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the emperor was a ruler.
IdentityHistorical · Male · Title only
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- Polity Later Han 後漢 · Relation Associated with
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 103Volume 103 Book of Later Han 5: Emperor Yin Annals, Part 2 · 6 passages
乙酉旦，帝策馬至元化門，劉銖在門上，問帝左右：「兵馬何在？」
At dawn on yiyou the emperor rode to Yuanhua Gate; Liu Zhu on the wall asked his escort, "Where is the army?"
帝回，與蘇逢吉、郭允明詣西北村舍，郭允明知事不濟，乃剚刃於帝而崩，時年二十。
The emperor turned back with Su Fengji and Guo Yunming to a northwest village; Yunming, seeing all was lost, killed the emperor with his blade. He was twenty.
周太祖既入京城，命有司遷帝梓宮於太平宮。
Once in the capital, Guo Wei ordered the emperor's coffin moved to Taiping Palace.
周祖曰：「予顛沛之中，不能護衛至尊，以至於此，若又貶降，人謂我何！」
Guo Wei said, "In my wanderings I could not protect the emperor and it came to this—if I demote him too, what will men say of me?"
高祖皇帝翦亂除兇，變家為國，救生靈於塗炭，創王業於艱難，甫定寰區，遽遺弓劍。
Founding emperor Gaozu ended chaos, made the house a state, rescued the people, and built the dynasty in hardship; he had barely settled the realm when he died.
逆黨皇城使李業、內客省使閻晉卿、樞密都承旨聶文進、飛龍使後贊、翰林茶酒使郭允明等，脅君於大內，出戰於近郊，及至力窮，遂行弒逆，冤憤之極，今古未聞。
Rebels Li Ye, Yan Jinqing, Nie Wenjin, Hou Zan, Guo Yunming, and others coerced the emperor, fought at the suburbs, and when spent murdered him—a crime unheard of in history.