On Yuanbao Mountain in Fuyi Town, Yanting County, Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, there is a group of ancient tombs from the Ming Dynasty, of which the cemetery is more special, the tombstone is covered with a death-free iron coupon, and the owner of the tomb is named Wang Bi. He was a famous warrior under Zhu Yuanzhang, known as the "King of Two Swords", and was given the title of Marquis of Dingyuan. It was only in his later years that Wang Bi was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and what was surprising was that Zhu Yuanzhang killed Wang Bi, but did not connect with his family, and also named Wang Bi's son the Marquis of Anyuan.
When it comes to the famous generals of Zhu Yuanzhang's period, people will think of Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Li Wenzhong, Lan Yu and others, and when it comes to Blue Jade, his "masterpiece" The Battle of Yu'erhai has to be mentioned, Blue Jade captured 70,000 Yuan troops in this battle, captured more than 3,000 concubines in the harem of the Yuan Dynasty, and through a battle, basically crippled the Northern Yuan, and could not turn over for decades. And Wang Bi, who was Blue Jade's partner at that time, can be said that in this battle, there are generally more than one credits to Wang Bi.
At that time, Lan Yu led more than 100,000 troops to the Fishing Sea (near Lake Baikal), and the vast grassland did not see the shadow of the Mongols, and Lan Yu was panicked and planned to retreat. Wang Bi said: "We have brought more than 100,000 people here, and if we go back without any achievements, not only will we not be able to account to the imperial court, but I am afraid that we will be laughed at by the people of the world." Therefore, Wang Bi suggested that the 100,000-strong army dig the ground as a hole, hide the soldiers and war horses, and after ten days, finally found the traces of the Mongols, Wang Bi took the lead and led more than 8,000 people to attack the Yuan army camp, and Lan Yu led the main force to kill later, which led to the victory of the Battle of Yu'erhai.
Wang Bi first appeared in the "History of Ming", which occurred when Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Chuzhou, when the world was in chaos, Wang Bi was a farmer, in order to protect the land in his village, he launched villager training to resist bandits. Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was holding a double sword and was very brave, so he persuaded him to join the army, and from then on, Wang Bi went to Zhu Yuanzhang's command and became Zhu Yuanzhang's "guard company commander", and Wang Bi and Guo Ying (Marquis Of Wuding) were left and right, guarding Zhu Yuanzhang day and night. After that, Wang Bi accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang in more than 200 battles, with more than 60 injuries on his body, and even the fierce general Chang Yuchun praised Wang Bi as a fierce general in the army. Zhu Yuanzhang called himself emperor, made Wang Bi the Marquis of Dingyuan, and gave him an iron coupon to avoid death.
As mentioned above, Wang Bi and Lan Yu were once partners, and this incident directly affected Wang Bi's fate. Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed empress, and Wang Bi no longer needed to be Zhu Yuanzhang's "bodyguard", and he continued to conquer the four sides with Fu Youde, Lan Yu and others, and made great contributions in the Battle of Yu'erhai. But then, the crown prince Zhu Biao died, Blue Jade lost his patron, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that his grandson Zhu Yunjiao could not control these fierce generals, so he began to kill the heroes on a large scale, and the "Blue Jade Case" immediately broke out, Blue Jade was exterminated of the three tribes, and the civil and military officials related to Blue Jade were questioned, killing more than fifteen thousand people before and after, and Wang Bi naturally could not escape.
After Lan Yu was captured, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Wang Bi back to Beijing, Wang Bi was very nervous, and rushed to Feng Sheng and Fu Youde to discuss countermeasures, but then, Feng Sheng was degraded, and later given to death, Fu Youde committed suicide, Wang Bi knew that the end was inevitable, so he said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "I will be loyal to you all my life, my descendants will also be loyal to your descendants, you want me to die, I have to die, but I hope to spare my sons." Zhu Yuanzhang listened to wang bi's words sincerely, and Zhu Yuanzhang killed Wang Bi only because he was jealous of Wang Bi and others, and had nothing to do with his descendants, so in the end Wang Bi was killed, and his family was not affected. After Wang Bi's death, Zhu Yuanzhang made Wang Bi's eldest son the Marquis of Anyuan and the second son the Marquis of Xiting, and gave them two marquises, and the descendants of the Wang family were highly valued in the Ming Dynasty.
Wang Bi was from Dingyuan, Anhui, but his eldest son Wang De was an official in Sichuan, so after Wang Bi's death, Wang De supported his father's coffin and buried Wang Bi on Yuanbao Mountain in Fuyi Town, Yanting County. Wang De knew that the "death-free iron coupon" in the family could not avoid death, so he put the death-free iron coupon on his father's tombstone, hoping that in another world, he could make his father "die a good death". Because the Wang family was talented in the late Ming Dynasty, Yuanbaoshan became the cemetery of the Wang family, where there were 24 main tombs of all sizes (the Qing Dynasty had been destroyed), so the death-free iron coupons on Wang Bi's tombstones have always existed in the Ming Dynasty, and no one dares to steal them. It was not until the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhang Xianzhong invaded Sichuan, that this iron coupon was destroyed, and later the descendants of the Wang family copied a copy of it from stone (which is still there today), counting that Wang Bi's death-free iron coupon was on the tombstone for a total of 247 years.