong to Fengxiang.
天子於宮中設小磨，遣宮人自屑豆麥以供禦，自後宮、諸王十六宅，凍餒而死者日三四。
The emperor set a hand-mill in the palace and had women grind beans and wheat for his table. In the inner quarters and the sixteen princely mansions, three or four died of cold and hunger every day.
茂貞窮急，謀以天子與梁以為解。
Cornered, Maozhen plotted to hand the emperor to Liang to break the siege.
昭宗謂茂貞曰：「朕與六宮皆一日食粥，一日食不托，安能不與梁和乎？」
Zhaozong told Maozhen: “The court and I eat gruel one day and flatbread the next—how can we refuse peace with Liang?”
天子雖得出，然梁遂劫東遷而唐亡，茂貞非惟亡唐，亦自困矣。
The emperor walked free, but Liang seized him and dragged the court east—and Tang was finished. Maozhen had ruined Tang and ruined himself.