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Overview Zhu Wen was a ruler.
Identity Historical · Male
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Emperor Taizu of Liang
梁太祖
Liang Taizu
Life and dates Attested activity AD 915 to AD 923 梁太祖實錄
AD 907 梁祖受禪
AD 907 to AD 912 西抗邠、岐
Places and affiliations Polity Later Liang 梁 · Relation RuledEvents and relationships Campaigned
Military · Commander · At Bin, Qi, Ze, Lu, Yan, Zhao 邠岐澤潞燕趙
Received abdication
AD 907 梁祖受禪 · Accession · Ruler
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 58 Volume 58 Book of Later Tang 34: Biographies 10: Zhao Guangfeng, Zheng Jue, Cui Xie, Li Qi, Xiao Qing · 4 passages
琪兄珽，亦登進士第，才藻富贍，兄弟齊名，而尤為梁祖所知，以珽為崇政學士。
Qi's elder brother Ting also passed the jinshi examination. Both brothers were equally famed for their literary gifts, but Ting was especially noticed by the Founder of Liang, who made him a Chongzheng academician.
梁祖受禪，征入，拜翰林學士。）〉
When the Founder of Liang took the throne, Qi was summoned to court and appointed Hanlin academician.)〉
梁祖西抗邠、岐，北攻澤、潞，出師燕、趙，經略四方，暫無寧歲，而琪以學士居帳中，專掌文翰，下筆稱旨，寵遇逾倫。
The Founder of Liang fought west against Bin and Qi, north against Ze and Lu, and sent armies into Yan and Zhao, campaigning on every front with scarcely a year of peace. Qi lived in the command tent as an academician, handling all literary work. Whatever he wrote pleased the emperor, and his favor exceeded that of all others.
貞明、龍德中，曆兵、禮、吏侍郎，受命與馮錫嘉、張充、郗殷象同撰《梁太祖實錄》三十卷，遷御史中丞，累擢尚書左丞、中書門下平章事。
During the Zhenming and Longde eras he served in succession as vice minister of war, rites, and personnel. He was ordered, together with Feng Xijia, Zhang Chong, and Xi Yinxiang, to compile the thirty-volume 《Veritable Records of Emperor Taizu of Liang》. He was promoted to censor-in-chief and then repeatedly advanced to left vice director of the Imperial Secretariat and grand councilor of the Secretariat and Chancellery.