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Xiao Xian - Defeat and Death
... the same time, the Tang official Li Jing had offered 10 strategies to destroy Liang to Li Xiaogong ... Li Xiaogong relayed them to Emperor Gaozu, who accepted them ... In spring 621, Emperor Gaozu made Li Xiaogong the commandant at Kui Prefecture (夔州, modern eastern Chongqing) and had him build a large fleet ...
Li Xiaogong - Background
... Li Xiaogong was born in 591, during the reign of Emperor Wen of Sui ... Li Xiaogong's father Li An (李安) was a general during Sui ... Li Xiaogong was considered calm and knowledgeable in his youth ...
Li Xiaogong - Campaign Against Fu Gongshi
... Emperor Gaozu commissioned Li Xiaogong to attack Fu, again making Li Jing, who was then in charge of the modern Guangdong and Guangxi region, Li Xiaogong's assistant, and also ... However, Li Xiaogong calmly stated Blessings and curses have no firm foundation, and it depends on how you act on them ... Ma'anshan, Anhui), preparing for the assault, instructing Feng and Chen not to engage Li Xiaogong, but to wear him down ...
Li Xiaogong - Later Life
... It was after Fu Gongshi was delivered to Danyang that Li Xiaogong began to undertake actions that historians found questionable ... Meanwhile, Li Xiaogong was confiscating the properties of Fu's adherents, and in doing so, he also confiscated properties owned by Li Fuwei (who had died earlier that year), Wang Xiongdan ... Kan argued with Li Xiaogong on this matter, using sharp language ...
Cen Wenben - Service Under Xiao Xi and Li Xiaogong
... In 621, when the Tang Dynasty general Li Xiaogong the Prince of Zhao Commandery (a nephew of Tang's founding emperor Emperor Gaozu) attacked Liang and put Jiangling under siege, Cen suggested to Xiao Xi that he ... After Xiao Xi's surrender, however, Li Xiaogong's subordinates wanted to pillage the city ... Cen persuaded Li Xiaogong that it would be wrong to do so, and Li Xiaogong subsequently ordered against pillaging ...