Yuè Zhèng 岳正 (1418–1472), zì Jìfāng 季方, hào Méngquán 蒙泉 (also Méngwēng 蒙翁). Native of Zhāngdé 漳德 (modern Wǎnpíng xiàn, Bei-jīng vicinity). In early Tiānshùn entered the cabinet on a brief tenure; tried to break the Cáo Jíxiáng 曹吉祥 / Shí Hēng 石亨 post-coup alliance; the scheme failed and he was banished twice (first to the southern wastes, then to the western garrisons). Even after the Duómén faction was destroyed, blocked from cabinet by Lǐ Xián 李賢 (李賢)‘s màojí (jealousy) and lúnluò yǐ zhōng (sank and died). Posthumously rehabilitated in early Jiājìng with the title Tàichángsì qīng. Teacher and father-in-law of Lǐ Dōngyáng 李東陽 (李東陽). In late life took up the Huángjí jīngshì shū 皇極經世書 (Shào Yōng’s cosmology) and composed Lèiyán essays expounding it; his poetry purely in the Jīrǎng jí mode. Míng shǐ j. 176. Surviving works are KR4e0109 Lèibó gǎo (compiled by Lǐ Dōngyáng); the separately catalogued Lèibó záyán 類博雜言 (ShàoYōng cosmological essays) circulates elsewhere. CBDB id 34513 (1418–1472).