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Zhu Youzhen
Last emperor of the Later Liang, a son of Zhu Wen who overthrew his brother Zhu Yougui in 913 and fought Li Cunxu for a decade before ordering his own death in 923
Mural of the event “Later Tang Conquers Later Liang”, which this person took part in.
After the establishment of Zhu Wen's Later Liang, it and the northern Shatuo military bloc Later Tang waged decades of bloody contention for hegemony. The two sides fought multiple rounds of extremely brutal tug-of-war for control of the Central Plains central axis.
Also known as Zhu Huang · Zhu Zhen · Houliang Modi · Jun Wang
- Roles
- Monarch / Emperor
Zhu Youzhen, son of the Later Liang founder Zhu Wen by Empress Zhang, was born in 888, made Prince of Jun in 907 and later put in charge of the eastern capital. After his brother Zhu Yougui murdered their father and seized the throne in 912, Zhu Youzhen plotted the next year with Yang Shihou, military governor of Weibo, and the imperial son-in-law Yuan Xiangxian; Zhu Yougui killed himself, and Youzhen took the throne at Kaifeng, renaming himself first Huang and then Zhen. In 915 the Weibo army mutinied and went over to Li Cunxu, Prince of Jin, and Liang lost its territory north of the Yellow River, leaving the two sides locked along the river for years. In 923 Li Cunxu proclaimed the Later Tang and sent Li Siyuan to seize Yunzhou and then march on Kaifeng. Seeing no way out, Zhu Youzhen ordered his officer Huangfu Lin to kill him, and the Later Liang ended seventeen years after its founding.
Life and times
Dates 888 CE–923 CE
- 923Later Tang Conquers Later LiangTook partage 35
- 923Li Cunxu's Eight-Day March on Kaifengage 35