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Chapter 231 Chapter 230 Jing Emperor Yang Wo

Yang Wo, courtesy name Chengtian (also known as Fengtian), was the eldest son of Yang Xingmi, born in the second year of Tang Guangqi and died in the second year of Liang Kaiping.23 years old. Yang Wo was cowardly by nature and did not practice battle formation. Yang Xingmi's generals and soldiers all looked down on him.After Xingmi's death, Yang Wo continued to be the envoy of Huainan Jiedu, commander of the camps of the Dongdao, and concurrently served as the king of Hongnong County. However, the military power was controlled by several generals, and Yang Wo could only directly command the guards. Make thousands of pro-army in Yacheng.

By chance, Yang Wo killed Zhong Kuangshi, the governor of Zhennan.Since then, Yang Wo's self-confidence has risen sharply, he is extravagant and arrogant, and does not take the generals in his eyes.He feasts in Yacheng all day long, or travels alone, with his followers running left and right, and it is difficult to find him.Yang Xingmi's survivors, Zhang Hao and Xu Wen, advised him, but he said, "You see that I am not talented, so why don't you just kill me?" Kill heart. One day at the end of April in the third year of Tianyou (AD 906), Yang Wo was watching the matter in the teeth. Zhang and Xu arrested more than ten of Yang Wo's cronies in the court and killed them one by one. Yang Wo had no choice.Since then, the military and political power in Huainan has completely fallen into the hands of Zhang Hao and Xu Wen.

In May of the following year, four people, including Zhang Hao and Xu Wen's cronies Ji Xiang and Chen Hui, entered the palace and murdered Yang Wo, who was 23 years old at the time. Zhang Hao and Xu Wen announced that Yang Wo died of a sudden illness, and they named him Wei.In the early years of Wuyi (919-920 A.D.), the posthumous title was changed to "King Jing", and the temple name was "Liezu". In the first year of Qianzhen (927 A.D.), he was honored as "Emperor Jing".Buried in Shaoling.
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