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Overview Gao Yunquan was an official and Military Officer.
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 125 Volume 125 Book of Later Zhou 27: Biographies 5: Lie Chuanwu, Zhao Hui, Wang Shou'en, Kong Zhijun, Wang Jihong, Feng Hui, Gao Yunquan, Zhe Congruan, Wang Rao, Sun Fangjian · 12 passages
高允權，延州人。
Gao Yunquan was a native of Yanzhou.
允權即萬金子也。
Yunquan was Wanjin's son.
是夜未曙，允權方寢，亂軍排闥，請知留後事，遂居於西城，與密相拒數日。
That night before dawn, while Yunquan was still asleep, the mutineers burst in and asked him to serve as acting regent. He took up residence in the western city and confronted Mi for several days.
河東遣供奉官陳光穗宣撫河西，允權乃遣支使李彬奉表太原，周密棄東城而去。
Hedong sent the tribute commissioner Chen Guangsu to pacify Hexi. Yunquan sent his staff officer Li Bin to submit a memorial at Taiyuan, and Zhou Mi abandoned the eastern city and fled.
漢祖遣使就加允權檢校太傅，仍正授旄鉞。
The Han founder sent an envoy to make Yunquan acting Grand Mentor and formally grant him the military commission.
漢祖入汴，允權屢修貢奉。
When the Han founder entered Bian, Yunquan sent tribute repeatedly.
隱帝即位，加檢校太尉、同平章事。
When the Hidden Emperor acceded, Yunquan was made acting Grand Preceptor and co-equal chief councilor.
允權與夏州李彜興不協，其年李守貞據河中叛，密構彜興為援，及朝廷用兵夏州，軍逼延州，允權上章論列，彜興亦紛然自訴，朝廷賜詔和解之。
Yunquan was on bad terms with Li Yiyin of Xiazhou. That year Li Shouzhen rebelled at Hezhong and secretly enlisted Yiyin as an ally. When the court campaigned against Xiazhou and the army pressed Yanzhou, Yunquan submitted a memorial of protest and Yiyin lodged complaints as well. The court issued an edict to reconcile them.
太子太師致仕劉景巖，允權妻之祖也，退老於州之別墅。
Liu Jingyan, a retired Grand Preceptor of the Heir Apparent, was Yunquan's wife's grandfather and lived in retirement at a villa in the prefecture.
景巖以允權婚家後輩，心輕之。
Jingyan looked down on Yunquan as a junior in the family by marriage.
允權恒忌其強，是歲冬，盡殺景巖之家，收其家財萬計，以謀叛聞，朝廷不能辨。
Yunquan constantly resented his influence. That winter he slaughtered Jingyan's entire household, seized family wealth numbering in the tens of thousands, and reported it as a rebellion. The court could not determine the truth.
關西賊平，方面例覃恩命，就加允權檢校太師。
When the Guanxi rebels were pacified, frontier commanders received grace appointments as was customary. Yunquan was at once made acting Grand Preceptor.