Ye Dui (葉兌) | 24 Histories

Overview

Ye Dui was a scholar and Strategist.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Liangzhong	良仲	Liangzhong

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1360 to AD 1363 今
Dated from the passage context · History of Ming 135, passages 57-111
AD 1358 to AD 1362 元末…時太祖已定寧越
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 52, 54-55
AD 1360 to AD 1369 贊曰
Strongly inferred · History of Ming 135, passage 316

Career and standing

strategic adviser presenting a memorial as a private scholar 獻策之士
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 57, 112
Held
AD 1350 to AD 1368 元末 · Commoner
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 52
Refused
AD 1360 to AD 1363 欲留用之，力辭去 · Declined appointment · With The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 112
withdraw into reclusion 肥遯
Reclusion · Withdrew
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 316

Places and affiliations

At Ninghai 寧海 · Relation Native
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 50

Learning and skills

Skill astronomy, geography, and divination 天文、地理、卜筮 · Level especially-refined
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 51

Works and attributed material

memorial of one outline and three points 一綱三目
AD 1358 to AD 1362 元末…時太祖已定寧越 · Relation Author
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 52-53, 56
memorial of one outline and three points 一綱三目之書
Relation Author · With The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 57-111
Memorial · Author · With the Founder (太祖) · Direct quotation
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 52-56
Memorial · Author · With The Founder (太祖) · Direct quotation · Mode quoted-document Speaker Ye Dui (葉兌)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 57-111

Events and relationships

Declined service
AD 1360 to AD 1363 今 · Political · Invitee · With The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 112
Deliberated great designs for the realm
Counsel · Strategist
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 316
Design later followed
AD 1367 to AD 1368 後數歲，削平天下 · Political · Planner · With The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 114
Presented strategy
AD 1360 to AD 1363 今 · Political · Advisor · With The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 57-111
Relation Adviser of · Person The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 57, 112

Assessments and attributes

Assessment counsel-marvelled-at · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 112
Assessment upheld integrity, withdrew into reclusion; lofty character not easily matched · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 316
AD 1360 to AD 1363 今
Item silver, silks, and a ceremonial robe 銀幣襲衣 · Relation Bestowed · With The Founder (太祖)
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passage 113

Source notes

Value historical
Directly stated · History of Ming 135, passages 112, 316

References in the histories

History of Ming, Chapter 135Volume 135 Biographies 23: Chen Yu, Ye Dui, Fan Chang, Song Siyan, Guo Jingxiang, Yang Yuangao, Ruan Hongdao, Kong Keren · 5 passages

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葉兌，字良仲，寧海人。 Ye Dui, courtesy name Liangzhong, was a native of Ninghai.

而察罕兵勢甚盛，遣使至金陵招太祖，故兌書於三者籌之為詳。 Meanwhile Chaghan Temür's armies were very strong and had sent envoys to Jinling to win the Founder over, so Ye's memorial weighed all three rivals in careful detail.

太祖奇其言，欲留用之，力辭去。 The Founder was impressed by his counsel and wished to keep him in service, but Ye firmly declined and departed.

後數歲，削平天下，規模次第，略如兌言。 Within a few years the Founder had pacified the realm, and the course of conquest followed Ye's design in broad outline.

葉兌於天下大計，籌之審矣，亦能抗節肥遯，其高致均非人所易及。 Ye Dui deliberated with thoroughness on the great designs for the realm, and could also uphold his integrity and withdraw into reclusion; his lofty character, too, is not easily matched.