Tángcháo hòuqī, fānzhèn de shìbīng chángcháng yōnglì zìjǐ de jiànglǐng, cháotíng yě zhǐhǎo chéngrèn.
In the late Tang, soldiers of the frontier commands often raised their own generals to power, and the court could only accept it.
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The pattern is 拥立 + person + 为 + title, as in 拥立他为帝 'to make him emperor'. The subject is the backers, ministers or troops, never the new ruler: at 陈桥 in 960 it was 赵匡胤's officers who made him emperor.
