Wang Jun (Later Zhou chancellor)
Wang Jun (王峻; 902 – 953) was one of the first chancellors of imperial China's short-lived Later Zhou during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He started his career as a singer for those in power, and rose to high prominence due to his association first with military general Liu Zhiyuan, founder of the Later Han, and later Guo Wei, who founded Later Zhou. After becoming the Later Zhou chancellor, his excessive actions gradually created a lot of distrust in Guo, culminating in his precipitous political downfall right before his death. Early life Wang Jun was born in the last years of the Tang dynasty to Wang Feng (王豐), director of a local army band in Anyang, Xiangzhou (相州). Wang Jun's singing talents were obvious from a young age. As a preadolescent, he began serving the local Later Liang military governor Zhang Yun (張筠) as a singer. In around 915, facing an imminent attack from the Jin army, Zhang fled Xiangzhou to return to the capital Kaifeng. Thereafter, the high-ranking Later Liang minister Zhao Yan became very impressed by Wang's singing at a banquet in Zhang's house, promoting Zhang to give the boy to him. Career under Later Tang