Cui Anqian Cui Anqian ( 崔安潛 ) , courtesy name Jinzhi ( 進之 ) , was an official and general of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty , who was a participant in Tang ' s campaigns against the agrarian rebels Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao . Background and early career . It is not known when Cui Anqian was born . He was from the prominent Cui clan of Qinghe ( 清河 , in modern Xingtai , Hebei ) , which claimed ancestry from the ruling house of the Spring and Autumn Period state Qi , and which traced its ancestry to officials of Qin Dynasty , Han Dynasty , Cao Wei , Jin Dynasty ( 265 - 420 ) , Later Zhao , Southern Yan , Liu Song , Northern Wei , Northern Qi , and Tang Dynasty . Cui Anqian ' s grandfather Cui Yi ( 崔異 ) served as a prefectural prefect , and his father Cui Cong ( 崔從 ) served as a regional governor and was created the Count of Qinghe . He had at least three older brothers , Cui Yanfang ( 崔彥方 ) , Cui Shenyou ( who would later serve as chancellor ) , and Cui Zhoushu ( 崔周恕 ) , and at least one younger brother , Cui Yanchong ( 崔彥沖 ) . Cui Anqian passed the imperial examinations in the " Jinshi " class in 849 , during the reign of Emperor Xuānzong . During the reign of Emperor Xuānzong ' s son Emperor Yizong , he would successively serve as the governor ( 觀察使 , " Guanchashi " ) of Jiangxi Circuit ( 江西 , headquartered in modern Nanchang , Jiangxi ) and then the military governor ( " Jiedushi " ) of Zhongwu Circuit ( 忠武 , headquartered in modern Xuchang , Henan ) as well as the prefect of Zhongwu ' s capital Xu Prefecture ( 許州 ) . During Emperor Xizong ' s reign . During the reign of Emperor Yizong ' s son Emperor Xizong , the Tang realm became overrun by agrarian rebels . In 876 , Cui Anqian , pursuant to Emperor Xizong ' s orders , sent troops under his officer Zhang Zimian ( 張自勉 ) to combat the major agrarian rebel Wang Xianzhi . In 877 , however , Emperor Xizong ordered Zhang Zimian to transfer his 7 , 000 men to another Zhongwu officer , Zhang Guan ( 張貫 ) , who was to serve under the overall commander of the operations against Wang , Song Wei ( 宋威 ) — who , for reasons lost to history , had long despised Zhang Zimian . The chancellor Zheng Tian objected , pointing out that giving the Zhongwu troops to Song would leave Cui and Zhongwu Circuit defenseless ; as a result , Emperor Xizong had Zhang Zimian give 4 , 000 of his soldiers to Song , while allowing him to return to Zhongwu with 3 , 000 men . Cui was subsequently transferred to Xichuan Circuit ( 西川 , headquartered in modern Chengdu , Sichuan ) to serve as its military governor and the mayor of its capital Chengdu Municipality . Once there , he tried to root out corruption that was rampant under the prior military governor Gao Pian and to revise improper regulations that Gao had imposed . He also tried to strengthen Xichuan ' s defenses by improving military training . In 878 , when Dali , which had long been in intermittent warfare with Tang , made peace overtures through letters that its prime minister wrote to the Tang Office of the Chancellors , the chancellors did not respond directly but had Cui author a response in his own name . Eventually , however , Cui ' s actions to try to rectify the problems that Gao left him offended Gao ' s ally , the chancellor Lu Xi , and Lu falsely accused Cui of crimes . Cui was thus removed from his office , given the honorary post of advisor to the Crown Prince ( even though there was no crown prince at the time ) , and sent to the eastern capital Luoyang . After the major agrarian rebel Huang Chao captured the capital Chang ' an around the new year 881 and established his own state of Qi as its emperor , Emperor Xizong fled to Chengdu . Cui followed Emperor Xizong there , and was subsequently made senior advisor to the Crown Prince . In 882 , with Gao , then titular overall commander of the operations against Huang , taking no real actions against Huang , the chancellor Wang Duo volunteered to oversee the operations against Huang . Emperor Xizong agreed , and further made Cui Wang ' s deputy . ( Gao , in anger , wrote an irreverent submission to Emperor Xizong that accused Wang of being a failed general and Cui of being corrupt , and Emperor Xizong had Zheng author a harshly worded response . ) In 883 , however , after Wang was relieved of his command , Cui was also relieved of his command and made the defender of Luoyang . In 886 , when the warlord Zhu Mei supported Emperor Xizong ' s distant cousin Li Yun the Prince of Xiang as a competing claimant to the imperial throne , Cui , who was then at Hezhong Circuit ( 河中 , headquartered in modern Yuncheng , Shanxi ) , submitted a letter supporting Li Yun ' s claim , along with other imperial officials then at Hezhong . He appeared to suffer no reprisals after both Li Yun and Zhu were killed later in the year , however . During Emperor Zhaozong ' s reign . In 889 , by which time Emperor Xizong ' s brother Emperor Zhaozong was emperor , Wang Jingwu the military governor of Pinglu Circuit ( 平盧 , headquartered in modern Weifang , Shandong ) died . Most of Wang ' s officers supported his son Wang Shifan as his successor , but one of his officers , Zhang Chan ( 張蟾 ) the prefect of Di Prefecture ( 棣州 , in modern Binzhou , Shandong ) , refused to support Wang Shifan . Emperor Zhaozong , trying to take initiative in this conflict , commissioned Cui Anqian as the military governor of Pinglu , carrying the honorary chancellor title of " Shizhong " ( 侍中 ) . Zhang welcomed Cui to Di Prefecture and planned a campaign against Wang Shifan . The campaign apparently lasted for more than a year , but in early 891 , Wang Shifan , after killing the officer Lu Hong ( 盧弘 ) , who had turned against him , used the momentum to attack Di Prefecture . Di fell , and Wang killed Zhang ; Cui fled back to Chang ' an . Emperor Zhaozong subsequently commissioned Wang as the military governor of Pinglu . Cui subsequently died , although the date is not known . He was given the posthumous name of " Zhenxiao " ( 貞孝 , " faithful and filially pious " ) .