Qingyuan Prefecture


Qingyuan Prefecture was a de facto independent prefecture late in China's Five [Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period], renamed to Pinghai Prefecture in 964. It was an office created in 949 by Southern Tang's second emperor Li [Jing |Li Jing] for the warlord Liu Congxiao, who nominally submitted to him but virtually controlled Quan Prefecture and Zhang Prefecture. Prefectures in de facto independence from the Southern Tang state. . Starting in 960, in addition to being nominally submissive to Southern Tang, the Qingyuan Prefecture was also nominally submissive to the Song, which had itself become Southern Tang's nominal suzerain.
After demise of Congxiao, the prefecture was briefly ruled by his biological nephew/adoptive son Liu Shaozi, who was then overthrown by the officers Zhang Hansi and Chen Hongjin. Zhang then ruled the prefecture briefly, before Chen deposed him and took over. In 978, with Song's determination to unify China proper without the ceded sixteen prefectures in full order, Chen decided that he could not stay de facto independent and offered the control of the prefecture to Song's Emperor [Taizong of Song|Emperor Taizong], ending its existence as a de facto independent entity.

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