Zhu Wen (朱溫) | 24 Histories

Overview

Zhu Wen was a ruler and Warlord.

IdentityHistorical · Male

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Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Temple name	Taizu	太祖	Taizu

Life and dates

Death

AD 912 友珪弒太祖自立
Assassinated · Agent Person Id Zhu Yougui (友珪)
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 153

Attested activity

AD 912 友珪弒太祖自立
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 153
AD 905 哀帝方卜郊
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passages 149-150
AD 904 唐遷洛陽
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 148
AD 907 太祖即位
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 183
AD 902 龐師古死清口
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 181
AD 901 梁太祖取河中
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 146

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AD 902 to AD 903 梁太祖攻淮南
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 180
AD 905 遣殷弒太后於積善宮
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 151

Career and standing

Became emperor
AD 907 太祖即位
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 183

Places and affiliations

Polity Liang 梁 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passages 180, 183

Events and relationships

Marched on Xiangyang and Huainan
AD 902 to AD 903 梁太祖攻淮南 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 148
Took Hezhong
AD 901 梁太祖取河中 · Military · Commander
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 146

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 43, passage 180

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 43Volume 43 Miscellaneous Biographies 23: Shi Shucong, Li Yanwei, Li Zhen, Pei Di, Wei Zhen, Kong Xun, Sun Dezhao, Wang Jingrao, Jiang Yin · 9 passages

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梁太祖攻淮南，道過潁州，敬蕘供饋梁兵甚厚，太祖大喜，表敬蕘沿淮指揮使。 Marching on Huainan, Taizu passed through Ying. Jingrao fed his army lavishly. Taizu was delighted and named him commander along the Huai.

其後梁兵攻吳，龐師古死清口，敗兵亡歸，過潁，大雪，士卒飢凍，敬蕘乃沿淮積薪為作糜粥餔之，亡卒多賴以全活，太祖表敬蕘武寧軍留後，遂拜節度使。 Afterwards Liang troops attacked Wu and Pang Shigu fell at Qingkou. Broken troops straggled home through Ying in blinding snow, starving and freezing. Jingrao stacked firewood along the Huai and cooked porridge for them; many lived because of it. Taizu named him acting governor of Wuning, then military commissioner.

太祖即位，敬蕘以疾致仕，後卒于家。 When Taizu became emperor, Jingrao retired sick and later died at home.

梁太祖取河中，以王氏舊恩錄其子孫，表殷牙將，太祖尤愛之。 When Taizu took Hezhong he remembered the Wang family’s old loyalty and enrolled their sons. Yin became a guard officer, and Taizu favored him above most.

太祖已下襄陽，轉攻淮南，還屯正陽，哀帝遣殷勞軍。 Taizu had marched on Xiangyang, then swung into Huainan and camped at Zhengyang. Emperor Ai sent Yin to comfort the troops.

是時，哀帝方卜郊，殷與樞密使蔣玄暉等有隙，因譖之太祖，言玄暉等教天子卜郊祈天，且待諸侯助祭者以謀興復，太祖大怒，哀帝為改卜郊。 Emperor Ai was fixing a date for the suburban sacrifice. Yin hated Jiang Xuanhui and the other commissioners and told Taizu they had coached the emperor to pray for heaven’s favor and were waiting for the feudal lords who would attend the rites so Tang could rise again. Taizu raged, and the sacrifice was put off.

是時，太祖將有篡弒之謀，何太后嘗泣涕叩頭為玄暉等言：「梁王禪位後，願全唐家子母。」 Taizu was already moving to usurp the throne. Empress Dowager He once wept and pressed her forehead to the floor before Xuanhui and his circle: “When the Prince of Liang takes the Mandate, let the Tang mother and son live.”

殷乃誣玄暉嘗私侍太后，太祖斬玄暉及張廷範、柳璨等，遣殷弒太后於積善宮。 Yin then claimed Xuanhui had bedded the empress dowager. Taizu killed Xuanhui, Zhang Tingfan, Liu Can, and the rest, and sent Yin to murder the empress dowager at Jishan Palace.

庶人友珪與殷善，友珪弒太祖自立，拜殷武寧軍節度使。 Yougui, the deposed prince, was Yin’s friend. When Yougui killed Taizu and seized the throne he made Yin military commissioner of Wuning.