 In fall 913, Wang Jian planned a vacation away from Chengdu for the Qixi Festival.Also for the occasion, the night before Wang Yuanying held a feast for the imperial princes and high-level officials, but three invitees — Wang Jian's adoptive son Wang Zonghan () the Prince of Ji, and the officials Pan Qiao (潘峭, who succeeded Tang as the director of palace communications) and Mao Wenxi (the chief imperial scholar) — did not attend.Wang Yuanying, in anger, accused Pan and Mao in absentia of alienating his brothers from him.