阿達禮 Ādálǐ

Adali, son of Sahalin

Adali was the first son of Sahalin. He inherited the rank of Prince of the Second Rank. In the third year of Chongde he went with the campaign against the Ka'erka. In the fifth month of the fifth year, together with Ji'erhalang, he was stationed at Yizhou to receive the Mongol Duoluote tribe, who were coming over to submit; the Ming troops of Jinzhou, Xingshan and Songshan came out to block them, and he defeated them. When the army returned he was given a fine horse from the imperial stables. In the sixth year, at the siege of Jinzhou, he won the surrender of the Mongol taiji Nuomuqi, Wubashi and others inside the city, and defeated a Ming relief force on the western ridge of Nanshan, south of Jinzhou. Ming troops came again along the coast from Songshan to relieve the city; our troops pressed up to the walls and wiped them out. During the siege of Songshan the Ming troops attacked and were defeated, with more than 1,400 heads taken. In the seventh year the Ming general Xia Chengde agreed to act as an accomplice inside; at midnight our army climbed the walls on ladders, and so took Songshan. When merits were assessed he was given a saddled horse and ninety bolts of python satin. Soon afterward he was put in charge of the Ministry of Rites and took part in the deliberations of state. Before this, when the emperor sat in the Dugong Hall, all from the princes down had stood in attendance; Shuotuo memorialised to fix a ceremonial, under which, when the emperor came to the hall or gave a banquet, all from the Princes of the First Rank down knelt to receive him and rose only when the emperor had mounted the steps, and did the same when his carriage returned to the Qingning Palace. When the Beile Abatai attacked the Ming at Jizhou, he and Duoduo were stationed at Ningyuan to pin down the Ming army. In the eighth year Taizong died; Adali was found guilty of plotting with Shuotuo to put Prince Rui of the First Rank on the throne, and was condemned to death. Edit