page_title: Fu Gongshi
section_title: Submission to Tang
hierarchical_section_title: Fu Gongshi / Submission to Tang
caption_attribution_description: English: Map showing major uprisings and rebellions in the last years of Sui dynasty. 中文（简体）‎: 隋末农民大起义及群雄割据示意地图
context_page_description: Fu Gongshi was an agrarian rebel leader who served as Du Fuwei's lieutenant during the disintegration of the Chinese dynasty Sui Dynasty, who later followed Du in submitting to Tang Dynasty. In 623, while Du was at the Tang capital Chang'an, Fu rose against Tang rule at Danyang and declared himself emperor of a new state of Song. In 624, he was defeated by the Tang general Li Xiaogong. He fled, but was captured and delivered to Li Xiaogong, who executed him.
context_section_description: After the death of Emperor Yang of Sui in 618, Du Fuwei initially contended for supremacy of the lower Yangtze River region with fellow rebel leader Li Zitong the Emperor of Wu and the former Sui officials Shen Faxing the Prince of Liang and Chen Leng (陳稜), but after he was defeated by Li in 619, he submitted to Tang Dynasty.  Emperor Gaozu of Tang (Li Yuan) commissioned Du as the commandant of the region, and in summer 620, Emperor Gaozu created Du the Prince of Wu, bestowed on him the imperial surname of Li, and made him the head of the branch imperial government for the region, while creating Fu Gongshi the Duke of Shu and making him Du's deputy.
  Later that year, Li Fuwei commissioned Fu to lead an army against Li Zitong, with Li Fuwei's officers (whom he had formally adopted as sons) Wang Xiongdan (王雄誕) and Kan Leng (闞稜) as Fu's assistants.  Fu was quickly able to capture Danyang, and he had initial further battle successes against Li Zitong.  However, after a Li Zitong counterattack, Fu stopped engaging Li Zitong.  Wang, against Fu's orders, counterattacked himself and defeated Li Zitong, forcing him to flee and take over Shen's territory, while Li Zitong's former territory came under Li Fuwei's control.
caption: Map showing major uprisings and rebellions in the last years of Sui dynasty. The greatest extent of land controlled by Du Fuwei and Fu Gongshi before submission to Tang was shaded in blue.
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