 However, when Consort Zhong tried to use Li Bian's favor for her and for Li Jingti to try to get him to divert his succession plans from Empress Song's oldest son Li Jing (i.e., Xu Jingtong) to Li Jingti, Li Bian was offended and had Consort Zhong thrown out of the palace and remarried to someone else, ending her machinations.Li Bian died in 943, and was set to be succeeded by Li Jing.The chancellor Sun Sheng, however, was concerned at the possibility that a number of Li Jing's close associates, including Wei Cen (魏岑), Feng Yanji, and Feng Yanlu (馮延魯), whom he considered wicked, might take power.