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Zhu Mei


Zhu Mei (朱玫) (died January 7, 887) was a warlord of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty. Disillusioned with Emperor Xizong and the powerful eunuch Tian Lingzi, he tried to support Emperor Xizong's distant relative Li Yun the Prince of Xiang as the new emperor, but was soon thereafter killed by his own officer Wang Xingyu.

It is not known when Zhu Mei was born. Both his biography in the Old Book of Tang and the New Book of Tang indicated that he was from Bin Prefecture (邠州, in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi), the capital of Binning Circuit (邠寧). The Old Book of Tang further indicated that when he was young, he served in the Tang Dynasty border army and eventually became a prefectural prefect, while the New Book of Tang indicated that he served as an army officer at a prefecture (implying that it was Bin Prefecture). There were records of an officer named Zhu Mei who served at Hedong Circuit (河東, headquartered in modern Taiyuan, Shanxi), who, as of 879, was serving under the military governor (Jiedushi) Li Kan (李侃), who was ordered by Li Kan to arrest and kill soldiers who had previously been under the executed officer He Gongya (賀公雅) who, after He Gongya's death, were creating disturbances in the Hedong capital Taiyuan Municipality, claiming to be trying to allege He Gongya. That Zhu Mei was later, in late 880, under the command of the military governor Zheng Congdang, given the command of Hedong soldiers (along with Zhuge Shuang) and ordered to aid the imperial capital Chang'an, then under the impending attacks by the major agrarian rebel Huang Chao. It is not completely clear that this referred to the same Zhu Mei here.


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