Qi Tai () (died 1402), originally named De (德) and was given the name Tai by the

Hongwu Emperor The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang (), courtesy name Guorui (), was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1368 to 1398. As famine, plagues and peasant revolts in ...

, courtesy name Shangli (尚禮), art name Nantang (南塘), a native of Lishui County,

Zhili Zhili, alternately romanized as Chihli, was a northern administrative region of China since the 14th-century that lasted through the Ming dynasty and Qing dynasty until 1911, when the region was dissolved, converted to a province, and renamed ...

(present-day

Lishui District Lishui District (), formerly Lishui County () until January 2013, is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. The district is south-east of Jiangning District and north of Gaochun District. It is predominantly rural. History * I ...

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), was a Chinese official of the early

Ming dynasty The Ming dynasty (), officially the Great Ming, was an Dynasties in Chinese history, imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol Empire, Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming dynasty was the last ort ...

. Qi Tai became ''jieyuan'' in 1384 and ''jinshi'' in 1388 during the Hongwu era. He successively served as Secretary of the Ministries of Rites and War, Director, and Left Vice Minister of War. On his deathbed, the Hongwu Emperor appointed Qi Tai as one of the ministers to assist in governing and ruling the new emperor. After the Jianwen Emperor ascended the throne, he was promoted to Minister of War, and he and Huang Zicheng proposed reducing the power of princes. As a result, Prince of Yan

Zhu Di The Yongle Emperor (; pronounced ; 2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424), personal name Zhu Di (), was the third Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigning from 1402 to 1424. Zhu Di was the fourth son of the Hongwu Emperor, the founder of the Ming dyna ...

launched the Jingnan campaign. In 1402, after Zhu Di seized the throne, he arrested and executed Qi Tai. During the

Qing The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speaki ...

Qianlong era, the

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rehabilitated the ministers of Jianwen, and Qi Tai was given the posthumous name Zhongjing (忠敬).''Qinding Shengchao xunjie zhuchen lu'' (欽定勝朝殉節諸臣錄, "(Imperially endorsed) Records of the subjects who had loyally died for the defeated dynasty"), Vol. 12:「齊泰謀參密議，志削強藩，佐主雖疎，致身無愧，諡忠敬。」

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Zhang Tingyu Zhang Tingyu (, October 29, 1672 – May 19, 1755) was a Han Chinese politician and historian who lived in the Qing dynasty. Biography Zhang Tingyu was born in Tongcheng in Anhui province. In 1700, he obtained a ''jinshi'' position in the ...

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''. {{China-royal-stub 14th-century births 1402 deaths People of the Jingnan Campaign Year of birth unknown People executed by the Ming dynasty 15th-century executions by China

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