Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Qian Liu (907-978) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period in southern coastal China. Born in Linan, Zhejiang (now known as Hangzhou), he was noted as a child for the skill with which he drilled his playmates as soldiers, while he sat under a big tree and directed their evolutions. He grew up with a distaste for ordinary occupations, and took to salt smuggling for a living. He was a good archer and spearman, and had some knowledge of drawing. In 875 he enrolled himself as a volunteer to put down a local rebellion; and later on he inflicted a severe defeat upon Huang Chao''s forces, killing his general and taking a large number of prisoners.