death_date given_name family_name birth_date article_title
march 26 , 908 initially , 907 -- may 12 , 907 zuò -lrb- 祚 -rrb- , -- may 12 lǐ -lrb- 李 -rrb- september 27 , 892 emperor ai of tang

emperor ai of tang

emperor ai of tang -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 892 -- 908 -rrb- , also known as emperor zhaoxuan -lrb- -rrb- , born li zuo -lrb- -rrb- , later known as li zhu -lrb- -rrb- , was the last emperor of the tang dynasty of china .
he reigned -- as but a puppet ruler -- from 904 to 907 .
emperor ai was the son of emperor zhaozong .
emperor ai ascended the throne at the age of 11 after his father , the emperor zhaozong , was assassinated on the orders of the paramount warlord zhu quanzhong in 904 , and while emperor ai reigned , the tang court , then at luoyang , was under the control of officials zhu put in charge .
in 905 , under the instigation of his associates liu can and li zhen , zhu had emperor ai issue an edict summoning some 30 senior aristocrats at baima station -lrb- 白馬驛 , in modern anyang , henan -rrb- , near the yellow river ; the aristocrats were thereafter ordered to commit suicide , and their bodies were thrown into the yellow river .
less than two years later in 907 , zhu made his final move against emperor ai himself , forcing the young emperor to abdicate to him .
in zhu 's new later liang , the former tang emperor carried the title of prince of jiyin , but in 908 , zhu had the prince poisoned , at the age of 15 .
