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Wang Shenzhi, King of Min, courtesy name Xintong, was a native of Gushi in Guangzhou. During the bandit rebellion of Huang Chao in the reign of Emperor Xizong of Tang, he took possession of the five prefectures of the Min mountains. In the first year of Kaiping of Liang, Wang Shenzhi, Military Commissioner of Weiwu, was concurrently made Palace Attendant. Shenzhi had already been enfeoffed as King of Min since the time of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang. As for his son Yanjun, in the fourth year of Changxing under Emperor Mingzong of Later Tang, he changed his name to Lin and ascended the imperial throne, establishing the Longqi reign era with the dynastic title Great Min.