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Yang Xingmi

852–905 · 9th century

Yang Xingmi was a soldier of humble origins who won control of the Huainan region between the Huai and Yangtze rivers in the 890s. Made Prince of Wu by the Tang court in 902, he founded the Wu kingdom of the Ten Kingdoms period, but after his death power passed to the general Xu Wen.

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