Overview
Liang founder was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male · Title only
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 903 三年
AD 901 天復元年十一月六日
AD 901 天復元年十月
AD 907 梁祖建號
Places and affiliations
- Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Founded
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 132Volume 132: Biographies of Descendents 1: Li Maozhen, Gao Wanxing, Han Xun, Li Renfu · 7 passages
天復元年十月，梁祖攻同、華，勢逼京師。
In the tenth month of the first year of Tianfu, the Liang founder attacked Tong and Hua, threatening the capital.
十一月六日，繼筠與中尉韓全誨劫昭宗幸鳳翔，茂貞遂與全誨矯詔征兵天下，將討梁祖。
On the sixth day of the eleventh month, Jijun and the eunuch Han Quanhui abducted Zhaozong to Fengxiang; Maozhen and Quanhui then forged an edict to levy troops empire-wide for a campaign against the Liang founder.
宰相崔允召梁祖引四鎮之兵屯岐下，重溝復壘圍守。
Chief minister Cui Yun summoned the Liang founder to bring troops from four garrisons to encamp below Qi, digging trench after trench and building ramparts in a tightening siege.
茂貞獨據孤城，內外援絕，乃請車駕還京，求和於汴，即斬韓全誨等二十人首級送於梁祖。
Maozhen held only a lone city with all aid cut off; he then asked the emperor to return to the capital, sued for peace with Bian, and immediately executed Han Quanhui and twenty others, sending their heads to the Liang founder.
自是兵力殫盡，垂翅不振，懼梁祖復討，請落尚書令，許之。
From then on his forces were spent and he could no longer recover; fearing another Liang attack, he asked to be stripped of the Directorate of State Affairs, and the request was granted.
後昭宗西幸，梁祖迎駕，攻逼岐下者累年，及昭宗東還，長圍方解。
Later, when Zhaozong fled west, the Liang founder came to receive the court and pressed the siege below Qi for years; only when Zhaozong returned east was the long encirclement lifted.
及梁祖建號，茂貞與王建會兵於太原，誌圖興復，竟無成功。
When the Liang founder proclaimed his dynasty, Maozhen and Wang Jian joined forces at Taiyuan in hopes of restoring the Tang, but achieved nothing.