As reward for his timely defection Emperor Xizong of Tang appointed Zhu Wen Grand General of the Imperial Guards and deputy field commander, also conferring the new personal name Quanzhong – Wholeheartedly Loyal.

On 3 May 883 Quanzhong was appointed prefect of Bianzhou and governor of the Xuanwu command, the appointment to take effect after the expected recapture of Chang ' an.

Later as new units were formed both officers who had come with Quanzhong and men selected locally were appointed commanders.

To put a check on this Zhu Quanzhong appointed one of his guard officers, Li Tangbin, in a move clearly modelled after the Tang practice of appointing eunuch supervisors to the armies.

Zhu Quanzhong sent an army under Ge Congzhou to occupy Luzhou and the court appointed the bureaucrat Sun Kui as the new Zhaoyi governor.

Finally the court appointed Hu Zhen Grand General of the Metropolitan Guards and he had no more to do with Zhu Quanzhong.

To serve as assistant governor at Hua while he himself remained at Bian, Zhu Quanzhong appointed his ex-secretary Xie Tong, one of his earliest followers from the Huang Chao days and a man with a proven administrative record.

When he surrendered Zhu Quanzhong brought with him an army of several thousand men, but by the time he left for Bianzhou this army must have been largely dispersed or absorbed into the imperial armies, for he brought with him to Bian only a few hundred men including a core of at least eighty military retainers.

The final defeat of Huang Chao brought about the surrender of several rebel commanders to Zhu Quanzhong, strengthening his forces and providing him with a second group of officers who would serve him loyally in the years to come.

Qin Zongquan was taken captive and, after passing through several hands, ended up in the care of Zhu Quanzhong who entrusted his own manager-adjutant Li Fan with the delivery of the prisoner.

Zhu Quanzhong had previously created several special regiments under selected officers, and some of these would now accompany the chief commander to battle and share the field commands.

Zhu Quanzhong the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit ( 宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan ), who had by this point seized control of Emperor Zhaozong and forced him to move the capital to Luoyang, however, was an ally of Qian's, and so at Zhu's request, Qian was created the Prince of Wu ( a title that Yang also carried ).

According to the History of the Five Dynasties, which the Zizhi Tongjian also adopted, he became a servant of Li Qilang ( 李七郎 ), who later became an adoptive son of Zhu Quanzhong the military governor ( Jiedushi ) of Xuanwu Circuit ( 宣武, headquartered at Bian Prefecture ) and had his name changed to Zhu Yougong ( 朱友恭 ).

In 902, Zhu Jichang was serving as an officer under Zhu Quanzhong, who was then sieging his rival Li Maozhen the military governor of Fengxiang Circuit ( 鳳翔, headquartered in modern Baoji, Shaanxi ), at Fengxiang's capital Fengxiang Municipality.

For Zhu Jichang's contributions to this victory, Zhu Quanzhong made him the military prefect ( 團練使, Tuanlianshi ) of Song Prefecture ( 宋州, in modern Shangqiu, Henan ).

Subsequently, after Liu Yin bribed the powerful warlord Zhu Quanzhong the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit ( 宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan ), who had the Tang imperial court under his physical control by that point, Emperor Zhaozong's son and successor Emperor Ai of Tang commissioned Liu Yin as full military governor in 904.

Emperor Taizu of Later Liang ( 後梁太祖 ), personal name Zhu Quanzhong ( 朱全忠 ) ( 852 – 912 ), né Zhu Wen ( 朱溫 ), name later changed to Zhu Huang ( 朱晃 ), nickname Zhu San ( 朱三, literally, " the third Zhu "), was a Jiedushi ( military governor ) at the end of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, who previously served as a general under the rebel Huang Chao's state of Qi and overthrew Tang in 907, established the Later Liang Dynasty as its emperor, and ushered in the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

To purchase supplies for the war against the rebels Zhu Quanzhong sent a military administrator north with 10, 000 taels of silver to buy grain from Le Yanzhen, governor of the Tianxiong command, head quartered at Weizhou.

In 907, the major warlord Zhu Quanzhong the military governor of Xuanwu Circuit ( 宣武, headquartered in modern Kaifeng, Henan ) forced Emperor Zhaozong's son and successor Emperor Ai to yield the throne to him, ending Tang and starting a new Later Liang Dynasty with him as its Emperor Taizu.

Quanzhong did retain the hereditary officers in the guards and main army, but the reorganizations and preparations for war against Huang Chao had been entrusted to his own men.

The majority of them had probably served with Zhu Quanzhong under Huang Chao, but some, such as Pang Shigu, were new recruits.

Quanzhong responded by sending an army under Ding Hui and Niu Cunjie.

With this refusal as excuse Zhu Quanzhong in March / April 891 marched against Weizhou in person, with generals Ge Congzhou and Ding Hui in charge of subordinate commands, capturing four counties and routing the Wei army in a battle at Neihuang.

In spring 907, Zhu Quanzhong, who had had Emperor Zhaozong killed in 904 and replaced with Emperor Zhaozong's son Emperor Ai, had Emperor Ai yield the throne to him, ending Tang and establishing Later Liang Dynasty as its Emperor Taizu.

It can not have hurt his chances either that Quanzhong had actively sought the patronage of Wang Chongrong, one of the chief architects of the imperial offensive, who he took to calling “ uncle ” ( Quanzhong's mother was also of the Wang clan ).

With Huang Chao held up at Chenzhou and his armies also meeting resistance in other prefectures, Zhu Quanzhong joined with the other governors of the region in early 884 to call in the man who had spearheaded the recapture of Chang ' an-Li Keyong, governor of Hedong and chief of the Shatou Turks.

In 885 Quanzhong married his daughter, the future Princess Changle, to Zhao Yun, son of Zhao Chou of Chenzhou, who was already indebted to Quanzhong for breaking the siege of Huang Chao.

In retaliation Zhu Quanzhong dispatched Zhu Zhen with an army who successfully plunder across Wei terrority before returning home.

) As of fall 902, Zhu Quanzhong had had Fengxiang under siege for about a year, but was unable to capture it, with his siege efforts hampered by rain and his soldiers becoming ill.

Zhu Quanzhong, however, was concerned about Li Maozhen's strategy of refusing to engage the Xuanwu troops and putting up a strong defense at Fengxiang.

As a former rebel with local knowledge of the area in question Zhu Quanzhong was a natural choice.

This was the start of a forty years long struggle that was to outlast both Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong.

With the withdrawal of Li Keyong's armies Zhu Quanzhong was no longer strong enough to defeat them.

With the capture of Hua, Zhu Quanzhong was for the first time faced with the problem of how to govern multiple provinces while ostensibly remaining within the legal framework of the Tang state.

Though under siege, Quanzhong was not harder pressed than he was able to send out two armies to recruit additional troops outside his own territory.

No longer in danger from the rebels, Zhu Quanzhong was ready to start the subjugation of Henan to his own authority.

In Zhang Quanyi Zhu Quanzhong gained a loyal ally under whose administration Luoyang was to recover after years of ruinous warfare.

As general commander of the south-eastern front, governor Shi Pu of Xu was formally in charge of the operation, Zhu Quanzhong submitted a memorial to the court censuring Shi Pu and demanding his removal from the post of general commander.

In April / May Zhu Quanzhong was elevated to Prince of Dongping.

This meant that the current governor at Hua, Hu Zhen, had to be removed since Zhu Quanzhong did not wish to keep him as acting governor, nor could he return to Zhu Quanzhong's service.

Qin Zongquan launched another attack, but Quanzhong together with Zhu Zhen tricked the rebel army into an ambush and inflicted a new defeat.

With these accusations as justifications, Zhu Quanzhong launched an offensive against Zhu Jin, the chief commander Zhu Zhen capturing Caozhou and apprehending its prefect Qiu Hongli while Zhang Guiba routed Zhu Jin in battle at Jinxiang and overrun Puzhou.

Intending to provoke Shi Pu to take up arms Quanzhong now ordered Zhu Zhen to lead an army east and restore Liu Zhan to his prefecture-to reach Chuzhou Zhu Zhen would have to pass through the territory of Shi Pu.

During these firsts years as governor Zhu Quanzhong had put much trust in his chief commander, Zhu Zhen, so much that Zhen became powerful enough to challenge Quanzhong's authority.