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乙巳光啟元年二月。帝還至京師改元。中官田令孜愈縱威權。河中節度使王重榮累表數令孜罪惡。重榮啟李克用引兵赴之。十二月克用進逼京城。田令孜夜奉帝自開遠門出幸鳳翔。光啟二年春正月田令孜請帝幸興元。帝不從。是夜令孜引兵入宮劫帝幸寶雞。宰相朝臣皆不知。及發寶雞留楊晟（時正切）守散關（興元路之口也）乘輿纔入散關。邠寧節度使朱玫已圍寶雞。嗣襄王熅肅宗玄孫也。有疾從上不及留遵塗驛。為玫所得與之俱還鳳翔。三月車駕至興元。朱玫逼百官奉襄王熅權監軍國事。長安百官太子太師斐璩等勸進於襄王熅監即皇帝位。改元建貞。遙尊帝為太上元皇帝。觀軍容使楊復恭傳檄關中稱。得朱玫首者以靜難節度使賞之。玫將王行瑜擒玫斬之。襄王奔河中。王重榮詐為迎奉執熅殺之。詔以行瑜為靜難軍節度使（唐書本紀）。

The year yisi: the first year of Guangqi. In the second month, the Emperor returned to the capital and changed the reign era. The eunuch Tian Lingzi grew even more unrestrained in his authority and power. Wang Chongrong, the military commissioner of Hezhong, repeatedly submitted memorials listing Lingzi's crimes and evil deeds. Chongrong reported this to Li Keyong, who led troops to join him. In the twelfth month, Keyong advanced to press upon the capital. Tian Lingzi escorted the Emperor at night out through the Kaiyuan Gate to flee to Fengxiang. In the spring of the second year of Guangqi, in the first month, Tian Lingzi requested the Emperor to flee to Xingyuan; the Emperor refused. That night, Lingzi led troops into the palace and abducted the Emperor to flee to Baoji; neither the prime ministers nor court officials knew of it. When departing Baoji, he left Yang Sheng to guard Shan Pass (the mouth of the Xingyuan route); no sooner had the imperial carriage entered Shan Pass than Zhu Mei, the military commissioner of Binning, had already surrounded Baoji. Heir Prince Wen of Xiang was the great-great-grandson of Suzong; being ill, he could not keep up with the Emperor and stayed behind at Zuntu Relay Station, where he was captured by Mei, who brought him back with him to Fengxiang. In the third month, the imperial carriage arrived in Xingyuan. Zhu Mei coerced the civil and military officials to install Prince Wen of Xiang as acting supervisor of military and state affairs. In Chang'an, civil and military officials, including Grand Preceptor to the Crown Prince Pei Qu, urged Prince Wen of Xiang to ascend the imperial throne; he changed the reign era to Jianzhen, and from afar honored the Emperor as 'Supreme Primordial Emperor.' Yang Fugong, Commissioner of the Imperial Bodyguard, circulated a proclamation throughout the Guanzhong region stating that whoever took Zhu Mei's head would be rewarded with the post of military commissioner of Jingnan. Mei's general Wang Xingyu captured Mei and beheaded him. The Prince of Xiang fled to Hezhong; Wang Chongrong feigned welcoming him, but seized and killed Wen. An imperial edict appointed Xingyu as military commissioner of the Jingnan Army (Basic Annals of the Book of Tang).