While some men included did act for self-aggrandisement there is not an obvious reason to consider them operating as a cohesive unit. Ma Ling detailed eight men operating as a faction; Song Qiqiu, Chen Jue, Li Zhenggu 李徵古, Feng Yanlu, Feng Yansi, Wei Cen 魏岑, and Zha Wenhui. The Jiangnan Yeshi depicted Song Qiqiu as starting as an honest official that eventually became corrupt. Notably he is not recorded as affiliated with any supposed political faction nor that he established one. In the Wudau Shiji Wei Cen replaces Song Qiqiu as a member of the Five Demons, although the latter reportedly controlled the group through Chen Jue. This purported arrangement was also reported in the Zizhi Tongjian. Rulers Southern Tang and Wu rulers family tree – Wu emperors; – Southern Tang emperors Citations Bibliography Premodern sources Books Articles Theses Websites See also Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period Suppression of the Southern Tang External links Chinaknolwedge.de China.org.cn Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Former countries in Chinese history 937 establishments 10th-century establishments in China 970s disestablishments 10th-century disestablishments in China States and territories established in the 930s States and territories disestablished in the 970s 976 disestablishments