Jin
State | Defunct
911 CE to 923 CE
Jin is a state of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
Its rulers Li Keyong and Li Keyong's son Li Cunxu, of Shatuo extraction, claim to be rightful subjects of the defunct Tang Dynasty in a struggle against the usurper state Later Liang Dynasty.
At the time of Tang's fall in 907, the Jin state constitutes most, but not all, of modern Shanxi, and eventually expands to cover all of the territory north of the Yellow River.
Eventually, in 923, Li Cunxu, claiming rightful succession to the Tang throne, declares himself emperor, transitioning his state to the Later Tang Dynasty, which shortly after destroys Later Liang.
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The Yan State at present-day Beijing, established by Liu Shouguang in 911, only lasts for two years before destroyed by Li Cunxu, the son of Li Keyong and the prominent leader of what will become the Later Tang Dynasty.
As the only ruler of Yan, Liu wis noted for his cruelty, so this Yan is also called Jie Yan, which compares the regime to a former one under the cruel king Jie in Xia Dynasty.
The Later Liang Dynasty controls most of northern China, though much of Shaanxi (controlled by the Qi) as well as Hebei (controlled by the Yan state) and Shanxi (controlled by Shatuo Turks) remains largely outside Later Liang control.
The Later Liang maintains a tense relationship with the Shatuo Turks, due to the rivalry between Zhu Quanzong and Li Keyong, a relationship that had begun back in the time of the Tang Dynasty.
After Li Keyong’s death, his son, Li Cunxu, has continued to expand his State of Jin.
Li is able to destroy the Later Liang in 923 and found the Later Tang Dynasty, which he refers to as the “Restored Tang”.
The Later Liang dynasty moves the capital back to the old Tang eastern seat of Luoyang in 923 as a part of “restoring the Tang.”