Early-Hóngwǔ statesman, native of Gāoyóu 高郵 (Jiāngsū), in displacement at Tàipíng 太平 during the late-Yuán disorders. Zì Cháozōng 朝宗. Studied under the Yuán-loyalist jìnshì Yú Què 余闕 (1303–1358); broadly read in the Classics and Histories; skilled in zhuàn and lì calligraphy. Joined Zhū Yuánzhāng 朱元璋 as a yuánshuàifǔ lìngshǐ 元帥府令史 when Zhū crossed the Yangtze (1355–1356); after the Hóngwǔ accession served as Zhōngshū yòuchéng 中書右丞 and was enfeoffed Zhōngqínbó 忠勤伯 (1370); briefly promoted to Zhōngshū yòu chéngxiàng 中書右丞相 in 1377 alongside Hú Wéiyōng 胡惟庸. Implicated in the Hú affair in 1379 for failure to denounce Hú’s misdoings, demoted to Guǎngdōng, and on the road granted death (賜死). Standard biography: Míng shǐ j. 127 (with Hú Wéiyōng and Lǐ Shànchǎng); Goodrich & Fang, Dictionary of Ming Biography 2:1374–1377. His collected verse Fèngchí yín gǎo 鳳池吟稿 is at KR4e0007. No confident CBDB match.