Sun Sheng (Southern Tang)

Sun Sheng () (died December 21, 956), né Sun Feng (), known as Sun Ji () at one point, formally Duke Wenzhong of Lu (), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period states Later Tang, Wu, and Southern Tang, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Southern Tang's second emperor Li Jing. When the Southern Tang came under attack by its northern neighbor Later Zhou, Li Jing sent him as an emissary to Later Zhou to try to persuade Later Zhou's emperor Guo Rong to end his campaign, but Guo, after being unable to get Sun to give him secrets of the Southern Tang state, executed him. Provided by Wikipedia