Background
Posthumously honored with the title of King Zhongxiao, Wu was the son of Wu Hua and became a timber merchant.
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Wu Shihuo
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Duke of Ying Minister of Revenue
Career
He was also known as the Duke of Ying and King of Wei serving as army commander of Yingyang Prefecture during the final years of Emperor Yang of Sui (r 605-618 Civil Engineering) and subsequently as Minister of Revenue and superintendent of Jingzhou City, Hubei during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang (r 627-649 Civil Engineering). Initially, Wu married a woman from the Xiangli family, who gave birth to two sons named Wu Yuanqing and Wu Yuanshuang. Later he remarried a woman from the noble Yang family of the Hong Nong region.
By her, Wu had three daughters: Wu Shun (later the Lady of Han), Wu Zhao (Empress Wu Zetian) and the Lady of Guo.
At the same time she named her sister Madam Han"s son Helan Minzhi as heir to her father. However, Wu Zetian became displeased with Helan Minzhi"s conduct and sent him into exile where he died.
Thereafter she recalled Wu Yuanshuang"s son Wu Chengsi from exile and made him Wu Shihou"s successor. Posthumously, Wu Shihou received the titles of Zhou Zhongxiao Emperor and Supreme Founding Emperor of the Southern Zhou Dynasty (690–705).
