Gao Conghui

Also known as Nan Ping Wen Xian Wang · Nanping Wang

Gao Conghui, courtesy name Zunsheng, was the eldest son of Gao Jixing and took over Jingnan when his father died in January 929, at once sending envoys to apologize to the Later Tang and renew his vassalage. The Later Tang made him Prince of Bohai in 932 and Prince of Nanping in 934. Ruling a small and weak territory, he declared himself a vassal by turns to the northern dynasties and to Wu, Shu, Chu, Min and Southern Han in search of gifts, and envoys crossing his lands at Jiangling often had their goods seized, returned only after a letter of protest, so the other courts called him Gao the Scoundrel. On the advice of his aide Sun Guangxian he cut back on feasting and lived frugally. He died in 948 under the Later Han, receiving the posthumous name Wenxian, and was succeeded by his third son, Gao Baorong.