Zhai Rang

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Zhai Rang （Chinese: 翟讓; died December 14, 617） was a key agrarian rebel leader near the end of the Chinese dynasty Sui Dynasty.
Believing prophecies that appeared to indicate that Li Mi would be emperor, he supported Li as leader and offered to serve under Li, but soon they began to have conflicts over distribution of spoils.
In winter 617, Li ambushed him at a feast and killed him, seizing his troops.
Not much is known about Zhai Rang's personal background.
In or prior to 616, he was serving as the sheriff of Dong Commandery （東郡, roughly modern Anyang, Henan）, when he was accused of crimes and sentenced to death.
The jailer Huang Junhan （黃君漢）, who had been impressed with Zhai's bravery, secretly released him at night.
Zhai then fled to nearby Wagang （瓦崗） and gathered a group of men to rise against Emperor Yang of Sui's rule.
Two of his key followers were Shan Xiongxin （單雄信） and Xu Shiji, who suggested him that he could supply his men without pillaging the people of the locale, but that because the Bian
River （汴水） flowed through nearby Yingyang （滎陽, roughly modern Zhengzhou, Henan） and Liang （梁郡, roughly modern Shangqiu, Henan） Commanderies and carried heavy river traffic,
all they would need to do was to pillage the river traffic.
Zhai did so, and his men began to gather wealth.
More and more desperate men joined Zhai, and he gathered more than 10,000 men.
Map showing major uprisings and rebellions in the last years of Sui dynasty.
Zhai Rang's uprising occurred at Wagang in the present Henan Province, and the region controlled by Wagang Army is shown as shade in light green.
Meanwhile, Li Mi, who had been the rebel general Yang Xuangan's chief strategist in Yang's uprising in 613 and who had been fleeing from place to place since, was trying to find a rebe...