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Zhu Quanzhong was a warlord.
IdentityHistorical · Male
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- Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
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- Assessment ground teeth in fury at Shu's opposition · Mode narrative
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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 117Volume 113 Biographies 63: Miao Jingqing, Pei Mian, Pei Zunqing · 10 passages
初，樞自歙州罷郡歸朝，路經大梁，時硃全忠兵威已振，樞以兄事之，全忠由是重之。
Earlier, when Shu left his post at She and returned to court, his route took him through Daliang. Zhu Quanzhong's military power was already formidable, and Shu treated him with the deference due an elder brother—whereupon Quanzhong came to esteem him.
及樞傳詔，全忠皆稟朝旨，獻奉相繼，昭宗甚悅，遷兵部侍郎。
When Shu delivered the imperial edict, Quanzhong obeyed the court's every instruction and sent tribute in unbroken succession. Emperor Zhaozong was greatly pleased and promoted Shu to vice minister of war.
時崔胤專政，亦倚全忠，二人因是相結，改樞吏部侍郎。
Cui Yin was then dominant at court and also relied on Quanzhong. The two formed an alliance, and Shu was made vice minister of personnel.
制出，硃全忠保薦之，言樞有經世才，不可棄之嶺表，尋復拜門下侍郎，監修國史，累兼吏部尚書，判度支。
When the appointment was issued, Zhu Quanzhong intervened on his behalf, declaring that Shu possessed talent to govern the realm and should not be banished to the far south. Shu was soon made vice director of the Chancellery, put in charge of compiling the national history, and eventually also minister of personnel with charge of revenue.
崔胤誅，以全忠素厚，相位如故。
After Cui Yin was executed, Shu retained his chief ministry unchanged, thanks to his long-standing ties with Quanzhong.
哀帝初嗣位，柳璨用事，全忠嘗奏用牙將張廷範為太常卿，諸相議，樞曰：「廷範勛臣，幸有方鎮節鉞之命，何藉樂卿？
When Emperor Aidi first took the throne, Liu Can was in power. Quanzhong once recommended his military officer Zhang Tingfan as director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices. The chief ministers deliberated, and Shu said, 'Tingfan is a meritorious officer who may yet receive a regional command—why does he need the directorship of the Court of Sacrifices?
恐非元帥梁王之旨。」
I fear this is not what the Prince of Liang, our commander-in-chief, intends.'
俄而全忠聞樞言，謂賓佐曰：「吾常以裴十四器識真純，不入浮薄之伍，觀此議論，本態露矣。」
When Quanzhong heard of Shu's words he told his staff, 'I always thought Pei the Fourteenth was genuinely upright and would never join the frivolous crowd—but this opinion shows his true colors.'
柳璨聞全忠言，尋希旨罷樞相位，和陵祔享，拜尚書左僕射。
Liu Can, hearing Quanzhong's anger, soon had Shu removed from the chief ministry in accord with his wishes. At the joint offering at He Mausoleum Shu was made left vice director of the Secretariat.
六月十一日，行及滑州，全忠遣人殺之於白馬驛，投屍於河，時年六十五。
On the eleventh day of the sixth month, when he reached Hua prefecture on the Yellow River on his way into exile, Quanzhong sent men to kill him at Baima Post and throw his body into the river. He was sixty-five years old.