Gao Jixing

Also known as Gao Jichang · Nan Ping Wu Xin Wang · Nanping Wang

Gao Jixing, originally named Jichang, courtesy name Yisun, came from Xiashi in Shanzhou and began as a household servant of Li Qilang, a rich man of Bianzhou whom Zhu Wen adopted under the name Zhu Yourang; through that connection he entered Zhu Wen's army. When Zhu founded the Later Liang in 907 he appointed Gao military governor of Jingnan, based at Jiangling, where Gao gathered displaced people and rebuilt the walls, and in 913 he was made Prince of Bohai. After the Later Tang destroyed the Liang he went to court at Luoyang, took the name Jixing to avoid the personal name of the Later Tang founder's father, and in 924 was made Prince of Nanping. Falling out with the Later Tang in the Tiancheng era, he turned to the state of Wu as its vassal. He died in January 929 with the posthumous name Wuxin, and his son Gao Conghui succeeded; the family held Jingnan until the early Song.