佛祖歷代通載 17.60

17.60

○吳越鏐（字具美。姓錢氏。杭州臨安人。少無賴閑散。僖宗時為董昌偏將。以弩射死黃巢先鋒。斬首數百。巢不敢犯臨安。昌以為都指揮。昌亦叛。鏐以狀聞昭宗。昭以鏐為淅東招討使。既下昌。進封天下兵馬都元帥。至梁進封吳越王。後唐莊入洛。賜玉冊金印。因稱吳越王。壽八十一。立杭州。二十一年）○雷氏曰（錢杭吳越五主八四）。

Liu of Wuyue. (Courtesy name Jumei; surname Qian; a native of Lin'an in Hangzhou. In his youth he was an unruly vagrant. During the time of Emperor Xizong, he served as a subordinate commander under Dong Chang. Using a crossbow, he shot and killed the vanguard of Huang Chao, beheading several hundred; Chao did not dare invade Lin'an. Chang made him Commander-in-Chief. Chang also rebelled; Liu reported this in a memorial to Emperor Zhaozong. Zhaozong appointed Liu as Pacification Commissioner of Zhedong. After subduing Chang, he was promoted to Grand Marshal of the Armies of the Realm. Arriving at the Liang, he was promoted to King of Wuyue. When Zhuang[zong] of the Later Tang entered Luoyang, he bestowed jade tallies and a golden seal upon him, whereupon he called himself King of Wuyue. He lived to eighty-one. He established his capital at Hangzhou. He reigned for twenty-one years.) Master Lei says: (The Qian family of Hangzhou ruled Wuyue: five rulers, eighty-four [years]).