Southern Tang

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Was one of the Ten Kingdoms during the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in China.

Establishment

January 938: Xu Zhigao had been adopted by Xu Wen on Yang Xingmi's insistence and soon proved himself an able man. He came to power in Wu after his stepfather's death in 927 and continued to rule the state as governor of Jinling for some time. Finally in 937 he formally seized power for himself by proclaiming himself King of Qi and Yang Pu abdicated after suppressing the opposition of Yang Meng. Two years later, by claiming descent from a Tang prince Xu Zhigao and restoring his surname of Li, Xu Zhigao became Li Bian and proclaimed the restoration of the Tang. His state would be known to history as the Southern Tang.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 946: Seeing the threat posed by the Southern Tang, the Min court declared its allegiance to the Wuyue kingdom to its north. However, this did not stop the Southern Tang from marching in and incorporating the remainder of the Min Kingdom into its holdings in 945.

January 946: The Min court asked the Southern Tang for assistance in quelling the rebellion in Yin. Rather than assisting the Min government, the Southern Tang came in and absorbed the territory into its own holdings.

January 950: Qingyuan Jiedushi was an office created in 949 by Southern Tang's second emperor Li Jing for the warlord Liu Congxiao, who nominally submitted to him but controlled Quan Prefectures in de facto independence from the Southern Tang state.

January 952: After Ma Yin died the leadership was subject to struggle and conflict which resulted in the fall of the kingdom. The Southern Tang, fresh from its conquest of the Min Kingdom, took advantage and conquered the kingdom in 951.

January 953: Chu generals rose against Southern Tang and expelled the Southern Tang expeditionary force, leaving the former Chu territory to be ruled by generals called Wuping Jiedushi.

January 956: The Siege of Shouzhou was a two year long (955-957 AD) siege conducted by the Later Zhou Dynasty against Shouzhou, the major fortress of the Southern Tang Kingdom above the Yangtze River.

January 959: Li Jing suffered a series of defeats at Shouzhou against the Later Zhou in a siege between 956 and 958, and ceded all of its land north of the Yangtze River.