允弼 Yǔnbì

Yunbi

His son Yunbi was summoned into the palace at the age of eight, and the emperor's son was told to bow to him, but Yunbi did not dare accept it. When the emperor watched the public feasting from the gate tower, Yunbi was allowed to sit beside the prince. That prince came to the throne as Renzong. Yunbi rose through successive promotions to Military Commissioner of the Wuning Army and concurrently Chancellery Director, became Administrator of the Great Office of Imperial Clan Affairs, and was enfeoffed as Prince of Beihai Commandery. Under Yingzong he was appointed Secretariat Director and his title was changed to Prince of Dongping. When Shenzong came to the throne he was appointed Grand Guardian and Military Commissioner of the Fengxiang Xiongwu Army, attending court on the first and fifteenth of each month. In the second year of Xining he went into mourning for his mother, so overcome with grief that he could hardly bear the mourning, and he firmly declined to be recalled to office before it was over. The day for his mother's burial had been fixed when Yunbi fell gravely ill; looking at his sons, he grieved that he could not see the great matter through. When he died the emperor came and wept bitterly for him and suspended court for three days. He was posthumously made Grand Preceptor, Director of the Department of State Affairs and concurrently Secretariat Director, and posthumously enfeoffed as Prince of Xiang, with the posthumous name Xiaoding. Edit

Yunbi was upright and grave by nature and spoke only when it was time to speak. When more teaching officials were added to the princely palaces, Yunbi, though already of high rank, still went every day to the lecture mat and invited the study companion to read a section of the Mencius. He had charge of the clan office for thirty years, working together with Prince Anyi of Pu, the two of them on affectionate terms, and was respected and honoured by the clan. Edit