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Volume 154 Biographies 41: Hong Bok-won, Zheng Ding, Li Jin, Shi Moanzhi, Ye Zhili, Zheng Wen

Chapter 154 of 元史 · History of Yuan
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Hong Bok-won — with sub-biographies of Junqi, Junxiang, and Wan
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Hong Bok-won's forebears were Chinese. During the Tang, eight accomplished scholars were dispatched to instruct Goryeo, and Hong was one of them. For generations his line held high standing among the Three Han states of Korea, and they called their seat Tang City. His father Dae Seon held command at Rin Prefecture as a frontier commander; Fuk-yeon served as commander of the divine cavalry corps and settled his household there. In the bingzi year, more than ninety thousand Jin and Khitan troops fled into Goryeo. In the ninth month of dingchou they seized walled towns east of the Yalu and held them. In the twelfth month of winter in wuyin, Taizu ordered Hacheji and Zhala to lead troops in pursuit. Dae Seon came forward to submit, joined them in the attack, and brought their commander Zhao Chong to surrender. In the tenth month of winter in renwu, twelve men including Zhuguyu were again sent to probe whether Goryeo's offer of submission was sincere; on their return they were murdered.
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In the ninth month of autumn in xinmao, Taizong ordered General Sarid to punish them. Fuk-yeon rallied the submitted prefectures and counties first, joined Saritai in pressing those still holding out, and advanced with Arto and others as far as the capital at Wanggyeong. The king of Goryeo then sent his younger brother, the Duke of Huai'an, to sue for peace. Seventy-two darughachi were installed in the capital and in the prefectures and counties to hold them, and the army withdrew. In the sixth month of summer in renchen, Goryeo rebelled again, killed the appointed darughachi, and drove the whole population onto Ganghwa Island. Fuk-yeon gathered survivors from more than forty northern cities and held them in readiness. In the eighth month of autumn, Taizong again sent Saritai with an army to chastise them. Fuk-yeon led his entire command to join the assault. At Ch'inju, a suburb of the capital, Saritai was struck by an arrow and died; his lieutenant Tiege withdrew, leaving only Fuk-yeon to hold the camp.
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In the tenth month of winter in guisi, Goryeo threw its full strength against the Western Capital, massacred its people, and carried Dae Seon off to the east. Fuk-yeon then led all the people he had gathered on the northern frontier back to allegiance and settled them between Liaoyang and Shenyang. The emperor commended his loyalty. In the fifth month of summer in jiawu, he was specially granted a gold tally and made chief officer over the Goryeo troops and people who had submitted, with orders still to win over those in his homeland who had not yet come in. Another edict addressed the people of Goryeo: whoever came to court having seized the king or those who had stirred trouble against the Yuan would live at Dongjing with Hong Fuk-yeon and receive favor and promotion; when the great armies came, resisters would die and submitters would live, and all who surrendered were to be placed under Fuk-yeon's command.
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In yiwei, the emperor ordered Tangqubadur and Fuk-yeon to advance in punishment. They took the counties of Longgang and Xiancong, the mountain strongholds of Feng, Hai, and Dong prefectures, and Cizhou, and also captured Jinshan and the prefectures of Gui, Xin, Chang, and Shuo. In the second month of spring in jihai he came to court and was granted armor, bow and arrows, gold-woven brocades, gold and silver vessels, a gold saddle and bridle, and the like. In yisi, Emperor Dingzong ordered Amuhan to lead troops with Fuk-yeon to capture the Pinglu fortress at Weizhou. In xinhai, when Emperor Xianzong took the throne, he was reissued a tiger tally and retained his post as chief officer over all Goryeo troops and people who had submitted, past and present. In guichou he followed Prince Yehu in attacks on Heshan, Dongzhou, Chunzhou, Sanjiaoshan, Yanggen, Tianlong, and other cities, and took them all. In jiayin he joined Zhalatai to assault Guangzhou, Ancheng, Zhongzhou, Xuanfeng, Zhenyuan, Jiaxiang, Yuguo, and other cities, and captured them as well.
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In wuwu, Fuk-yeon sent his son Ch'aek'u to serve under Zhalatai. Wang Wan, a Goryeo clansman who had come as a hostage, secretly sought to bring all who had submitted in his homeland under his own control, slandered Fuk-yeon to the emperor, and Fuk-yeon was put to death at the age of fifty-three. Later he was posthumously granted the title Counselor of the Empire and enfeoffed as Marquis of Shenyang, with the posthumous epithet Loyal and Just. He had seven sons; Junqi and Junxiang were the best known.
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Junqi, whose childhood name was Ch'aek'u, was Fuk-yeon's second son. From boyhood he followed the campaigns; his daring won him notice, and Kublai would address him by his childhood name. In the autumn of the second year of Zhongtong, Ch'aek'u cleared his father's name. Kublai took pity on him and issued an edict: "Your father had just been raised to greater favor when he was caught by mistake in the penal code; therefore, though his line had been cut off, we now pour out the full measure of renewal upon you. You may now wear the tiger tally for surrendered Yuan troops, inherit your father's office, and serve as commissioner-general over the submitted Goryeo troops and people."
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In the sixth year of Zhiyuan, Lin Yan, a powerful minister of Goryeo, rebelled. In the eleventh month of winter an edict ordered him to take three thousand of his troops and follow the Goryeo king Tolichi to put down the rebellion; all subjects on Ganghwa Island were moved back to the capital. In the twelfth month the emperor ordered Ch'aek'u to lead troops to Fengzhou and other districts and establish an agricultural colony commissioner's office. In the second month of the eighth year he came to court and was granted one hundred strings of paper money. Lin Yan's remnant followers, Pei Zhongsun and others, set up the Marquis of Chenghua, a kinsman of King Ch'ŏ of Goryeo, as king and led the Three Separate Corps to hold Jin Island in rebellion. In the fifth month Ch'aek'u received the imperial order and, with Pacification Commissioner Xindu, advanced to punish them, routed their army, and killed the Marquis of Chenghua. Their partisan Jintongjing led the survivors to flee to Tamna. The emperor sent Wang Cen, a thousand-household of the imperial guard, to discuss strategy with Ch'aek'u. Ch'aek'u memorialized: "Most of Tongjing's followers are in the capital; they can be summoned to surrender, and if they refuse, it will not be too late to strike. The court approved his plan. Shortly afterward he received orders to go to the Luozhou circuit to supervise construction of warships and also to win Tamna's submission. Ch'aek'u obtained Tongjing's nephew Kim Yong and six others, sent them to summon him; Tongjing refused, so Kim Yong was kept and the rest were all executed. In the tenth year an edict ordered Ch'aek'u and Xindu to lead troops across the sea, broke Tamna, captured Tongjing and executed him, and spared all who had been forced to follow him; only then was Goryeo fully pacified.
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In the eleventh year he was again ordered to supervise construction of warships and to manage affairs relating to Japan. In the third month he was appointed General of Manifest Valor and Pacification Commissioner, retaining his post as commissioner-general over Goryeo troops and people. In the jimao year the emperor ordered Ch'aek'u to oversee agricultural affairs in Goryeo. In the eighth month he was made deputy supreme commander of the Eastern Expedition on the right; with Supreme Commander Hudun and others he led a fleet of twenty thousand, crossed the sea against Japan, and took Tsushima, Iki, Ima, and other islands. In the first month of the fourteenth year he was appointed General Who Stabilizes the Realm and supreme commander of the Eastern Expedition, with his base in Goryeo. In the second month he led Mongol, Goryeo, Jurchen, and Han troops under Chancellor Bayan on the northern campaign against the rebel minister Jiluwadai and others. In the fourth month, when they reached the Tuoluo River, they suddenly met the rebels. Ch'aek'u charged the enemy line without equal. Bayan reported his valor to the throne, and he was granted fifty taels of white gold, a gold saddle and bridle, and bow and arrows.
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In the seventeenth year he was appointed Tiger-Dragon Guard General and right vice-censor of the Eastern Campaign Branch Secretariat. In the eighteenth year he and Vice-Censor Xindu led a fleet of forty thousand from Hap'p'o in Goryeo's Kim Province. At the same time Vice-Censor Fan Wenhu and others led one hundred thousand troops across the sea from Qingyuan and Dinghai, with a rendezvous to land on Iki and Hirado in Japan — but before battle was joined, in the eighth month of autumn storms wrecked the ships and the fleets returned. In the tenth month of the nineteenth year the emperor ordered Ch'aek'u to supervise construction of seven hundred warships at Pingluan Heigun'er for a future campaign. In the eleventh month of the twenty-first year he was again appointed right vice-censor of the Eastern Campaign Branch Secretariat. In the twenty-third year he was ordered to Jiang-Zhe and other circuits to restore Han people to their former occupations.
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In the twenty-fourth year Nayan rebelled and the emperor campaigned in person. Ch'aek'u was granted feather-root armor and a precious sword and ordered to lead Goryeo, Jurchen, and Han troops in the imperial escort. They suddenly encountered more than ten thousand of Nayan's horsemen. Ch'aek'u had fewer than three thousand troops and his men showed fear. That night he ordered the army to tear many garments into banners and cut horses' tails for pennons, planting them among the trees as a ruse. Nayan's troops were thrown into panic, believing a great imperial force had arrived, and surrendered. When the emperor heard of this he richly rewarded him. On the triumphant return he was appointed right vice-minister of the Branch Secretariat for Liaoyang and adjacent regions. In the twenty-seventh year he resigned on account of illness.
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The rebel prince Hadan and others fled into Goryeo and raided its Western Capital; for two thousand li around Liaoyang the region was in turmoil. The Secretariat specially recalled Ch'aek'u to pacify eastern Liaoning. The emperor sent Qielitai Boluo'er with a round gold-character tally empowering Ch'aek'u to act at his own discretion. In the twenty-eighth year he died of illness at the age of forty-eight. He had four sons; the eldest was named Wan.
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禿禿 便殿輿使
Junxiang, whose childhood name was Shuangshu, was Fuk-yeon's fifth son. At fourteen he accompanied his elder brother Ch'aek'u to audience with Kublai at Shangdu. The emperor was pleased and ordered Liu Bingzhong to read his physiognomy. Bingzhong said, "This boy's gaze is uncommon — he will later win fame through achievement, but he must devote himself to learning. The emperor ordered that learned teachers be chosen to instruct him. In the third year of Zhiyuan three hundred Goryeo households were registered as troops and placed under Junxiang's command. He served under Tuohuatuolie, Bayan, and others in building Longevity Hill and later on the Tongzhou Canal. The emperor addressed him personally: "Your steadfast loyalty and diligence are known to me." Once, seated in the informal hall, the emperor studied maps of Jiangnan and the eastern sea and wished to summon someone who knew the terrain to ask about its strengths and weaknesses. Left Chancellor Bayan and Vice Censor-in-Chief Heda recommended Junxiang. His answers were detailed and clear; the emperor was pleased and poured him a great cup of wine. Turning to Bayan he said, "This boy is a vessel of great promise."
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In the sixth year, when Lin Yan rebelled, he followed Tolichi on the punitive campaign. In the eighth year he was posted to garrison Henan. In the ninth year he raided west of the Huai and captured the great walled city of Da'ao. In the tenth year he followed Marshal Boluhan in a raid on Sheyang Lake east of the Huai and took captives, cattle, and horses.
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使禿滿 禿滿 使使
In the eleventh year he came to court. The emperor ordered Bayan to attack Song. Court opinion held that Song's main strength was massed on both Huai fronts and that, hearing of our plan to cross the Yangzi, they would shift troops to block us. Right Guard Commander Tuomandai was therefore ordered to lead twenty thousand light, elite troops against Huai'an as a diversion; Junxiang accompanied him as commander-in-chief of Mongol and Han forces. After Bayan had crossed the Yangzi, the emperor ordered Tuomandai to withdraw his force to Xiao County. At this time Junxiang was on mission in Bayan's army. Song's Huangzhou commissioner Chen Yi surrendered; his son held command at Lianshui. Bayan sent thirty horsemen to summon them and had Junxiang report to court. The emperor said, "Return at once — when Prefect Chen surrenders, bring him with you." When they entered court together, they were banqueted and rewarded with exceptional generosity. He followed Marshal Boluhan in the attack on Qinghe and captured it. Haizhou Pacification Commissioner Ding Shun agreed to surrender; Boluhan had Junxiang report this. Bayan was then on his way to audience at Shangdu; delighted to see Junxiang, he took him south on the campaign.
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Bayan captured Huai'an and advanced to Yangzhou, then divided his forces to strike west of the Huai. Song commissioner Xia Gui sent Commander Niu with a letter to Bayan: "The proverb says, 'Slay ten thousand of the enemy and lose three thousand of your own. I beg you not to exhaust the state's strength seizing border towns — if the court submits, of what use are the border towns.' Bayan sent Junxiang to escort Commander Niu to audience; after three days Junxiang returned to the army. He also conveyed an edict to Bayan: "Affairs are hard to judge from a distance — you should weigh them on the spot." Bayan's army halted at Zhenjiang. Scouts reported a Song commander named Hong in the metropolitan guard corps. Bayan said to Junxiang, "You share his surname — go and win him over." Commander Hong came willingly to meet him, and Junxiang treated him with great courtesy. As the army advanced and halted at Linping Hill, fifty li from Lin'an, Commander Hong came with word: "Song chancellor Chen Yizhong and palace commander Zhang Shijie have both fled; only the three palaces have not yet departed — settle your plans soon to spare the people." Bayan then had Commander Hong escort the three Song palaces and ordered Junxiang to accompany them. When Song surrendered, he was promoted to Martial Stratagem General and thousand-household of the Central Guard. In the fifteenth year he was ordered to register Jiangnan militia. On his return he was promoted to Majestic Wei General and deputy commander of the Central Guard. In the seventeenth year he was advanced to General of Manifest Valor. In the nineteenth year he was appointed vice minister of the Bureau of Military Affairs. In the twenty-third year he was transferred to Majestic Wu General and associate vice minister of the Bureau of Military Affairs.
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In the twenty-fourth year, when Nayan rebelled, he followed Kublai on the personal campaign. Whenever the emperor halted, Junxiang ringed the camp with war wagons as an outer guard, arranging defenses with great care; the emperor commended him. On the triumphant return he was additionally made Assistant-to-the-State General. He arranged the imperial residence records by category into a Record of the Eastern Campaign. In the twenty-eighth year he was appointed right vice-censor of the Liaoyang Branch Secretariat, but was retained by the Bureau of Military Affairs and resumed his former post. Shortly afterward he was additionally made Academician-Expositor of the Hall of Gathered Worthies while retaining his associate vice ministership. Some proposed opening a canal from Xinqiao at the southeastern sea mouth to join the Luan River and ship grain to Shangdu; by imperial order he and Right Vice-Censor Ali surveyed the advantages and drawbacks. On his return he argued strongly against the plan and it was abandoned. He was again sent on mission to Goryeo; on his return he was appointed secretary of the Bureau of Military Affairs.
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When Chengzong took the throne, an edict called for trimming officials who had held the same post too long. Director Anbo of the Bureau of Military Affairs and others memorialized: "Junxiang has served at the Bureau of Military Affairs for sixteen years — longer than anyone else." The emperor said: "Junxiang has been steadfast throughout — let him remain where he is." In the second year of Dade an edict sent him on mission to Goryeo. Censorate officials impeached him on another charge; he was recalled midway, and the matter was soon dropped. In the third year he was sent to Jiang-Zhe on mission to inquire into the people's hardships. On his return he retired to Huanghua Mountain in Changping and for five years would not speak of public affairs.
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In the ninth year of Dade he was promoted to Minister of Agriculture and soon appointed right vice-censor of the Secretariat. In the spring of the tenth year he was transferred to right vice-censor of the Jiang-Zhe Branch Secretariat. In autumn he was transferred to right vice-censor of Liaoyang and petitioned the court to rebuild the provincial seat, increase patrol troops, and establish posts such as Confucian learning commissioner and commander-in-chief to promote culture and strengthen defenses. Before his plans could be carried out, Wuzong took the throne. He was summoned as associate director of the Bureau of Military Affairs, promoted to Grand Master of Splendid Happiness and chief councilor, assigned to deliberate Branch Secretariat affairs for Liaoyang, made chief councilor of the Liaoyang Branch Secretariat, and soon transferred to deliberating chief councilor of the branch secretariat. He died in the second year of Zhida. His son Mai held the rank Instructor Grand Master and served as associate director of the Kaiyuan Commissioner's Office.
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Wan, whose childhood name was Chongxi. In the thirteenth year of Zhiyuan he entered the palace guard. In the eighteenth year he inherited his father's office as General of Cherished Distance, Pacification Commissioner, and commissioner-general over Goryeo troops and people, still wearing the tiger tally his father Ch'aek'u had carried.
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In the twenty-fourth year, when Nayan rebelled, he led troops against him. In the sixth month, reaching Saritulu, he joined Commander-in-Chief Qielitie'er in battle against Nayan's general Huang Hai and routed him completely. He again followed Kublai against Tabutai and defeated him once more. That month, on reaching Nayan's territory, he was ordered to leave Mongol, Jurchen, and Han troops to garrison the Hala River. He again selected elite cavalry to escort the emperor to Shilawo'erduo and followed Censor-in-Chief Yusutie'er in the campaign against Nayan. In the seventh month, at Zhalamatu, he fought Jinjianu, defeated him, and pursued to Mengke Mountain and Nawujiang, pacifying Jinjianu, Tabutai, and their followers. In the ninth month the army returned.
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When Hadan and Balahachi rebelled again, in the tenth month Chongxi followed Prince Aiyahachi, Chief Councilor Tachu, and Commander-in-Chief Qielitie'er on the punitive campaign. In the twelfth month the army encamped at Mugubula. Prince Tuohuan and Supervisor Tuotai, with more than four thousand men, were fighting the rebels and had been pushed back slightly. Chongxi led cavalry to their relief, charged through the enemy line, and broke their force completely. He again followed Princes Naimandai and Aiyahachi and Chief Councilor Xuechagan in battles with rebel forces at Wuzhu Station, on the Amur River, and at Tiemanha, defeating them each time. In the twenty-fifth year Chongxi again campaigned under Yusutie'er. In the fifth month, at Tielieke, he fought Hadan Tulugan and distinguished himself. At Muguerchaola they fought again. In the eighth month, at Guilie River, Chongxi led his men across first to give battle and won. In the tenth month he again followed Yusutie'er against Mubalan. In the twelfth month he fought Gutu Tulugan and defeated him. In the sixth month of the twenty-seventh year he was granted fifty taels of white gold and a suit of armor. In the ninth month, at Chanchun, he fought Hadan Tulugan. In the second month of the twenty-eighth year he followed Chief Councilor Xuechagan to Qingzhou in Goryeo. In the fifth month he fought Hadan for eight days, engaged again, and routed him completely. In the sixth month the army withdrew. He was appointed General of Manifest Valor, given a three-pearl tiger tally, and retained his former offices. In the tenth month Xuechagan brought Chongxi to court and reported his achievements. The emperor commended him, granted a jade belt and fifty taels of white gold, and appointed him Tiger-Dragon Guard General and right vice-censor of the Liaoyang Branch Secretariat.
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In the twenty-ninth year he still wore the tiger tally for surrendered Yuan troops, commanded the Goryeo, Jurchen, and Han ten-thousand-households, and also served as Pacification Commissioner and commissioner-general over Goryeo troops and people. In the sixth month he was made Virtue-Nurturing Grand Master and right vice-censor of the Liaoyang Branch Secretariat. In the tenth year of Dade his uncle Junxiang took his place. In the eleventh year, when Wuzong took the throne, Chongxi had audience at Shangdu. In the seventh month he was again appointed right vice-censor of the Liaoyang Branch Secretariat. In the second year of Zhida he was banished to Zhangzhou; reaching Hangzhou, he was spared by an amnesty. He died the following year. His son Zi inherited the title.
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Zheng Ding was a native of Yangcheng in Ze Prefecture. Orphaned young, he made his own way; he read widely, grasped the larger principles, and never spoke or laughed without reason. When he came of age, his strength and courage surpassed others, and he was especially skilled in mounted archery. He first served as thousand-household over Ze, Lu, Liao, and Qin. In the jiawu year he followed Tahai Ganbu in the Shu campaign, attacked Erlisan Pass, won repeated distinction in battle, and returned to garrison the Qin region. Before long, the Song vice minister Yu burned the plank road and besieged Xingyuan. Ding led his men to restore the road, routed the Song force, and lifted the siege. In yisi he was made chief officer over troops and people in Yangcheng County.
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In gengxu he followed Emperor Xianzong against Dali. From Liupan Mountain they passed Lintao, took the cities of the western Tibetans, and reached Snow Mountain. The paths were tortuous; they dismounted and went on foot, and he once carried the emperor on his back along the trail. The enemy held the strategic passes. Ding fought with all his strength, routed them, and drove them north. The emperor admired his valor and granted him three horses. At the Jinsha River the current ran wild. The emperor came to the bank beside treacherous rocks and sat his horse to watch the water. Ding remonstrated: "This is no place for Your Majesty's person." He helped the emperor down from his horse himself, and the emperor commended him. Soon they besieged Dali, pressing the assault day and night until the city fell, its ruler was taken, and Dali was pacified. On the return march, Ding was ordered to bring up the rear. Marching through Tibet, he brought the entire force back intact. In xinhai he came to court. The emperor questioned him on affairs of state; Ding answered with detail and clarity. The emperor approved his counsel and granted him the name Yekebadu.
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In jiwei he was granted one thousand taels of white gold. He followed Kublai on the southern campaign, attacked Dasheng Pass, and took it. He next took Taishan Stockade and captured its defender, Magistrate Hu. Pressing his advantage he advanced alone, sank into mud ahead, and was ambushed from the reeds. Ding fought back fiercely, killing three men in succession; the rest fled. The emperor urgently recalled Ding. When the messenger reported what had happened, the emperor said: "A general must be cautious and must not trust in courage alone to press forward recklessly. He then assigned him three hundred guards as a precaution and admonished him: "From now on, unless you receive my command, you must not lightly engage the enemy. In the ninth month of autumn the emperor halted on the riverbank and ordered his generals to cross south. Whoever reached the far shore first was to light beacon fires as signal. Ding was first to seize the south bank, and the whole army crossed. Advancing to besiege Ezhou, he fought with redoubled vigor. On a separate front he attacked Xingguo Army, met five thousand Song troops, routed them in fierce fighting, captured their general Grand Marshal Sang, rebuked him for cowardice and disloyalty, and executed him.
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西 使 使 便
In the first year of Zhongtong, for his achievements he was made ten-thousand-household of the Pingyang and Taiyuan circuits. During the disorders of Alandai'er and Hunduhai, Ding led troops from his circuit to suppress them. In the second year an edict ordered Ding to command the western campaign armies and garrison the Yanmen passes. He was transferred to Pacification Commissioner of the southern and northern Hedong circuits. In the third year he was made Pacification and Comfort Commissioner of Pingyang and Taiyuan. In the third year of Zhiyuan he was made commissioner of Pingyang Circuit. That year a great drought struck; when Ding stepped down from his carriage, rain fell. Pingyang was crowded on little land and often short of food. Ding channeled the Fen River to irrigate more than a thousand qing of fields and opened the Peng Huangling road on the Lu River to bring grain from Shangdang. He restored schools, improved local customs, and rebuilt the old bridge at Hengjian for travelers; the people were grateful.
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In the seventh year he was made secretary of the Western Shu Sichuan Branch Secretariat and led troops on patrol in eastern Sichuan. Passing Jiading he met Shu forces, fought them on the river, captured their general Li Yue, and seized all their warships. In the fifth month of the eighth year he was made secretary of the Forward Army Branch Secretariat. In the eleventh year he joined the campaign against Song. In the twelfth year he was posted to garrison Huangzhou. In the fourth month of summer he was made Pacification and Comfort Commissioner of Huai West. In the thirteenth year he was advanced to Majestic Resolution General and granted five hundred taels of white gold.
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In the fourteenth year he was made Pacification and Comfort Commissioner of the Hubei Circuit and moved his base to Ezhou. In the fifth month of summer Qi and Huang rebelled. Ding led troops against them, fought at Fankou, capsized and drowned at the age of sixty-three. In the seventeenth year Dong Wenzhong and others memorialized: "Zheng Yekebadu was killed in the line of duty; the families and property of the rebels should all be given to his son Nahuan." The emperor approved. He was posthumously made right vice-censor of the Secretariat with the posthumous epithet Loyal and Resolute. Later he was further granted the title Merit-Preserving Loyal and Faithful Minister, chief councilor, and Pillar of the State, enfeoffed posthumously as Duke of Lu with the epithet Loyal and Solemn. His son was Zhiyi.
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Zhiyi, whose childhood name was Nahuan, was clever by nature, grave and far-seeing, and fluent in Mongolian. In the fourteenth year of Zhiyuan he inherited his father's post as ten-thousand-household of Taiyuan and Pingyang and continued to garrison Ezhou. Ezhou then lacked a permanent defender, so he was put in charge of prefectural affairs. In the nineteenth year, as the court prepared to campaign against Japan, tower ships were built at Hejiazhou. The islet was cramped and many wished to relocate nearby residents, but Zhiyi refused and assigned a wider site instead; the people were grateful. Disasters struck the city repeatedly. Someone urged Zhiyi: "Wrongdoers may seize the chance to stir trouble — you should arrest those who seem suspicious and punish them severely." Zhiyi said: "I need only tighten our defenses — why sweep up the innocent!" He did not punish a single person, and the disasters soon ceased as well. Bandits lurked in the nearby suburbs, raiding at dawn and dusk, and rumor spread that they would enter the city. Soon several men arrived from outside the city with suspicious looks. Zhiyi had them bound and jailed. Interrogation turned up no evidence, and the Branch Secretariat, suspecting they were innocent, moved to release them — but he refused. The next day, going out east of the city again, he met a man on a white horse whose dress and bearing were strikingly odd. Zhiyi pulled him down and questioned him — he turned out to be in league with the men from before. Zhiyi punished them by law, and the whole commandery settled down.
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In the twenty-fourth year he accompanied the emperor on the eastern campaign against Nayan and volunteered to fight the enemy in person. The emperor turned to those beside him and said: "Your father died in the service of the throne, and you are his only son — keep him out of the fighting." Zhiyi pressed his request all the harder, and was at last ordered to serve under Yue'erbü Nayen in a separate command. For his battle merit he was made General for Expanding the Realm and associate censor of the Bureau of Military Affairs. The next year the emperor traveled to Shangdu. Under the old rule, when Bureau of Military Affairs officials accompanied the emperor, one officer stayed behind each year to manage bureau affairs — and Han Chinese were excluded. On this occasion the post was given to Zhiyi. Zhiyi politely declined. The emperor said: "You are no ordinary Han Chinese!" In the end he was kept at his post. In the twenty-eighth year he was made vice administrator of the Huguang Branch Secretariat. When he took leave at court, the emperor said: "Your father died in the service of the throne, and you have not yet received the reward due you. Recently Yao Somu was executed and his property and livestock confiscated — you may choose the best of them for yourself." Zhiyi replied: "He fell through corruption — if I take from his estate, would that not stain me as well?" The emperor admired his integrity and rewarded him with five thousand taels of silver. Soon afterward he was summoned and appointed attendant censor of the Inner Court. Anxi had long had pasture lands, and stockmen used their influence to encroach on more than a hundred thousand qing of civilian farmland. Cases dragged on for years in the local courts with no resolution. Zhiyi went as ordered, set matters right according to official maps and registers, and the lawsuits ended.
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In the eighth year of Dade a great earthquake struck Jin territory, worst in Pingyang, killing many. Ordered to bring relief, Zhiyi feared any delay and pushed on day and night. When he arrived he went personally into the lanes, comforted the wounded, distributed grain and cloth, and the survivors owed him their lives. Emperor Chengzong had long known his reputation and treated him with special favor. At banquets he would not touch wine and never showed a slack face all day. Noting his loyalty and diligence, the emperor repeatedly sent him imperial wine, which he always brought home to his mother. Hearing this, the emperor ennobled his mother Lady Su as Grand Lady of Lu. In the tenth year Zhiyi died of illness at the age of forty-seven. He was posthumously made a Merit-Honoring Loyal and Governance-Supporting minister, Grand Master of Splendid Happiness with Silver and Blue, and chief councilor, enfeoffed as Duke of Ze with the epithet Loyal and Proclaiming. His son Arsalan succeeded to his post.
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Li Jin was from Quyang in Baoding. He entered the military register as a youth. He first served under the ten-thousand-household Zhang Rou, encamped at Sankoukou in Qi. Ninety li west of Jingshan lay Longgang — Song territory. In the gengxu year, in spring, Zhang Rou led troops to build a fort atop the hill. When the Huai flooded, Song warships arrived suddenly. Commander Chaghan met them in battle. Jin loaded fifteen men to a boat, fought for more than ten li, and seized a great warship. For this he was promoted to hundred-household.
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In wuwu, during Emperor Xianzong's western campaign, Chief Councilor Shi Tianze, then Pacification Commissioner of Henan, picked the fiercest troops from every circuit — and appointed Jin chief corporal. That autumn, in the ninth month, the army went from Chencang into Xingyuan and crossed Micang Pass through wilderness where no road existed. Jin cleared trees and opened a path more than seven hundred li long. In the eleventh month of winter they reached Dingyuan's Seventy Pass, where chained forts lined the heights above and below. Song garrisoned it with five hundred men, and the Baju River curled eastward around the forts. Tianze sent Jin to the pass to offer terms; they refused. Jin reconnoitered a hidden route and reported to Tianze: "They can be taken." That night at the second watch Tianze sent Jin with seventy picked men for a surprise attack. Twenty men pried out the door pivot and got inside. The guards noticed and drew swords to hold them off. Jin was wounded but paid it no mind. The portcullis slammed shut and the main force could not enter. Jin and his twenty men fought on, killing and wounding thirty. The main body fought its way to the upper fort. Jin broke down the portcullis and let the rest in, then pursued to the upper fort, killing and wounding many more. The Song force could not hold and fled. By dawn Jin had taken the fort and held it. The pass was finally open and the whole army crossed. Jin received the highest reward for his service.
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In jiwei, in the second month of spring, Tianze's army reached the emperor's camp and besieged Diaoyu Mountain Fortress at Hezhou. In the fifth month of summer Song relief came up the Jialing by river. The first great battle was fought west of Sancao Mountain. In the sixth month they fought east of the mountain with success. In the seventh month of autumn more than three hundred Song warships lay east of Heishi Gorge, fifty light craft in the vanguard. More than seventy northern boats lay west of the gorge, barely a li apart. The emperor took position on East Mountain with twenty thousand men lined up on both banks. Tianze cried to the host: "Watch my drums and flags — not a moment's slack!" Soon the drums sounded and the flags swung east. The army roared forward, and at first contact Song's vanguard broke and fled. The warships behind fell into chaos as the northerners drove downstream — the dead were beyond count. The emperor pointed and asked the generals: "Who is that man under the white banner in the red half-sleeve charging ahead?" Tianze named Jin, who was rewarded with brocade robes and a fine horse. In the eighth month they fought again at Fotu Pass. Over five engagements in all he earned the highest reward each time.
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His son Wen inherited the posts of Martial Virtue General and Left-Wing Agricultural Garrison Ten-Thousand-Household, bearing the tiger tally. In the second year of Huangqing he was promoted to Martial Proclamation General. In the sixth year of Yanyou, recalling that Wen's father Jin had been captured on a northern campaign, Emperor Renzong specially granted Wen five hundred ding of Zhongtong notes as relief. In the spring of the first year of Taiding he resigned due to illness. His son Duo'erzhi succeeded to the post.
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Shi Mo Anzhi
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Shi Mo Anzhi was a Khitan whose family had lived in Taiyuan for generations. His father Dajianu brought five hundred Han troops over to Taizu. In wuwu, Anzhi took command of the unit and followed Commander-in-Chief Nüchén against Chengdu. Song forces had massed at Lingquan. Anzhi met them with his command, routed them, and killed their general Han Dutong. He again followed Commander-in-Chief Andun against Luzhou. Anzhi brought seventy warships to the Ma Lake River, where Song had five hundred vessels blocking the crossing — and drove them off. Song forces had dismantled bridges along the river and held the line. Anzhi read the terrain, built pontoon bridges, and the army moved without delay. Song tried to disrupt the work but lost every sortie. From the Ma Lake line through Hejiang, Fujiang, and Qingjiang, he put up more than twenty pontoon bridges. When Sichuan was pacified, the pontoon bridges accounted for much of the credit.
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In jiwei Song brought tens of thousands of armored men on great warships to the Qingjiang pontoon bridge. The two sides faced off for seventy days. When floodwaters surged and wrecked the bridge, many western-bank troops were swept away. Anzhi was on the east bank; he quickly pulled up the bridge, mustered boats below the shore, and saved his men — and pulled more than five hundred stranded troops to safety. The vanguard commander Benchahuo'lüchi reported the affair. Emperor Xianzong sent envoys with condolences and lavish rewards. The Xuzhou defender blocked the river crossing and the army could not get across. Anzhi gathered army cowhides, made inflated hides and skin boats, fought his way through, seized the ford, and built a pontoon bridge to ferry the troops over. In the third year of Zhongtong he was made chief commander of the Hezhong Prefecture boat-bridge sailor corps and given a gold tally for his pontoon-bridge service.
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In the fourth year of Zhiyuan he followed the branch secretariat chief Yisudaier against Luzhou. At the Ma Lake River he fought Song generals Chen Dutong and Zhang Zongzhi with the naval force. Wounded twice, he fought harder still and routed them. In the first month of the sixth year Yisudaier marched on Luzhou and sent Anzhi to bring up weapons and grain by boat along the waterways. When Song blocked the Ma Lake River again, Anzhi beat them back, took forty prisoners, captured five boats, and with a thousand sailors brought grain to Mei and Jian — the army depended on him. In the ninth year he joined the campaign against the Jiandu tribes. After more than a year without success, Anzhi was first over the wall, fought fiercely, and the place surrendered. On the return march he fell ill on the road and died. The branch secretariat provisionally appointed his son Bulao to command the unit.
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Bulao joined the assault on Jiading with seventy great ships carrying several thousand warriors, holding the upstream. At Hongya Beach on the Fujiang he built a pontoon bridge to cross. In the twelfth year Jiading surrendered. Song General Xianyu fled with his men; Bulao chased them to Dafo Beach and wiped them out. When branch commander Wang Tiange took Ziyun, Lu, Xu, and other cities, Bulao's contribution was the greatest. When the army besieged Chongqing, Bulao first lined up three hundred warships at Guantan Beach and cut off the enemy's escape. In the thirteenth year he led five hundred wing troops, joined Pacification Commissioner Yao Lihai, and threw up palisades on the Baishui River bank. Bulao raided the Song camp by night, drove straight to the walls of Chongqing, and struck Qiansi Gate. The Song force broke in panic; many drowned. He took more than thirty prisoners and presented their banners, armor, and weapons. The Fuzhou defender brought a fleet to relieve the city; Bulao beat him at Guangyang Ba, took more than sixty prisoners, and captured ten boats. In the fourteenth year he joined the Luzhou campaign. Bulao led his men against Shenbi Gate, swarming up the walls like ants, and took fifty heads. The next day they fought again and routed them. In the fifteenth year they attacked Chongqing's Taiping Gate again. Bulao was first over the wall and killed dozens of defenders. Song Colonel Zhao An surrendered the city; Commander Huang Liang fled by boat. Bulao caught him along with fifty of his men and seized fifty warships.
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In the sixteenth year he inherited his father's posts as General for Expanding the Realm and chief commander of the boat-bridge corps, received a new gold tiger tally, and was made deputy ten-thousand-household for the Kuizhou garrison. In the eighteenth year the Dapan and Xiaopan cave tribes rebelled. He was sent with more than three thousand Mongol and Han wing troops to garrison Shizhou. Chiefs Xiang Gui and Shiyong soon surrendered, the holdouts were all pacified, and he was made ten-thousand-household of Baoning.
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Ye Zhili
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Ye Zhili was a Jurchen. His great-grandfather Xibaoweiyebuyegan had passed the Jin jinshi examination; when the Jin fell he went over to Emperor Taizong. Ye Zhili was bright as a boy and could memorize and recite with ease. As a man he was known for filial devotion and brotherly kindness. He served Kublai before his accession and was admitted to the palace guard. At the start of Zhongtong he was appointed to deliberate on Shaanxi military affairs, with Shang Ting as his deputy. Before leaving he memorialized at court: "Guan and Shaanxi are vital territory and the military burden is no light one. Atai Yangla is a senior minister of the realm whom Your Majesty has just entrusted with command. I fear discord at the decisive moment would wreck the larger plan. If differences arise, I ask permission to report directly to Your Majesty." The emperor approved, gave him a farewell feast, and sent him on his way. Soon he was made a branch secretariat judicial officer and returned to palace guard duty. After Li Tan's rebellion was crushed, the court chose palace guards to oversee Han armies. Ye Zhili took the tiger tally and supervised troops at Piyang.
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In the seventh year of Zhiyuan he was appointed battle supervisor, besieged Xiangyang with his command, and built chained forts to project strength. The famous generals Suodu, Liu Guojie, Li Ting, and others all served under him. At the assault on Fancheng he was first over the wall with his men and took the city. He gave away every reward he received to his officers and men. In the eleventh year he followed Chief Councilor Bayan to Yingzhou. Riding out with a few horsemen he ran into Song troops. One of his men was unhorsed and captured. Ye Zhili charged in alone, spear level, broke into their ranks, brought his man back, and killed or captured four more. Supplies were running short and the generals were worried. Ye Zhili attacked Longwan Fort near Jiangling, seized ten thousand shi of grain, and the army was saved. As the Yuan army marched east, Song General Xia Gui met them at Yangluofu. Bayan had not yet arrived and the others wanted to wait. Ye Zhili said: "Speed is everything in war — the chance will not wait. We should hit them before they are set." He charged straight at Xia Gui's line, captured more than a hundred warships, and drove Gui off in defeat. Bayan reported his exploit and he was promoted to General for Settling the Distance.
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In the twelfth year, attacking Changzhou, Ye Zhili built siege ladders and rope bridges to scale the walls and captured the city. By provincial order he brought Anji and the surrounding prefectures to submission. In the thirteenth year, when Song surrendered, Bayan ordered Ye Zhili to guard the palace. His discipline was severe and not the slightest thing was disturbed. He came to court, his achievements were recorded, and he was promoted to General of Manifest Valor. Shortly afterward he was appointed General Who Stabilizes the Realm and Pacification Commissioner of eastern Zhe, with his base at Shaoxing. He died in the nineteenth year at the age of forty-two.
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His son Yilaowen inherited the ten-thousand-household post and rose to censor of Jiangdong; Tuotuo served as Pacification Commissioner of Huai East.
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Zheng Wen was a native of Lingshou in Zhending. He first followed Chancellor Nahananhe on the southern campaign, distinguished himself, and became a Qibichi thousand-household. He served under Chancellor Shi Tianze as commander-in-chief of the new army. During Emperor Xianzong's western Sichuan campaign, Wen kept his armor on for four straight months. Tianze presented him and reported his achievements in full. The emperor said, "I have seen this myself. He was granted the name Yekebadu and rewarded with a saddle and bridle. On returning to Langzhou, by imperial order troops were posted to guard Qingju, Diaoyu, and other heights. Tianze ordered Wen to command four thousand men to guard Diaoyu Mountain.
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In the sixth year of Zhiyuan he was promoted to General of Cherished Distance and deputy commander of the Right Guard. In the ninth year an edict ordered Wen to lead ten thousand Mongol, Han, Jurchen, and Goryeo troops across the sea against Tamna and pacify the island. In the twelfth year he was made commander of the Right Guard and led ten thousand men of the three guards in the assaults on Yuezhou, Jiangling, Shashi, and Tanzhou, distinguishing himself in each. Chief Councilor Alihaiya rewarded him with ten ingots of silver. In the fourteenth year he came to court and was made General of Manifest Valor and vice minister of the Bureau of Military Affairs.
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In the eighteenth year he was made Assistant-to-the-State General and associate administrator of the Jiang-Huai Branch Secretariat. When Hangzhou faced famine, he released two hundred thousand shi of grain for sale at reduced price. Shortly afterward he was granted thirty qing of official land at Changzhou. In the twenty-second year he was recalled to court. In the twenty-third year he was promoted to left vice-censor of Jiang-Zhe and ordered to establish agricultural colonies at Yunshan Baishuitang in Huai'an with fifteen thousand newly submitted Han troops. He died in the twenty-eighth year at the age of eighty-one.
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His son Qin was supervisor of the Utilization Office; Gang was director-general of the tea monopoly; Quan was thousand-household of the Right Guard; Yong served as judge of Yuanzhou Circuit.
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