Zhao Yi was a well-known civil servant in the early days of the Ming Dynasty. He was born in Kaifeng, Henan. He happened to encounter the great uprising of the Red Turban Army in the late Yuan Dynasty. In order to avoid the war, his parents hid in the deep mountains and forests with him who was still in their infancy to avoid disaster. As a result, they encountered a tiger halfway through.
Mother was very scared and threw him away. However, the tiger did not hurt Zhao Yi, but just stared at him for a long time, then turned around and left, and Zhao Yi saved his life.
Zhao Yi was smart since childhood and was very obsessed with studying. During the 20th year of Hongwu , he successfully entered the Imperial College through the township examination. Later, he was appointed to Shandong to be a low-level lower-level official.
Three years later, Zhao Yan, who performed well, was promoted to Wailang, the chief of the Ministry of War Armed Forces Department, and later moved to Zhejiang Right Sponsor. During his tenure, he made suggestions on the proliferation of Japanese pirates in coastal areas and hunted many Japanese pirates, making the residents of coastal areas feel better.
Yongle years, Zhu Di felt that Zhao Yan was a temporary response ability and could handle various things alone, so he appointed him as an envoy and sent to the south to Annan . After arriving in Annan, Zhao Ke announced his national prestige, which made the local people impressed by the Ming Dynasty and completed the mission excellently. Zhu Di highly praised him and promoted him to the Right Minister of Justice of the Ministry of Justice. Soon after, he was changed to the Right Minister of Works, and soon he was changed to the Right Minister of the Ministry of Rites.
In the fifth year of Yongle, Zhao Yan was appointed to enthrone the title of Xining Hou Song Sheng . After returning, he was promoted to the Minister of Rites. In the autumn of the ninth year of Yongle, North Korean envoys were preparing to return to their country. According to the customs of the Ming Dynasty at that time, they usually rewarded some gifts for the envoys to help bring them back to show the magnanimity of the Celestial Kingdom.
This kind of reward gifts is all handled by Ministry of Rites . However, Zhao Qi, as the Minister of Rites, did not report to Zhu Di at that time, which caused Zhu Di to be furious and scolded Zhao Qi, saying, "Didn't your actions make me lose the hearts of the people in North Korea?"
Zhu Di imprisoned Zhao Qi, but soon released him and was appointed as the Minister of War, specializing in military affairs outside the Frontier.
Zhao Yi eventually died of illness in the first year of Zhengtong at the age of 73. According to legend, Zhao Yi is a person with a great memory. When he was working as a Lang Office, he met a prisoner and was sentenced to death. However, when he was about to be sentenced, he found that he had died in prison, so he threw away his body.
However, the prisoner did not really die. He deceived the prison guards by pretending to die by holding back his breath and escaped. By forty years later, Zhao Yi had already become the high position of Minister of Justice in the court, and this person happened to be breaking the law again and was taken to Zhao Yi.
Zhao Yi identified him at a glance and said in horror: "Didn't you die forty years ago?"
Zhao Yi quickly re-investigated this person and finally brought him to justice. Everyone on the left was admired by Zhao Yi's extraordinary memory.
