Founder (太祖) | 24 Histories

Overview

Founder was a ruler.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 884 to AD 897 乾寧四年 campaigns
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 21, passages 3, 10
AD 884 唐中和四年
Dated from the passage context · Old History of the Five Dynasties 21, passage 25

Places and affiliations

Polity Later Liang 後梁 · Relation Ruled
Strongly inferred · Old History of the Five Dynasties 21, passage 2

References in the histories

Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 21Volume 21 Book of Later Liang 21: Biographies 11: Pang Shigu, Huo Cun, Fu Daozhao, Xu Huaiyu, Guo Yan, Li Tangbin, Wang Qianyu, Liu Kangyi, Wang Yanzhang, He Delun · 5 passages

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以中涓從太祖，性端願，未嘗離左右。 He entered the Founder's service as a palace attendant, dutiful and mild, and never strayed from his side.

及太祖鎮汴，樹置戎伍，始得馬五百匹，即以師古為偏將，援陳破蔡，累有戰功。 When the Founder took Bian and built up his forces, Shigu received five hundred horses and a deputy command; in the campaigns for Chen and against Cai he won repeated victories.

唐中和四年，太祖大破巢軍於王滿渡，時存與葛從周、張歸霸皆自巢軍來降，太祖宥而納之。 In Zhonghe 4 the Founder shattered Chao's host at Wangman Ford; Cun came over with Ge Congzhou and Zhang Guiba, and the Founder spared them and took them in.

太祖怒甚，召存射之，矢一發而屍隕其下，賞賚甚厚。 The Founder in rage called for Cun to shoot him down; one shaft dropped the man from the tower, and the reward was lavish.

太祖之討宿州也，葛從周以水壞其垣，丁會以師乘其墉，存戰壘外，敗其軍，宿人乃降。 In the Founder's siege of Suzhou, Ge Congzhou flooded the walls, Ding Hui escaladed the rampart, and Cun fought outside the wall and broke the garrison until Suzhou submitted.