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Zhang Quanyi, styled Guowei, came from Linpu in Puzhou. As a boy he did corvée for the county as a farmer’s son. The magistrate shamed him again and again; Quanyi ran off and joined Huang Chao’s rebels. When Chao seized Chang’an he made Quanyi Minister of the Civil Service and commissioner of water transport. After Chao’s fall he went to Zhuge Shuang at Heyang. Shuang died; he served the son Zhongfang. Sun Ru drove out Zhongfang. Quanyi and Li Hanzhi split Heyang and Luoyang and came over to Liang. The two were fast friends. Hanzhi was greedy and brutal; every day was for raiding and loot. Quanyi was thrifty, kept strict discipline in camp, and drove the people back to the fields. So Hanzhi went hungry while Quanyi’s granaries stayed full. Hanzhi lived on Quanyi’s grain until Quanyi could give no more; then the friendship cracked. Hanzhi marched against Jin and Jiang Prefectures. Quanyi struck behind him and seized Heyang. Hanzhi fled to Jin, whose troops came to his aid and pressed Quanyi hard in siege. Quanyi cried to Liang for men. Niu Cunjie and Ding Hui crossed at Jiuding with ten thousand troops, smashed Hanzhi on the Yan River, and Jin pulled away. Liang left Ding Hui in Heyang; Quanyi resumed as Intendant of Henan. Liang had pulled him out of the fire; Quanyi served with all he had.
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Chao and Ru had burned Henan hollow—fewer than a hundred households left. Quanyi cut brush, pushed the plow, carried wine and food into the furrows himself, and raised south and north cities for people to live in. In a few years the land filled out again; the people leaned on him. When Zhu Wen dragged Zhaozong east, every palace, yamen, and warehouse put back in order was Quanyi’s work. He had first been called Yan; Zhaozong gave him the name Quanyi—“whole righteousness.” Tang ended; he served Liang and asked for a new name. The Founder called him Zongshi. Zhu Wen grew more suspicious with age; Quanyi bowed lower year by year and lived.
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While Liang and Jin tore at Hebei and Liang’s hosts bled men and horses, Quanyi combed his camps every month for mail and mounts to send north and patch the holes. After his army was defeated at Tiao County, Zhu Wen fell ill on the road back to Luoyang. He spent ten days escaping the summer heat at Quanyi's Festival Garden, where he forced Quanyi's wife and daughters to submit to him. His son Jizu burned with shame and reached for a knife. Quanyi caught his arm: “Hanzhi had me penned at Heyang eating sawdust. One horse left—I meant to slaughter it for the men. I was as good as dead when Liang broke the siege. Do not forget that debt.” Jizu laid the blade down.
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Word reached Zhu Wen that Quanyi was not to be trusted. He summoned him—you could not read his face. His wife Lady Chu was quick and had a tongue like a blade. She went straight in and snapped: “Zongshi? A dirt farmer, nothing more! Thirty years he has kept Henan—cut brush, broke ground, scraped every tax to feed your founding. His bones are old and useless, and you doubt him. For what?” The Founder laughed: “No harm meant, old mother—enough talk.” He rose to Grand Councilor, thirteen thousand households, and at once Zhongwu, Shaan, Guo, Zheng, Hua, and Heyang; he judged the Six Armies and palace guards, stood second only to the commander-in-chief, and was made Prince of Wei.
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When Hanzhi beat him once, his brother Quanwu and kin fell to Jin. Li Keyong gave them land and kept them well. Quanyi still sent quiet word to Taiyuan. Liang died; Zhuangzong took Bian. Quanyi came from Luoyang, face in the dust, ready for death. Zhuangzong raised him: “Your brothers and nephews—good to see them whole again.” Quanyi pressed his forehead to the floor and wept. Too old to hurry, he was helped up the steps. The feast ran late. Zhuangzong told Jiji, Cunji, and the rest to honor him as elder brother. He dropped the Liang name and asked for his old one back. Still he could not rest easy and bought Empress Liu with heavy gifts.
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Liang’s Last Emperor had come to Luoyang for the southern-suburb rite and failed; the gear was still there. Quanyi asked Zhuangzong to come, swearing the suburban vessels were waiting. Zhuangzong was delighted and made him Grand Preceptor and Director of the Secretariat. Next year, eleventh month, he reached Luoyang. The suburban gifts were not ready; the rite slid to second month next year—and he never called Quanyi to account for the lie. For the empress’s sake his favor deepened. Zhuangzong came to his house again and again, had the empress call him father, and changed his title to Prince of Qi.
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When he destroyed Liang he meant to open Zhu Wen’s tomb, break the coffin, and mutilate the body. Quanyi argued that Liang was your foe, but the clan was wiped out—that paid the debt. A king does not show the world his spite by gutting a grave. Zhuangzong agreed and only stripped the tomb’s stone tower.
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His army supervisor had taken Li Deyu’s Pingquan sobering stone. Deyu’s grandson Yan’gu asked Quanyi to get it back. The supervisor snarled: “Since Chao, not one Luoyang estate could be held—why fuss over one Pingquan stone!” Quanyi had ridden with Chao once and heard an insult. He raged, had the man flogged to death, and the realm cried foul. In court he favored whoever filed first; folk groaned under it.
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Tongguang 4: Zhao Zaili rose in Wei. Yuan Xingqin could not break him. Zhuangzong meant to go himself; ministers begged him not to and named Mingzong instead. Guo Chongtao and Zhu Youqian were already dead. Mingzong came from Zhenzhou and was kept in a private house. Zhuangzong mistrusted him and would not send him out. Ministers pressed again and again; he refused; only when Quanyi spoke hard for it did Zhuangzong yield. Mingzong reached Wei and turned rebel. Quanyi died of grief at seventy-five. They styled him Loyal and Solemn.
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His son Jizu rose to supreme general. Under Jin’s Gaozu he followed Zhang Congbin’s revolt at Heyang and earned extinction for his line. Chancellor Sang Weihan’s father Gong had served Quanyi well; he begged mercy for the clan. Denied—but only Jizu, his wife, and children died.
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Zhu Youqian, styled Deguang, came from Xu Prefecture. First he was Jian—a soldier at Mianchi, then a fugitive. He robbed between Shihao and Sanxiang until every merchant on the road feared him. In time he left the hills for a post in the Shaan garrison. Wang Gong of Shaan was cruel; he and his brother Ke fought for Hezhong and lost. His yamen officer Li Fan and Youqian killed Gong and came to Liang. Zhu Wen named Fan to replace him. Fan took the seat; Youqian attacked again. Fan ran. Zhu Wen put Youqian in his place. Liang marched west on Li Maozhen; the Founder passed through Shaan again and again. Youqian waited on him like a shadow and said: “I had no merit. Everything I am, Marshal, is your doing. We even share the Zhu name—I beg a new name to stand among your sons.” Zhu Wen’s heart softened; he renamed him Youqian and took him as a son. At the founding he was moved to Hezhong, rose to Grand Councilor, and was made Prince of Ji.
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Zhu Wen was murdered; Yougui seized the throne and made Youqian Palace Attendant. He took the seal but never made peace with it. Yougui called him to court; Youqian stayed away and went over to Jin. Yougui sent Kang Huaiying and fifty thousand men against him. The Prince of Jin came from Ze and Lu to rescue him. He met Huaiying at Jie County and routed him, pursued him to Baijing Ridge, and attacked by torchlight at night. Huaiying was defeated again, and the Liang army withdrew. Youqian fell asleep drunk in the Prince of Jin's tent. The prince looked him over and said to his attendants, 'The Prince of Ji may be very exalted, but unfortunately his arms are short!'
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莊宗滅梁入洛，友謙來朝，賜姓名曰李繼麟，賜予巨萬。 明年，加守太師、尚書令，賜鐵券恕死罪。 以其子令德為遂州節度使，令錫忠武軍節度使，諸子及其將校為刺史者十餘人，恩寵之盛，時無與比。 是時宦官、伶人用事，多求賂於友謙，友謙不能給而辭焉，宦官、伶人皆怒。 唐兵伐蜀，友謙閱其精兵，命其子令德將以從軍。 及郭崇韜見殺，伶人景進言：「唐兵初出時，友謙以為討己，閱兵自備。」 又言：「與崇韜謀反。」 且曰：「崇韜所以反於蜀者，以友謙為內應。 友謙見崇韜死，謀與存乂為郭氏報冤。」 莊宗初疑其事，群伶、宦官日夜以為言。 友謙聞之大恐，將入朝以自明，將吏皆勸其毋行。 友謙曰：「郭公有大功於國，而以讒死，我不自明，誰為我言者！」 乃單車入朝。 景進使人詐為變書，告友謙反。 莊宗惑之，乃徙友謙義成軍節度使，遣朱守殷夜以兵圍其館，驅友謙出徽安門外，殺之，復其姓名。 詔魏王繼岌殺令德於遂州，王思同殺令錫於許州，夏魯奇族其家屬於河中。 魯奇至其家，友謙妻張氏率其宗族二百餘口見魯奇曰：「朱氏宗族當死，願無濫及平人。」 乃別其婢仆百人，以其族百口就刑。 張氏入室取其鐵券示魯奇曰：「此皇帝所賜也，不知為何語！」 魯奇亦為之慚。
Zhuangzong took Luoyang; Youqian came to court. He was given the Li surname and the name Jilin and gifts beyond counting. Next year: acting Grand Preceptor, Director of the Secretariat, and an iron pardon for death. Son Lingde took Suizhou; Lingxi took Zhongwu; more than ten sons and officers held prefectures—no favor like it in the age. Eunuchs and actors ruled the court and shook Youqian down. He could not pay and said no. They hated him for it. When Tang marched on Shu he mustered his best and sent Lingde to war. After Guo Chongtao died, the actor Jing Jin said: “When the host first marched, Youqian thought it was for him—he drilled troops and armed.” He also said: “He and Chongtao meant to rebel together.” And: “Chongtao turned in Shu because Youqian was his man inside. Seeing Chongtao dead, he plotted with Cunyi to avenge Guo.” Zhuangzong doubted at first; actors and eunuchs whispered it day and night. Youqian heard and was terrified. He meant to go to court and clear his name; officers begged him to stay home. Youqian said: “Guo served the realm and died on lies. If I do not speak for myself, who will?” He drove to court alone in one cart. Jing Jin forged a dispatch saying Youqian had risen. Zhuangzong wavered, moved him to Yicheng, and sent Zhu Shouyin at night to ring his lodge. They dragged him past Hui’an Gate and killed him, then took back his old name. An edict ordered Jiji, Prince of Wei, to kill Lingde at Suizhou, Wang Sitong to kill Lingxi at Xu Prefecture, and Xia Luqi to exterminate the rest of the family at Hezhong. Luqi came to the house. Lady Zhang led two hundred kin to meet him: “The Zhu line owes death. Spare the servants and strangers.” She sent a hundred servants aside; a hundred Zhu went to the block. She went inside, brought out the iron pardon, and held it to Luqi’s face: “The emperor gave this—what language is this?” Even Luqi flushed.
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Yuan Xiangxian came from Xiayi in Songzhou, descended from Prince Shuji of Nanyang under Tang. His father Jingchu served Liang as Grand Steward of the Palace Treasury and Commandant of the Horseshoe Escort and married the Founder’s younger sister—the Grand Princess of Wan’an. As the Founder’s nephew by marriage, Xiangxian commanded all horse and foot of Xuanwu inside and outside the circuit, then held Suzhou, Mingzhou, and Chenzhou in turn. At the Founder’s accession he rose to Left Dragon Martial Commander and commander of all horse and foot in the capital.
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太祖遇弒，友珪立。 末帝留守東都，以大事謀於趙巖，巖曰：「此事如反掌耳，但得招討楊令公一言諭禁軍，則事可成。」 末帝即遣人之魏州，以謀告楊師厚，師厚遣裨將王舜賢至洛陽與象先謀，象先許諾。 是時，龍驤軍將劉重遇戍於懷州，以其軍作亂，友珪遣霍彥威擊敗於鄢陵，其餘兵奔散，捕之甚急。 末帝即召龍驤軍在東京者告之曰：「上以重遇故，欲盡召龍驤軍至洛而誅之。」 乃偽為友珪詔書示之，龍驤軍恐懼，不知所為，因告之曰：「友珪弒父與君，天下之賊也！ 爾能趨洛陽擒之，以其首祭先帝，則所謂轉禍而為福也。」 軍士踴躍曰：「王言是也。」 末帝即馳奏，言：「龍驤軍反。」 象先聞之，即引禁軍千人入宮攻友珪，友珪死。 末帝即位，拜象先鎮南軍節度使、同中書門下平章事、開封尹、判在京馬步軍諸軍事。 貞明四年，為平盧軍節度使，徙鎮宣武。
Zhu Wen was murdered; Yougui took the throne. The Last Emperor held Luoyang and asked Zhao Yan. Yan said: “This is easy as turning your hand—one word from Yang the Commandant to the forbidden army, and it is done.” He sent to Weizhou; Yang Shihou sent his deputy Wang Shunxian to Luoyang. Xiangxian pledged yes. Liu Chongyu of the Dragon-Prancing Army held Huaizhou and his men rebelled. Yougui sent Huo Yanwei; he broke them at Yanling. Survivors scattered; hunters ran them hard. The Last Emperor called the Dragon-Prancing men in Luoyang and said: “The throne, because of Chongyu, means to pull every Dragon-Prancing soldier to the capital and kill them all.” They forged Yougui’s edict and showed it. The Dragon-Prancing men panicked, helpless, and told them: “Yougui killed his father and his lord—the realm’s bandit! Run to Luoyang, take him, and hang his head before Taizu’s spirit. That is fortune from disaster.” The men shouted: “The Prince speaks true.” The Last Emperor galloped word to the throne: “The Dragon Flight Army has risen in revolt.” Xiangxian heard and led a thousand palace guards straight in to strike Yougui dead. The Last Emperor made him military governor of Zhennan, co–Grand Councillor, Kaifeng prefect, and overseer of every horse and foot regiment in the capital. In Zhenming year 4 he took Pinglu, then was moved to Xuanwu.
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Among Liang generals he had never earned a battle; he commanded the personal guard solely as the emperor’s nephew-in-law. Slaying Yougui was his gift to the Last Emperor. More than ten years at Songzhou he bled the people dry and piled loans to the tune of ten million. When Zhuangzong took Liang, Xiangxian came to Luoyang with cartloads of treasure—hundreds of thousands—to buy Tang ministers, actors, eunuchs, Empress Liu. Court and camp alike suddenly called him a fine man. Zhuangzong favored him richly, gave him the name Li Shao’an, and renamed Xuanwu the Guide Army: “Guide—that name was made for you.” Then sent him back to his post. He died that year at sixty, posthumously Grand Preceptor.
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He had two sons—Zhengci reached prefect; Jiao became Henghai military governor under Shizong of Zhou. He had piled tens of millions and four thousand houses. At death he left his sons nothing and gave the whole hoard to Zhengci. Zhengci first rode his father’s name into the Soaring Dragon guard as deputy. Under Tang’s deposed emperor he bought Quzhou with fifty thousand strings of cash. When Jin’s Gaozu rose he paid another fifty thousand strings for a real prefecture, not an acting one. They named him prefect of Xiong—west of Lingwu, deep in the Tibetan marches. Zhengci shrank from the posting, paid more cash, and bought his way out. Rage choked him; he looped his belt round his neck. Family pulled him down before he finished. Under the Deposed Emperor he paid thirty thousand strings and ten thousand taels of silver. The emperor meant to grant him an interior post, but Zhengci died first.
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Cash packed his rooms until the walls seemed to low like cattle. Neighbors called it a demon and begged him to spend the hoard to quiet it. Zhengci said, “When things cry out they are calling their kind. Add more money—the noise will stop.” The story passed for a joke across the city.
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朱漢賓，字績臣，亳州譙人也。 其父元禮為軍校，從梁軍戰，歿於清口。 漢賓為人有膽力，梁太祖以其父死戰，憐之，以為養子。 是時，梁方東攻兗、鄆，鄆州朱瑾募其軍中驍勇者，黥雙雁於其頰，號「雁子都」。 太祖聞之，乃更選勇士數百人，號「落雁都」，以漢賓為指揮使。 及漢賓貴，人猶以為「朱落雁」。 漢賓事梁為天威軍使，歷磁滑宋亳曹五州刺史、安遠軍節度使。 莊宗滅梁，罷漢賓為右龍武統軍，待之頗薄。 後莊宗因出遊幸其第，漢賓妻有色而惠，因侍左右，進酒食，奏歌舞，莊宗歡甚，留至夜漏二更而去，漢賓自此有寵。 初，漢賓在梁也，與朱友謙俱為太祖養子，而友謙年長，漢賓以兄事之。 其後梁亡，漢賓數寓書友謙，友謙不答，漢賓銜之。 其後友謙見族，人皆以為漢賓有力。 明宗入立，以漢賓為莊宗所厚，惡之，以為右衛上將軍。 安重誨用事，漢賓依附之，相為婚姻，由是復得為昭義軍節度使。 重誨死，漢賓罷為上將軍，遂以太子少保致仕。 漢賓為將，未嘗有戰功，而臨政能守法，好施惠，人頗愛之。 清泰二年卒，年六十四。 晉高祖時，贈太子少傅，謚曰貞惠。
Zhu Hanbin, styled Jichen, came from Qiao in Bozhou. His father Yuanli was a camp officer who followed Liang into battle and fell at Qingkou. Hanbin had nerve and muscle. Zhu Wen, pitying a boy whose father died in his service, adopted him. Liang was driving east on Yan and Yun. Zhu Jin of Yun raised the fiercest fighters, branded twin geese on their cheeks, and called them “Goose Sons.” Zhu Wen answered with several hundred picked men, called them “Falling-Goose Company,” and put Hanbin in command. Even in high office men still called him “Zhu Falling-Goose.” He commanded the Heavenly Might army, held Ci, Hua, Song, Bo, and Cao in turn, and became military governor of Anyuan. When Zhuangzong took Liang he parked Hanbin in the Right Dragon Martial guard and kept him at arm’s length. Once Zhuangzong called at his house. Hanbin’s wife was lovely and sharp; she poured wine, sang, danced at his side. Zhuangzong stayed till the second watch. After that Hanbin had favor again. In Liang days he and Zhu Youqian were both Zhu Wen’s adopted sons; Youqian was senior, and Hanbin treated him as elder brother. After Liang fell Hanbin wrote again and again. Youqian never answered. Hanbin brooded on the slight. When Youqian’s clan was wiped out, many said Hanbin had helped drive the blade. Mingzong, who disliked anyone Zhuangzong had loved, made him Right Guard senior general. He clung to An Chonghui, married into his house, and won back Zhaoyi as military governor. Chonghui died; Hanbin was stripped to senior general, then retired as Junior Mentor of the Heir. He never won a battle, but in office he kept the law and gave freely; people liked him for it. He died in Qingtai year 2, aged sixty-four. Jin’s Gaozu posthumously made him Junior Mentor of the Heir with the posthumous name Zhenhui—Loyal and Kind.
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Duan Ning came from Kaifeng. He was born Mingyuan and later took the name Ning. He was chief clerk of Mianchi. His father had served Zhu Wen and was exiled for a fault in office. Ning quit the clerkship and entered Zhu Wen’s service as army patrol commissioner. He placed his younger sister in the Founder’s bed; she was beautiful and rose to palace Beauty. Ning was sly and quick to read a man’s mood. The sister won him trust; Zhu Wen often set him to watch the armies. They made him prefect of Huai. When Zhu Wen marched north he passed Huai; Ning’s gifts were lavish and the Founder was delighted. At Xiang, Prefect Li Si’an gave the usual tribute—nothing beside Ning’s feast. Zhu Wen raged; Si’an offended and died for it. They moved him to Zhengzhou and set him over the river armies. Li Zhen begged to remove him. Zhu Wen said, “Ning has done no crime.” Zhen said, “Wait for a crime and the realm will be gone first!” He was never removed.
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莊宗已下魏博，與梁相距河上。 梁以王彥章為招討使，凝為副。 是時，末帝昏亂，小人趙巖、張漢傑等用事，凝依附巖等為奸。 彥章為招討使，三日，用奇計破唐德勝南城。 而凝與彥章各自上其功，巖等從中匿彥章功狀，悉歸其功於凝。 凝因納金巖等，求代彥章，末帝惑巖等言，卒以凝為招討使，軍於王村。 是時，唐已下鄆州，凝乃自酸棗決河東註鄆，以隔絕唐軍，號「護駕水」。 莊宗自鄆趨汴，汴兵悉已屬凝，京師無備，乃遣張漢倫馳驲召凝於河上，漢倫中道墜馬，傷不能進。 已而梁亡，凝率精兵五萬降唐，莊宗賜以錦袍、御馬。 明日，凝奏：「故梁奸人趙巖、張漢傑等十餘人侮弄權柄，殘害生靈，請皆族之。」 凝出入唐朝無隗色，見唐將相若倡優，因伶人景進納賂劉皇后，以求恩寵。 莊宗甚親愛之，賜姓名曰李紹欽，以為泰寧軍節度使。 居月餘，用庫錢數十萬，有司請責其償，莊宗釋之。 郭崇韜固請，以為不可，莊宗怒曰：「朕為卿所制，都不自由！」 終釋之。
Zhuangzong had taken Weibo; Liang and Tang faced each other across the river. Liang named Wang Yanzhang pacification commissioner and Ning his second. The Last Emperor was lost; Zhao Yan, Zhang Hanjie, and their kind ruled. Ning rode their coattails into treachery. Yanzhang, as pacification commissioner, took Tang’s southern Desheng citadel in three days with a stratagem. Ning and Yanzhang each filed merit. Yan’s clique buried Yanzhang’s report and gave Ning the whole credit. Ning bought Yan with gold and asked to replace Yanzhang. The Last Emperor listened; Ning became pacification commissioner at Wangcun. Tang had Yun. Ning cut the Yellow River east from Suanzao to flood toward Yun and wall off Tang’s host, calling it the “Imperial-Guard Water.” Zhuangzong ran from Yun on Bian. Every soldier at Bian answered to Ning; the capital was bare. They sent Zhang Hanlun by relay to pull Ning off the river—Hanlun fell midway and could not ride on. Liang fell. Ning brought fifty thousand elite horse to Tang. Zhuangzong gave brocade and an imperial mount. Next day he memorialized: “Liang’s villains Zhao Yan, Zhang Hanjie, and a dozen more played with power and ruined the people—exterminate every clan.” He walked Tang’s halls without shame, treating ministers like players. Through the actor Jing Jin he bought Empress Liu’s favor. Zhuangzong doted on him, gave him the name Li Shaoqin, and made him military governor of Taining. In a month he burned through hundreds of thousands from the treasury. The accountants demanded repayment. Zhuangzong let it go. Guo Chongtao insisted it could not stand. Zhuangzong snapped, “You rule me—I am not free!” In the end he released him anyway.
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Zhuangzong sent Li Shaohong to watch the generals against the Khitan. Ning held Waqiao Pass and flattered him; Shaohong kept pushing Ning for high office, and Guo Chongtao kept saying no. They moved him to military governor of Wusheng. When Zhao Zaili rose, Shaohong wanted Ning as pacifier. Zhuangzong asked his plan; every deputy Ning named was an old crony. Zhuangzong smelled a plot and stopped. Mingzong’s accession sent him home to his village. Next year they exiled him to distant Liaozhou and granted death.
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Liu Qi came from Yongqiu in Bianzhou; his family had served for generations as Xuanwu army guard officers. When Zhu Wen held Xuanwu, Qi entered as a rank soldier and became squad leader; battle by battle he rose to guard officer and overall commander of Xiangzhou. Shannan governor Wang Ban fell to mutineers who wanted Qi as acting commissioner. Qi pretended yes; next day he feasted the men in the courtyard with armored troops hidden behind the screens, and at mid-feast seized and killed the ringleaders. Chen Hui’s Liang troops arrived too; Xiangzhou was pacified. Qi was made prefect of Fuzhou, then moved through Bozhou and Anzhou. Under the Last Emperor he held Jinzhou as observation commissioner for eight years, battling Jin every day. When Zhuangzong destroyed Liang, Qi came to court. Zhuangzong greeted him: “Lord Liu, are you well? You have long held the southern marches beyond Taiyuan. Why no word until now? To call only today—is that not late?” Qi kowtowed and begged pardon; Zhuangzong sent him back, then made him military governor and moved him to Anyuan. In Tiancheng year 1, Shi Jingrong replaced him. Qi headed for the capital; before he arrived they made him military governor of Wusheng, but he died of illness on the road and was posthumously made Palace Attendant.
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周知裕，字好問，幽州人也。 為劉仁恭騎將，仁恭為其子守光所囚，知裕去事守光兄守文。 守光又攻殺守文，乃與張萬進立守文子延祚而事之。 守光又殺廷祚，以其子繼威代之。 萬進殺繼威，與知裕俱奔於梁。 梁太祖得知裕喜甚，為置歸化軍，以知裕為指揮使，凡與晉戰所得，及兵背晉而歸梁者，皆以隸知裕。 梁、晉相拒河上十餘年，其摧堅陷陣，歸化一軍為最，然知裕位不過刺史。 莊宗入汴，知裕與段凝軍河上，聞梁已亡，欲自殺，為賓客故人止之，乃降唐。 莊宗尤寵待之，諸將嫉其寵，因獵射之，知裕走以免。 莊宗為殺射者，以知裕為房州刺史。 明宗時，歷絳、淄二州刺史，遷宿州團練使、安州留後。 所居皆有善政。 安州近淮，俗惡病者，父母有疾，置之佗室，以竹竿系飲食委之，至死不近。 知裕深患之，加以教道，由是稍革。 罷為右神武統軍。 應順中卒，贈太傅。
Zhou Zhiyu, styled Haowen, came from Youzhou. He rode for Liu Rengong until Rengong’s son Shouguang imprisoned him; Zhiyu then served the elder brother Shouwen. Shouguang killed Shouwen too. Zhiyu and Zhang Wanjin set up Shouwen’s son Yanzuo and served him. Shouguang killed Yanzuo as well and put his own son Jiewei in his place. Wanjin killed Jiewei; he and Zhiyu fled together to Liang. Zhu Wen was overjoyed. He formed the Return-to-Righteousness army under Zhiyu and dumped into it every prisoner from Jin wars and every deserter from Jin. For ten years Liang and Jin fought on the river; no unit broke lines like Return-to-Righteousness—yet Zhiyu never rose above prefect. When Zhuangzong took Bian, Zhiyu and Duan Ning were on the river. Hearing Liang was gone he meant to die; friends held him back and he surrendered to Tang. Zhuangzong spoiled him. Jealous generals shot at him on a hunt; Zhiyu ran clear. Zhuangzong killed the shooters and made him prefect of Fang. Under Mingzong he held Jiang and Zi, then Suzhou as Tuanlian commissioner and An as acting prefect. Every post he held was well governed. An lay on the Huai. Locals feared the sick: parents with illness were shut in another room; food came down on bamboo poles; no one approached till death. Zhiyu hated the custom and taught against it until the practice slowly died. They moved him to commander of the Right Divine Martial guard. He died in the Yingshun reign and was posthumously made Grand Tutor.
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Lu Siduo was from Linhuang in Chan Prefecture. Young he soldiered in the Xuanwu army and was famed for the bow. He rose to left-wing commander of the Bowmen of the Constellation and held En as prefect. On the river he carved his name on arrow shafts and shot at Jin. One struck Zhuangzong’s saddle; Zhuangzong drew it, read Siduo’s name, and marveled. After Liang fell Siduo came to court. Zhuangzong showed the arrow. Siduo kowtowed for death; Zhuangzong lifted him and made him right-wing commander of the Dragon Martial guard. Under Jin’s Gaozu he held Chen and Cai as prefect. He died at fifty-four. Siduo held Chenzhou and ruled kindly. Dying, he told his son: “The people of Chen love me. When I am gone, bury me here.” So they buried him at Chenzhou.