Wang, able to expand his holdings into…

Wang, able to expand his holdings into eastern Sichuan, takes the title of emperor as the Tang fall in 907.

The Great Shu, called in retrospect Former Shu, has its capital at Chengdu and controls most of present-day Sichuan, parts of southern Gansu and Shaanxi, part of western Hubei and all of contemporary Chongqing.

Not only dioes it border the Later Liang Dynasty, the successor to the Tang Dynasty in the north, but it also borders the Chinese kingdoms of Nanping and Chu and the non-Chinese peoples to the south (formerly Nanzhao and soon to be the Kingdom of Dali and Amdo Tibet).