Wang Duo
Visual Artist
– 0884
Who was Wang Duo?
Wang Duo, courtesy name Zhaofan, formally the Duke of Jin, was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reigns of Emperor Yizong and Emperor Yizong's son Emperor Xizong. After the agrarian rebel Huang Chao captured the Tang capital Chang'an in 880 and forced Emperor Xizong to flee, Wang was commissioned by Emperor Xizong to serve as the supreme commander of Tang forces in the central and eastern empire, effectively serving as viceroy with full imperial authorities to issue edicts, and Wang was instrumental in the various Tang maneuvers, including persuading Li Keyong and Zhu Quanzhong to join the Tang cause, in defeating Huang. In 884, on his way to his new post as the military governor of Yichang Circuit, Le Congxun the son of Le Yanzhen the military governor of Weibo Circuit, enticed by the group of women that accompanied Wang, ambushed Wang and killed him, taking the women captive.
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