Guo Chongtao (Chinese: 郭崇韜) (died February 20, 926[1][2]), courtesy name Anshi (安時), formally the Duke of Zhao Commandery (趙郡公), was a Chinese military general and politician of the Later Tang dynasty and its predecessor state, the Former Jin. He served as the chief of staff for Later Tang's founding emperor Li Cunxu (Emperor Zhuangzong) from before the time of the Later Tang's establishment and was instrumental in the Later Tang's destruction of its rivals Later Liang and Former Shu, but came under suspicion after Former Shu's destruction. Despite that suspicion, the Emperor Zhuangzong did not initially intend to kill him, but the Emperor Zhuangzong's wife Empress Liu issued an order herself and had him executed.
GuoChongtao (Chinese: 郭崇韜) (died February 20, 926), courtesy name Anshi (安時), formally the Duke of Zhao Commandery (趙郡公), was a Chinese military general...
Encyclopædia Iranica claims the ancestor of the Guo clan in Baiqi was the Persian Ebn Tur (Daqqaq). GuoChongtao, General of the Chinese Five Dynasties and...
general GuoChongtao in effective control. After Later Tang conquered Former Shu, however, under the command of his mother Empress Liu, Li Jiji killed Guo, leading...
he recommended the officer GuoChongtao, whom Li Cunxu subsequently made chief of staff. Because of this recommendation, Guo, whose career would be greatly...
Former Shu's fall, however, with Li Cunxu killing the major generals GuoChongtao and Li Jilin (Zhu Youqian), Li Shaochen became apprehensive and decided...
(approximate date) Ero Fernández, Galician magnate (approximate date) GuoChongtao, general of Later Tang Jin Feishan, empress of Former Shu Kang Yanxiao...
incident where Li had a dispute with his chief military advisor GuoChongtao, after Guo had opined that Li was inviting too many officers to his meals...
capital Chengdu). However, the deputy commander of the Later Tang army, GuoChongtao, viewed Wang Zongbi as untrustworthy and put him to death. Wang Zongbi...
Liu came to suspect GuoChongtao of wanting to occupy the Shu lands and rebel. Li Cunxu, however, was unwilling to act against Guo without further proof...
staff GuoChongtao was apprehensive of Li Siyuan, and secretly suggested to him that Li Siyuan be relieved of command, or even killed; he refused Guo's suggestions...
Zhuangzong again, including making the requests through his wife Lady Guo, but GuoChongtao, who was jealous of Li Cunshen, repeatedly had the requests suppressed...
Tang's founding emperor Li Cunxu and Li Cunxu's chief of staff GuoChongtao, causing Guo to commission Dong as the military governor (Jiedushi) of Dongchuan...
position of chief of staff, leaving Li Shaohong's and Meng's deputy GuoChongtao as the new chief of staff.) In 921, when Khitan Empire's Emperor Taizu...
oldest son of Later Tang's Emperor Zhuangzong) and the major general GuoChongtao. Within two months, the Former Shu troops suffered many losses, which...
as titular commander of the operations while making the major general GuoChongtao Li Jiji's deputy, in actual command of the operations. Around the same...
the displeasure against Li Shaorong. In 926, after the major general GuoChongtao was killed on Empress Liu's orders (but Emperor Zhuangzong thereafter...
Jiangsu). In 926, after Emperor Zhuangzong killed the major general GuoChongtao, the army was much perturbed, and mutinies occurred in many places throughout...
was considering detaining Gao at Luoyang. The emperor's chief of staff GuoChongtao urged against it, pointing out that the other military governors, at...
petition, he defamed Guo greatly — which, rather than repairing his own reputation, damaged it further. Not long after GuoChongtao's death, Li Cunxu himself...
ruler, and he had alienated the army by killing two prominent generals, GuoChongtao and Zhu Youqian. A subsequent mutiny at Yedu (鄴都 in modern Handan, Hebei)...
(approximate date) Ero Fernández, Galician magnate (approximate date) GuoChongtao, general of Later Tang Jin Feishan, empress of Former Shu Kang Yanxiao...
Zhuangzong sent his son Li Jiji the Prince of Wei and the major general GuoChongtao to attack Former Shu (which was then ruled by Wang Jian's son and successor...
submitting to Later Tang, was interceding for him with Li's chief of staff GuoChongtao, trying to get him made chancellor again; instead, though, he was made...
Zhuangzong had, without good cause, executed two of the major generals, GuoChongtao and Zhu Youqian. When Li Siyuan was sent to battle the mutineers at Yedu...
most of Li Cunxu's generals, including his chief of staff (Shumishi) GuoChongtao, opposed Lu's proposal, believing that it would be dangerous and futile...
Luoyang that spawned from a series of mutinies after the major general GuoChongtao had been killed on the orders of Empress Liu. Li Siyuan, who had led...
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