Li Gao
Li Hao's childhood happened to be at a time of great disturbance for Tang — which would eventually see Tang's end. At one point, Li Gao, in order to try to avoid the troubles, took his family to Fengtian (奉天, in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi). Thereafter, when the major warlord Zhu Quanzhong the military governor ("Jiedushi") of Xuanwu Circuit (宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan) forcibly moved Tang's penultimate emperor Emperor Zhaozong from Chang'an to Luoyang, the army under Zhu's rival warlord Li Maozhen the military governor of Fengxiang Circuit (鳳翔, headquartered in modern Baoji, Shaanxi) attacked and captured Fengtian. In the confusion after Fengtian's fall, Li Hao's younger brother(s) and sister(s) and his father Li Gao were all killed by the soldiers. Li Hao, then age 12, and his mother, however, escaped death. Li Hao took up residence at Xingping (興平, also in modern Xianyang), and stayed there for more than a decade. (Based on later events, it appear that his mother remained at Fengtian and that mother and son separated from this point on.)