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Emperor Zhuangzong was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Polity Jin 晉 · Relation Ruled
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 135Volume 135: Biographies of Usurpers 2: Liu Shouguang, Liu Zhi, Liu Chong · 11 passages
十二月，莊宗遣周德威出飛狐，會鎮、定之師以討之，德威攻圍歷年，屬郡皆下。
In the twelfth month Emperor Zhuangzong sent Zhou Dewei through Flying Fox Pass to join Zhen and Ding in the attack. Dewei besieged for a year until every subordinate prefecture had fallen.
十年十月，守光遣使持幣馬見德威乞降，又乘城呼曰：「予俟晉王至即出城。」
In the tenth month of the tenth year Shouguang sent envoys with gifts and horses to Dewei to sue for surrender and called from the walls, "I will open the gates when the Prince of Jin comes."
十一月，莊宗親征。
In the eleventh month Emperor Zhuangzong led the campaign in person.
莊宗湣之，折弓為盟，許其保全。
Emperor Zhuangzong pitied him, broke a bow to seal an oath, and promised his life.
守光辭以他日，莊宗乃令諸軍攻之。
Shouguang asked for another day; the emperor then ordered a general assault.
二十四日，四面畢攻，莊宗登燕太子墓觀之。
On the twenty-fourth the assault closed on all sides. Emperor Zhuangzong watched from the tomb of the Yan crown prince.
莊宗方宴府第，引仁恭、守光至席，父子號泣謝罪，莊宗慰撫之曰：「往事不復言。
Emperor Zhuangzong was feasting at the prefectural seat and had Rengong and Shouguang brought before him. Father and son wept and begged forgiveness. The emperor said, "Let the past be past.
莊守以仁恭、守光徇於都城，即告南宮七廟，禮畢，守光與李小喜、鄭藏斐、劉延卿及其二妻皆伏誅。
Emperor Zhuangzong paraded Rengong and Shouguang through the capital, reported to the seven temples of the Southern Palace, and then executed Shouguang with Li Xiaoxi, Zheng Zangfei, Liu Yanqing, and his two wives.
莊宗急召小喜至，令證辯。
Emperor Zhuangzong hurried Xiaoxi forward to answer.
莊宗怒小喜失禮，先斬之。
Angered by Xiaoxi's insolence, the emperor beheaded him first.
令副使盧汝弼、李存霸拘送仁恭至代州，於武皇靈前刺心血以祭，誅於雁門山下。
He sent Vice-Commissioner Lu Rubi and Li Cunba to escort Rengong to Daizhou, offer his heart's blood before the Prince of Jin's spirit tablet, and execute him below Yanmen Mountain.