Overview
Prince of Jin was a ruler and Warlord.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Life and dates
Attested activity
AD 894 唐乾寧元年十一月
AD 897 四年七月
Places and affiliations
- 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 · 10 passages
武皇遇之甚厚，賜田宅以處之，出為壽陽鎮將，從征吐渾。
The Prince of Jin received him with great favor, granted him fields and a house, appointed him commandant of Shouyang Town, and took him on campaign against the Tuyuhun.
仁恭數進畫於蓋寓，言幽州可圖之狀，願得步騎萬人，即指期可取，武皇從之。
Rengong repeatedly laid out plans to Gai Yu for taking Youzhou, asking for ten thousand foot and horse and promising a date by which he could deliver it. The Prince of Jin consented.
唐乾寧元年十一月，武皇親征匡儔。
In the eleventh month of the first year of Qianning (894), the Prince of Jin led a personal campaign against Li Kuangchou.
二十六日，匡儔棄城而遁，武皇令李存審與仁恭入城撫勞，封府庫，即以仁恭為幽州節度使，留腹心燕留德等十餘人分典軍政，武皇乃還。
On the twenty-sixth Kuangchou abandoned the city and fled. The Prince sent Li Cunshen and Rengong into Youzhou to calm the populace and seal the treasury, then appointed Rengong military governor of Youzhou, leaving a dozen trusted men including Yan Liude to share civil and military duties before returning himself.
二年七月，武皇討王行瑜，師於渭北，上章請授仁恭節鉞。
In the seventh month of the following year the Prince campaigned against Wang Xingyu north of the Wei River and memorialized the court to grant Rengong the command baton.
三年，羅宏信背盟，武皇遣李存信攻魏州，征兵於燕，仁恭托以契丹入寇，俟敵退聽命。
In the third year Luo Hongxin broke faith. The Prince sent Li Cunxin against Weizhou and called on Yan for troops, but Rengong pleaded Khitan invasion and said he would march only after the raiders withdrew.
四年七月，武皇聞兗、鄆俱陷，復征兵於仁恭，數月之間，使車結轍，仁恭辭旨不遜。
In the seventh month of the fourth year, learning that Yanzhou and Yunzhou had both fallen, the Prince again demanded troops from Rengong. Envoys shuttled back and forth for months, but Rengong's answers grew ever more defiant.
武皇以書讓之，仁恭覽書嫚罵，拘其使人，晉之戍兵在燕者皆拘之，復以厚利誘晉之驍將，由是亡命者眾矣。
The Prince rebuked him by letter; Rengong read it and returned only abuse, seized the envoys, detained every Jin garrison soldier in Yan, and tempted Jin's best generals with rich rewards—so that defectors became numerous.
八月，武皇討仁恭。
In the eighth month the Prince marched against Rengong.
仁恭又遣使於武皇，自陳邊將擅興之罪，武皇以書報之。
Rengong also sent envoys to the Prince, blaming the war on unruly frontier commanders; the Prince replied in writing.