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Donglin partisan Wei Dazhong, whom Fu Kui had also impeached, that Donglin principles left them blind to the bigger picture and did not stop them from being self-serving. Ye pleaded with the Palace to not seek retribution against Yang Lian and his allies after Yang's inflammatory mid-July memorial in 1624, but Ye was only able to delay Yang's arrest until after Ye resigned as Grand Secretary. Ye also asked the Palace to temper its punishment of Wan Jing, who accused Wei Zhongxian of embezzlement on July 28, and of Censor Lin Ruzhu after a hostile confrontation with Palace eunuchs in the first days of August, to no avail. Ye again asked to resign on July 31. After Palace eunuchs, in an unprecedented move, surrounded his house on August 4 believing he was harboring Lin Ruzhu, Ye lost all face. The Palace initially denied his request to resign on August 5 but, after Ye moved out of Beijing and told the Palace that he could not continue to serve, finally accepted his resignation on August 20, 1624. Ye's resignation cleared the way for full-scale persecution of the Donglin by the Palace.
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Following Supervising Secretary Fu Kui's anti-Donglin attack on Secretariat appointee Wang Wenyan on June 4, 1624, Ye admitted responsibility for having consented to Wang's appointment to the Secretariat and offered his resignation to the Palace. Ye simultaneously urged Wang to leave Beijing and told
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for being ignorant, power-hungry and illiterate, Ye comforted Wei that he was wise despite his illiteracy and should not be ashamed. Ye's expression of sympathy helped him maintain a working relationship with Wei for the remainder of Ye's time as Grand Secretary.
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were wary. Their concerns would prove misplaced, as Ye often stood up for Donglin officials in the face of increasing Palace persecution.
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on December 3. Most bureaucrats in Beijing welcomed him with open arms, but some members of the
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from 1621 to 1624. He played an important role in staving off the Palace's persecution of the
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Ye returned to the Grand Secretariat under the Tianqi Emperor in 1621, arriving in
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Blood and history in China: the Donglin faction and its repression, 1620-1627
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posthumously gave him the title of Grand Preceptor of the Emperor in 1929.
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until Ye's death in the autumn of 1627. Ye was canonized as Wenzhong (
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Goodrich, L. Carrington; Fang Chaoying, eds. (1976).
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Index

Senior Grand Secretary
Li Tingji
Fang Congzhe
Liu Yizhu
Han Kuang
Chinese

Chinese name
family name
Ye
simplified Chinese
traditional Chinese
Wade–Giles
Ming dynasty
Grand Secretariat
Wanli Emperor
Tianqi Emperor
Donglin faction
Fuqing
Fujian
Guangxi
provincial exam
Hanlin Academy
National Academy in Nanjing
Beijing
Donglin faction
Censor
eunuch aide
Wei Zhongxian
Jesuit

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