an affair with Empress Dowager He. Zhu himself was also becoming tired of Liu's incessant executions of Tang officials. Zhu therefore had Jiang, Liu, and Zhang arrested. Jiang was executed immediately, with his body burned on the street; Empress Dowager He was also killed. Liu was initially demoted to be the prefect of Deng Prefecture (登州, in modern Yantai, Shandong). Soon thereafter, Liu and Zhang were also executed — Liu by decapitation, and Zhang by drawing and quartering. It was said that Liu, regretting his association with Zhu, yelled, as he was to be executed, "The treasonous Liu Can should die!" His brothers Liu Yu and Liu Jian were also killed. Notes and references Old Book of Tang, vol. 179. New Book of Tang, vol. 223, part 2. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 264, 265. 9th-century births 906 deaths Chancellors under Emperor Zhaozong of Tang Chancellors under Emperor Ai of Tang People executed by the Tang dynasty by decapitation Executed Tang dynasty people Tang dynasty historians 10th-century executions