Gao Jixing, born Gao Jichang, known for some time as Zhu Jichang, courtesy name Yisun, known by his posthumous name as the Prince Wuxin of Chu, was the founding prince of Jingnan during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of China.
43 Facts About Gao Jixing
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Gao Jixing thus considered withdrawing to Huguo Circuit, which he possessed.
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Gao Jixing suggested that Li Maozhen attack the Xuanwu camp.
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Gao Jixing sent Gao to replace Gao Jixing Gui, while sending the officer Ni Kefu to Jingnan as well to help defend against Lei.
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Gao Jixing commissioned Gao Jichang as the full military governor of Jingnan.
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When Gao Jixing arrived at Jiangling, he comforted the people and encouraged them to return, and it was said that the people's lives began to return to normal.
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Gao Jixing stationed troops at Gong'an to cut off Lei's food supply route, and then defeated him.
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In winter 907, Gao Jixing sent Ni Kefu to rendezvous with the Chu general Qin Yanhui to attack Wuzhen's capital Lang Prefecture.
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Subsequently, Yang, apparently again trying to save Lei, sent troops to attack Later Liang's Zhongyi and Jingnan Circuits, but both attacks were repelled, with Gao Jixing defeating the Hongnong general Li Hou.
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Apparently in response, Gao Jixing stationed troops at Hankou to cut off the tributary route between Chu and Later Liang's capital Luoyang.
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Ma subsequently sent Xu to attack the Jingnan troops stationed there, but before Xu could arrive, Gao Jixing sued for peace.
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When he went through Jiangling, Gao Jixing met him and was impressed by him, and so wanted to keep him at Jingnan to be secretary.
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Gao Jixing valued Liang's advice greatly and effectively made Liang his chief strategist.
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Gao Jixing subsequently attacked Jingnan, but Gao sent Ni to repel him.
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In 910, Ma sent an army to attack Jingnan, but Gao Jixing defeated it and repelled it.
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Gao Jixing tried to placate Gao by creating Gao the Prince of Bohai.
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However, Gao Jixing still began to build a fleet that eventually grew to 500 ships, and further enhanced his defenses and the soldiers' armors and weapons.
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In 921, Gao Jixing ordered Ni, whose son Ni Zhijin had married a daughter of Gao Jixing's by this point, to oversee a project to repair Jiangling's outer walls.
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When Gao Jixing himself went to review the project, he blamed Ni Kefu for the project's slow pace and publicly caned him.
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Gao further changed his name to Gao Jixing to observe naming taboo.
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When Gao Jixing arrived at Daliang, Emperor Zhuangzong bestowed the greater honorary chancellor title of acting Zhongshu Ling on him.
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Shortly after, Emperor Zhuangzong set his capital at Luoyang, and Gao Jixing followed him there.
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Gao Jixing soon became disenchanted that Emperor Zhuangzong's favorite performers and eunuchs were demanding gifts from him, and wanted to return to Jingnan.
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The emperor's chief of staff Guo Chongtao urged against it, pointing out that the other military governors, at most, had only sent sons, brothers, or staff members to pay homage, and that only Gao Jixing had come himself; Guo believed that detaining Gao Jixing would send the wrong message.
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In 924, Emperor Zhuangzong bestowed the even greater honorary chancellor title of Shangshu Ling on Gao Jixing and created him the Prince of Nanping.
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Gao Jixing made his son Li Jiji the Prince of Wei the titular commander of the operations, with Guo as Li Jiji's deputy and the one in actual charge of the military operations.
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Gao Jixing left his son Gao Jixing Conghui in charge of Jiangling and headed west on the Yangtze.
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Gao Jixing thereafter was hampered by a large iron chain that the Former Shu general Zhang Wu set up to defend the Three Gorges.
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Gao Jixing tried to send soldiers to destroy the chain, but Zhang attacked and defeated him, forcing him to retreat back to Jiangling.
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When Gao Jixing received this news, he became even more respectful of Liang.
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Meanwhile, Gao Jixing prepared his fleet and wanted to attack Chu.
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However, soon thereafter Gao Jixing began a series of actions that provoked Emperor Mingzong's administration.
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Gao Jixing had requested, after Emperor Mingzong gave him Kui, Zhong, and Wan Prefectures, that the imperial government not commission prefects for those prefectures, but allow him to commission his own family members; Emperor Mingzong refused.
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Soon thereafter, when Pan Kang left his post as prefect of Kui, Gao Jixing sent an army to Kui, killed the soldiers already stationed there, and took direct control, and when Emperor Mingzong subsequently commissioned the officer Xifang Ye to be the prefect, Gao Jixing refused to allow Xifang to take office.
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Gao Jixing launched a surprise attack on Fu Prefecture, but was unable to capture it.
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Further, when Han Gong, an officer that Li Jiji had sent to escort Former Shu treasures down the Yangtze to Luoyang, went through the Three Gorges, Gao Jixing sent an army to surprise and kill Han, and he took over the treasures.
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Around the same time, Gao Jixing intercepted and captured Ma's tributary emissary to Emperor Mingzong, Shi Guangxian, as well as the awards that Emperor Mingzong was sending Ma via Shi.
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Gao Jixing thereafter submitted a petition requesting to be a Wu vassal.
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Gao Jixing himself engaged the Chu forces, but Ma Xizhan was able to lay a trap for him at Liulang Ford and defeat him.
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In fear, Gao Jixing sued for peace and returned Shi to Chu.
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Soon thereafter, Gao Jixing again requested to be a Wu vassal.
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Gao Jixing then sued for peace, and Ma Yin agreed, recalling Xu and Ma Xifan.
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However, before the Later Tang forces could converge and attack, Gao Jixing himself died around the new year 929.