 The Southern Tang absorbed the state in 951 and moved the royal family to its capital in Nanjing, although Southern Tang rule of the region was temporary, as the next year former Chu military officers under the leadership of Liu Yan seized the territory.In the waning years of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, the region was ruled by Zhou Xingfeng.Though considered one of the ten kingdoms, the Northern Han was based in the traditional Shatuo stronghold of Shanxi.